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• 20:03 Ohhh man, Harrison should go to the Bolts! mmm free agency #

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• 12:38 @leanno we have twelve years to plan so I'm up for it. I will need to lose a lot of weight. Or go as Fezzig. #
• 14:57 Finally got the St Germaine. Stunningly sweet--cloying even! But I can see how using in proper doses... exquisite! #
• 15:22 @RichardBlais so glad you're involved in casting for S6! Hope some Minnesotans represent this year. . . #
• 15:23 @michaellorg did you tell them to stay off my goddamn lawn?!? #
• 15:44 @michaellorg I'm not talking about your infernal metaphors man! My irises are dying! #
• 18:08 @bstiteler is there a small but dignified role in it for me? I would like something that showcases my range. Also, my unimpeachable modesty. #

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British clinical trials have dared to try to cure peanut allergies and have found some progress. The method was so crude—building up tolerance—that I'm very impressed at the audacity.

I hate the whole thing with nut allergies these days. I mean, I don't want people dying from something so simple and important to so many parts of the world.

Right now, me and my boss are sort of the only two people at our company who really have our heads wrapped around this crazy new marketing solution we're going to deploy. Me more from the geeky technocrat side and him from the let's-drive-shit-to-the-bottom-line side. Obviously that's going to change as we push the rest of the knowledge base into the company. But for now it's a cool feeling. Like we accidentally scheduled simultaneous redundant meetings with two different teams about a project. And I mistook the meetings (about the same subject) for the same meeting. Like maybe the original scheduler had sent out two notices--which happens to me all the time.

Well I'm halfway thru the first meeting when I go, "Woah these calendar items are two different meetings and I'm supposed to be at both of them. I hope we're not being redundant."

Afterward I finally got hold of my boss and I was about to be all apologetic because the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, when he said "I was just going through the steps of this campaign on the powerpoint slide I sent you, and we're going to operationalize that plan. The team was talking about what we needed to do to make the lists happen after this event."

I said, "Great, because I just used the powerpoint you sent me to talk about the campaign with these two other people and to tell them what content we need for me to build it out and integrate with your lists."

So ... I didn't need to be on the call with my boss because I was already in synch with what he was planning to do. And we knew what the scope of capabilities was because we both understood what was actually going to happen once these snips of content are woven together with the lists the other team is working on solidifying. So what started out as a redundant meeting actually wound up saving time because of this alignment. Daaamn.

• 11:31 The William shatner reading+oratorio of Exodus (with the Arkansas Symphony) is AMAzIng. #
• 18:23 Course, we only bought as much house as we needed (maybe less) #
• 21:13 Resurrection challenge?!? #
• 21:21 JTTEOTN:MN players would know the vertigonous madness chefs must feel from this crazy play-in. Results were mixed for our players too, btw. #
• 21:26 @RichardBlais hey Blais that reminds me: did they ship that car home from PR for you last year or was that just a display model? heh heh. #
• 21:39 I want my Hootie but that was a critical error. I wouldn'tve known the steaming trick either, but She should have! Or not do that dish! #
• 21:51 @MyrnaMinx oh em gee if only. If I did that in my yard right now it would be wine ...upon an ice cube #
• 21:53 The lick and spank, right into the camera? Best top chef move evar! But it looks premature... #
• 21:55 @michaellorg dude, weak: Abc.com streaming all 5 seasons crushes your pitiful Tivo. #
• 21:59 Ohhh Fabio, I think you're done. Stefan too? No room for mistakes guys. Doh! Nice eye-roll-edit on Tom guys. #
• 22:03 Show's integrity on the line here: Carla won IMHO, but they're reluctant to send Jeff home, and they said he has to Win. #
• 22:14 Jeff, sorry you lost. But showing class and skills like that, you might have earned a chicken after all. #
• 22:18 Carla, of course, your (new) trunk is probably FULL of chickens. #
• 22:45 @bstiteler indeed. Her coq au vin bring all the boys to the yard. Uh. Also, a @richardblais reference, vis a vis chickens laying eggs. #

