December 2008
36 posts
YEAR IN REVIEW - 2008
When you consciously review your year, you may notice how little you noticed it as it whizzed past. To review is to re-view. To rewind, pause, look again. And in looking again, to see more clearly.
You may be astonished by how much happened. And how much didn’t. By how much has changed. And how much hasn’t. You may laugh or sigh to notice that your life remains its usual jumble of contradictions....
The Waistcoat →
I have been wanting to experiment with new styles, and the waistcoat is one that I had the guts to finally do. I finally bought one in New York last week!
On Christmas I wore my new Matty M waistcoat (shown below) over a super frilly blouse. The result was a nice mix of menswear and femininity. I love the unique racerback of this style. I can’t wait to try it with more pieces.
Maybe the...
16 Things About Me
Rules: 1. Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. 2. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged. 3. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
I’ll skip that last part.
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1. I learned to tie my shoes the bunny-rabbit-ears way, not the loop-and-swoop way. To this day it’s difficult for me to...
Watchjuliaallison:
BRILLIANCE.
Good find, Julia!
Just saw this license plate: 6ES-POO. Sexiest poo?
http://www.jsonline.com/business/35603279.html Sadly, Atomic Records is closing. Taking my Dad there to spend some good money tomorrow.
i wonder what would be harder for me, fasting from internet or fasting from food….
Gallery: With Photos, It's All About Timing →
Hotel Spends $200,000 on Home for Ducks →
The 24-by-12-foot enclosure features granite floors, a large viewing window, a scaled-down replica of the hotel and a swimming fountain adorned with two bronze ducks. Jason Sensat, the hotel’s duck…
13 Things You Never Knew About Your Weight →
Our team pored over the latest studies, interviewed the top clinicians in obesity science, and listened to the real-life experiences of men and women struggling to maintain their weight. Here, the…
Redneck Smoke Detector [PIC] →
Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook →
“We explored it, as we should. We took it seriously,” Mr. Williams said. “It definitely made sense — the strategy we talked about with them — but it wasn’t the right time.” Ultimately, he said,…
Wikipedia gets $890,000 to Make Site Non-Geek... →
Anyone who’s ever edited or created a Wikipedia entry can attest to the fact that it’s not that self-explanatory. They’re in luck—the non-profit anyone-can-edit encyclopedia has received $890,000…
So You Want to Be a Manager →
The biggest difference between being a manager and being an employee is that, as a manager, your performance isn’t determined by your personal accomplishments, but by those of your entire team. It…
Apple argues only a Fool would Believe its iPhone... →
Apple isn’t lying in television ads that tout the iPhone 3G as twice as fast as its predecessor, but customers would have to be fools to take those claims at face value, the company argues.That’s…
The Best and Worst Movie Accents →
Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater … read on …
Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were... →
The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said…
now that we get netflix on xbox, we sort of don’t care about the discs anymore. they are just laying around while we marathon 30 rock.
I just got a teeth cleaning and a haircut, I feel so fine!
walked in subway at noon and there was no line. twilight zone? parallel universe?
I tend to overdress for the weather.
just got a new office chair
Here’s a thought. When’s the last time you gave someone a business card? Not including fish bowl raffles!
Gotta get to work a few hours early so I can go rack up some more dental bills afterward.
Models Without Hair and Makeup ... Before and... →
Oh, the magic of hair and makeup. When the models arrived backstage at Gucci—all straggly hair and naked faces—they looked, well, their age.
This is why I eat at my desk, there are far too many people in the kitchen and all of them need the microwave. #awkward
Who's Your Company Blogger? →
Answer: Not your CEO, not your President, not your VP of Marketing… but the person closest to the customer …
Having an “omg-what-am-i-doing-with-my-life” kind of day.
http://snipurl.com/71610 - Breaking Bad Habits … “Bad habits are formed by the slow and steady accumulation of mindless minutes.”
Palm losing ground as Treos fall out of favor →
Sales of Treos continue to dwindle without Palm’s next-generation operating system, expected in 2009.
Turn Ho-Hum Color into WOW! with Photoshop →
Boosting the color can turn a lackluster image into one that totally rocks. So, if you find that the color in your photos is lacking, here’s what I do to make it better. The process is ridiculously…
BORING! The top 5 words I’ve tweeted: time, day, work, today, twitpic. http://tinyurl.com/5jukr2
About to eat pizza … quick, someone convince me that it’s worth it to drive over to Subway!!!
Ooh just what I always wanted in a hotel room - My own ironing broad! “Free Cable Television, in-room hair dryer, iron, ironing broad”.
Some pretty great moments in "Oh Sh*t" history... →
Things that make you go “Oh Sh*t”