Morrie the Toupee Salesman

This hilarious article has several memorable quotes, but I’m going to go with this one:
“One of the most insidious things about working is “office ass”—that lateral expansion of your lower regions brought on by too many heavily-sugared coffees, lunch buffets, and Doritos snack packs. If you take the holistic view, this is the physical analogue [...]

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Unpleasant to see that crunchbase has removed my name from their “people” section for digg, leaving only the mythology in the middle section. Of course it’s a natural follow on to the eradication of the word founder in association with me.
It’s especially unpleasant because the old entry was reasonably flattering. And crunchbase isn’t in the [...]

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Just for the record, a Saturday with a Mac Book Pro:

Firefox crashed a total of 19 times over the day.
Finder locked up and I had to do Ctrl-Alt-Esc and restart it 4 times
2 complete lockups that required powering down (I think of this as the Very Pretty Screen of Death, since everything looks great, but [...]

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Vanity, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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This story popped up in my RSS reader and I went to click on the link to Jon Stewart there, and to my surprise, discovered that all links to comedycentral.com get redirected to their Canadian subsidiary, thecomedynetwork.ca, and end up on the front page of the site, thus completely breaking the link and conversations, i.e. [...]

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While looking at “people you might know” in facebook, I came across a person whose wikipedia entry says she graduated from St. Thomas High in Pointe Claire, Quebec. Since I used to live in the next train stop over from Point Claire, I followed the link to St. Thomas High, and discovered that according to [...]

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Sunset, Blomidon, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Buy Rice!

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The day after John McCain makes a major policy speech outlining his “more of the same” plan (tax cuts, spending cuts limited to non-military items) the dollar dropped to new lows and CNN reports “severe weakness with the dollar.”
I think that the financial markets have decided (and they’re probably right) is that whatever stuff Obama [...]

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I try not to be a grammar nazi, having been know to post semi-coherent stuff, but I’m not on the front page of techmeme right now.
“I shutter the day old highschool acquaintances find me.”
My thoughts feel shuttered and it makes me shudder. Brrrr!

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