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This one? http://www.buffalonews.com/columns/alan-pergament/rick-jeanneret-on-cancer-criticism-and-why-you-never-heard-him-talk-about-tanking-20150424

I voted top-6 only because he didn't seem to really turn it on here until he was getting regular top line minutes, but if this year's top line becomes next year's 2nd/3rd and he fits there, I won't be disappointed.

LOL get that man a belt!

Have dinner plans tonight with a friend I've been wanting to catch up with for a while. And a potentially exciting development on the job hunting front came about yesterday... my boss put me in touch with a former colleague of his who was just recruited to one of the places I'm looking to go, and her research sounds like a perfect fit for my experience. Sent her my resume last night and hoping to hear back before too long on whether she'd like to set up an interview. Fingers crossed!!

Haven't had a chance to watch the video yet, but thanks for posting this. So very sad.

Ahhh lol that's both hilarious and creepy. It looks like the eyes from the bad guy at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Yeah, same here. I haven't had to actually search for a job in almost 10 years, and this is a whole different animal at this career stage. I wish I had some way of knowing if the places I've applied to have looked and aren't interested or are simply slow to get in touch with people.

Then we're even; I hate stats! :lol:

:( Sorry, man... that's one of the worst decisions you'll ever have to make, but it sounds like it's the right thing at this point. 18 isn't unheard of for cats (I know someone whose cat made it to 20!). In general, smaller dog breeds live much longer than larger breeds (my Lhasa Apso / Shih Tzu mix was 17), and indoor cats have similar lifespans to small dogs. My complaint: job hunting. Ugh.

I think I've watched this girl's performance 4-5 times since Monday night, and it still gives me chills: http://youtu.be/ZK_fYT3Vi78

I'm bummed you're not actually a professional fire eater.

So great.

:lol: No surprises here: biomedical research scientist. I know shrader and Claude are among the ranks, and I think maybe there's someone else I'm forgetting as well.

lol

Thanks for posting, Liger. Didn't like the early responses, but he got better as it went on.

I don't doubt Arizona wants to make that trade, but not sure they have anything Edmonton wants.

Poor McDavid, he seems bummed

Are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?

:lol:

As an aside: I really like the idea of a catch-all Sabres injury / illness thread. I hope we do one again next year (and maybe the mods can pin it so it gets more visibility).

lol WildCard... I'd never seen that before, but that is great.

Someone should paste this story on his office door (or with the games he "borrows"): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-payments-a-credit-card-processor-is-setting-a-new-minimum-wage-70000-a-year.html?_r=0

You've had a LOT of experience with that the last year or two, I know! Not sure how much of it translates between fields, but if you have suggestions, I'm all ears. (And thanks, NS.)

This job instability is making me crazy. At the beginning of March my boss was talking about possibly running out of funding and closing up shop, then a week or two later he settles in and seems more optimistic and hopes he'll know for sure on internal funding by April / May. I still did some preliminary job-hunting, but nothing too serious since I had 3-4 months of funding and there was a chance I might be able to stay here. Fast forward to now, and it's back to oh-sh!t-I-need-to-find-another-job. My boss had been talking to our division chief about our specific funding needs for the next 1-2 years, and he had seemed supportive and indicated there were funds but he didn't have the authority to approve the allocation (the Dept Chair would have to do that). After 2-3 weeks and no updates or firm answers from anyone, my boss was talking to his immediate boss (someone between him and the division chief), who calls the Chair and is told this is the first he's heard anything about us requesting internal funding. So it seems like at least one of them is a lying sack of sh!t who can't (or won't) man up and just tell us either a) there's no money available, or b) there's money, but they don't want to spend it on us. My boss is understandably pissed and for him this is essentially the last straw on even attempting to stay here. He has a few other offers available and could leave as early as August, although it wouldn't matter for my purposes since my funding is now absolutely going to run out in June or July. Submitted a bunch more applications earlier this week and I know it takes time for people to review them and get around to contacting people, but the waiting game is killing me and I'm starting to freak out. If there's a chance I'm moving I should be going full-bore into tackling minor house repairs and getting the place listed ASAP, but I don't want to list my house if I'm possibly staying put. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

Ah, I missed that somehow earlier. Makes sense.