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Category Archives: Random Stuff
Look ma, my books report are done #letsblogoff
9 CommentsThere is no one best book, so I’m not even going to try. In fact, the best books aren’t even the best books, but only contain best parts of books. But I’m sure if you put all the best parts … Continue reading
When we fail as readers, we fail as writers
4 CommentsI read this article in the NY TImes this week about e-books adding music to the “experience.” Champions of this technology justify it by saying it adds to the experience, enhances imagination, meets readers where they are, blah, blah, blah. … Continue reading
It will soon be September
3 CommentsIt is mid August and it will soon be September. I always get a bit nostalgic when September rolls around. It marks the end of summer but it also makes that calendar crease when the new year we were just … Continue reading
Are you sure about that?
3 CommentsYears ago, I was hired in from a field management job to a corporate training job. My job — or so I was told when they transferred me — was to take the training I had developed that produced rapid … Continue reading
Google, hire an English major
1 CommentWatch this video resume. Then visit his web page. And here is a comment I sent to Matthew Epstein this morning. Cool resume, but the correct use of “bad” is the adverbial form. “I want to join your product marketing … Continue reading
Me and Cory Booker are best buds
Leave a commentJust how cool is it that Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ says “hi” to a dog? Yeah, makes this heat wave seem about 40 degrees cooler! Like being in one of those Silver Bullet commercials. That makes two mayors … Continue reading