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I have no idea what the average life expectancy of a blog is, and I don’t have time to find out. Why? Because a much more exciting project has taken over my life. So it’s time to retire this baby. (No, it’s not a baby). Also, I’m 40 now, and I really don’t feel like coming [...]
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Meet my new colleagues. They’re fun! Outgoing! Friendly! Also loud, distracted, scattered, slightly wacky, and occasionally off-kilter. Why? Because we work in cubicles. And they will make a bitch cray-cray. I’d heard about these modern work spaces, where brilliant ideas are meant to shoot out of one employee’s head and straight into another’s. Where the absence of walls and doors facilitates impromptu meetings of the [...]
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After picking a lot of duds lately—books that start out extraordinary and fizzle midway—Miracles, Inc. was a heavenly find. It was facing outward on the store shelf, so maybe it’s about to hit big. I hope Hollywood never finds it, but either way, I’m a Forrester fan for life. Being sentimental as sandpaper, it’s hard to believe that I carved out a special hour in [...]
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A few people have told me recently that they think Facebook is really stupid. OK. Lemme think for a moment. Well, I guess cars would be stupid if you drove them into buildings. And forks would be stupid if you stuck them in your eye. And, yes, I’m offended because I happen to like Facebook quite [...]
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As of today, I’ve liked 285 Facebook groups enough to press their “Like” buttons. That’s a lot of stuff for a J to approve of. Yes, one is the “I Hate Flo” fan club. But still, I like the fact that someone was bothered enough by the spokeshipster to start a Facebook group about it. [...]
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I spent a year living and working in Spain, and I can’t say I left there deeply in love with the country. Maybe its shoe stores, but definitely not its cuisine—and most definitely not its affinity for torturing and killing bulls.
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