From the category archives:

People Are Funny

I Don't Doubt It for a Moment

09.15.2004

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Knights in White Pickups

06.28.2004

Last Friday on my way to work, a large American station wagon of indeterminate make and vintage (it may actually have had fake wood panels on the side) attempted to change lanes, notwithstanding the presence of a significant impediment to this particular endeavor, i.e., me. I hit my brakes and my horn, and gave the [...]

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Are You a Morning Person, or a People Person?

05.27.2004

One of the nicest things about having a job is not having to interview anymore. I chronicled my annoyances with the job search process pretty extensively while I was in it, and I’m very happy to be out of it. I’m also happy that my current employers didn’t ask me any of the stupid b.s. [...]

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Irreconcizzable Diffizzles

05.25.2004

snoop dog According to the Washington Post, Snoop Dogg is getting a divizzle. For those of you who modeled your romantic lives after the example set by Snoop (I’m going to be like a real journalist here and say “born Calvin Broadus”) and Shante, this must come as a shock. I wonder if Shante will [...]

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W61.49

04.13.2004

yes, I know I’ve used this photo before I went to Atlanta last week for a conference and stayed in the Westin Peachtree, which unfortunately is a lot less Blade-Runneresque than this photo would indicate. It did have the distinction, however, of being the only hotel I’ve ever stayed where my room actually looked like [...]

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I'm Sorry. I Do Understand.

04.06.2004

We’ve often heard that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, and not just because “ghoti” can be pronounced “fish,” or because we say things like “Let’s run it up the flagpole and see who salutes” when we mean “Let’s see if people think this is a good idea,” or “weapons of [...]

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My Kind of News

03.19.2004

Ever since I worked for the imaginatively-named Chapel Hill Newspaper (which made a bold lean forward several years ago and became The Chapel Hill News), I’ve had a soft spot for local papers. When I’m in a small town I occasionally pick up the paper and see how well their reporters fare at covering the [...]

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I'll Load, But I Won't Unload

02.03.2004

I obviously don’t know much about finding a job, but I do know this: when someone calls you on the phone and says in a rapid, practiced monotone that she saw your resume on Monster.com and wants to schedule an interview in a hotel room the next day and seems reluctant to answer any questions [...]

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All Aboard the SS Miscellany

01.29.2004

I’m feeling a bit random today, and luckily the random absurdity has been piling up. I saw the sign pictured above during a recent visit to UNC Hospitals. I thought it was a bit zen for a traditional western medicine establishment. (Actually, I first noticed “Remember 3C” and thought, “There must be a ‘Remember 2B,’” [...]

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Meatwad

01.08.2004

One of the problems with exposing myself to reality TV is that I also expose myself to TV commericials, and I will buy anything anyone tells me to. As a result, I found myself on Wednesday driving about 20 minutes round trip to pick up a Hardee’s Low Carb Thickburger. “How did they make a [...]

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