Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I haven't been home in seven days — I'm tired, homesick, more than a little hungover, and generally crabby. I'm wearing jeans to work today because everything else I have with me smells like cigarettes and ass and might have body glitter on it. And I miss my cats.I'm about ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
After spending all morning reading about how much I missed out on by failing to score the tightest ticket in town, I figured the Universe owed me one. But the best the Universe could do on short notice was drop club level tickets to the Rangers-Islanders game at Madison Square ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Yesterday was a site launch day at work. (For Dave Siegel, who thinks I work at a bakery: yesterday we introduced a new loaf of bread to our bread inventory.)This was the first site we've launched for this particular publisher, and I had joked with him consistently over the course ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
I've lived long enough to know that if you upgrade from version 2.63 of a piece of software to version 4.01 of that same piece of software, you're practically guaranteed a problem. And that's what I had until 3am last night, and again at 7am this morning, until I just ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
I'm getting pretty good about remembering to bust out the iPhone when the unusual things happen.
Trust me, you don't want to suffer the indignity of a donutcheck.
Someone at Target has a sense of humor. It's already time for another shitty taxonomy conversation?
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I've updated my installation of Movable Type for the first time in, uh, ever. It's phase one of my plan to drag the shitty ol' website kicking and screaming into Web 2.0, inspired by a blog post and conversation with my old pal Lauren. Plus, I work on shiny high ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
This blog supports the WGA in their strike against the studios, because the writers are right and the studios are evil. This much is a no-brainer. Artistic unions are important to protect the interests of artistic labor in a market dominated by a corporate oligopoly, even though they chafe my ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
No further comment should be necessary.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
I want to be clear about this: I don't hate flying. I hate airports, airplanes, security personnel, removing my belt and shoes without so much as a pat on the ass, gate agents, delays, saying the word "LaGuardia," people who talk on the phone in public when they don't know ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
I was instructed to record myself watching an Internet video for the first time, and this was the result:
If you want to join in on the fun, set up your camera, then go to 2girls1cup.com to see how long you can last. I do not recommend doing this. I am ...
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