08 Sep 2006, 13:25 p.m.

Work Experience

A story about fast food reminds me how lucky I am that I've never worked that kind of retail. A few friends of mine who have really impressive resumes up online: web designer Kristofer Straub, …

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07 Sep 2006, 11:21 a.m.

Glom

A corporation has bought Cody's Books. I hope it improves more than it worsens. Ideas for t-shirts I would wear:I Have A Work Ethic Woohoo, I'm Married! Someday I Will Be Successful Courtesy Is Awesome …

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07 Sep 2006, 8:48 a.m.

Time!

Homework for the second Technology in the Business Environment class (this coming Tuesday): read five book chapters, and write a two-page analysis of different valuation structures at my workplace. Homework for the second Corporate Finance …

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06 Sep 2006, 13:42 p.m.

Fame

I'm in the blue shirt.

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05 Sep 2006, 7:41 a.m.

Continuing Education

Tonight I start a four-semester Master's program at Columbia: the Executive Master of Science in Technology Management, offered by the School of Continuing Education. Finance, psych, marketing, planning, history, law, that sort of stuff. My …

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04 Sep 2006, 16:23 p.m.

I Thought I'd Never Need My TI-85 Again

How to use Google as a calculator. Tip: Don't try using π; just type "pi".

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04 Sep 2006, 9:47 a.m.

OneWebDay is September 22

Last month, the smart and charismatic Susan Crawford spoke to the New York Tech Meetup about OneWebDay. I'll have to do some interesting blogging that day, celebrating all the wonderful things the Web has given …

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04 Sep 2006, 2:11 a.m.

LOLOL

LOL inflation destroys semantics root and branch. ROFLMAO.

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04 Sep 2006, 2:07 a.m.

Adapt To Win

Jon Stewart's crew actually doesn't push the Orwell/Huxley jokes that much. But The Daily Show a few nights ago, in a four-minute piece on propaganda, did a very unexpected 1984/They Live/1984 Mac ad reference. It's …

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04 Sep 2006, 1:50 a.m.

Transitive Friendship Failure

The geek social fallacies. Looking back, I've had mild cases of 1, 4, and 5. I can identify at least three past or present acquaintances with symptoms of more virulent strains of all five.

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