February 2012
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Tumblr says:
“You can upload one audio file...
November 2011
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“For the first time, investment of power did not pave the way for investment of...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
October 2011
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drink water
Scientific studies (conducted by me) prove that most cases of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and boredom are caused by lack of hydration.
Today, after not drinking water all morning I indulged in the sweet nectar pouring forth from the water fountain at my office. I felt like a wilted flower being brought back to life.
The moral of the story is STAY HYDRATED, FOLKS.
Another Day with the MBTA
Lady on Train: hey you're not allowed on here! There's no room!!!
*pushes me with her arm in an attempt to keep me on the platform and off the train*
Me: there's some room. I'm small.
*proceed to push my way onto the train*
Lady on train: Oh is that a kitty in that bag!
Other lady on train: Yeah.
Lady on train: I have two kitties.
September 2011
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Dumb Phones are Great!
Last week, the Google Droid that Ava gave me started getting stuck in a loop on the startup screen, the screen where you see the weird freaky eyeball thing as a representation that the system is starting up. Anyway, it would go in this loop and overheat, so I figured it was time for a new phone.
I walked around the store, trying to decide between Droids, IPhones, HTCs, and other smart phones.
I...
April 2011
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The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky is really BAD
Is it possible that BLACK SWAN is anything but an overblown, boring shitfest?
March 2011
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Recipe For Baba Ganoush
2 Eggplants
3 or 4 tablespoons of tahini sauce
2 lemons worth of lemon juice
A big pour of olive oil (five seconds or so)
2 or 3 cloves of minced garlic
Pre-heat oven to anywhere above 350
Turn on two stove burners (if you use a GAS STOVE)
Place an eggplant each burner and let it cook for 5 - 7 minutes, turning over at the half-way point. Skip this step if you don’t have a gas...
December 2010
2 posts
Bathrooms: A New Networking Opportunity
It’s no secret that successful professionals turn to a variety of social situations into networking opportunities. In this day and age you need to always be ready to make a contact.
We’ve all heard of the elevator speech, the golf game, and the industry conference. And we’ve certainly learned to exchange business cards at dinner parties, weddings, and concerts.
But there...
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News
Hey do you ever ready one of those annoying posts where someone desperately tries to rescue a public journal that they let languish and spoil in the vast swampland of the internet?
So for those of you who don’t know (most people) and who see this, I think we’re going to try and get married on Christmas. We may have a large party in our honor at some point. At least that’s the...
March 2010
3 posts
A Poem By Google Auto Complete
“is there school tomorrow is there a god is there going to be a transformers 3 is there life after death is there mail on presidents day is there no help for the widow’s son is there a cure for herpes is there life on mars is there life on other planets is there anybody out there lyrics” - Google Auto Complete
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The Weird Backwards World of BRANDING yourself
Recently, a woman posted a comment on the UMass Alumni LinkedIn forum:
“6 weeks ago I drove through Starbucks and paid for the car behind me. What follows is the unlikely story that unfolded.
www.gertz-pileofideas.blogspot.com”
Does that sound like a crappy story to you or not? In any case, this story started a heated debate on the merits of her act and her authenticity as a human...
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Winter Hill Bicycle Gang
January 2010
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Some Thoughts On Writing in A LinkedIN Forum
There was recently a long and emotionally charged conversation in a LinkedIn forum on self-publishing versus traditional publishing or Alternative(?) publishing…
These are my thoughts on the subject, which nobody responded to, probably because it wasn’t really on-topic and it also wasn’t a personal attack:
“It seems to me that it matters not how the book gets to the market...
December 2009
15 posts
“Johanna tries to get him to interact with her, but other than sex, absolutely...”
– cgfry from Madison, WI on IMDB.com. This is part of a review of the movie Big Blue, which (as opposed to cgfry) I liked, but I thought this was a funny description of the love story in the movie.
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Somerville Pictures
This just in from The Hatchet:
I’m going to be posting some great pictures of Somerville, Massachusetts over the next few days.
Somerville’s a really great complicated city that I’m glad I live in.
Your only experience with Somerville could be going to Davis Square where
you check out all the aging dweebs (dweebs that are aloof, flashy, and full of inside jokes masking a...
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Specialty Food and Your Bleak Lifestyle
Now that luxury is a marketable concept which can be used as a selling point for any income bracket (ironic), specialty foods have dominated the market and they threaten to dominate how our inner lives deal with food appreciation.
Creating a market for specialty food is a sound idea for a few reasons:
-producers can charge more money for a more specialized product and earn a better livelihood.
...
liquor store, Christian hunchback, Jewish Woman
Does a movie or book with some story about a Jewish woman marrying a Christian hunchback named Paul whose family owns a liquor store in pre-WWII Germany sound familiar to anyone?
Weird Torture Pants
I’ve got like four or five pairs of pants and they’re all about to be completely unwearable and tattered.
There’s this one pair that I wore today which somehow constricts my lower stomach so that I have a backache and weird stomach pain after I’ve worn it for the day.
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Millenium Starring Kris Kristofferson
This VHS tape of Millenium’s been lying around begging me to watch it for god-knows-how-long. So the other night Ava and I sat down with our dinner and I somehow managed to convince her to put it on.
