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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:40 AM) The people that buy laptops like this aren't doing it to play Windows only games. They're doing it for photography/graphics and/or the occasional game...but maybe no games at all. Yea it's more for a special interest, or for their business.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:20 AM) And the fees associated with the plans are vastly higher. Depends on which firm. My company does PST and you have to use Vanguard for the accounts, the rates on those accounts are practically nothing.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:05 AM) It's all about choices. Eating out and stopping off for that coffee or doughnut eat thru your money faster than people realize. My 18 year old son is finding that oout the hard way. He only has a part time job at the moment, and for the first month after every job shift he would stop off at Taco Bell or 7-11 for something. Then 3 weeks later he didn't have enough money for gas to get to work and had to come to me. I showed him his checking account online and pointed at all the $5 and $7 debit card charges and just left him there looking at the screen for a few minutes. He still hasn't learned. It's amazing how people don't think the little expenses add up. I had a coworker complain at work that he is risking losing his house as his wife takes more time off to watch the kids, and then he goes out for lunch every day. If you bring your lunch it'll cost probably about $20/wk or so depending on how much you eat. Going out for lunch probably costs closer to an average of $45/wk. That's close to $100 a month that can go towards a mortgage payment.

And a college degree is not a joke, it's all about how you use it, how you prepare yourself for the real world. I work in IT, and there is a HUGE difference between those that went to a 4 yr school and those who went and got certificates or went to a trade school. That difference isn't in smarts, because I've seen people on both sides struggle or dominate the technology, but in terms of how they interact with others, their ability to communicate, present, and lead is a BIG difference. I'm not saying everyone from a 4 year school has all these skills, but they should be in a much better position in terms of these skills than those who didn't go. There will always be outliers, but the way college is set up gives those students a great chance to learn how to work with others, learn how to lead peers, and as I mentioned before, learn how to learn.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:02 AM) Flip burgers for a few years, learn the biz and you can get promoted to manager in a few years and be making upper $20's low $30's 3 years after you graduate high school. Work for a corporate owned store and there is potential to go into those ranks as well. College today is almost a joke, depending on what you are going for. A History major is just a fancy name for the next barrista at Starbucks. I have a senior in college right now working for me as an intern and she is dumb as a box of rocks. Zero common sense and no clue how the world works. She is a marketing major and can spout off all the marketing buzzwords you want, but it isn't helping her. I have had 3 salespeople in the last 3 years and the best one only finished high school. A degree doesn't make someone smart, but it can show people that you managed to learn how to learn while maybe picking up some industry specific knowledge.

I grew up in a single income family, though my dad was making good money by the time they had kids (parents waited til they were 30yrs old to start having kids). That said, they were frugal were they needed to be, so that they could afford things they wanted. For example, we rarely went on lavish vacations, instead we would wait until my dad accumulate enough points to buy airline tickets for my mom, myself, and my brother, while he would plan work visits around the vacation time to take advantage of whichever company he was working for to pay for his ticket and the rental car (for part of the trip). We were fortunate that my grandma lived in California near where my dad would need to visit, so we could work this out easily, but considering we only really had to pay for food for the trip these were quite cheap. We used those savings in vacations to buy a fixer-up cottage on Lake Michigan, which was a spot we would go on summer vacations as we rented cheaply from a family friend but my parents wanted their own place after going there for over 40 years. So, although we now own a family cottage, we saved up for it for years by not going on cruises, etc. The biggest thing I've seen is people just flat out over-extend themselves. One of my old girlfriends had a mom who had less in savings than I did in High School, and that was just from what I saved up from summer jobs. She made decent money, but was terrible in managing it, she would go out for dinners all the time, go to summer festivals and eat there instead of packing food, etc. People don't realize how much that adds up, and suddenly when their kid is going off to college they have nothing to offer them in terms of assistance besides a box of dorm food.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2012 -> 11:42 PM) Attendance was about 4000 over the season average. If 1000 people would have bought full price tickets, they lost money. Does that include the extra money spent on food, drinks, parking, and souvenirs?

