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Feb. 18th, 2009 11:56 pmAfter three times of seeing this commercial in 30 second form, I was completely enraged. Then I found the NINE MINUTE version and the scales fell from my eyes.
From Twitter
Feb. 18th, 2009 07:01 am- 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! #
1. Downloading the new Matt & Kim album. So positive!
2. Both kids sleeping peacefully
3. New hard drive! Cheap!
4. 134 days to CONvergence 2009
5. Letter writing.
2. Both kids sleeping peacefully
3. New hard drive! Cheap!
4. 134 days to CONvergence 2009
5. Letter writing.
Now that is some good marketing
Feb. 17th, 2009 10:23 amThey 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
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That's funny and smart. S M R T
From Twitter
Feb. 17th, 2009 07:01 am- 12:40 @windelina the people demand fraggles #
- 12:55 I just made an absurd mess in the kitchen twitpic.com/1iwg7 steam is powerful #
- 13:05 @leanno LONG (dumb) story. Btw you need to learn the @ thingy lest your legions of followers be confused who you're ...uh..."tweeting at" #
- 13:29 Dang I shoulda put those salmon fillets out #
- 16:04 @leanno That explains it! #
- 17:10 Oh goodness I'm behind. It's only Monday! #
- 17:30 Trash is out suns still up. Smells like...victory #
- 17:53 Oh dear how long dyou spose this banana has been back there behind the seat? #
- 17:56 A week ago it wouldve been frozen and a non issue. Today I ...need to...wash...my hand #
- 22:29 1984 mac hyperdrive $2000, 10MB. 2009 wd external drive $99, 1TB. #
From Twitter
Feb. 16th, 2009 07:01 am- 16:09 Hulk write SMASHing email!! #
From Twitter
Feb. 15th, 2009 07:01 am- 08:47 @michaellorg of course conferences use Twitter @w2e is a good example #
- 15:13 My boy... And his yogurt goatee #
- 15:43 @laa_bot what team are you guys? #
- 15:55 @laa_bot oh eww #
- 15:57 @sfour by which you mean both dry and sweet vermouth in equal measures? #
- 15:58 @starfive uh. huh. Mmhmm. Yesss #
- 20:13 @sfour I assumed rye I just meant did you mean perfect or "perfect" kwim? I like rittenhouse and sazerac. You got bitters too, yes? #
- 20:16 Help follow #
- 20:17 @burnunit that was stupid #
- 20:40 @bstiteler that is exactly why I said that was stupid. Yours is just going to be the trickle that announces the flood. Aieeee #
From Twitter
Feb. 14th, 2009 07:01 am- 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. #
many things at work
Feb. 13th, 2009 05:09 pmI have a good life. But there are many things I wish I was better at
marketing automation — you need to learn about this
project management/ownership — not in the classical sense, in the very specific sense of using the professional services automation system we use at our company
sfdc integration - this goes to marketing automation
campaign creation and asset management —again, more marketing automation
microsite creation and integration — you guessed it, marketing automation!
hypersites development — i do this already, I just want to be a+ super mega at it
Some of these things didn't exist when I was going to college. For theater. And English.
Some of these things didn't even exist when I started grad school. in theology.
I wish these facts were enough to make me a renaissance man.
marketing automation — you need to learn about this
project management/ownership — not in the classical sense, in the very specific sense of using the professional services automation system we use at our company
sfdc integration - this goes to marketing automation
campaign creation and asset management —again, more marketing automation
microsite creation and integration — you guessed it, marketing automation!
hypersites development — i do this already, I just want to be a+ super mega at it
Some of these things didn't exist when I was going to college. For theater. And English.
Some of these things didn't even exist when I started grad school. in theology.
I wish these facts were enough to make me a renaissance man.
From Twitter
Feb. 13th, 2009 10:36 am- 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 #
From Twitter
Feb. 12th, 2009 06:40 pm- 21:04 Hootie used to *model*?!? Awesome. Is there nothing this woman can't do? #
- 21:10 Just on the basis of plating and descriptions this week they're taking risks and being creative, even in failures in the quickfire #
- 21:12 Stefan drew marcus samuelsson. Talk about wheelhouse #
- 21:16 @leanno I didn't! I won't, I promise. #
- 21:19 He's lookin good. Gawd his voice sounds like Tom's. same cadence and timbre. No wonder. #
- 21:24 This rivalry thing is real but Hoseas not as whiney as I thought; it looks friendly and just like "guy stuff." I hate producers sometimes #
- 21:34 This lighting is way over the top. #
- 21:36 Uh oh. No spoiler, just uh oh #
- 21:42 I wish someone as great as that would say "I think I could die happy" after eating something *I* made. #
- 21:57 Oh. Oh my. #
- 22:20 Dont blow your nose whaaa? tinyurl.com/autsor #
- 23:48 @LeXi321x hey I committed no spoilers. #
- 07:50 Bumper sticker: i heart my Jesus. I wonder how he feels about mine? #
- 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. #
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).
