August 20, 2009
Friendly Encouragement
M: how are things coming along for your lebanon trip?
me: we had a bit of a breakthrough yesterday, when stuff started to actually happen
I still give it even odds that Hezbollah and Israel start something before we get on a plane and the whole thing goes phthbtb
M: looool well I hope you're already en route if something does happen
me: ...
thanks?
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July 28, 2009
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try Interning
Ah, the interns. I wonder how many businesses would collapse tomorrow without them?
N status - "Funny how when you're paid well, you do very little work and when you do work to the point of exhaustion, you get paid very little. The irony."
2:17 PM me: Marxist
2:18 PM N: hey hey
I'm stating my current conditions
I got home at 8 yesterday
at my old job
I usually got in at 4
2:20 PM me: yes yes
but it's a brief jump from some mild class consciousness to full blown revolution, as you and your intern comrades rise up and take back the means of production
or whatever it is you do there
2:21 PM analysts... the means of deduction?
N: we do have a small union
intern representation
so we are somewhat marxist
what can I say
me: I believe it's usually: "Workers of the world, unite."
N: hahahaha
2:22 PM and I keep a hammer and sickle under my desk
ok sunshine, I need to get things did
I'll ttyl
2:23 PM me: dasvidanya
N: da
Posted by ben at 02:34 PM | Comments (0)
A New Hope
I've got an idea. I've got a blog. That's not the idea, but I do have a blog and I'm just not using it. I simply don't have the energy or time to keep it updated.
But I don't have that time in part because I spend so much time with friends and colleagues these days, both on and offline. And in the process I'm constantly discussing profound, humorous, tragic and otherwise noteworthy things.
So my idea. Why not make that work for my blog, instead of against it? Rather than high maintenance linking and running commentary on the issues du jour, simply record for posterity some of the more interesting bon mots from my daily life?
It's an experiment. Let's see how it works.
Posted by ben at 02:29 PM | Comments (0)