Archive for November, 2008

Oh. My. God…

This was on Robyn’s christmas wish list:

I don’t even know where to begin…

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This is actually an email written by Jim to a friend outlining where we’re at in the whole layoff process.  I thought it would be good for here, too, as it lays out the technical side of things:
The entire process of being made ‘redundant’ in Germany is a quite complicated one.  Then [...]

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I’m currently making my way through Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp series (think a less technically-minded Clancy). This isn’t my normal read… got the whole collection uber-cheap on ebay.de… but I decided to give it a go anyway.  It’s sort of like 24 in book form.

Anyway, as I was reading it occurred to me that [...]

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Latest spam email subject heading: Her Pinky Wet Grotto Longs 4 Luv

Wow. I’ve never thought of my vagina as a ‘grotto’ before. Makes it sound so… cavernous

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For all you blog-shy readers out there, let me just say: I totally get it. Sometimes the thought of writing an entire entry or (worse) keeping up with a blog full time feels like more of a punishment than life affirming commitment.
For those people* I highly recommend Twitter. You couldn’t be [...]

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The layoffs that were suppose to happen last week have now been postponed due to… I don’t know, bureaucracy? Or some other shit like that. Honestly, the fact that I even expected them to happen on time speaks to my naiveté. If there’s one thing I’ve learned living here in Germany, it’s that [...]

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Seeing as how we’re likely to be returning to the US soon… for god’s sake people, get out there and vote tomorrow! And if you know someone who might need a little encouragement to do the same, by all means show up on their doorstep bright & early with promises of a Krispy Kreme [...]

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