Icky Thump

August 5, 2010

Work has been really weird lately.  Several key people have left in the last few weeks and everyone is pretty worried.  Nobody will meet anyone else’s eyes and everyone’s wondering who’ll be the next to quit.  It’s pretty messed up and overall, the vibes are wicked icky.  I went for a nice long run after [...]

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Self-Doubt

August 3, 2010

Yeah, it happens.  But it’s a total bitch.  For me, at least. I’ve been struggling with self-doubt for the last couple of weeks or so.  I’m not sure where, when, how or why it started, but it seems like all of a sudden I just can’t make any decisions.  And for someone who prides himself [...]

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Speech From The American President

August 3, 2010

I recently posted a link to this speech on my facebook page, but I think the Andy Shepherd (Michael Douglas) speech from The American President is definitely something worth posting in its entirety. I scraped it from here, and if you follow that linq, I believe you can actually watch the video from the movie [...]

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Cardinal Jack Nicklaus

August 3, 2010

Shortly after the Pope had apologized to the Jewish People for the treatment of Jews by the Catholic Church over the years, Ariel Sharon sent a proposal to the College of Cardinals for a friendly game of golf to be played between the two leaders or their representatives to demonstrate the friendship and ecumenical spirit [...]

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A Pleasant Fiction

July 30, 2010

The old Jeep pulls to a stop at the end of our driveway, lets us out by our own faded Jeep and pulls a youie, Bill’s gnarled hand waving goodbye to us from where the window would be.  At the same time, Jen and I take a deep breath and smile broadly as we exhale.  [...]

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Your Lack of Privacy on the Internet [Infographic]

July 28, 2010

Totally stolen because people on Digg like it.  No shame. Infographic byWordStream Internet Marketing

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The Story of My Life

July 27, 2010

As written by Hakuri Murakami in On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (and unabashedly scraped from that linq).  This short story appears in Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes. Seriously:  this happens to me AT LEAST three times a week. Haruki Murakami: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning One beautiful [...]

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General Update

July 26, 2010

I didn’t wake up until like 9AM today – didn’t get in to work until around 10:30 or so.  Today still being Monday for me, even though I’m technically 26 minutes into Tuesday.  The #2 guy in my department quit today.  Two weeks ago, the #1 guy from the other big department on the floor [...]

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17 Things About DNA [Infographic]

July 22, 2010

Via: Online Nursing Programs

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Being Present in the Moment

July 20, 2010

On the ride up to RI at the beginning of my MINIs on Top trip, I popped into my CD player a series of CDs my friend Jason loaned to me two or three years ago:  it was a talk by Eckhart Tolle called The Flowering of Human Consciousness.  It was pretty good – both [...]

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