Joseph Lorenzo Hall, 26, a graduate student at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley who has studied bloggers, said that for some people blogging has supplanted e-mail as a way to procrastinate at work.Get it, 'cause you know, the name of this blog...well you know.
Snoop, 32, co-stars in the new movie "Soul Plane," which opens Friday. He also has appeared in the movies "Baby Boy" and "Starsky & Hutch," starred in MTV's "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle" comedy show and helped popularize new slang that adds a lot of unnecessary Zs and Ls to words.That captures the essence of it in such a deadpan way.
Quite frankly, from a distance--and with a general lack of knowledge of what post-war occupations are like--I find it extremely difficult to evaluate conflicting news reports. It's easy (and not invalid) for pro-war and anti-war observers to argue from ideology, but it remains hard to get a good grip on what the situation is actually like, or any sense of context or historical perspective.It's pretty hard sitting on the sidelines to make an assessment about how things are going. Some days I wonder why we are fucking this up so badly, and other days I think, everything considered, we are making progress. But what do I know?
"Men will be wearing skirts by next summer. That's my prediction and proclamation," he said with a laugh. "The film answers to both genders. We were going for realism and Greeks wore skirts all the time then."I'm guessing this is unlikely, but why the hell not? Scottish guys have their kilts and a lot of the dudes in the Middle-East are essentially wearing dresses. At least in the summer they seem like they would be more comfortable and cooler than shorts.
In contrast to the doggedly preprofessional grads of the 1980s who couldn't wait to put on a tie (male and female alike) and enter the hyperadult world of investment banks and law firms, our business-casual class has circled happily in a post-collegiate holding pattern long past graduation day, whether by installing Fooz-ball tables in the workplace or by glorifying immaturity in branding ("Yahoo!," "Fat Bastard Chardonnay"). And so has Friends.Anyway, the first part of that reminded me of something that Scott said in Fortune magazine a decade or so ago when they did an article about Boomers vs. Busters, which was what they were calling the Gen X back then. The article mentioned how our generation was a little more laid back and into quality of life, rather than that whole go-go 80s lifestyle. But then I wonder if that wasn't more a function of the slowdown in the early 90s, because by the late 90s many of my generation were burning the candle at both ends.
In the '80s, the thirtysomething crowd was, well, thirtysomething. In that prime-time drama, two navel-gazing married couples dealt with self-consciously adult issues like infidelity and on-the-job power struggles while the couples' unmarried friends were portrayed as vaguely subversive and wacky. On Friends, it's just the opposite: Even when the Friends marry or have children, they still (until Thursday, anyway) live like students. Rachel and Ross' hang-out time with the rest of the gang has barely been affected by the birth of their daughter, Emma; the main upshot of Monica and Chandler's wedding has been to further confuse sometime viewers as to who is living in which apartment.
Google's IPO is above all a capital performance. Its offering memo describes a set of rules that at once promise zero short term accountability on behalf of management while at the same time promise unparalleled tick-by-tick efficiency in terms of equity pricing.I assume that CSFB still gets their 7%, but it might only be a matter of time before that goes as well.
On Friday, Tina and I got together with some friends for dinner. One of the husbands works for CSFB and I congratulated him on the coup of being named the lead on the Google IPO. Whereas I expected a little gloating, instead he bit his tongue and complained about the greed of Google and how little money CSFB was going to make (including its not insignificant banking fees). I think the point he was trying to make was that by going the way of the auction, that Google was trying to take every single penny off the table that they can. Seeing his genuine anger, I didn't have the heart to remind him that this was a good thing overall, namely that companies were going to start to benefit fully from the intersection of buyers and sellers of their stock, not the marketmakers per se.
Instead what I saw was the end of a certain kind of investment banking innocence. No, the outsized commissions are not your divine right. No, you can't control the allocation of underpriced shares to your best clients. Yes, you will be paid, but it will be in fees like those paid to lawyers, consultants or accountants. Profiting from outsized bid-ask spreads will need to be replaced by a different type of value. I am not sure Wall Street has figured out what it will do if Google's auction model proves to become the rule rather than the exception.
Alou says the secret to hitting without batting gloves is to harden your hands and prevent calluses. One of his methods might win someone the prize money on the TV show, "Fear Factor." He urinates on his hands. That's the honest truth. Alou said he isn't sure where he learned this distasteful folk medicine, but it wasn't from his famous father. And it works for Moises.Next will we hear him say, "I ask Jobu to come, take fear from bats. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come."?
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- This spring's crop of 17-year cicadas will seem like junk food to dogs and cats -- and, like junk food, they can make pets sick, the Humane Society of the United States warns.My dog is a very picky eater, so she might not go for these, but you never know. These hit in the Chicago area in 1990, I think, so for some reason they are outta synch with Virginia. I remember them back then because I was working for the park district that summer on the cutting team and I was outside with those things all day. There were hundreds of them attached to every shrub, so if you disturbed them by bumping up against their bush with the mower a bunch would fly off. They were kinda nasty looking but pretty harmless.
"Imagine a yard full of chicken nuggets -- that's sort of what it's going to be like," Randall Lockwood, a Humane Society vice president and animal behaviorist, said Tuesday.
He said the insects are protein-rich but their exoskeletons are indigestible, so eating too many can cause vomiting or constipation.
For most pets, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience - and almost irresistible, he said.
"They're just so abundant that this is kind of the canine equivalent of a bag of potato chips," he said.
The bugs have a nutty flavor, David George Gordon, author of "The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook," told The Washington Post.
Lockwood said cicadas are meaty, and eating a few won't hurt your pet. But too many can overload an animal's digestive tract with chitin, the hard substance of which insect shells are made. If a pet has more than two vomiting episodes or appears to be in pain, a trip to the veterinarian may needed, he said.
"They knew this would humiliate us. We are men. It's OK if they beat me. Beating don't hurt us, it's just a blow. But no one would want their manhood to be shattered. They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel, and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman."Um, OK. We did a bad thing in those prisons and that needs to be fixed immediately, but a little perspective should be in order.
Google will be offering its Gmail service for free, but right now supply is limited. Not surprisingly, a market in the accounts has arisen, check out this ebay listing. I have heard that some accounts have gone for as much as $150.It's actually pretty useful. When I heard that I was being let go, I had a bunch of personal stuff on my work PC that I needed to get like pictures and stuff and limited time to do it. So I just emailed everything to my gmail account, which would not have been possible for any of my other email accounts.
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