Morrie the Toupee Salesman

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Diggs User 685 JumpingJack79 Kari Lundgren: My Catholic Faith Pushes Me To Obama 411 Rizoh McCain Now Contributing to the Obama Campaign 368 IvanB Nagging: The Secret to Productivity? 368 GusserT Obama: "John McCain Doesn’t Understand" Education 368 Burento Palin Claims Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Are Taxpayer Funded 361 sungoddess808 NEW Battleships and Hashi [...]

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5D Mk II announced. 21.1 megapixel full-frame sensor, ISO 25600, video, live view, sensor cleaning, and more. And at a price ($2699) cheaper than the original’s introduction price. Thankfully for my budget, not available till the end of November. Lunches and dinner at home till then!

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Nice article in John Madden on the NYT today, highlighting that it is possible for “early-retired” 43 year-olds to remake their careers. What they don’t really emphasize, that I find to be nearly hilarious is: “To fill the hole in his life, Madden took a job at a campus of the University of California and [...]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A Pattern Language, originally uploaded by ojbyrne. While programmers routinely talk about Patterns, I always wonder how many have actually read the book that inspired them. A Pattern Language

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Today I apologized to someone for being snarky. Turns out I made a mistake! Snarkiness good! Though seriously nobody should really apologize for a witty remark. It has a long history. Nobody ever apologizes for burying you in molasses-like courtesy. I think where snarkiness becomes obnoxious is when its repeated over and over again, especially [...]

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I’m pushing ideas on people enough now that I should actually talk about my “influences” in terms of management. For those who don’t know, I have an MBA from Dalhousie University, then I spent 3 years hanging around the University of Manitoba working on a doctorate in Management. One of the nice things about doing [...]

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