It’s a pretty disjointed, fucked up mess of a movie. For one thing, Kris Kristofferson has this rugged/softie combination that’s kind of nauseating. He also can’t act, at...
“The great artists were never those who embodied a wholly flawless and perfect...”
– This is a reblog of a quote from Adorno and Horkheimer (via yijieee)
“whats funny too me is jay has a bandwagon of fans who are hyptnotized and will...”
– Gutta Que, some person commenting on some site showcasing a Jay-Z freestyle (http://realtalkny.uproxx.com/2009/09/topic/topic/pictures/jay-z-does-a-freestyle-in-chicago/)
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The Lamed-Out Folk Singer and The Hustle
In music performance, we often see a disjunction between the music itself and The Hustle (the energy put into attracting fans, getting money, and doing good business with clients or the performance venues). For instance, imagine a folk singer who is a big jokester in between songs, but sings ultra-sentimental, serious ballads about his love life. The music provides the protection and motivation...
November 2009
9 posts
Bicycle Ride
Today I went on a long-ass bicycle ride through the Bedford/Concord/Harvard/Chelmsford area (west of Boston). I think it was about 55 miles.
It’s beautiful out there (apple orchards, farmland, migrating birds) and it was a new experience to be riding in a group atmosphere (Charles River Wheelmen). The only thing is, I’m not used to this level of sustained exertion—I typically...
Follow-Up
My plan to randomly add people and randomly like posts completely backfired.
The truth is, as I’m browsing through posts, I can’t help but have opinions and thoughts which I want to communicate to others or myself. It’s true that I did follow a few blogs which I have no interest in or don’t seem to offer much, but the majority of them I added because I genuinely liked at...
Manual Coffee Grinder?????
In a recent comment to an entry on http://blog.maltadvocate.com, Lew Bryson indicated that, unless we’re part of the corporate management leadership structure for a company, our ability to influence the success of a product boils down to “to buy or not to buy.” There’s the implication that, because our influence is so limited, we really should be at least reminded and...
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Weird Recipe
I eat this when I’m craving a dessert and I don’t know what else to do:
Ingredients:
1 block of Weetabix
1 Spoonful of Nutella
1 Spoonful of Peanut Butter
Dusting of powdered sugar
Break up the weetabix block in a bowl, so that it’s in pieces about the size of granola. Dump in the spoon of nutella and then the spoon of peanut butter. Mix everything together. Put in...
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A New Initiative
These days there are so many goddamn articles on how to develop a robust social networking strategy which draws fans (or consumers) to your twitter/facebook/linkedin/tumblr/blogspot page. Many times, the reader will be advised to offer meaningful, helpful CONTENT.
Huh..Content!? Wait a second: people really have to be advised to produce communication which might be interesting to other people???
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Apology
I apologize to all Hatchet readers for posting a link twice. I wanted to try out the function of posting only a link, as opposed to embedding the link within the body of a text posting. I sincerely hope this hasn’t caused too much confusion. All comments and thoughts are highly appreciated.
Edrington mothballs Tamdhu distillery →
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pre-thanksgiving thoughts on whiskey
if your’e interested in some dudes talking about the whiskey business, go to http://blog.maltadvocate.com/2009/11/22/edrington-mothballs-tamdhu-distillery/
Here’s a comment I made on the blog. I’m not sure if it makes sense out of context:
Interesting discussion…it’s sad to see Tamdhu shut down. The only point I’d like to make right now is related to Lew’s observation, that the...
The Return of The Hatchet
The Hatchet is back in action!
Although we currently have a limited readership (Andy), we are poised for massive growth.
Many people have asked me about the origins of the name “Hatchet.” The Hatchet is an ancient weapon of the native peoples of the United States of America. It evokes power, elegance — small, yet highly effective. This is what we’re all about, here at The...
August 2009
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“Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective...”
– Hunter S. Thomson “He Was A Crook”
July 2009
11 posts
The Black Eye
There’s all this crazy stuff going on with a Black Eye!
more on riga black balsam
“Over time, experts from many countries have highly regarded the quality of Riga Black Balsam, and have given it more than 30 awards at international fairs.” - Wikipedia.
riga black balsam
if your boss ever offers you some weird liqueur called “riga black balsam” don’t drink it cause you’ll probably feel like shit the next day even though you only had a tiny sip. It tastes like rotten plants mixed with alcohol. Apparently, it’s supposed to be an herbal remedy for colds.
What's up with Chefs?
Someone told me about a psychological study that measured creativity among various professions.
According to the study, Chefs were the least creative individuals.
I have no idea how they measured creativity.
“Diageo has a monopoly share in the scotch market and operates on a global scale....”
– Ray’s comment on Malt Advocate about Diageo, a humongous Spirits conglomerate.
Here’s a song I wrote last year that I like,...
Hatchet - IMPORTANT UPDATE
This just in! This just in! Extra, extra, read all about it.
Here at The Hatchet, we’d like to reccomend the “The Drinker” by Hans Fallada.
A great read, through and through. Tell your friends and loved ones all about it!!!
This is what Foreign Power is up to these...
All about Translation Project Management
This is a comment I posted on a LinkedIN group discussion. It might be boring if you don’t care about translation or Project Management:
“It’s important for Project Managers to have experience as Translators. Working conditions and output can suffer when management has no connection to production (or translation in this case). That being said, any good Project Manager,...
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