Archive for February, 2006

• 2.24.06 "Off my soap box…" is posted in Quote/Lyric, Reflections

I have a tendency to list out more reasons than necessary when expressing my opinion. Then I get off of my soap box and get back on my way. Today when I got off my soap box about the poor foresight of a client’s pricing strategy I decided to look up the origin of the term. Here’s a great explanation (more…)

• 2.19.06 "Everywhere at the same time" is posted in Quote/Lyric, Reflections, Work & Career

All the sleep in the world is some kind of joke keeping us busy, reminding us–
We can only do so much before crashing down into some new scene from a dream
From this life we all want but couldn’t handle anyway.

In spare time we’ll take small steps in circles all day and fight over jobs…
Have to learn to be everywhere in the world at the same time and doing fine.

(from Ghosty, Rooms in the Dark)

I’m overwhelmed. Not just busy but a little worried at finishing the tasks at hand. Happy? (more…)

• 2.11.06 "Chemistry & Reason in Dating" is posted in Best Of, Reflections, Relationships

A recently-single friend sent me an article from The Atlantic about online dating sites. Lori Gottlieb interviews the founders of eHarmony and quickly moves on to Chemistry.com, which was apparently started to find not just compatible people, but those who actually click:

On most of the other sites, there’s this notion of ‘fitness matching’: You may have the same goals, intelligence, good looks, political beliefs. But you can walk into a room, and every one of those boys might come from the same background, have the same level of intelligence, and so on, and maybe you’ll talk to three but won’t fall in love with any of them. And with the fourth one, you do. What creates that chemistry? (Dr. Helen Fisher)

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