Thanks for all of the well-wishing emails I've gotten from all of you concerned Peeps after the previous post.
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I appreciate your concern.... but make no bones about it.... I can see through to your ulterior motive.
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You're just afraid that in my diminished condition, I'll be lax in my posting to this pathetic blog, and you'll be cast adrift to fend for yourself in an uncaring, chaotic world.
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I certainly don't blame you for having this fear.
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Sometimes, being a Mountain of a Man means that you cater to the pathetic needs of lesser beings even if you don't feel like it.
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So lay off of the irritatin emails and VM's that pretend to care. Your fix is safe for now.
TommyO said...
Glad to hear you are feeling better. Hopefully Sunday you are 100%. Tailgating with the OShea boys requires you be at the top of your game.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Freaking Impressive
Today I reminded myself of what a Mountain of a Man I truly am.
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Last night I was tossing and turning with the chills and stomach cramps that would have immobilized a lesser person. And I had bowel movements with a consistency that even I don't feel comfortable telling you about.
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This miserable condition has prevailed until the present time.
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Yet, I churned through all of the high end responsibilities of Nanepashemet Telecom with nary a whimper... just as if I really wasn't a hurting puppy. I'm talking pitching major new accounts, depositing the numerous huge receipts that we get in the mail everyday, high finance negotiations with the bank, and keeping lease negotiations in play.
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The average pathetic Peep couldn't do this shit on their best day on Earth....yet here I am... powering though at a greatly reduced capacity and getting it DONE. And on top of it all, I've maintained an extraordinarily high level of humility.
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Freaking Impressive.
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Last night I was tossing and turning with the chills and stomach cramps that would have immobilized a lesser person. And I had bowel movements with a consistency that even I don't feel comfortable telling you about.
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This miserable condition has prevailed until the present time.
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Yet, I churned through all of the high end responsibilities of Nanepashemet Telecom with nary a whimper... just as if I really wasn't a hurting puppy. I'm talking pitching major new accounts, depositing the numerous huge receipts that we get in the mail everyday, high finance negotiations with the bank, and keeping lease negotiations in play.
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The average pathetic Peep couldn't do this shit on their best day on Earth....yet here I am... powering though at a greatly reduced capacity and getting it DONE. And on top of it all, I've maintained an extraordinarily high level of humility.
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Freaking Impressive.
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Say What?
Say Again?
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For the past couple of years, we have been enduring ads by Eric H. Schultz, President & Chief Executive Officer at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
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I think that the agitation that he causes me in his ads is a health hazard in and of itself.
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This guy has corporate speak down to a science. He could describe wiping your ass and make it sound like its the latest procedure in modern medicine. Guys like that make a living in corporate Amerca, wafting away in corporate doublespeak, making the normal and mundane appear all complicated and sophisticated.
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It seems to me to be a contrived phonyness designed to hide basic incompetence.
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I don't know this asshole personally .... I'm sure he is a decent person who is kind to children and animals... but I endured his type for the dozen years of corporate life purgatory that I spent rubbing elbows with dipshits who would starve if they didn't have a corporate suite to hide in.
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Ok... I'm calm now... my skin has stopped crawling. Now I can watch George Stephanopoulos on ABC News.
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For the past couple of years, we have been enduring ads by Eric H. Schultz, President & Chief Executive Officer at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
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I think that the agitation that he causes me in his ads is a health hazard in and of itself.
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It seems to me to be a contrived phonyness designed to hide basic incompetence.
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I don't know this asshole personally .... I'm sure he is a decent person who is kind to children and animals... but I endured his type for the dozen years of corporate life purgatory that I spent rubbing elbows with dipshits who would starve if they didn't have a corporate suite to hide in.
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Ok... I'm calm now... my skin has stopped crawling. Now I can watch George Stephanopoulos on ABC News.
Racist Politico
It should be the Republican Presidential Challengers who are digging up old sexual harrassment allegations against Herman Cain, however it is the liberal blog, Politico , that "broke" the story. Sex in politics among consenting adults shouldn't be an issue, unless you are diddling an intern or giving your gay partner a big public payroll job.
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Surely the Dems don't want to raise the specter of Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, or the Obama affair with Vera Baker. It makes no sense coming from the party that gave us the sexual habits of John Kennedy and FDR.
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Although the Democrats can never be accused of logical thinking. They are probably panicky to get Cain out of the way, so they can play the race card with BO if they have to.... the Chris Matthews / Dan Rather style finger pointing intimations that you must be racist if you are against the present lightweight.
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So it is important for the Dems to sink Cain. Which is racist at its core... trying to discredit someone just because he is a Black Man.
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Surely the Dems don't want to raise the specter of Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, or the Obama affair with Vera Baker. It makes no sense coming from the party that gave us the sexual habits of John Kennedy and FDR.
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Although the Democrats can never be accused of logical thinking. They are probably panicky to get Cain out of the way, so they can play the race card with BO if they have to.... the Chris Matthews / Dan Rather style finger pointing intimations that you must be racist if you are against the present lightweight.
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So it is important for the Dems to sink Cain. Which is racist at its core... trying to discredit someone just because he is a Black Man.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Find Your Lot in Life
I've been thinking about something deep and moving to blog about but nothing is stirring things up. Although I did see an episode of NH Chronicle about some guy whose passion in life is fixing old fountain pens. He said he is doing what he loves and people from all over send him fountain pens to make operable again. He looked truly happy but I found myself feeling lucky that fixing fountain pens was not the thing on earth that I loved doing.
