F/M/K – better than budgeting

November 2, 2009

I found an old chat log that was created a few years ago. It was called Budgeting IM – Key Budget Factors and had several hundred lines regarding serious business matters. It was hiding this wonderful diversion, nestled between discussion of depreciation, appropriate estimating procedures, and other gripping material. The lesson: Budgeting discussion encourages you [...]

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Courtesy and Cosmopolitanism

September 17, 2009

My friend Jack linked to an article titled Our National Altamont is Just a Shot Away. It’s an short article that mourns the fact that civility and courtesy are in short supply. What happened to courtesy? The article gives many examples of courtesy-gone-missing. The analogy between the Stone’s concert at Altamont and current public discourse [...]

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Mysterious Artifacts

September 16, 2009

What a year makes It’s been a strange 12 months: Just over a year ago, a friend died at age 45 from leukemia. About eight months ago, my last uncle died. Two friends needed surgery, one of which was a heart transplant. I herniated a disc so badly that I had to have my vertebrae [...]

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Super-frog Saves Tokyo

June 1, 2009

I’ve been on a Murakami kick. I just read after the quake his collection of short stories. I read after dark, too. This passage from the short story “Super-frog Saves Tokyo” in the collection after the quake keeps coming back to me: “That’s fine, Mr. Katagiri. It’s better that you don’t remember. The whole terrible [...]

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Six Seconds

March 21, 2009

I’ve been spending more time reading and listening to music. When I get online, my time is usually focused on researching the things I’m reading/hearing. I stumbled across this video about “The World’s Most Important 6-Second Drum Loop.” It’s a very simple piece. I thought it was fascinating. Get a drink. Sit down. Relax. And [...]

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Facebook vs Nudity

February 25, 2009

Bonus! Guess if I’m “A” or “B”… A: hmmm – I’m still having a hard time figuring out facebook – well, I guess anyone who knows my personality will know that my last update was a joke B: I knew it when I read it. A: phew – now I feel better – I never [...]

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Reasons I Write To This Blog

February 10, 2009

To be famous. (AH-Hahahahahahaa….) To start discussions Because nobody else will publish my crap I took a dare I lost a bet I were drunk when I started I like to scream into canyons and hear the echo Web statistics fascinate me I momentarily confused “creating a blog theme” and “blogging” It looked so easy, [...]

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“Only Collect”

December 2, 2008

On the Road When I was 17, I read On the Road for the first time. Then, I understood that they were doing drugs in the book but I didn’t understand the volume of drugs that they were taking. Today, it’s clear to me that you can drive from California to New York, non-stop, only [...]

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