I was recently employed at the Ann Arbor office as a receptionist. My first pay period, Manager Nahal N. wrote me a bad check. I notified her of the problem, she fixed it, and I chalked it up to an honest mistake. Due to other shady things going on in the office (having to use my own cell to make calls, her general poor attitude, the fact that I was making next to nothing) I shortly thereafter accepted another job and promptly quit working for Vector.  My second (and final) pay period came, and she again wrote me a bad check. I am taking legal action against her and will tell everyone I can about her bad business practices and dishonesty. I think it's terrible that in this economy, someone would have the nerve to think that they can pass bad checks to someone who works for them. I don't know how much it will help, but I would like to give fellow community members a good reason to pass up any opportunities with Vector Marketing.

The lowdown:
They lure people in with vague responses to their questions, promise them fantastic "base pay," and leave out a whole lot of details. Such as, you have to buy a demonstration kit of their Cutco knives to work as a representative for them. You have to set your own appointments with family and friends to start out, and then at the end of those appointments you have to ask family and friends for contact numbers so you can sell to people they know. You are not compensated for your training, which they can get away with by calling you an "independent contractor." You are also not compensated for the time you spend driving to and from the appointments you set up, your weekly "team" meetings, or the time you spend on the phone setting up appointments and conversing with your clients. So the $14 "base pay," which you get paid per appointment, gets a lot lower if you consider all the time you're actually putting in.


So please think twice before going to work for them. If they don't have enough money to write people checks that the bank will actually accept,or to furnish phone service for the office, how legitimate can their work be?

Hey everyone, Jason and I are selling this computer, it's in really good shape but we just don't have a use for it. We're asking $500 obo, we're willing to entertain all offers so look it over, pass the word on... we're just tired of spam from posting on craigslist/facebook marketplace etc :D

This iBook is in excellent condition, no scratches whatsoever on outer case or screen, no dead pixels. Comes with power cord.

Includes cd/dvd burner (superdrive), 60 gb hard drive, Airport Extreme, preloaded with OSX 10.4, 512 mb of ram.

This is a great little machine, it would be perfect for any student. The dvd burner is especially nice for creating backups. I love this iBook but I've recently upgraded and won't be using it anymore.

I will consider any and all offers. Please email for any questions or if you'd like to see pictures.

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Strike-through shows you'll likely never watch.
4. Add on any that you like! I did!
5. Post your answers


75.Supernatural
74. Fringe
73. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
72. Saved by the Bell
71. Will and Grace
70. Burn Notice
69. American Dad
68. Law and Order Criminal Intent
67. Law and Order SVU
66. Law and Order
65. Jon and Kate Plus 8
64. American Idol
63. Roseanne
62. The Price Is Right
61. Golden Girls
60. What I Like About You
59. Dawson's Creek
58. Beverly Hills, 90210 (the old one!)
57. House
56. American Dreams
55. Freaks and Geeks
54. Gilmore Girls
53. Medium
52. What Not to Wear
51. Desperate Housewives
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex and the City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars (UK)
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. Doctor Who
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons

[01] — Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] — Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] — Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.


The Royal Tenenbaums

The spots on the dalmatian mice were created using a Sharpie pen.

The movie is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan, with such imaginary addresses as "100 N. 30th Avenue" (the address of the hotel where Royal stays) or the "375th Street YMCA".

The hand that is seen with the BB lodged between its knuckles is not Ben Stiller's, but Andrew Wilson's, brother of Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. When they were children, Owen fired a BB gun at Andrew's hand and the pellet has been there ever since 

Rosemary's Baby

The script called for Rosemary (Mia Farrow) to explain to Guy (John Cassavetes), that she'd "been to Vidal Sassoon" for her dramatic new haircut. Thus, Vidal Sassoon was in fact flown to the set to arrange Mia Farrow's hair into the now iconic pixie cut she sports during the second half of the film. For the first part, she wears a blonde wig designed by famed stylist Sydney Guilaroff.

According to Mia Farrow, the scenes where Rosemary walks in front of traffic were spontaneous and genuine. Roman Polanski is reported to have told her that "nobody will hit a pregnant woman

Amélie

Whenever this film was shot on location, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the crew would clean the area of debris, grime, trash and graffiti, so that the film would match his fantasy more so. This was an especially difficult task when it came time to shoot at the huge train station.

There are two films shown when Amélie is in the movie theater. When she watches faces behind her we see two scenes from Jules et Jim (1962). When she makes the comment about people not looking at the road whilst driving in older films, it is during a scene from Father's Little Dividend (1951).

Jackie Brown

The suit that Jackie buys is the same that Mia Wallace wears in Pulp Fiction (1994).

The money that's shown in the bag is genuine currency.

It was Samuel L. Jackson's idea to give his character the long hair and the braided goatee.

Mean Girls

Amy Poehler who plays Mrs. George is only five years older than her on screen daughter Rachel McAdams (Regina George)

Rachel McAdams was told to partly model the character of Regina George after Alec Baldwin's performance in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

Initially, Lindsay Lohan was cast as Regina, but decided to play the "nice girl" so the public wouldn't base her real personality on Regina's. Rachel McAdams was chosen to play the "mean girl" because "only nice girls can play mean girls" according to the producer 

The Departed

Body count: 22

When the main characters are shown in a police academy ballistics lecture at the beginning, the large flip chart illustrations seen in the background are Warren Commission exhibits of President John F. Kennedy's head wounds, prepared by medical illustrator H.A. Rydberg under the direction of Dr. James Humes, the chief examiner of Kennedy's autopsy.

Whenever any of the main characters is about to die there is an "X" somewhere on screen as a reference to Scarface (1932).

