March 2009
20 posts
Someone just randomly contacted me asking for advice regarding social media and their startup. He got my contact information from some answer I gave to a question on LinkedIn months ago. I had completely forgotten about that! I am a marketing authorityyyy. Yayyyyyy!!!!
Respect my authoritaaaaaay!!!!
Ahem. Sometimes I forget that I am almost a grown-up. :-D
Grilled Banana and Nutella Panini Recipe : Bobby... →
Just made these for me and two of my roomies. Oh my goodness, so good.
NEVER STAY AT A HOLIDAY INN
For the past week, I have been suffering the worst customer relations catastrophe imaginable. I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Brooklyn Downtown for two nights last weekend to celebrate my three year anniversary with my boyfriend in New York City. The stay was fine. The rooms were a bit small, but the people were nice and it was pleasant.
Then, BAM I get an unexpected charge of $138.31 to...
Pneumonia > Hives Mustache
I was thinking yesterday that it would really suck if you were allergic to tissues. Because you would sneeze and then need to blow your nose and then sneeze again and it would create this continuous never-ending horrible sneezing condition. And it could totally ruin your life.
Or, if it was the hives kind of allergy instead of the sneezing kind of allergy, you would have a hives mustache...
John Doyle - “Bitter the Parting”
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Seth's Blog: The panhandler's secret →
Yes.
I was SO EXCITED to participate in my very first GPOYW and I completely missed it! Sigh. I need more free time so that I can waste it on Tumblr memes. Haha.
What a quote!
mattlehrer:
Chicago Tribune:
The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500, according to Realcomp, a listing service.
Not $75,000. Remove a zero—it’s seven thousand five hundred dollars, substantially less than the lowest-price car on the new-car market.
On a positive note, Detroit’s homicide rate dropped 14 percent last year. That prompted mayoral candidate Stanley...
Commercials Make TV Better →
jingc:
The New York Times describes how a study found that being interrupted by commercials can actually make watching TV shows more enjoyable - even bad commercials. But I found this tidbit more interesting:
The opposite was true for irritating experiences, like listening to vacuum cleaner noise: a break only made it seem worse, they found.
“The reason this happens, we argue, is that we tend...
“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via present)
“Little Waltz” by Basia Bulat
This...