Recently readOne of the Einsteins at Daily Kos manages to compute that “buying a Mac makes you liberal“, thus prompting 700+ comments from people who still care enough to have a stake in the Mac vs PC and liberals vs conservatives slapfights.
Well, as it happens, I know a lot of true liberals (like me) who […]
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I received my first issue of JPG, issue 8 (”Embrace the blur”). I normally don’t dive right into magazines when they arrive, but this one was devoured instantly. I like the large size and sturdy cover, and the fact that I learned a bunch just from skimming a few articles. It’s also giving me gear […]
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When Rob emailed me about this encounter at McDonald’s last week, I got cold chills. Sure, I was drinking a frosty Sam Adams at the time, but still, how very strange…and cool.
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I was invited to take a customer service survey by Marriott, owner of the Renaissance brand, which runs The Columbus hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus bills itself as a contemporary, elegant hotel - and that it certainly is - with the room tariffs to match. (Especially for Ohio’s capital, which has very little […]
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I’ve been reading Orthodoxy to get me through my insomnia, and enjoying it immensely. Mine was a gift from Ms Lukas, but you can read the e-book for free. It’s a real delight to read, funny and challenging, and I keep wanting to buy copies for friends like Rob and Amy, since I think they’d […]
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As I promised myself I would do, I’m taking it easy today - doing laundry from our trip (only four more loads to go!), reorganising my toiletries (only 500 more bottles and jars to go!), trying to nurse myself back to health, and catching up on blog reading. I’d let 17 posts from Ben Casnocha […]
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I got hammered with comment spam while I was in the US, so some genuinely worthwhile comments may have been unintentionally lost in the purges. Sorry.
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Adriana has the scoop on how Microsoft’s customer-hostile business practices have provoked some Microsoft-hostile parodies - from customers - of the company’s oh-so-cringeworthy attempts to ‘embrace social media’. Forgive the awkward metaphor to come, but based on what I’ve seen over the last four years of what happens when big business try to swim in […]
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Cathy Seipp:
One of the big problems facing our beloved L.A. Times, after all, is its entrenched mediocrity, which is hard to improve upon when the standard response to criticism of anything involving L.A. Times staffers is an outraged, “But he’s such a nice guy!”
Case in point: The wretched failure of the probably soon-to-be-closed Sunday magazine […]
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My mate Luke Ford FINALLY has permalinks, so I can link directly to this interview he did with Brian Doherty (including streaming mp3s of their chat, if you’re into that kind of thing). I have always resisted wearing the label of libertarian, for various reasons I’m too tired to get into, but I’ve always been […]
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Okay, allow me to gloat a bit: Lingerie website Figleaves (quite a big player in the intimates retail market) has removed its restrictions on UK customers purchasing from their US site after I blogged a rant about how they lost my business due to that policy. Thanks to Figleaves director of customer operations Nigel Richards […]
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Rehearsal dinner
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
The wedding was beautiful (though I wish I’d known that camera for longer than five minutes before I had to use it to take photographs; the day after we bought it, the shutter refused to open all the way, so it went back before we left the US). Far be it […]
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Me, Karri, Mark
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
So, today is the day that Karri and I - in true cliché fashion - have been talking about since we were 13. Last night was the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, where we had a blast and then stayed up way too late back at the hotel. All of this […]
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The story of the $155 million house made me think, “Well, I’m sure it would cost $400 million if it was in southeast England…”
The only direct flight we can ever get into Ohio is into Cincinnati’s airport - which is actually just over the Ohio River from Cincinnati, in Covington, Kentucky. Our friends Jamie and […]
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