November 2010
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“you have to be willing to break some glass once in a while. now, if all your...”
– joseph gorman, former chairman/ceo TRW, on bending unwritten corporate rules
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mama: is jason like rice?
lina: yes, he likes all my cooking. or so he says :O
mama: so nice to hear that. you need to buy more meat. men all like to eat, good meal mean everything for men. you are good cooker and house maker. you are talent on this stuff.
lina: i cook good food and keep a good house for myself. that he enjoys it is an added bonus :)
mama: good thought. fair enough.
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national hug a stressed architecture student day
dkurisushi: “I never knew this sort of day existed….. I guess people were sympathizing for us poor architecture students hahah :b Well if anyone sees a stressed architecture student, remember to hug them!! :D”
Man… where was this tradition in fall of 2004?? Who knows, maybe I would have held on and finished the architecture track.
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helloooooo monday.
after a weekend of playing nurse (babes came down with a fever), it’s back into work with a whirlwind.. have been in since eight, reading emails and firing off responses, adding to the week’s to-dos, and now running off to a business lunch at l’ermitage.
on the plate this first week of december:
launch the beta of corporate website
finish briefing out the personal care...
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“I don’t try to anticipate what people will buy. I try to sell what I think...”
– edith caldwell, san francisco gallery owner (from Ryan D’Agostino’s Rich Like Them)
* This is a purist way of retailing: spreading beauty and one’s taste.
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a lazy Black Friday
i just woke, with a bright ray of sun sneaking between the drapes and spotlighting my face. Last night’s unconventional thanksgiving meal was so wonderful, I immediately felt my tummy.. It digested surprisingly well, thankfully, and the little bump I anticipated was only in my imagination. Then i yawned and stretched my limbs and rolled about the bed lazily for another half hour :)
My plan...
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pumpkin cheesecake with bourbon sour cream topping
My most trusted turkey day dessert recipe, dating back from Yale sophomore year when Alexis and I staged a bake fest prior to her family’s annual gathering in Boston. This has never failed to wow taste buds:
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3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 1/4 cup granulated sugar 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and...
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J Crew $3B buyout by TPG & Leonard Green! →
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“torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.”
– gregg easterbrook
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“facts are available to everyone; it is interpretation and implementation that is...”
– ric simcock
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survived the past 72 hours of action, recapping the year’s profitability and turning the microscope onto every individual business.. 25 hours of meeting time! have work cut out for 2011
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sixteen hours of computing financials and counting.. my eyes are starting to blur together. note to self, revise everything carefully or you’ll risk short changing a division a few million here or there.
this time tomorrow though, i will be swirling a wine glass and digesting a filet mignon at morton’s. will power through tonight with that image in mind..
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six items or less →
this was covered last summer in the NYT and is seemingly still underway for a few hundred participants. the idea itself (wearing only six items of clothing in rotation for thirty days) is a bit extreme, but we can’t deny the root question doesn’t have merit.
how much energy, time and creativity could we free up by taking the focus off daily styling exercises?
I spent hours...
