I'm freecycling some clothes, and I thought I'd post here first. Photographs are behind the cut. 1 dress shirt with barrel cuffs, 3 dress shirts with French cuffs, 1 pair trousers, 3 casual shirts, 2 casual belts, 1 suit ( Read more... )

Okay, this is an informal poll, conducted the old-fashioned way since I'm not a paid member.

What information should be included on trick cards? Which lines would you decide to omit?

• First name
  
• Last name
  
• Nickname
  
• Phone number
  
• Email address
  
• Mailing address
  
• IM/Skype name
  
• URL (blog, website, Flickr, Recon profile, etc)
  
• Others? Please leave ideas in ( Read more... )

After almost an hour, I saw my Daddy come back down from the weight room. So I hopped off my bike, snuck around the cardio machines, and placed his hoodie right where he left it at the entrance to the stretching area. Then I went back to my bike, putting the finishing touches on the damage control plan I'd thought up ( Read more... )

When I finally got home (and the walk took a while, too, what with stopping in every errand location to ask if anyone had seen the envelope that had gone missing), everyone was ... grave. My Owner asked his partner what else was in the envelope, and it turned out his SSN-equivalent was written on the cheques ( Read more... )

First of all, I'm very grateful for all the comments to my previous post. I now feel somewhat silly for ever having imagined that I might not be in good company when it comes to messing up in service. Your stories did what all good stories do -- I laughed, cringed, and got introspective ( Read more... )

I'm feeling tender and existential, reeling from a weekend of service disasters in which I cooked quinoa without putting the lid on the pot first, threw out perfectly good beets because the leaves looked wilted (hey, I'd only ever encountered canned beets), leashed brown paper packages to a lamppost and mailed the dog, and that's not even the worst ( Read more... )

1. Last weekend, I got carded trying to enter a fetish store in London. They told me I needed to be 18 to get in. The guy still looked somewhat dubious after I showed him my ID, but he let me in anyway. Everybody else in the store was just fabulous, though. A lady called Anna helped me find the perfect outfit for that night's party, this cute blond ( Read more... )

Who doesn't love bad a cappella puns, from MIT's Logarhythms and Chorallaries to Cayuga's Waiters at Cornell. Now, from Lewis & Clark College comes Barackapella, with an a cappella rendition of the Yes We Can song.

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Oh, laptop's back. Minus my Applications. *grumble*

Laptop being held hostage by Apple store. Still awaiting ransom demand.

*sob*

To reach me urgently, please text or call.

So, when operating in different countries, I've really enjoyed seeing some anthropological concepts in action. One of these is Edward Hall's notion of high-context versus low-context cultures ( Read more... )