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Posted in Personal on May 26th, 2008
Dear George Lucas,
So then, about Indiana Jones 4…you’ve got to be kidding. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. I’d like to see the script that Ford refused to make. I don’t know, maybe this was his fault. Maybe that first script was better, and he sent it back to you riddled with post-it notes with messages like “more goofiness!” [...]
Posted in Personal on May 26th, 2008
Subject: FROM MR MIKES TO YOU (don’t use all caps.)
From: “Dear Sir/Madam” (mikeandree4@voila.fr) (put your name here, not a greeting)
Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 2:58 am
To: undisclosed-recipients:; (why? suspicious)
Dear Sir/Madam don’t you know who I am?
I am (a/the) manager of one of the leading company [...]
Posted in Personal on May 25th, 2008
I am of the opinion that making arguments of questionable validity does unquestionable damage to one’s position — it makes you look desperate, like you don’t have any stronger evidence to put forth. If you have really firmly established your strongest claims, then it might be time to move on to advancing the more debatable [...]
Posted in Personal on May 12th, 2008
Some bitter old English professor has taken a break from yelling at kids to get off his lawn to pen a book about how whippersnappers these days are all stupid. I’m not sure he actually says “stupid”, at least on the cover, but I do think it literally says people under 30 should not be [...]
Posted in Personal on May 2nd, 2008
Say there friends and foes, look what I bought at a British market in Mission Hills yesterday:
That’s right: haggis…in a can.
Now I just have to decide whether I want to eat it…