December 2011
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November 2011
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Response from one friend when I told him I had...
“Is your company public? Would like to short the stock. Thanks.”
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An Actual Conversation My Brother and I Had About...
“I am PowerPoint factory. I crank out PowerPoint decks like it’s my job. Because it is my job.”
“Oh yeah? I’m pretty good at PowerPoint.”
“I assure you, you are an amateur compared to me.”
“Can I ask you a question? When you design slides, do you keep the grid lines turned on?”
“Not really, but I can understand why people do...
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Book Report
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you were ever young, you probably don’t need a 660 page book (or, in my case, a 22 hour audiobook), to tell you that kids are cruel to each other. But Paul Murray does you one better here - the adults are cruel to each other, too. And the adults are failing the children left and right, and not looking back. Skippy dies. He dies in...
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I started a shopping list. Right now there are only two items on it:
1. Toffee
2. Figs
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Did We Need a Study for This?
I am trying to read this article about why Millennial Women are burning out at work before age 30, but I’ve got emails coming in, IMs pinging, two deadlines looming and eight minutes before my next meeting. I’ve got six browser tabs open, including websites to track the calories I’m eating, figure out what I’m going to prepare for a get-together at my house this weekend,...
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Nailed it.
Today, I was providing some counsel in an email and needed to come up with something more polished to send to the client than simply explaining their proposed spokesperson was a brat. How did I do?
One concern is that [redacted] is often not taken seriously online, as she seems to be famous just for being famous. She exudes a self-importance that appears disproportional to her...
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When filling out your Christmas cards this year,...
urlesque:
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue
NW Washington, DC 20307-5001.
Pass this on and please send out a card- it takes 5 minutes of your precious free time… Together we can raise the spirits of our wounded soldiers this holiday season!
[via delbertshoopman]
We like this idea.
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Tina Fey is hosting a radio show now. →
comedynerdsunited:
huffpostcomedy:
The Hidden World of Girls with Host Tina Fey from NPR
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Cool news alert.
“The Hidden World of Girls, two new hour-long Specials hosted by Emmy Award-winning writer and actress, Tina Fey. Stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities—of women who crossed a line, broke a trail, changed the tide.”
OMG. Public...
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Book Report
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars In the year 2044, Columbus, Ohio is the technological capital of the country, most of the population lives in ghettos of double-wide trailers stacked one on top of the next and, most improbably, SNL is still on the air. In his debut novel, Ernest Cline has managed to [re]create two impressively rich worlds - that of America in 2044,...
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Kickstarter - Kings of Air and Steam →
I’m addicted to financing board games on Kickstarter.
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Trust me; I have an Undergraduate Degree in Snood.
Dear Fashion,
This is not a snood.
This is a Snood:
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