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Amused
From an article about how electronics/tech companies are adjusting to appeal to women: "Some of the latest cellphones made by LG Electronics have the cameras’ automatic focus calibrated to arms’ length. The company observed that young women are fond of taking pictures of themselves with a friend. Men, not so much." -
Current Obsessions
Quote: West Wing, President Josiah Bartlet: I was watching a television program before, with a kind of roving moderator who spoke to a seated panel of young women who were having some sort of problem with their boyfriends - apparently, because the boyfriends had all slept with the girlfriends' mothers. And they brought the boyfriends out, and they ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to NYC
It was beautiful outside today: the kind of weather that makes you wish you were a street vendor just so you could stay out and breathe in the crisp air all day long. But not everybody should have been outside today, it seems. This morning, approximately half an hour before I reached the office, a man fell to his death from the top of my building ( Read more... ) -
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I am officially a bridge and tunnel person. -
Boundaries
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Would It Be Wrong to Move to NY Just to Increase the Chances of Coming Across Public Idiocy/Humor?
If it wasn't already horribly obvious that Overheard in New York is the epitome of my sense of humor, today they saw fit to post my approach to life, courtesy of a child:
A crazy lady is walking down the street screaming to herself.
Little girl: Mommy, why is that lady yelling?
Mom: I don't know, sweetheart.
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My Love Affair with the Windy City
I don't know that there's a rationale for all of the places and people and things we like. There's a quote that an old friend of mine liked to bandy about: "If you have a reason for loving someone, you love them with your mind; if you don't have a reason, you love them with your heart." (Anonymous) If there were reasons for my affection for ( Read more... ) -
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"What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven." -William Wharton (courtesy of the soon-to-be-mentioned book ( Read more... )