Annie Hall

Alvy's (Woody Allen's) sneezing into the cocaine was an unscripted accident. When previewed, the audience laughed so loud that director Allen decided to leave it in, and had to add footage to compensate for people missing the next few jokes from laughing too much.

Annie's outfits, which caused a brief fashion rage, were Diane Keaton's own clothes.

Almost Famous

Penny Lane asks William if he'd like to go to Morocco with her. He says, "Yes... ask me again." According to director Cameron Crowe, "Ask me again" was Patrick Fugit stepping out of character and asking Kate Hudson to repeat her lines for another take. But Crowe liked the take as-is and kept it in the final cut.

The scene where members of the band Stillwater are being driven into New York city in a limo mimics a scene in the film "The Song Remains the Same" where members of Led Zeppelin are being driven into New York city in a limo.

Cameron Crowe's original script was 172 pages and, according to him, he filmed almost all of it.

 School of Rock

The rock band Led Zeppelin are notoriously hesitant to allow their music to be licensed for commercial purposes. Knowing this, Richard Linklater filmed a plea by actor Jack Black in front of 1,000 screaming fans, imploring the band to let the production use the "Immigrant Song" in the movie. The plea worked and the filmed request is included on the DVD.

All the kids really play their instruments, and the backup singers are real vocalists. Jack Black also played a bit of guitar in the movie (for example, when he is teaching "Smoke on the water", "Iron man" and other songs to Zach), but he didn't do the guitar solos.

Rear Window

One thousand arc lights were used to simulate sunlight. Thanks to extensive pre-lighting of the set, the crew could make the changeover from day to night in under forty-five minutes.

Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead dog, all the shots in the movie originate from Jeff's apartment.

Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in June 2008.

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you really love (and strikethrough the ones you hate!).
4) Bold and Italicize those you've started, but never finished
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

*I just finished A Prayer for Owen Meany, one of the books on this list, and I have to say that it is already in my top 5 favorite books of all time. I feel like it has changed my life, I just am not as of yet aware how  it has changed my life. If you read nothing else on this list, devote some time to the 600 or so pages of that book. It's one of the most compelling portrayals of friendship and faith that I've ever read. -Carla

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

this is what i've accumulated thus far... basically a list for my own purposes.

 

DVDs

 

About a Boy

Adventures in Baby-sitting

Aladdin

Alkaline Trio – The Show Must Go Off!

Almost Famous

Amelie

American Beauty

American Dreams Season One

American Splendor

Anchorman

Annie Hall

The Aviator

Big Daddy

The Big Lebowski

Blades of Glory

The Brak Show Volume One

The Breakfast Club

The Break-up

The Bride Wore Black

Bridget Jones’ Diary

Brokeback Mountain

Carlito’s Way

Carrie

Casino

Johnny Cash – Man In Black Live in Denmark 1971

Charlie’s Angels

Chasing Amy (Criterion Collection)

Chicago

Chinatown

Cinderella

Clarissa Explains It All Season One

Clueless

Coal Miner’s Daughter

The Darjeeling Limited

The Departed

Disturbia

Dracula

Edward Scissorhands

Elizabethtown

Empire Records

Enough

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Father of the Bride

Fight Club

The Firemen’s Ball (Criterion Collection)

Foxfire

Frenzy

Friends Season 3

Friends Season 4

Friends Season 5

Friends Season 6

Garden State

Gilmore Girls Season One

Gilmore Girls Season Two

Gilmore Girls Season Three

Gilmore Girls Season Four

Gilmore Girls Season Five

Gilmore Girls Season Six

Gilmore Girls Season Seven

The Godfather

Goodfellas

The Good Girl

The Grudge

Hannah and Her Sisters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Heathers

The Hours

Jackie Brown

Juno

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Kill Bill Vol. 2

A Knight’s Tale

Knocked Up

Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde 2

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Criterion Collection)

Lilo & Stitch

The Little Mermaid

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lost in Translation

Match Point

Paul McCartney – Back in the U.S.

Mean Girls

Mean Streets

Minority Report

Moulin Rouge

My So-Called Life: The Complete Series

Napoleon Dynamite

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Notebook

Nothing But Trouble

Ocean’s Eleven

The Osbournes Season 1

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Playback

The Philadelphia Story

Premonition

Pretty in Pink

Pulp Fiction

Punch-Drunk Love

Purple Rain

Raging Bull

Ray

Rear Window

Red Eye

Reservoir Dogs

Risky Business

The Rolling Stones – Rock & Roll Circus

Romeo + Juliet

Rosemary’s Baby

The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion Collection)

Run Lola Run

Rushmore (Criterion Collection)

Saved!

Say Anything

Scarface

School of Rock

Scoop

Scream

Seinfeld Volume 1

Seinfeld Volume 2

Seinfeld Volume 3

Seinfeld Volume 4

Seinfeld Volume 6

Seinfeld Volume 7

Seinfeld Volume 8

Serial Mom

Sex & the City: The Complete Series

The Shining

The Simple Life

Sixteen Candles

The ’60s

Spider-man

Spider-man 2

Spider-man 3

Steel Magnolias

Taxi Driver

10 Things I Hate About You

Terms of Endearment

Thank You for Smoking

Three Colors Trilogy: Blue

Three Colors Trilogy: Red

Three Colors Trilogy: White

Trainspotting

Uncle Buck

The Untouchables

National Lampoon’s Vacation

Valley Girl

The Virgin Suicides

Walk the Line

Wayne’s World

Wedding Crashers

The Wedding Singer

Weezer – Video Capture Device

White Oleander

The Whole Nine Yards

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Witness

The Wizard of Oz

Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars