Recently readI don’t know why I’m astonished by this, but I am. What a rotten bunch of unprincipled thugs we have running the UK.
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Unknown flowers
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Some days, I can scarcely believe what I’ve done.
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I am so having nightmares about this tonight.
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If you’re familiar with the Pearl Jam song Yellow Ledbetter and Eddie Vedder’s mumbling vocals, you won’t want to miss this: It took me back to freshman year of high school AND made me laugh out loud:
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When we were waiting to board our ferry in Calais on Sunday, Antoine and I took this quiz. I was dismissive of it before we did so, since I thought some of the questions could be interpreted in more than one way (an issue I frequently have with all quizzes), but the results were astonishingly […]
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I spent some long overdue time with Adriana today, during which I was trying to put into words the sort of people whose company I crave. Adriana captured it so well, I have to repeat it here:
I thrive on the company of people who can move from specifics to concepts and play with them […]
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My hometown newspaper amuses as often as it infuriates:
The group [of Japanese exchange students] has been in Chillicothe for about one week now and has sampled American cuisine, although different from their traditional favorites, many have found a new favorite.
“I like fish and chips,” said Mitsuko Hosaka.
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We had some friends over for dinner tonight, during which someone mentioned the preposterous idea of “giving back”. For example, an otherwise seemingly intelligent person can make a remark that a billionaire like Bill Gates is “giving back” with his charitable efforts and such a comment can pass without anyone challenging it. The fact is, […]
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Last night, after spending a good hour editing photos on my Mac, I turned off the Dell Ultrasharp TFT monitor while the photos uploaded and I did some chores. An hour later, I turned the monitor back on and saw only a white screen. Slowly, vertical lines of color appeared across the screen.
I’ve tried […]
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Parc Richelieu, Calais
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I feel like I’m visiting an ex-love and experiencing a confusing rush of emotions which makes me think, “What if…?” London has been particularly beautiful the last two days (although the photo above was taken in France at the weekend), with perfect, sunny, gloriously bearable weather. I’m seeing the city […]
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I try very hard not to quote more than a few paragraphs of a given text, but this email is so important that I am going to do just that. It seems that the federal government wants to require every person in the United States to prove their identity and innocence in order to live […]
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I’ve got a lot to do here in London (and that’s before I get to the 400+ comments - mostly spam - which are sitting in moderation). I just wanted to post a quick reminder that my buddy Ben Casnocha’s new book - My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey […]
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Mulry Square 9/11 Memorial
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I just uploaded a bunch of pictures (official count: a million billion) from the last few days over here.
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Jeff Nolan, whose Venture Chronicles is one of my very favorite reads these days, writes:
There’s that old cliche about buggy whip manufacturers at the turn of the 20th century, but the fact of the matter is that there are still some buggy whip manufacturers in business… and their primary market today is probably the Amish. […]
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