30 Jan 2008, 9:20 a.m.

Idiosyncratic Feminist Book Recommendations

Leigh Anne Wilson of the fabulous One Good Thing blog asked for recommendations of feminist books, especially history and fiction, for a college women's resource group's library. I love recommending books! So I made a …

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30 Jan 2008, 8:16 a.m.

Christmas Visit

I've had a great month: Best-of-NorCal visit, negotiating and accepting an offer for a new job, quality time with Leonard and New York and New Haven friends, and beginning to mentor a few students in …

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28 Jan 2008, 18:35 p.m.

New Job

I have just accepted a job offer from Behavior Design as a full-time Project Manager. Behavior has done some awesome work, such as the redesign of The Onion, lots of sites for HBO, and interactive …

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28 Jan 2008, 10:21 a.m.

Clutter-prevention And Decluttering Tips

as I just commented on Rivka's blog (she's going to have another baby and she's moving to a better house, yay!). [Edit three days later: condolences, Rivka.] If you have a decent digital camera and …

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27 Jan 2008, 23:29 p.m.

Condolences

My condolences to my LDS family and readers on the death of Gordon B. Hinckley.

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27 Jan 2008, 7:15 a.m.

Hoodies Are Enough to Justify ASBOs, Right?

Walking back from dinner, passing the park benches. "Oh good, the ne'er-do-wells are gone." "There's a couple of guys there." "Yes, but they're wearing baseball caps, not hoodies." "You're wearing a hood!" "I'm wearing a …

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25 Jan 2008, 6:48 a.m.

Punchline That Goes With Two [Admittedly Related] Jokes

I discovered the second joke this morning and Leonard demanded I blog it because of its relevance to one of his thousand obsessions. What did the duck say to the barman? "Just put it on …

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24 Jan 2008, 3:54 a.m.

Just In Time Idiot?

Great, a new breed of anxiety dream. In this one I basically get told that my lack of coding chops means I have absolutely no right to make judgments in technology matters. I woke up …

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23 Jan 2008, 15:02 p.m.

Econ Blogs For The Win

Thanks to posts by Daniel Davies that I read five years ago, I sounded like a big old smartypants in the first session of a government budgeting and finance class last night. Advantage: blogosphere!

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22 Jan 2008, 10:04 a.m.

Classes Start Today

Due to a peculiar electives situation this semester in the tech management master's program, my cohort has had to look around the university for classes to take. I'm trying to take a cost-benefit analysis class …

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