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November 15th, 2008
12:35 pm - New blog and new blog post: Low-Stakes First Dates
I've created a new blog called Unsolicited Advice on Demand at
http://benjyfeen.com
The first entry is all about the design and execution of Low-stakes First Dates.
An excerpt:
Picture this: you take a thousand dollars out of the bank and go to Las Vegas. You put on your finest clothes and hit the nearest casino. You buy a $1000 chip and stride over to the roulette wheel, looking fabulous and confident. You put the thousand dollar chip on your lucky number, and the wheel spins…and you spend the rest of the weekend alone in your hotel room, wondering why bad things have to happen to you. That’s how lots of first dates feel: with everything riding on the outcome of this one big chance, romance and excitement quickly give way to confusion and dejection. Sound familiar? Don’t bet everything on the first date: lower the stakes.
(Click here for the rest of the article: Low-stakes First Dates)
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December 9th, 2007
11:43 pm - Inbox Zero
Oh my god.
I just watched a video of a Merlin Mann talk in which he explains how to get control of your email.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925
I just moved everything out of my personal and work inboxes. I feel so ill-equipped to procrastinate now. LJ to the rescue, eh?
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January 5th, 2007
11:51 am - My favorite cookbook ever
After eight months of not posting to my livejournal, I'm breaking the silence to mention that I just rediscovered my favorite cookbook ever:
The Impoverished Student's Book of Cookery, Drinkery and Housekeepery by Jay F. Rosenberg
http://bookstore.reed.edu/tradebook_list.asp?pf%5Fid=IMPOVERISH0876780710&catalog%5Fid=375&type=3&pf%5Fname=IMPOVERISHED+STUDENTS%27+BOOK+OF+COOKERY+DRINKERY+AN&origination%5Fid=W
My quasihippie Unitarian parents had this on our well-stocked bookshelves at home (probably between Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.) I think I read this book when I was eight years old or so.
This cookbook includes mission-critical collegiate interior design advice (cinderblocks and 1x12s == bookcase) and a recipe for imperceptibly spiked punch that I still put to good use. Now that it's been reprinted I just bought five copies to keep handy as impromptu gifts.
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April 1st, 2006
11:36 am - Focus
I'm cleaning my bedroom. It's almost painful trying to stay on task. Yes, I recognize the irony of posting a journal entry saying so. Irony is a big thing with me. To quote my pal Cat's .sig:
"A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound
desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to
avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now."
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March 31st, 2006
03:25 am - to please the teafairy, I have produced loadiOlympic Medals.
This decathalon badge is the award for survivors of the event.
Current Location: hooooom
Current Mood: ambien
Current Music: ambien
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November 20th, 2005
11:12 pm - Snapshots from a brief stint at a now-defunct dotcom.
You have to understand that it was a different era. Nobody worried about whether something was a good idea or not; it was all about having the best elevator pitch. And I gotta say, this was one hell of an elevator pitch. "We have a fortress, an uplink, three shotguns, and a copy of SuSE Linux." I left after five days. I am no Ryan Lackey; he's got titanium cojones. I couldn't stand feeling so vulnerable, stranded 7 miles into the North Sea, thumbing noses at the world, just waiting for someone to call our bluff. So yes, I chickened out, but I'll take that blow to my ego in exchange for this one thing I'll always have. June 2000: I was Director of Operations for Havenco. For a very short while.
http://pics.feen.com/havenco
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Sysadmins: Free tattoo with membership!
http://www.lopsa.org
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September 24th, 2005
September 7th, 2005
September 5th, 2005
12:58 pm - Burning Man 2005 photos
This year Jp and I camped with Friends and Family, and it was spectacular.
Here's my photo gallery.
Time to go clean the RV...
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August 25th, 2005
05:32 pm - Benjy and Jp's address on the Playa!
2 o'clock and Amnesia, Friends and Family. We'll be arriving on Saturday night... in an RV! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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