One of the hardest parts about writing professionally; that is, writing in the corporate world, is letting go of things you know you could do better if you just had more time. Deadlines come hard and fast. You often don’t have enough information to work with (and sometimes you’re just making up filler with no […]
Fantastic documentary about Japanese “host bars” where women go to pay men to entertain them (and certainly, sometimes, more). You really should watch the whole thing. I thought the film maker did a great job exploring a number of the complexities involved in this kind of work from the perspective of the hosts and clients
David’s been half-jokingly asking me ever since he saw my cellphone-sized glucose meter when they were going to integrate a glucose meter and a cell phone. “Soon,” I’d say. And here it is.
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Daniel Abraham observes: Ms. L suggests that Ms. M is insufficiently feminist because she is encouraging middle school girls to learn math by pointing out that being smart is not inconsistent with shopping and fashion and the consumerism that all us good lefties decry as bad and which middle school girls seem to think is
I mean, it’s no worse than that whole guys-dressed-up-as-blobs trying to get through the gate video they showed us in third grade. Certainly more entertaining.
Despite th ankle silliness, my sugar’s been pretty good the last couple of weeks. A sample from the last few days: 11611882 10672108 9376102 8056109 11261134 107102 No idea how I’m doing this. A surprising lack of stress, perhaps. I mean: knowing you have health insurance is a beautiful thing. Also, staying away from those
… or, rather, I knew *somebody* at work had found the blog a couple of weeks ago because I found a second IP address sharing the same ISP as my my work IP. I waited around a bit for somebody to say something, but nobody did, so I shrugged it off. I mean, dude, I
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