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Life

Perfection is the enemy of “good enough”

I’m a Type A, high strung perfectionist most of the time. Lately, though, I am finding that I’m slipping.
Things I’ve let go of lately:

Having to write the most perfect thank you note to someone I met for 15 minutes. Does “Thanks for your time” somehow convey less than five finely crafted sentences that took me [...]

22 July 2008 ♦ Comment?

Featured

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Art: Life

1-2-Step left-Step right

Picked up sign at 1211 Ave of Americas. Kinkos appears to be a front — workers in purple shirts asking customers if they need any help, but when customers say yes, the worker walks away to do something else entirely unrelated and to ask another customer if they’ve been helped yet. Sign is in good [...]

26 March 2008 ♦ Comment?

Recent

Cooking

Blueberry Pie

K and I have been having an ongoing discussion about the therapeutic results of baking. Last night, in an effort to quell the growing freakout of buying a house/moving/job hunting/life, she & her team came over to bake blueberry pies. K made the crusts (Joy of Cooking) and I made the insides (Cook’s Illustrated). Mental [...]

12 June 2008 ♦ Comment?
Networking

Ways I Use Facebook

I have a Facebook account. I signed up for it when a professional association I was a member of was all hot-to-trot about social networking for the industry. I am sure they didn’t see it coming that it was a further shove towards their obsolescence. Why do I need an $250/year association when I can [...]

11 June 2008 ♦ Comment?
Life

Three Six

Evidence of my 36th birthday now available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/54monkeys/sets/72157605307943360/

28 May 2008 ♦ Comment?
Meta

Facelift

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A few changes, a nip, a tuck, some work. Let me know if I broke anything.

15 May 2008 ♦ Comment?
Life

An indeterminately great amount or number

If you’re a professional writer and you’re trying to convince other professionals to help you out with your writing project, you should consider a word other than “oodles” as your quantifier unless you’re talking about poodles.
ref: Thesaurus

1 May 2008 ♦ 1 Comment
Networking

“I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

I met someone last night who said they are working on implementing something similar to HAL 9000 of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
me: “I remember that movie not ending well.”
him: “Right. But it’s been 20 years and we’ve learned a lot about the laws that govern robotics since then.”
me: “I also saw ‘I, Robot’, [...]

18 April 2008 ♦ Comment?
Life, Photos

I went camping this weekend. No, really.

This weekend we drove to Padre Island National Seashore to go camping. This may not sound stupendous, perhaps like a nice weekend out of the city. You might say, “Oh, camping! I love camping!” You would say this because you are the type of person whose parents probably took them camping every summer at least [...]

14 April 2008 ♦ Comment?
Film, Job

Bleak House

I returned from New York, had a relaxing weekend, and promptly developed a nasty case of bronchitis, from which I am still recovering. My first full week off the job and I had to spend it on the couch, barely awake and feverish!
While sick, I watched the entire set of “Bleak House” DVDs.  Highly recommended! [...]

10 April 2008 ♦ Comment?
Life

Home at last

Back from NY late last night after a successful conference. It feels good to leave on a high note. Made limited use of brain today–breakfast, convention hotline, lunch with M. & B., long nap, dinner.
Spent 4 hours today manning the convention hotline, answering questions about how to choose delegates, where the convention is, and incredibly [...]

29 March 2008 ♦ Comment?

Comments

  • Mike Chapman: That is too funny. I’m looking forward to reading your observations on Twitter too.
  • lilly: the monkeys look so cute.
  • teno: Mirandu July rules. Next time you are in town remind me to show you her Wholphin film.
  • Michael: I just finished “Once Upon a Time…” It has the quality of a metafilm that references so...
  • bill: Zen for dummies. That’s good. Tolle’s Power of Now reminds me of Breathless. So after you’ve...

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This series of non-sequential, unrelated stories and photos is produced by Abby Phenix, who is tall, blonde, and stubborn.

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