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 10:16 AM) I caught the pocket of my swish pants on a stair railing one time and it ripped them wide open all the way down my leg. Luckily I was at home. I wouldn't even know what to do if that happened in public, "Uhhh, I'll be back in an hour or so I guess..."

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2012 -> 10:08 AM) I actually do #5 more often than you could possibly imagine The worst is when that happens at work, I'm always afraid the pants will really rip and nothing you can do but have a nice walk of shame to your car.

Well, he should at least point out that so many things haven't gone the Sox way (O-Dawg, Morel, Humber, Floyd, Santiago) yet we're still in first and besides Konerko, no one in the lineup is really having such a start that there is no room for improvement. In fact, this team has very pedestrian/career numbers for many of the players and yet we're in first place, to me that shows the potential of this team.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 7, 2012 -> 04:20 PM) A bad back and a .489 OPS could probably get you a bag of baseballs, most likely used and still with a pricetag.

QUOTE (G&T @ Jun 7, 2012 -> 02:01 PM) I agree here. I haven't had occasion to do a lot of hiring, but the number of people who either have bad formatting or put experience that is so totally irrelevant to the project that it is off-putting is amazing. I had someone (who I eventually hired) for a legal research project put life guarding down as experience. Since they were all students, I figured I'd let it slide. Meanwhile, I had a phone interview today at a place I thought would be perfect for me. During the interview it became clear that the listed responsibilities I was most excited about aren't really the primary responsibilities...and might not be part of the job at all. I was interested in compliance and policy work, but it turned out to be representation, and case load supervision. So the next time I get concerned about over selling my experience on my resume, I am going to remember that they probably have over sold the job responsibilities. Would you happen to have IT experience, if so, PM me. I'm not 100% on job openings at the moment for our compliance people, but it's an area that's expanding at my company.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2012 -> 07:45 AM) If it is relevant to what you are applying for, sure. I think you read through his question a bit too fast I'm not too familiar with journalism/sports media resumes, but I would assume putting "Freelance" under work experience in a similar manner to a company you may have worked for would be suitable, and then you can still add dates, bulletpoints describing what you did, etc.

Eventruths? The f***?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 03:54 PM) And I'm the first to say, since about 2008 or so, the Sox draft philosophy away from "safe" guys and towards higher risk - higher ceiling guys, is a good thing. Again, not saying I dislike the pick, just saying that whippy arm motion is I think the risky side of the equation. At this point in the draft, you're not going to find a guy with clean mechanics that throws 95+, so if you want somebody with that much arm power you're going to have the mechanical risk.

How about good workout songs?

I actually know the 27th overall pick, Victor Roache. Played against him in HS in Michigan, guess that guy developed big time because he was scouted heavily in HS but never performed that well, at least not against my team.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 06:02 PM) Just because you know how an Apple product will work doesn't mean you know no other product will work better. Before any of you bought an Apple iPod, did you look in to what Microsoft, Creative, Rio, iRiver, Dell, Sandisk, Sony, Archos, or others had to offer? Hell, I bet you have never even seen one of those in your life, yet you probably just blindly bought your iPod without looking in to any of the others, which were PROBABLY cheaper. Yeah, an iPod will work just fine, but a smart buyer will look in to the other options available, and not just go with the one they see on TV the most. Not saying none of you considered other options, but I would bet MOST people did not, and even if they did, the "Do I really want to be seen with something that isn't an ipod?" probably crossed their mind. Actually yes, I owned quite a few mp3 players before I bought an ipod touch and a couple years later my iphone. And all of them sucked compared to the touch, and I researched the Zune extensively before buying the touch. It was only about $20 cheaper, but didn't come with a lot of what I wanted at the time. So yea, you can stop implying that people are idiots and drones for buying Apple products, because they are pretty damn good.