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• 09:15 m.startribune.com/articles/190288237 lawyer here is a real piece of work. I blame the teacher (then the principal). But suspension? #
• 09:16 @sfour Zombie attack. Or massive Zombie related layoffs? #
• 11:10 @bstiteler dude what the fuck was all that fucking swearing about last nite?I mean...fuuuck. I hope you got it the fuck out of your system! #
• 13:26 Work-caused distractions from other work stuff make jon something something #
• 19:43 @sfour when you eventually get new iPhone, try square trade--got accident insurance from them; plus plan is < AppleCare. No fear bouncing #
• 19:44 @RichardBlais it is awesome! #
• 20:51 RT @sfour Digg is slowly becoming less and less like slashdot and more and more like 4chan . Bingo! #

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They figured out that 404 pages are a great place for ads--eventually someone will see your ad--and they found the perfect ad to put there:





That's funny and smart. S M R T

• 16:09 Hulk write SMASHing email!! #

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• 14:52 I need a new hard drive. I think 1.5TB is a reasonable start. #
• 15:03 @theGonzalez El Gordo del Nordo . My introduction would be a deep voice intoning "Soy... super-GRANDE!" over a jumping nortec beat #
• 18:19 @michaellorg try using SCIENCE #
• 19:07 First trip to Sauced. Woot! #
• 21:29 Stilton, tomato, and *veal demi glace* oh my. Rightly dubbed "The Crackburger." Someone tell @RichardBlais , come visit MSP; we stand tall! #
• 21:35 @laa_bot hey where are y'all trivi-ing? Might could help sometime this weekend. #

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• 11:07 Know how I can tell my mask wasn't on all nite? Dozing off in conference calls that's how! #
• 11:11 @bstiteler hey gang look who's here. there's our pioneer. Hey chief, loud and clear: #
• 12:24 Dudes AT&T cust. service is consistently the best I've ever seen. The bitchin about the iPhone being tied to a bad carrier holds no water. #
• 12:28 I mean it's not even close. Just got a credit for $239 and they didn't have to do it. It was totally just being nice. #
• 12:57 Ahh B-stack loves me, when no one else can. . . #
• 15:40 @RichardBlais a whole wild boar. In aspic. #
• 20:22 There is a balm in gilead and wiggles is its name-o! #
• 23:37 I'm thinkin about my doorbell #
• 23:37 My baby's on the ground at last #

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I joked recently that I should just start a personal newsletter. But now the computer on which I'm composing our "annual family letter" crashed—hard—and I don't know if I'll get the data back. So hey, why the heck not. We'll see where it goes. It might end up just being drink recipes and pictures of my kids (in that order).

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• 08:07 Just saw the spitting image of Ethel, only Black. What Happened at that show?!? #
• 08:32 Spoken word in the school this morning. @inktea, Mnmicro where you at? #
• 13:12 @RichardBlais fwiw quinine is uv reactive. It's an edible start anyway. . . #
• 00:32 And I'm spent #

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• 12:50 Trying to poach fish in buerre monte. Isn't this hard enough without a broken thermometer? #
• 21:04 As with joel/mike on MST3K, I have no opinion in the "changed host" debate over Blues Clues. #
• 21:08 All right, enough of this Noggin stuff, gimme my "Sociopaths: Miami" #

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• 15:08 I do so enjoy an Advanced training session that's more rudimentary than the previous three "basic" courses. By at least a factor of five. #
• 22:26 @fred_beecher for a sec there thought you said Thakura, ie me. I *too* express my displeasure with your mortal tools. Thakura has spoken. #

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"There are two rewards you get from being on Top Chef. One is an egg. It’s a $100,000 egg. One chef gets it each season. The other is a chicken. And some of these chefs don’t realize that chickens make eggs."
--Richard Blais