Jackie Danicki

San Jose signage

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I’m sure going to miss this place…
(One more day to go.)

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Put a deeply felt sense of inadequacy into action:

People who make things, like me, make them in part because they themselves just aren’t enough. If I was enough, I wouldn’t do anything except live my life, but I have a disease that makes me need to produce things outside of myself. It’s a compulsion to […]

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Happy Sunday!
There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, […]

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I can think of worse ways to spend a Saturday night…

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[I’m] a huge admirer of the openness, energy, optimism and dynamism of Americans… and this idea that Americans have no sense of irony – I mean, Americans hardly do anything unironically these days. If you want a drink of water, you have to say, ‘I really don’t want a drink of water.’
The latter is deeply […]

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Many thanks to Hillary Johnson for this shiny new look for my blog! I love Hillary’s sense of aesthetics (she made our beauty blog look great, too) and have long been jealous of her clients for the beautiful sites she designs for them. I am also beyond thrilled to have a change of scenery here.
Thanks, […]

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Seems like I’m the only one disappointed by what France’s first lady wore this week. With one bright exception, it was all dowdy, boring, unflattering, and terribly aging. I would have loved to have seen her break out one or two of her vintage catwalk looks for this trip. What a waste of beauty and […]

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Jeff Nolan:

[K]eeping your core business in order is more strategic than accessorizing failure.

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Over at the beauty blog, I’ll tell you which products I love and hate, and why Gwyneth Paltrow’s new haircut is stupid. But Hillary comes out with stuff like this:
We’re always being urged by one cranky, superior pundit or another to get back in touch with our humanity, and to eschew the “superficiality” that pervades […]

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We have a precious genetic heritage in our tendency to take pause and, if necessary, withdraw when we are perplexed about our functioning. Although unintentional and often distressing, this tendency can help us become more observant of our perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories of the moment and integrate them in new ways to solve the […]

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Cupertino

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Last week, while sorting out the logistics for lunch with Jeff Nolan, I wanted to send him my physical address. I was already in Gmail, so decided I’d shoot him a quick email. I searched Gmail high and low and finally realized that I don’t have Jeff’s email address. All of our communication since meeting […]

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As Hillary Johnson mentions in the clip below, capturing riots like this is one of the reasons I love Qik. This ordeal started a minute or two before I began filming! Thanks to my buddy Chris Yeh, the aforementioned Harvard MBA, for letting me record this. I loved every second.

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I’ll try PE, but I’m an early, hardcore fan of Picnik (well worth the $24.95/year). Quite aside from how easy it makes photo editing, how can one not show allegiance to a CEO who refers to “smoking crack” in an official statement?

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