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It wasn't so much of a New Year's Resolution as a existential crisis in a clothing store.
"Oh god, not even these will fit me? *despairs*"
But I supplemented it with reading The End of Overeating which, despite being pretty repetitive, seems to be drilling the point home. (maybe being so repetitive, it's sinking in since I keep falling asleep ( Read more... ) -
half a thought
I'm leaning up against a baseball glove ( Read more... ) -
Busy Weekend
So, after a week with a SodaStream, I finally found out that the buzz you're supposed to use to gauge how much carbonation you've injected via your SodaStream is actually more of a loud BELCH than the droning cicadas that I heard up until that point. Now the stuff I have been making actually has some bite to it ( Read more... ) -
soda water, not stirred
We been talking about getting a sodastream machine to alleviate the pain and ordeal of buying a couple of $2/lit bottles of carbonated water. Hold on, let me explain ( Read more... ) -
customer service magic
One of my favorite phenomena I learned about while working in customer service is Customer Service Magic (CSM ( Read more... ) -
花火
I am stupid addicted to hanabi. One of the girls at work brought a deck and taught us a couple weeks back, and I finally made an account on boardgamearena.com and have been playing a couple of games every night ( Read more... ) -
How to write effective business emails
This is the tried and true method I've used for a year and a half in consumer customer service, and nearly 2 years in a tech role that basically amounted to customer service for software developers.
[The bicycle saddle] came today, so I'm not sure what happened with USPS! Thanks for looking into it. [1]I compared [the saddle] to the one I'm ( Read more... ) -
Linguistic Reform
I was reading this article in The Atlantic over the weekend; it insinuates that the reason the US doesn't have more engineers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, etc is because as kids, we spend too much of our time learning to read and write, memorizing and internalizing all of the pits and foibles of the English language ( Read more... ) -
partying partying YEAH + night bike
The kids at work* have started organizing these Friday night gaming sessions. The first one was a week ago, and we just played Smash Brothers on the projector and ping pong. A couple of the guys who are more senior and work from our clients' sites came by later and added to the party feel ( Read more... ) -
spring time
Even though there's not a very noticeable temperature or weather change, there are still some reliable signs of spring in Los Angeles's South Bay ( Read more... )