I use mailchimp, which I highly recommend to individuals, artists/performers, or small business. You can subscribe below. This is it. Freeze rayEmail newsletter. Tell your friends.
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BTW, the only required field (*) is your email.
From Twitter
Feb. 11th, 2009 07:00 am- 07:52 Thank god airport-dropoff drivers aren't flying the planes. Near miss and/or crash would be the norm. #
- 10:13 @inktea SCIENCE! #
- 10:16 @bstiteler the far FAR greater crime is the movie's star. Lana? Nooooooooo!1!! #
- 10:19 @RichardBlais when food becomes warm in your "sous vide" device I believe it is the anger of the spirits of the deceased! #
- 10:25 @RichardBlais your "transglutaminase" appears to me as the spectral talons of a great firebird, squeezing many fleshes into one! #
- 10:36 @bstiteler I first read "endowed chair held by s. hawking." Realized you must mean George. Or are really mad about 17th century almshouses. #
- 15:26 E insists Google Earth showed her there's a hole in Africa. That has water in it. I assure her that's a "lake" but she just says it's a hole #
- 17:26 @xoxua Ratzinger would have the balls for such madness. Just eight years before the 500th anniversary too. #
- 17:42 @leanno go for it #
- 17:46 @leanno aren't thou hungry for yon turkey leg and flagon of ye olde diet cola? #
- 18:22 Just hit my head with trunk lid So Hard I am pretty much crying #
- 18:30 Pot roast my almighty physician #
- 23:25 @LeXi321x it'll be even more delicious tomorrow won't it? #
- 23:28 The upper Midwest is home to many delicious bock beers. It is in this way we manifest our superior adaptation to the changing seasons. #
From Twitter
Feb. 10th, 2009 07:03 am- 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 #
From Twitter
Feb. 9th, 2009 07:05 am- 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" #
From Twitter
Feb. 8th, 2009 07:06 am- 11:05 @leanno that's levitation, homes #
- 11:16 @LeXi321x sat morn now, so obviously WE don't go out anymore. 4 me it's the little kids. In 10 yrs I'll be a club hopping dynamo...at 46! #
- 11:34 Happy birthday @bstiteler ! #
- 11:35 @LeXi321x yes, well! Btw what's your kid's number again?!? :-p #
- 00:09 If it's wrong to cheer for über meta-killer Dexter, I don't want to be right #
From Twitter
Feb. 7th, 2009 07:04 am- 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. #
competitive spirit
Feb. 6th, 2009 04:10 pmEleanor (playing mariokart wii, using my license to race ghosts, taking my record to 28-15): Now I made you fifteen losers.
Me: It's okay.
Eleanor: It's not okay with me.
Me: It's okay.
Eleanor: It's not okay with me.
"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
--Richard Blais
one last thing
Feb. 5th, 2009 04:46 pmThis makes me so happy. It made me tear up. I can't believe I hadn't checked it.
Here is the Get Your War On from 1/20/09
That? Is pure sweet gold.
Here is the Get Your War On from 1/20/09
That? Is pure sweet gold.
sign of maturity?
Feb. 5th, 2009 01:33 pmWhen you have a performance review that says "I agree with all of your self assessments. You've made really good progress on all these goals we identified. It's really good when there's alignment between goals, perceptions and reality. 2008 was a good year." it feels really good.
When the rest of the review talks about 2009 in specific ways, it feels really good. Doesn't it just feel awesome when your work manager goes "Make sure ___ and ____ can do ________. You have six months." ? That kind of focused goal setting helps a lot*. Enormously.
So coming out of the review we both can say "These are specific goal areas for the coming year. 1. 2. 3. This one wraps up by Q3, this one wraps up in Q2, this one is for Q3&4." It feels super grown up when this happens and when it feels like we're both fully aware of how much work is involved, and that it's enough work.
