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Confirmed: whoopie pies from the Lancaster, Pa., farmer's market are terrific
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Lordy lordy, he did it again. Paul is amazing.
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There's an off-color joke in here somewhere (I kid! I kid! My wife is 3/4 Polish!)
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whoa 1982 hi
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In the movie "Strange Days" Ralph Fiennes' character's voice mail asks, "What's on your mind?" I tried it on my answering machine for awhile and got complaints that it was freaking people out
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Yes, that's about right
Sometimes I wonder, as I pursue (gradually) healthier eating habits and begin shopping for food for my son, whether buying “natural” foods makes a difference. I’m fairly progressive, but I’ve never fallen hard for organic foods or shied away from processed sweets. The difference doesn’t always shout out at me.
And then I read some labels.
Consider the ingredients in the Skippy peanut butter in my kitchen. I grew up with Skippy, my wife eats Skippy, it’s peanut butter! But take a peek at the ingredient list, reprinted verbatim:
Roasted peanuts
Corn syrup solids
Sugar
Soy protein
Salt
Hydrogenated vegetable oils to prevent separation
Mono and diglycerides
Minerals
Vitamins
I always assumed, well, that’s how peanut butter is made, right? But then I got into Cream-Nut, the old-fashioned peanut butter made in Michigan and purchased at my local Fairway market. Its ingredient list:
Peanuts
Sea salt
The difference is a revelation. So, too, is the nutrition that comes from each–the Skippy has four and a half times as much sodium, two and half times the carbohydrates and four times the sugar.
In fairness, Skippy now makes a Natural line of its own, so this isn’t really about how Unilever is evil. It’s a reminder to myself that the processed foods of the past half-century do, indeed, come from worse places, no matter how good they taste. The current trend away from these foods is a bandwagon I’m going to try to stick with.
I doubt I can do anything to help Nate’s sweet tooth, which I inherited from my grandmother. But at the very least, I can get him hooked on the right kind of peanut butter.
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What I learned today: Joe Leeway of the Thompson Twins is now a certified hypnotherapist in California
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Countering the article I linked to re K-Rock: WHTZ, the good ol' pop station, is #2 in this market, and it caters to the tween-and-teen crowd just like it did when I was that age. Although it's not a good sign that the station I like, WRXP, is doing worse than K-Rock, which is getting yanked (maybe RXP will inherit some listeners)
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K-Rock is becoming "Now FM." I wonder if it will do as well as Jack did before they brought CBS-FM back. There's room in New York for rock radio, by the way; it just has to not play the saaaame soooong allll daaaay
How to Get Hired on aiaio, the Ai blog.
I have long been an observer, commentator and course-corrector when it comes to job interviews. Many moons ago I published a series of job-hunt best practices in this space. Titled “Interdon’t,” many of my pointers are just as relevant today as they were a decade ago.
I am continually amazed by the flagrant violations of basic job-search protocol. Among the things I’ve seen the past two weeks:
- Cover letters with our company name in a different font, copy-pasted
- Saying “this position is a great fit” while having a background in, say, high finance
- Chatty letters with no resumes attached
- Emailed resumes with no accompanying text at all
People expect to (and do) land work like this? How? I suppose they’re hired by people with similar approaches, but that’s not me.
Anyway, read the two links above if you’re looking for a job, and good luck in your search.
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If you had a pair of pants with the same fit as the Wall Street Journal and a sports section, you wouldn't wear them
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delectably evil
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I could have told you numbers 1, 3 and 4 would be atop the list… the only surprise is that #2 worked its way into the mix
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Andy's article makes it into the Time (as does Andy, as an author, congrats to him)
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Congratulations Joe! This is a signal that it's time to get you back to the poker table
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Ewww… makes me reconsider whether my love of Tropicana Pure Premium is really all that healthy (but hey, at least they're fixing the packaging)
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Not new, but always worth noting. Good summary and observations, too
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The day after my post on GM, The Economist weighs in, and shares my exact opinion (although they say it a lot better)
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Fascinating stuff. Too bad my friends at The Economist wouldn't talk to Andy about it