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Still don't like him, still annoyed he played dirty, but I give A-Rod a lot of credit for being forthright about this
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Does anyone else think "Dancing with the Stars" is one of the weirdest shows on prime-time network television?
Category: Internet (Page 12 of 40)
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MP3s of Barack Obama swearing up a storm. Should really have no shock factor, yet still awesome
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Scenarios not unlike this will occur in my household very soon
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I'd be excited to buy this, except my brother still has our LED Football 2 in working order at our parents' house
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Closing the book on a notorious mistake
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I love Rafe's spin on this
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Shoe sales down 3%… shoe repairs +50%
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"The truth about sleep: we need a minimum of 9.5 hours of sleep for 7 months of the year." Between this and the news that more sleep = fewer colds in cold season, I'm about ready to give up my night-owl-ness
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A rebrand coming soon to every corner near you
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My new super favorite perfect Windows add-on. No more formatted text pasting! Whew!
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Alternate title: Fairly Thorough List of Terms Found Offensive by Most Americans (although tbh it's insane that I can't play CRAP in Scrabble)
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Sad, but in all honesty I'm surprised it took this long
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Need to read this
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Analogy of the week: Jeff Jarvis is "the Billy Joel of blog theorists." (The rest of this article is without merit, as it seeks to expose the contempt in Billy Joel's music as indefensibly bad, while the essay itself is full of unearned contempt. Pot meeting kettle.)
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Congratulations to Derick Melander and colleagues! "Pretty awesome" indeed
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Just for the record, this was with me
And so it came to pass that I found myself in Miami Beach, with the rest of my company’s senior staff, a full day ahead of schedule.
You see, we’re at Internet Retailer’s Web Design ’09 conference. IR had asked us to give web design consultations–we are among two dozen organizations selected and vetted by the conference as worthwhile partners.
The way the conference agenda is laid out is as follows:
Monday–Design and Usability Consultations
Tuesday–Main Conference – General Sessions
Wednesday–Main Conference – General Sessions
Thursday–Post-Conference Workshop: Case Studies and Critiques
And as part of the line items on Tuesday and Wednesday, the agenda says the following:
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Web Consultations (concurrently)
What I assumed, and what I failed to clarify, and what the conference never elucidated, and what was in the consultation appointment spreadsheet but glossed over by me repeatedly, was the fact that Alexander Interactive is part of the (concurrently) and not the Monday. Which turned out to be quite a discovery at 9:00 this morning, when we were rendered temporarily useless.
So here I am at the swanky new Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, thoroughly annoyed and self-critical, while my colleagues are off visiting grandparents, fighting colds and otherwise missing in (in)action, all of us frustrated–pretty much at me–while I spin and hope the perfect Miami weather can make up for a lost day.
I have this incredible urge to say, “It could be worse. It could be raining,” but something tells me I’d better not.