I don’t usually have to define “blog” for anyone anymore. Blogging is mainstream enough that anyone who can send email probably knows what they are. But for years I had to explain to people why I was so…entranced by people putting their diaries on the internet. Here’s why: Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt [...]
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Parakeets poop every 12–15 minutes. In the time it takes a six-inch bird to prepare another dropping, at least four more people in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Maybe five. To help change “four or five” to “none,” I will again be joining my fabulous team and thousands of others in [...]
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…unless you’re Jon. Or a Hookslide or House Jacks fan. Or you’ve ever been in my car when NPR gets to the end of their loop. Check out Duwende, a rock band in NYC that makes fantastic music using only their voices and some kick-ass production. (What? They should get the same benefit of technology a [...]
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Sticker graphics: Bring Bad Design to Justice Caveat: In no way do I think these should be used in real life on real designers with feelings and stuff. That’s why they’re here and not on the Resources page. But they cracked me up and there are a couple I’d like to use from time to [...]
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NewTemp starts today and has to go through the abbreviated orientation we give to temps and consultants — parking, passwords, etc. As we talked with the office manager, NewTemp asked if this is a completely smoke-free building. Huh? Do they still make the other kind? The gent is certainly older than I by a fair amount [...]
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Wow. Heath Ledger dead at 28. That knocked me for a loop last night, and I still can’t quite wrap my head around it. I’m not really even a fan, though I think he was a talented actor. I particularly liked him in “10 Things I Hate About You,” but I’m a sucker for modern [...]
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I keep waiting for Fed chairman Bernanke to whisper “recession,” like the blonde chick’s mother in St. Elmo’s Fire. Until he does that, how do we know how scary it really is? I am not afraid of your economic downturn, Mr. Chairman. You know what a recession really means? It means people aren’t spending a [...]
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Times being what they are, I’m a little off my public writing just now. Which is to say that I have plenty I need to write about, but it’s still at the cramped-hand journaling level, rather than the here’s-what-I-got level. Last week, on my way home after a particularly long day in a particularly difficult [...]
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I’ve been unusually silent for reasons about which I’m going to be unusually vague, because I take to heart Heather B. Armstong’s advice re: blogging about work: BE YE NOT SO STUPID. I flamingo-ed up. (Red Dwarf fans will recognize that as a cock-up, only much, much bigger.) I made a huge work mistake, an expensive [...]
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As in, “I could have been a fashionista,” like our Bean, but I went the other way and have been diagnosed as Fashionistic. (Not nearly as serious as diabetic or paraplegic, but certainly annoying.) Here’s the thing. I do adhere to a couple of fashion rules. Why I adhere to these and not others, I’m [...]
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