March 2011
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"Snatching the Blindfold:" Literary Substrata of...
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Back to Work #10: At Last the ‘Inspiration’ Show - 5by5 on Huffduffer
“…if you wanna roll [Robert] Lowell…”
“…[Gruber] used this example of Cormac McCarthy…”
“…go read the first paragraph of Absalom, Absalom…”
“…in my case, going and reading Kurt Vonnegut…”
“…go watch Picasso…”
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Psst.
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“Each time I sit down to write I don’t know if I can do it. The flow of...”
– Don Murray [via]
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“Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s...”
– Bill Keller, Executive Editor of The New York Times, on AOL’s purchase of The Huffington Post. [via]
WatchGetting the Meeting
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The (Imperfect) Art of Sending Sensitive Stuff
Securer file sharing with Dropbox « practically efficient
Zip your files
Put the zip file in your Dropbox ‘Public’ folder
Email the file link, not the file
Great advice on sending sensitive stuff via Dropbox . And pretty close to what I do. With this handful of paranoid additions involving chaos and automation:
Parent Folder. in your “~/Dropbox/Public”...
Sullivan nod →
bestofwikipedia:
The Sullivan nod is a theoretical sales technique used to create a subconscious suggestion to a customer to purchase one particular item out of a list of like items. It is used most frequently by bartenders and waiters when reciting lists of items (such as alcohol or wine) in the hopes of getting the customer to select a particular brand. (via sleevia)
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Melrin Regrets the Error: Back to Work, s01e07
A new and to-be-regular feature. Being errata that must be corrected. As identified. And whatnot. Thank you.
With regard to Ep. 7, “Vocational Wheel,” please excuse:
Bonehead Misspeak. Jaz-Per was a vulcanologist (not a geologist). Duh.
Date Flub. A young Ben Trott did my Movable Type install (at 2:00am for US$20.00) in 2002 (not 2004)
Brain Fart. Julia Cameron’s empire...
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“Don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep...”
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
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"no one can make up a rock"
The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in 1987
And to make rubble, you’d have to go find some real rubble and copy it. It’s the only way. If you’re going to make a tree, for instance, you have to copy a real tree. No one can “make up” a tree, because every tree has an inherent logic in the way it branches. And I’ve discovered that no one can make up a rock. I found that out in Paths of...
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