"There is, however, another possibility: Perhaps beautiful people are better at their jobs..."
if i had a job, id be awesome at it.interesting article. talks about beauty premium in politics and jobs. i think it discounts the fact that men often do the hiring in companies, and men are dogs.
web 2.0 is all about those new types of web communications like blogs and web communities. but recently ive gotten addicted to facebook. its crazy, how fast info is sent over there, and the amount of info. so, is blogging dead. ive found it harder and harder to be active on this here thing when i can be so passive on facebook. oh well. ill try harder from now on.
went to watch boxing and ufc yesterday. the fights were pretty good. the miranda-green fight was pretty exciting for the last couple of rounds. the first part of the fight was a bit underwhelming since green was on his bike the whole time. well, if you got edison miranda staring you down, youd be scared too. cotto did what he had to and destroyed uktal's body. zab-cotto should be a nice fight. ufc was pretty good, too. thought it would be a snoozefest, but all the matchups were nice. renato sobral got ktfo'd bc he doesnt know how to strike at all. and couture! yay! i always talk about the boxing gods, but there must be mma gods since they made sure he didnt lose to sylvia.
"...on New Year’s Day 1983 when Ayala broke into the home of a New Jersey woman, then tied her up and raped her. Ayala was sentenced to 15-35 years in prison, and it appeared his meteoric career was at an end..."
"...A few months after the Tua fight, Ibeabuchi abducted the son of a former girlfriend and drove into a concrete pillar along Interstate 35 north of Austin, Texas. The boy suffered injuries to his legs and will probably never walk normally again while Ibeabuchi served a two-month jail sentence and paid a $500,000 civil settlement..."
"...Ketchel’s story came to an abrupt end when a farm hand shot and killed Ketchel because he thought the fighter was trying to steal his girlfriend. The farm hand, Walter Dipley, was convicted of first-degree murder and served 23 years in prison..."
"..."Everybody thought that Mclelland would bowl over Roy Jones and James Toney, but I don’t know that for sure..."
-unequivocally the greatest fighter of all time...and no historical arguments re: era because he was one merely one generation before ali. dont believe me?check the vids.
on monday, we had this guest speaker come to our class. Catherine porter, a writer for the star, came in and told us about her career path. you know how some people are intimidating in that sense? yeah, she was one of those. so she went to south america after her undergrad and the sun gave her a travel column while she was there. cool. then she did her m.a., didn't like it, then drove cross country to every newspaper applying for jobs. she got one at the vancouver sun. okay. she quit, came back and worked for toronto life, then the star. oh, and she grew up in a house of writers with richler and atwood staying in her basement every so often. wtf. she was really interesting and nice, and told us some anecdotes about how she got story ideas. during one new years story, she had to follow an indian family to nathan philips square. ho hum. but one of the cousins says
"my resolution is to get married"
"To whom?"
"I dont know yet"
so she follows the guy to india and stays there getting the story for a month. anyways, she was pretty inspiring.
-i was offered a job at fairmont running the mail room. i didnt take it because, frankly, it was backbreaking work and it was not in a direction i wanted to go. plus, i wouldnt have been able to do class mon-wed. would have been a salary and full dental/medical, but didnt go with it. before i decided all that, i shadowed the mailroom guy for the day, and the first three people who walked in were hot women! it was crazy. then, at lunch in the TD center cafeteria... dear lord. and its all people in business suits so its like a herd of hot librarians. the moral? get an office job, but only if its a huge office building with good looking women.
staring you down, youd be scared too. cotto did what he had to and destroyed uktal's body. zab-cotto should be a nice fight. ufc was pretty good, too. thought it would be a snoozefest, but all the matchups were nice. renato sobral got ktfo'd bc he doesnt know how to strike at all. and couture! yay! i always talk about the boxing gods, but there must be mma gods since they made sure he didnt lose to sylvia.
