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austinstorm

  1. Customer question of the day: "Do your size small dresses run large?"
  2. Cost Plus World Market was purchased today... by Bed Bath & Beyond.
  3. Cinco de Mayo + Free Comic Book Day + first Farmer's Market + Moscow Ren Fair. Today cannot be stopped.
  4. quotes Leon Bloy: "The only real sadness in life is this: not being a saint."
  5. quotes Thomas Chalmers: “Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.”
  6. There's no acting out like grown people acting out. 40 years of practice and one can really perfect the passive-aggressive deep sigh.
  7. Dell just sent me an advertisement that's designed to look like an invoice. I felt irritation, then anger. Weird marketing strategy.
  8. Found out a friend is starting a winter CSA in Moscow. Super neat idea!
  9. Alarming trend when traditional media types get into crowdsourced funding: raising money to make a pitch to show to traditional investors.
  10. I finally joined Dropbox and rumors immediately start up again that Google Drive is right around the corner.
  11. I love Dropbox because Because of selective sync - I can sync just my music collection to my older computer. So great! db.tt/Abz5BOlG
  12. I have stopped giving star reviews on Goodreads, having decided arbitrarily and pretentiously that they are reductionist.
  13. It's very difficult to ask someone, "Are you a model?" without sounding like you're flirting with them. Which you aren't.
  14. quotes Richard Loveland: "Unspoken expectations and unfounded assumptions are the most destructive hobgoblins of any enterprise."