28 Oct 2004, 12:23 p.m.

Even Better Than Usual

Websnark today discourses on the different purposes of his different journals and the permanent records we create for ourselves.

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27 Oct 2004, 16:23 p.m.

Customer Service Lessons

If you are yelling profanity at the email on your screen because the customer has the audacity to suggest a deficiency in your website's help infrastructure, take a break away from the computer.

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27 Oct 2004, 9:12 a.m.

No One Cares If You Smoke In A Bar In The Tenderloin

Last night I tried to watch Will Franken perform at 50 Mason. I did arrive a bit late, after schmoozing with my Salon colleague Jeff, and saw the ever-friendly Mike Spiegelman, as well as a …

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27 Oct 2004, 8:48 a.m.

Yet Another Kinship Between My Heritage And LDS

BoingBoing points me to directions to merge fashion with modesty. My personal answer is to dress like a man and not care about fashion. Pants, button-down or tee shirt, done. I guess you need a …

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26 Oct 2004, 15:30 p.m.

I Will Never Learn This

"I've spent a lot of my life trying to become better and better at what I DO. Somehow I thought my achievements might attract love. This has always been my fantasy. It's a crazy fantasy …

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26 Oct 2004, 10:10 a.m.

Yes, It's In The Tenderloin

C.W. Nevius's personal essay handwringing in the Chronicle will find its way into the wringing hands of many a high school student. Great dark humor in the ending. Tonight I watch Will Franken at 50 …

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20 Oct 2004, 20:10 p.m.

Lesson For Today!

Some things you can put off, and that will have some psychological consequences. Example: not writing the great American novel just yet. Some things you can procrastinate only with social, hygenic, and other such risks. …

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20 Oct 2004, 19:07 p.m.

Come With?

I'm going to both Will Franken shows this week.

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20 Oct 2004, 13:12 p.m.

Politics, Food, Politics

"...Specifically, he explored why it was that some people, at great personal risk, helped their Jewish neighbors in Nazi-occupied Europe while the majority did not..." "...That's when Salmassi pointed to the door..." Republicans for Kerry, …

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19 Oct 2004, 9:32 a.m.

Sarah Said It Was An Adlerian Slip

I'd had to deal with this customer before. He was having an inexplicable and chronic problem and we talked often. He talked over me, interrupted me, misunderstood me, but always thanked me profusely for my …

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