Super extra friendly cable installer guy
About five years ago, it was one of those deals where the cable company gave you a nine hour window in which they would have someone out there to do the installation, and you just sat around and hoped that…
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Meat Twice a Week
Two years ago about this time I blogged about my resolution to give up soft drinks, which I'm glad to say I've successfully continued for a second bonus year, despite it having no noticeable positive effect on my health while…
The one where the plane failed to depart, twice
Sometimes you see those weather stories on the evening news where they show a few seconds of airline passengers stranded in some airport looking like hell as they try to figure out how to cope with canceled or delayed flights,…
The Clear Creek Co-Op was not started in a desk
If you're a reader of Earlham College's weekly paper, The Earlham Word, you'll note a quote attributed to me in a recent article about the future of the Clear Creek Food Cooperative, where I currently serve on the Board: The…
Staff evaluations: giving feedback, building strong teams
A lot of my time in the last few weeks has been consumed by working on staff evaluations at Summersault. It's at times tedious and exhausting, but really rewarding in the end, I think. I just posted some more about…
Links, and what I'm thinking about
I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on. First, some links: Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the…
Undo
You may have noticed that I was playing around with the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress, and that it was generating these weekly digests of my Twitter posts on Fridays. I'm not going to do that anymore, but you can…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-10-31
"I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try, but that was just a dream." # Important lesson from the movie Atonement: always encrypt sensitive communications, especially…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-10-24
If I survived that high ropes course today, surely I can wean these kittens off of their bottles. # What a lovely day, full of those moments C.S. Lewis described: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." #…
On practicing what you preach
Is it really important to practice what you preach? Must we really become the change we wish to see in the world? As I try to work in my life and community to create a peaceful and sustainable existence, these…