you guys killed him with all your butthurt mod complaints
― bnw, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
nice work. now you're stuck with the itr crew as your mods.
― Ages 8 to 80, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
just stopping in to say bi
― charleston chain (jeff), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
totally called this btw
― lol (roxymuzak), Friday, 13 February 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, is TOMBOT really not around?
― It is not enough to love mankind – you must be able to stand (Michael White), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
he posts as a-bomb on 77
― caek, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not on 77.
― It is not enough to love mankind – you must be able to stand (Michael White), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
You should hear what a-bomb's been saying about you.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
AFAIK tom is not posting on ilx at this point, not sure if he'll come back or not.
― From Rax to Rich's (jjjusten), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/images/dr-manhattan-on-mars.jpg
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Thread of missing TOMBOT
― Coyote Ultra Nate (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
FICH DICH, CONFICKER
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 06:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/RubensResurrection.jpg
― velko, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.tovx.com/graphics2/bible%20verses/luke214.gif
― ilx's funniest posts, hosted by otm bergeron (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
you guys are going to learn, I think, that I'm the nicest mod you fucking have
-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, 28 May 2008
this turned out to be true!
― velko, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 07:55 (fifteen years ago) link
\m/
― A bacon desert? Anything is possible. (stevie), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link
how is the government?!
― caek, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
boo!!!!
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2073/2348035396_639720bf37.jpg
― hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
my mother said to get things doneyou'd better not mess with el tomboto
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
sry abt single handedly driving u off the internet dude
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
have u been in space y/n?
― sadness/crying (Lamp), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Welcome back, Tom.
― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
tom i never realized i could miss u so much
~*glompz*~
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
this is an encouraging development
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
the thought plickens
― continuous flow crustastunna (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i41.tinypic.com/20p7vx0.jpg
― bnw, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/images/back.jpg
― altered prostates (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
was that his post for the whole spring?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
caek:
busy
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 April 2009 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
hey tom!!!!
― I just take my louis jag out and wave it round in the air (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 3 April 2009 06:36 (fifteen years ago) link
bring back grady
― sugjust blaze (The Reverend), Friday, 3 April 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bookgasm.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/hardman-2.jpg
― velko, Friday, 3 April 2009 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yay!
― horseshoe, Saturday, 4 April 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
heard 'jailbreak' at the bar last night; thought of u
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 April 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
TOMBOT - a 'white hat' is coming to my class next week. what should I ask him to look smart?
― bnw, Saturday, 4 April 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
bnw, ask him what he thinks about this:
In 1954, test pilot John Stapp walked away from a near-instant stop from 1017 kilometres per hour while strapped into a rocket sled. Yet that same year 33,890 of his fellow Americans died on the road, often in accidents at 40 km/h or slower."The level of safety (in cars) which we accept for ourselves, our wives, and our children is... on a par with shipping fragile, valuable objects loose inside a container," warned Hugh DeHaven, a crash investigator at Cornell University's aeronautical laboratory in New York.
"The level of safety (in cars) which we accept for ourselves, our wives, and our children is... on a par with shipping fragile, valuable objects loose inside a container," warned Hugh DeHaven, a crash investigator at Cornell University's aeronautical laboratory in New York.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
dude - hi
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Greetings!
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Fought a guy on SFII last night named LORD TOMBAT
― If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
What do you think of NASA as an organization? I didn't really follow the details of this until recently, but it seems to be be pretty dysfunctional, even for federal government.
― caek, Saturday, 5 December 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
NASA was, and parts of it remain, very hot shit. The problem is a lot of NASA hasn't changed, but the industries around it have, and management is still coming to grips. This same little narrative can be applied to about a hundred other little agencies that never had anything nearly as exciting to take credit for like putting a motherfucking man on the moon, or repeating that feat enough times to help perform a series of otherwise impossible experiments.
I'm going to use this thread to start a how-to guide of how to become a USA federal civil servant.
We'll start with navigating this best-effort hoo-hah:http://www.usajobs.gov/
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
plz explain the ksa deal
― velko, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
you might want to wait a few months. They just announced a big change in federal hiring policies, right? Including an end to the dreaded KSAs? Lemme find a link.
― it makes sense......................................does it to you? (Z S), Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
first link I found:
Today, Director John Berry of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and U.S. Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients announced a major overhaul of the Federal hiring process, detailing crucial reforms ordered by President Obama...This announcement came shortly after President Obama issued a memorandum to Federal agencies directing them to overhaul their hiring procedures within 180 days.
In his Memorandum, President Obama directed Federal agencies to:Dramatically reduce the time between when a job is announced and is filled.Eliminate essays as an initial application requirement. Essays may still be used later in the process. Under the previous system, if an individual applied for five separate Federal jobs, he or she often needed to complete five separate sets of lengthy essays.Use shorter, plain-language job announcements.Accept resumes from applicants, instead of requiring them to submit complex applications through outdated systems.Allow hiring managers to choose from among a group of best qualified candidates, rather than limiting their choice to just three names, through expanded use of "category ratings."Notify applicants in a timely manner (and at four points in the process) through http://www.usajobs.gov/ -- eliminating the "black hole" that applicants often feel they enter when they get no response to their application.Submit a hiring and recruitment plan for top talent to OPM by the end of this year.Have all Cabinet-level and Senior Administration Officials visiting universities or colleges on official business incorporate time to discuss career opportunities in the Federal service with students.Additionally, the President directed OPM to:Design a government-wide plan for recruiting and hiring qualified, diverse talent.Review the Federal Career Intern Program and, within 90 days, offer a recommendation to the President on its future and on providing effective pathways into the Federal service for college students and graduates.Work with agencies to ensure that best practices are being developed and used throughout Government.
― it makes sense......................................does it to you? (Z S), Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
A few points to start with:
1. OPM (http://www.opm.gov/) is the primary processor of almost all applications for federal service. After an advertised position closes, they have ~10 business days (two weeks) to process all the applicants and let them know how things turned out.
They score on an objective scale based on your own "PSQ" (position specific qualification) answers, keywords from your resume/CV, veteran's preference information, and probably some other mumbo-jumbo I don't understand.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe these changes are supposed to be implemented by agencies by Nov 1, 2010.
― it makes sense......................................does it to you? (Z S), Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
You'll get an e-mail telling you how OPM processed your resume. You will get some kinda junk about how you either made the selectee short list or how you DIDN'T. By design, about 90% of applicants DIDN'T. Don't worry, we got more. Shotgun method, kiddos.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 May 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Will you please stop fucking my shit up with your old news, I applied for a GS-15 slot two weeks ago.