01 Nov 2004, 16:59 p.m.

Ear Cleared

In other doctor's office news, Highlights for Children is still lots of fun. Their "caption this photo/cartoon" contests get much more creative entries than those in non-kids' magazines do.

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01 Nov 2004, 9:53 a.m.

I Can Feel It Brushing Against My Eardrum

This weekend, while using a generic cotton swab to clean my left ear, I got a ball of cotton lodged in my left ear. Leonard and I tried to float it out, to tweeze it …

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31 Oct 2004, 20:56 p.m.

An Ad For Canadian Schooling

If you ever visit my putative homepage, and you're viewing the page with graphics turned on, you'll see a bit of Russian at the bottom. "Ya mogu yest steklo; eto menya ne vredit," it says. …

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29 Oct 2004, 11:47 a.m.

Votes Count When We Count The Votes

Last year we lost and this year we didn't even enter; the person who usually does these sorts of things was out. This year I'm betting the folk-guitar "Vote for John Kerry" song will stick …

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28 Oct 2004, 16:52 p.m.

A Crying Shame

Andrew Leonard makes me cry and Malcolm Gladwell convinces me I'll never be a genius. Neither of these is a difficult goal.

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28 Oct 2004, 12:23 p.m.

Even Better Than Usual

Websnark today discourses on the different purposes of his different journals and the permanent records we create for ourselves.

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27 Oct 2004, 16:23 p.m.

Customer Service Lessons

If you are yelling profanity at the email on your screen because the customer has the audacity to suggest a deficiency in your website's help infrastructure, take a break away from the computer.

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27 Oct 2004, 9:12 a.m.

No One Cares If You Smoke In A Bar In The Tenderloin

Last night I tried to watch Will Franken perform at 50 Mason. I did arrive a bit late, after schmoozing with my Salon colleague Jeff, and saw the ever-friendly Mike Spiegelman, as well as a …

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27 Oct 2004, 8:48 a.m.

Yet Another Kinship Between My Heritage And LDS

BoingBoing points me to directions to merge fashion with modesty. My personal answer is to dress like a man and not care about fashion. Pants, button-down or tee shirt, done. I guess you need a …

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26 Oct 2004, 15:30 p.m.

I Will Never Learn This

"I've spent a lot of my life trying to become better and better at what I DO. Somehow I thought my achievements might attract love. This has always been my fantasy. It's a crazy fantasy …

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