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Crazy data points. If you digest this the right way it’s very empowering. I personally spent Saturday home with the TV off and got lots done; Sunday night we watched TV and did nothing. Need more TV-off days
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Entirely true. Number of friends of mine ouside my digital circle who use Twitter: 0. And that includes people I know who are aware of it and would enjoy it, but just don’t see the point
Category: Internet (Page 19 of 40)
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As the commenters on Gothamist note, if this were truly a selfless donation, there’d be no need to rename (or deface) anything
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PDF of the rehab of the 96th St 1/2/3 subway station. Clever image manipulation, although it doesn’t hide the halved sidewalks or explain the impact. Nice touch: the included list of recommended shrubbery
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OMG new music from the Odds
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I’ve made the trades
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This was me. I knew lots of area codes around the US, and every prefix in northern New Jersey–important for not dialing BBSes that were toll calls (at 1200 baud). Quickly losing purpose, although it has its moments
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OMG it’s a press release about me
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Dale! Bring back the poker game! We need to win your money
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For the great footnote: Barry Bonds was on “90210” in 1994… in an episode that dealt with cheating in sports
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More about Dale (who totally killed our poker game which makes me sad but omg what a great gig for him)
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Wryly accurate
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Fritz is sounding better and better
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Improv Everywhere topped themselves on this one. Jim Gray? The Goodyear Blimp? And I thought dancing in the Union Square DSW was cool….
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Randomness: my friend Adam, ringing the closing bell of the NYSE
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Seth shows his age here: we don’t IM anymore, we text
Fun with focus groups, on the Ai blog.
I’m fascinated by this turn of events (read the post, then come back here). An interviewee took a gift card from our office manager and left without investigating why it was handed to her. A paid job interview! For her, the golden goose has surely arrived.
At the same time, this isn’t an impossible scenario to understand, and our interviewee does get some benefit of the doubt. She was handed the card; she didn’t swipe it on her way out or anything (unlike the mystery visitor who made off with our Wii controllers last fall). Poor Katie was obviously too busy to explain, so the interviewee took off. She may have figured it was a lovely parting gift, like Rice-a-Roni for a game-show contestant.
Still, who does that?
We spent this morning wondering what, if anything, to do. Do we contact the interviewee about the gift card? Let her keep it? Let her keep it but tell her, so she knows what happened (and present her with an ethical dilemma about returning it)? We don’t want to rock the boat too much–we liked the candidate, and we’d be in a tough spot if we hired her and she wasn’t in on the joke. Yet it also presents an ethical question: whether we should hire someone who takes a gift card without stopping to clarify why.
The Ai blog is a happy fun place, unlike my soul-searching moral compass of a journal, and we’ve had a lot of company goodness this week:
~ Ai at the circus—as advertised
~ The new guy—a great essay by our most recent hire
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See also: many conversations with my wife
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Great post on real estate commissions by Doug Heddings. His math is a little slanted, but interesting nonetheless: a realtor makes $22,500 on a $1.5 million sale. Not as much as knee-jerk math makes it seem
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fun
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“Cheap baby furniture. Cheap meepit furniture for neopets….”