September 2009
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“As a woman, I have come to regard men and violence as inseparable.”
– Female protester in Iran who was beaten by police during Aug 5th demonstration (Veiled Threat: What do the Iranian protests mean for the country’s women? New Yorker)
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“Yes, you suck right now — that’s because you haven’t been working long enough....”
– Adam paraphrasing words of wisdom from Ira Glass (Adam Conover’s Personal Brand)
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He's Just Not That Into You
I’m sorry to say it, but I really enjoyed this movie. (CR did, too, but don’t tell anyone.)
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TeamViewer.com →
This amazing free program just miraculously enabled me to help my boss’s 90 old mom with signing into her gmail by signing into her computer remotely.
The most miraculous part, is that first I had to talk her though downloading and installing the software, and was successful.
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Me: The next piece is for piano four hands.
CR: That is two people on the same piano?
Me: Yes.
CR: Oh. I thought maybe they had some special guy from the circus.
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“Indeed, courts — citing the Equal Access Act, which requires public schools to...”
– Coming Out in Middle School (NYT)
I love that these groups for gay students are protected by laws created by people who are now probably the very individuals trying to shut these organizations out of their schools.
“There is a Verizon DSL outage in area code two hundred twelve.”
– Verizon
Looks like a day of internet via Blackberry.
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Free Stopping Clinics (Central Park Skate Patrol) →
I know where I’m going on Saturday afternoon!
This organization is kind of awesome, and I want to check out their “Thursday Evening Skate”. Will it be all 9 year olds who can skate circles around me?
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WatchI love Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas, but know that I can’t listen to it just any time of the year.
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Intuit to Buy Mint.com for $170 Million (WSJ) →
Yeah! All my forcing everyone I know to use it has paid off! Maybe Quicken Online will actually be good now.
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