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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Gazette

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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 [...]

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Floral

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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