You don't need LOTS of stuff to do at your job to be "important," you need focus and clarity, and institutional/executive backing that says "these things are enough for you to be considered very valuable here."
Now let's hope we start turning more profit so all this progress gets attached to a damn raise, already! I'm happy to have a job, especially one in which executives work to bring more clarity to it each day. I'm just going on month 24 of the same salary. I appreciate the stability (knock knock). I struggle with inflation, especially health and childcare.
* Yes, I realize I still have some of that to do with other leadership areas in my life.
When the rest of the review talks about 2009 in specific ways, it feels really good. Doesn't it just feel awesome when your work manager goes "Make sure ___ and ____ can do ________. You have six months." ? That kind of focused goal setting helps a lot*. Enormously.
So coming out of the review we both can say "These are specific goal areas for the coming year. 1. 2. 3. This one wraps up by Q3, this one wraps up in Q2, this one is for Q3&4." It feels super grown up when this happens and when it feels like we're both fully aware of how much work is involved, and that it's enough work.
You don't need LOTS of stuff to do at your job to be "important," you need focus and clarity, and institutional/executive backing that says "these things are enough for you to be considered very valuable here."
Now let's hope we start turning more profit so all this progress gets attached to a damn raise, already! I'm happy to have a job, especially one in which executives work to bring more clarity to it each day. I'm just going on month 24 of the same salary. I appreciate the stability (knock knock). I struggle with inflation, especially health and childcare.
* Yes, I realize I still have some of that to do with other leadership areas in my life.
I'm a big Christian Bale fan
Feb. 5th, 2009 07:54 amHere's an interesting take on the Christian Bale kerfuffle. It's a former producer/assistant director who has worked with Bale before (on Rescue Dawn). It doesn't excuse the behavior, but it contextualizes things. I know I empathize, I was constantly disrupted whenever Bill or one of the numerous crew members would hover in our eyelines. Er...anyway, it's a good article.
From Twitter
Feb. 5th, 2009 07:04 am- 16:09 @bstiteler wellyou were in charge-- write more, then! Or failing that, lift some more dialogue from circle of iron. #
From Twitter
Feb. 4th, 2009 08:19 am- 16:02 Following warren ellis is actually kind of exhausting. #
She are smrt
Feb. 3rd, 2009 08:53 pmWinter standards for sound recognition: 15 in one minute. Eleanor's assessed baseline in fall was 16. Spring standard will be 40. Her winter assessed number was forty five (45). That earned a star and two wow! exclamations from her teacher. I told her since she tripled her number from fall to winter i expected her to go to 135 in spring. She said "yeah."
Then onset phonemes (beginning sounds of words) standard for winter is 18 in one minute; and her assessed level was 36.
To be "on track" for the reading standards in third grade, it's suggested kids be at level D when exiting Kindergarten. Eleanor before winter assessment? Level D.
No child left behind? I guess. What about when the children leave us behind?
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MY EYES IT BURNS US
Feb. 3rd, 2009 02:44 pm43 Alumni.com. yep. for associates of the bush-cheney regime.
From Twitter
Feb. 2nd, 2009 07:14 am- 19:49 @bstiteler I blame my kids--can't Twitter a thing, much less a ballgame--with them around #
- 20:25 My stake in this game is political: rust belt revival led by a young black man vs. the white new west QB'd by a conservative evangelical #
- 20:39 To extend this metaphor, every penalty is equivalent to a press story about kurt warner's seven houses, err...kids. I'm lost. Need wine. #
- 20:45 Wow. #
- 20:48 I don't know if non fans Get this but we are living in a golden age of football #
- 20:55 I use godaddy And I like breasts; but even I'm not sure I want my money paying for commercials like this #
- 20:58 Roethlisburger to Holmes is this year's Manning to Tyree #
- 21:02 Simple newtonian physics proves that was a catch #
- 21:06 I was hoping for overtime. Now last td wins. Still, about as good as it gets. #
- 21:12 @bstiteler indeed. it also means the stimulus will work and America's industrial base comeback begins Today. #
From Twitter
Jan. 29th, 2009 07:47 am- 09:24 @LeXi321x but I'm loath to drop >$30/L on a thing whose basic standard is purity--attainable thru simple industrial processes. #
- 15:45 No squash. Aldi you have failed me for the first time #
- 21:57 These are ALL-stars? Dude. Srsly? Shit stick is indeed the word of the day. #
- 00:04 @entropyblues channel 101's outlander, right? #
