September 2009
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Note to self: if you have nothing nice to blog, don’t blog at all.
I trusted you.
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August 2009
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I’m okay being anonymous.
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“I know, it’s certain; there’s no longer a need to document everything that...”
– Shutlow
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“Come Away With Me” - Norah Jones
I...
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My…entire…iPhoto library…
…is gone.
I am devastated.
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“I guess I’ve come to believe very strongly that we need to tell people our good thoughts. Too often we’re quick to criticize, judge, assume, hate, and simply be mean to people rather than tell them all the good qualities we see in them. In the little time I’ve spent with you, I’ve seen so many great things from you. I wish I could have known you because I think I...
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I don’t want to talk about tonight because I don’t have the words for it. “Good” works nicely. “See you soons” and “not soon enoughs.” Wasting away until another weekend. Sleep to wake up to wish I was asleep again. Anything to make time go by a little faster.
“I’ve got to figure out a way to tell you I want you around without...
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“The Latest Toughs” - Okkervil...
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Weird Friday nights make for great Saturday mornings (afternoons?). I slept on the floor because I couldn’t be bothered to find the bed. I dreamt of you and me and falling in love again. I’m only telling you this so you can feel as nostalgic as I am (and as nostalgic as I want you to be). Get unique. How are you doing, Portland?
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CBS to Run Video Ad in Magazine This Fall →
From shaneblog:
Broadcast network CBS will be advertising its fall TV season with a video-chip ad embedded in an issue of Entertainment Weekly.
The September 18 issue of the Time Inc.-owned magazine will feature the first video ad to appear in print, George Schweitzer, CBS marketing president, said Wednesday at a press conference at the company’s headquarters here.
The ad will be launched in...
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I love you, Portland access television. You never fail to make me smile.
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I absolutely love the way the iPhone handles text messages. I’m sure my iPhone-less friends hate, though, it because I have adopted the bad habit of sending multiple messages like an instant messaging conversation.
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“I’m Only Sleeping” - The...
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Hono-Lulu:
There’s a health care reform town hall near me next week and I keep thinking of going, but I’m just afraid that I might become one of the crazies who can’t control my emotions and end up beating an old woman in a wheelchair or something for saying something ridiculous, in turn making me just as ridiculous.
I very rarely get angry on the outside and actually yell or get loud (I’m...
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What could have been →
From the BBC on June 30, 1999 — t is not so long ago, that economists and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic fretted about the US government’s escalating budget deficit and the ballooning size of public debt.
The days of gloom are over.
A booming economy has generated massive tax revenues, and President Bill Clinton now predicts that it would take the government just 16...
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Afghan poll media blackout urged →
From the BBC — Afghanistan has called on domestic and foreign media not to cover any violence on the day of the presidential election in case such reports scare away voters.
The government urged a media blackout on any attacks from 0600 to 2000 during polling on Thursday and asked reporters to avoid the scene of such incidents.
Siamak Herawi, a spokesman for President Karzai, said:...
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Private Health Insurance Provisions of H.R. 3200,... →
In general, H.R. 3200 would include the following:
Individuals would be required to maintain health insurance, and employers
would be required to either provide insurance or pay into a fund, with
penalties/taxes for noncompliance.
Several market reforms would be made, such as modified community rating
and guaranteed issue and renewal.
Both the individual and employer mandates would be...
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Rough day at work. I don’t know if tomorrow will be much better. I am going to sleep off the bad moods. If you had three wishes, would you still waste one on me?
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Hipster Subculture Ripe for Parody →
From Time — Annoying, yes, but harmless, right? Not to hear their critics tell it. Hipsters manage to attract a loathing unique in its intensity. Critics have described the loosely defined group as smug, full of contradictions and, ultimately, the dead end of Western civilization.
The hipster backlash makes sense in the terms of culture and history.
Like the article said, since the dawn of...
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I hate the feeling of knowing there is something I should be doing or was about ready to do and all the sudden — it’s gone. And all I know is there is something I was going to do and I’m racking my brain trying to figure out what it was.
Maybe I’m just losing it.
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“Any Time at All” - The Beatles.
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“I’m just astonished at how much you learn as you grow older and how it...”
– Jesse Lacey
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“I’m Not Ready to Forgive You” -...
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I wish everyone in the world could hear this Portland rain. It’s beautiful.
PS. Something of substance coming your way soon. Been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of dreaming.
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When you’ve got nothing of substance to say, it’s best you just leave your mouth shut.
I miss you, but the first days are always the hardest ones.
I’ll feel on top of the world again soon.
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Teaching the Unteachable →
I saw another writers’ conference born only this past June 18. I pick that date, since that was when the Student-Faculty Get-Acquainted Party was held. It was The West-Central Writers’ Conference, sponsored by Western Illinois University, which is in Macomb, Ill. The party was held in the TraveLodge Motel in Macomb, in between the Coin-A-Wash and the A&W Rootbeer stand, because...
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Found among the limitless “woe is me” diatribes on the Internet:
“Don’t get me wrong, I loved my iPhone, but if I had a [Palm] Pre, I wouldn’t look like everyone else.”
It’s a sentiment that I’ve heard a couple of my friends discuss in passing. The fact that the iPhone (or substitute your choice of any number of popular items: cars, bands, fashion...
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Sometimes I think I hit my peak at 18 and it’s all downhill from there. I am indifferent. Sometimes life isn’t worth trying to understand. You’re just picking at a scab instead of letting it heal. Leave it alone and let it fix itself. No pressure. Amazing conversations with new friends. “Wish you were here.”
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“At the Bottom” - Brand New.
From...
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“Because” - The Beatles. In...