My tens of readers may remember that I have a few different areas of this site on which I showcase “photography” on this site. While I tried to divide the imagery into easily-digested formats, I have not been entirely succesful. Mostly, I get a lot of email asking where I keep the photos [...]

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There’s no more digital sidestepping love.
I’m out of business at the workplace in terms of communication.
Therefore, if you need to reach me during the day, do not use the usual channels, but instead, hit me up on my corporate e-mail account. Such incidiental use of said corporate account is fully permitted by Corporate Security [...]

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Reason number 634 that having an iPod rocks. I can shut out all the noise at work.
Reason number 635 that iPod rocks. When one listens to “Filmore Jive” by Pavement (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain) while working on a document titled “Software Candidate Matrix for Project POC”, the little piece of your soul that [...]

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Are you in the market for BisonPro? I can’t quite afford it yet, so I may wait ‘til they release it with an Open Source license. Then I’ll re-write it in PHP and host it on Halfass Hosting, charging a monthly fee. I’ll be the first in the new BSP (Buffalo Service [...]

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Words form powerful symbolic networks and meshes of meaning within our brains. So I’m curious if it’s confusing for New Yorkers to hear people talking about things happening or available online, since New Yorkers have the peculiar habit of calling what most other American refer to as “in line” as “on line.”
Perhaps this little [...]

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You know that there are tons of new Maple photos on the site, don’t you? I thought you did, but just in case, you can click on through. The smiles. The smiles. They turn my soul to warm pudding.
Also, I’ve been fully intending to write a brief little review of the recent “Brass [...]

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It finally arrived. My iPod mini, which happens to be the same color as the current Halfass background color, was delivered yesterday morning by FedEx. A birthday gift from my sister, my iPod mini was a bit late in arriving due to overwhelming demand. I named it “Gasoline Rainbow,” plugged it in, [...]

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Beerzie Boy posted a link to something at this site called Arlington Tour:
bq.The town where everything seem to suck. The kids are stupid, the adults are even dumber, and there isn’t a damn thing to do. We warned you and you didn’t listen, now get in the fucking town.
Click the “Tour” button on the [...]

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Don’t forget: tonight is the big premiere of Brass Tacks. Find out more about it Rialto Theater. 9:30. blah blah. You should go. I’m serious. You’ll be sorry if you don’t. After party at The Earl.
Also, how sad is it that I can’t think of one bar at which to meet people downtown that [...]

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Imagine for a moment that you work as a consultant for one of the largest Information Technology Services Firms in the world, and you are dedicated to a client, who happens to be one of the largest telecommunications firms in the United States. To make things interesting, visualize an extremely competitive situation in which [...]

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Ray Charles: Dead at 73 Shit! Bums me out a lot more than Reagan’s death, that’s for sure.

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People have been saying that email is broken for a while now, but I thought the pronouncement premature because I still find it an immensely useful and incredibly powerful communication tool.
I’ve changed my mind.
In a meeting today to redesign the way a Fortune 100 corporation handles incoming Internet e-mail, I learned that of the multiple [...]

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Nigritude Ultramarine was my grandmother’s favorite liquer when she lived in Lebanon. She sipped it pool-side in the University Quarter over ice with sugar, lemons and a pinch of coriander seed. The Arabs thought she was nuts for adding the lemons, but she thought it gave it a nice Mediterranean component that really [...]

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Fear not, sweet tens of readers, for I have not left you. Today, in fact, marks my return to “the office” after three weeks at home post birth. Now that I am back at work, I can blog apace and not be distracted by pesky issues such as children and sleep.
This morning, exiting [...]

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