QUOTE (tonyho7476 @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 07:32 AM) But if he did, then the pick is wasted, right? No, we would receive next year's #14 overall pick.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:56 PM) Video of the backflip Awesome

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 04:38 PM) I guess I don't "get into" anything then because I don't call anything I own by it's name like that. Like I said, my dad owns a Lexus, which is a status symbol, but I don't call it such. I own a couple Columbia jackets, but I don't call them "Columbia's", even though they cost a couple hundred dollars. I guess if I think I about, I am probably one of the least materialistic, consumerism bullied people around. I research and buy almost everything I buy, and based on it's merits, not just brand name or popular opinion. And I don't have a problem with people owning those products, but I feel like most of them probably buy them for all the wrong reasons. Great thing about Apple products is that many people DONT have to research them heavily, they pretty much know that it will handle what they need, if not more. And if someone needs to research phones that much, they probably are looking for something that covers very specific needs. Some brands deserve to be called out by name, they've earned it through respect of their product. But yes, some people do buy products because of their name, sometimes it works out, sometimes they would've been better going in a different direction.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 03:55 PM) I hate things that are overly popular for no reason to me. Like Northface, for example. It seems like almost every college kid owns a northface jacket. I live with 2 girls, two girls who are the ideal target for companies. Two girls who are completely swallowed up in consumerism and brand loyalty. They spend hundreds of dollars on Northface sweatshirts and jackets. They say things like "Haha, I bet she doesn't even have a Northface." or "Where is my Northface?" instead of "Where is my jacket? Sweatshirt?". I asked her once "What makes Northface so great? Why do you insist on that brand?" she says "Uh...because they are the best? Everyone wears a Northface." So I ask again, "Why are they the best? They seem like every other brand I see", she says "You just don't understand. Everyone has them, they are better than everything else". This is the same girl who only buys Apple products (doesn't have an iphone yet, but refuses to get an Android), wears Coach purses, refers to everything by the most popular brand. "Hey Joe, hand me the Windex" "Uh...I don't see any Windex. I see this xxxx glass cleaner, but not Windex." "Yeah, duh, that's Windex". She is so caught up in brand names and consumerism that it makes me sick. I don't hate all popular things, but unless I see a reason for something being so popular, I generally will be against it. I don't buy things to look cool, sound cool, or show off. I wouldn't say I am really loyal to any one brand, except White Sox! Meh, Northface makes great products, I personally don't invest that much money into one but the people who do have the money, so why not. And do you say "hand me a tissue" or do you say "kleenex"? I say Kleenex 99% of the time, even if I don't buy that brand. Don't you know that Frisbee is actually a brand, or Wiffle? Sometimes a certain product just gets equated to a certain brand.

Is it really so bad for someone who equates phones to iphones because that's what they use? It's like someone saying "hey can I use your cellphone" when really you just have a landline phone, it's no big deal. Ipods made up close to 75% of the mp3 market in 2009, it's pretty damn easy to just call mp3 players ipods, and since they do more than that it is fair to say ipods are different. I'm a proud owner of an iphone because personally it works great for me, and I'm sure many android devices would work great for me too. But too nitpick at little things like that to me just screams that you like to hate popular things

QUOTE (Tuna @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) I can only speak for myself, had I known that I could get tickets this past weekend for $5, I would have been there with my family. Unfortunately, everything I saw when I priced it out was $25 per. After doing the calculations $25 per ticket x me, my wife and 3 kids, we're at $125 before we even start talking about gas/transportation to get to the park (coming from Crystal Lake), food/drinks while there, etc...There's only one other person as passionate about the Sox in my immediate family and that's my 4 year old daughter. She was the only one pissed that we didn't go. I live in Kildeer, and while your a bit farther out I would recommend driving down to Skokie and taking the CTA from there. Much cheaper than gas + parking.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 12:50 PM) Its really not difficult to grasp, and I've said Dunn is doing decently, just not outstanding which would warrant an A. but a hit is still better than a walk no matter what your fantasy baseball book tells you, and a strikeout still isn't the same as any other out as runners don't advance or score. Yea, but OBP includes hits AND walks, which is why it's so much better.