Morrie the Toupee Salesman

By Owen Byrne

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Entries from November 2008

Housing.com

November 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My friend Peter, whose integrity and honesty made up for a lot of the sliminess I encountered in California, has relaunched his website Housing.com, a source/aggregator for housing news and listings. I wish him well! All the rest of you go visit.

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Multiple Personality Disorder

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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Multiple Personality Disorder, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Gazette

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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Gazette, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Multitudinous

November 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-11-15 to 2008-11-22

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Diggs
User

457
croweater
Awesome Offer: Free CSS book, No Strings Attached!

407
montanamouse
CA gay marriage ban donor will profit from gay activist film

362
msaleem
25 Things President Obama Should (At Least Try To) Change

306
louiebaur
StumbleUpon Can Kiss My Ass

292
acmaurer
Illinois State Lotto Makes Some Think Obama’s The Antichrist

281
HappyGamer
New Round of Zombie Web Game. Fight Zombies and MrBabyMan

275
trentmonica
My Brother Is Not Martha Stewart

261
Darren07
The coolest bar [...]

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Floral

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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Floral, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Speaking Gig

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I got some good news yesterday – that I was accepted to speak at PHP-Quebec next March. Probably the coolest thing is that they had the good sense that out of the proposals I submitted they didn’t choose the backward looking “I was unfairly marginalized at digg” proposal but the forward looking “here’s the proof.” [...]

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-11-08 to 2008-11-15

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Diggs
User

434
sinisa10
Award winning student gives away the proceeds of his movie

318
chrisj46
Bush Begat Obama

316
Bukowsky
The Strangest Places to Put a Toilet [PICS]

305
hard2kill
Barack Obama’s new office in White House

290
Rollic
Ten Movie Endings That Should’ve Been Reshot

286
npelky
Old GOP pol(not McCain) pissed abt young Dem upstart (not Ob

284
AFelsinger
Monumental Ruling Forces EPA to Limit Coal Plant Emissions

277
Findan
Palin Refused To Go [...]

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No Andies Allowed

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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Moneyball Quote

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m reading “Moneyball” – in the grand pantheon of bubblegum management books, it sort of stands out a bit, in that it seems to be about the intersection of science and management (with some sports thrown in). Boy, does this quote ring true to me (obviously not about baseball):
“Anyone who wanders into Major League Baseball [...]

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