17 Feb 2011, 16:10 p.m.

Thumbs Up, Sarah Glidden

Just finished Sarah Glidden's touching, heady, funny memoir How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less. She went on a Birthright Israel trip, determined that they wouldn't brainwash her, and had her views confirmed …

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17 Feb 2011, 14:28 p.m.

QuahogCon 2010, & 2011?

According to its main website, the QuahogCon security/DIY convention has not yet opened registration for this year, which makes me slightly nervous. There does exist an Eventbee ticket-sales page but I don't trust it yet, …

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16 Feb 2011, 15:29 p.m.

Consulting

Soooo much easier to work with people who laugh at my jokes.

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13 Feb 2011, 9:34 a.m.

Sweet!

Years ago, on Jeopardy!, a contestant incorrectly rang into a food science clue with the response, "What is aspartame?" Nope. Then, for the next clue -- something about NutraSweet -- no one rang in. Beep-beep-beep, …

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13 Feb 2011, 1:05 a.m.

After-Action Report

Erin, thank you for your company tonight at Too Much Light, and for introducing me to Curly's Vegetarian Lunch. All fun! An incomplete list of stuff I mentioned: The suck fairy, and NYC as a …

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09 Feb 2011, 11:34 a.m.

Recruiting

As you might have seen from my microblogging, I seem to know a lot of firms that are hiring. In short: I know people who are looking for project managers, UX designers, backend developers, undergrads …

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06 Feb 2011, 23:53 p.m.

The Offspring (Of Our Friends)

This weekend I visited two friend-couples who have new babies, then came home to read Mary Anne Mohanraj's related post: In the end, I decided that I wanted to be with him more than I …

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02 Feb 2011, 9:50 a.m.

Is Our Sumanas Learning?

Yesterday + today: Project Hamster is a nice timetracking app, better for my purposes than is gTimelog. The magic code to add to an HTML page to make RSS autodiscovery work: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS …

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01 Feb 2011, 7:47 a.m.

When Am I Ever Going To Have To Use This?

Yesterday, while negotiating with potential clients, I used: You know, standard reading, writing, and interpersonal speaking skills (many courses, school newspaper, speech & debate, Academic Decathlon) Basic algebra to work out some price quotes (elementary …

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30 Jan 2011, 23:31 p.m.

The Long And The Short Of It

If you enjoyed Babysitters Club and have more than an hour, Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California will reward your readership. It reads like Ann M. Martin, plus profanity …

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