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As in...... how long does it take for the money to catch up with you while you are engrossed in working at what makes you so happy. I've made no bones about the fact that I'd be thrilled to go through life buildng finely detailed cedar stripped wooden boats.
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There is absolutely no doubt that these boats, which turn so many heads when I row through Marblehead Harbor, could reach a willing market. But it would take a huge investment in marketing and production techniques to get these boats built at a price that the public would find desirable to purchase. My one off boats that I have made would be wildly prohibitive in price because of the manhours involved.
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Unless I found an Angel who wanted to fund the venture at a loss for five years or so, there could be no real Nanepashemet Boat Company. And you don't find these Angels hanging out at the Gerry Bar. So while my love would be boatbuilding, my life for five years or so would be finding investors, then keeping them happy.... a far cry from planing and sanding cedar hull planks.
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I guess I'm not willing to make the sacrifice to truly do what I love.
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Sometimes, though, what you love is right there in front of you and you don't even see it.
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I really love negotiating business deals, and Nanepashemet Telecom Site Acquisition lets me do two or three lease agreements per month. I love to build stuff from the ground up, and even though it is cold steel, Nanepashemet Telecom General Contracting gives me plenty of satisfaction in that regard. I love being on the cutting edge of technology, and wireless is where it's at.
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So maybe I'm already doing what I love. And the money has been following along as needed all along. Although if a deep pockets Angel who wants to fund a startup classic boatbuilding buiness is reading this... please give me a call.
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We've all heard the credo... Do what you love and the money will follow. And there are plenty of examples of wealthy people who apparently are doing what they love. But there does seem to be some sizable loopholes.
~As in...... how long does it take for the money to catch up with you while you are engrossed in working at what makes you so happy. I've made no bones about the fact that I'd be thrilled to go through life buildng finely detailed cedar stripped wooden boats.
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There is absolutely no doubt that these boats, which turn so many heads when I row through Marblehead Harbor, could reach a willing market. But it would take a huge investment in marketing and production techniques to get these boats built at a price that the public would find desirable to purchase. My one off boats that I have made would be wildly prohibitive in price because of the manhours involved.
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Unless I found an Angel who wanted to fund the venture at a loss for five years or so, there could be no real Nanepashemet Boat Company. And you don't find these Angels hanging out at the Gerry Bar. So while my love would be boatbuilding, my life for five years or so would be finding investors, then keeping them happy.... a far cry from planing and sanding cedar hull planks.
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I guess I'm not willing to make the sacrifice to truly do what I love.
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Sometimes, though, what you love is right there in front of you and you don't even see it.
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I really love negotiating business deals, and Nanepashemet Telecom Site Acquisition lets me do two or three lease agreements per month. I love to build stuff from the ground up, and even though it is cold steel, Nanepashemet Telecom General Contracting gives me plenty of satisfaction in that regard. I love being on the cutting edge of technology, and wireless is where it's at.
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So maybe I'm already doing what I love. And the money has been following along as needed all along. Although if a deep pockets Angel who wants to fund a startup classic boatbuilding buiness is reading this... please give me a call.
Wasted Water Season
The WhaleEye is coming out of the water this week. Ryan Marine will be pulling it and I have to get out and clean out anything that shouldn't be left on it before it is shrink wrapped for the winter. Like boat beers and that bottle of Lagavulin that Bobby Brown so thoughtfully brought on our last "fishing" trip.
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I didn't run into any bluefish blitzes this year, and never got the lobster traps out. The one time we made it to Stellwagen, even the whales failed to show. I never spent the time to revarnish the Herreshoff Columbia Tender, and that remained on the trailer in the driveway. It was the most unproductive boating season ever.
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We got in a couple of cruises in that ended happily at the Boston Yacht Club bar, however. So my bar tab would indicate that the season isn't a total bust at least.
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With the work at the Sundance house and other priorities, we never got our act together on the water. Significant amounts of fish and lobsters got a stay of execution.
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We'll be ready for them next year.
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I didn't run into any bluefish blitzes this year, and never got the lobster traps out. The one time we made it to Stellwagen, even the whales failed to show. I never spent the time to revarnish the Herreshoff Columbia Tender, and that remained on the trailer in the driveway. It was the most unproductive boating season ever.
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We got in a couple of cruises in that ended happily at the Boston Yacht Club bar, however. So my bar tab would indicate that the season isn't a total bust at least.
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With the work at the Sundance house and other priorities, we never got our act together on the water. Significant amounts of fish and lobsters got a stay of execution.
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We'll be ready for them next year.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Goober Holes and Cooties
We rented out our condo in North Conway for the ski season. What with the FreshAyer countdown, Nanepashemet Telecom and some other stuff, we knew we wouldn't be up there too often in the next five months, and we also had some of our favorite Peeps who were looking for a place to rent and not stay in hotels all season. Seemed like a win-win.
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I don't mind renting it to frends, because you know they don't have cooties.... or at least their cooties don't gross you out.... and vice versa.
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So Joanne and I went up there over the last few days and cleaned out all of the closets and goober holes that accumulate useless crap over a dozen years or so. Since we are always in a recreational mode when we go up there, we have never really spent time organizing, cleaning and throwing stuff out. Stuff like broken computers, clothes that we never wear, and TV sets that sit in a corner out of the way for a couple of years while we come and go.
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We didn't even go out to eat. Bought a couple of $5 Foot Long Italian Subs from Subway and powered through.
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I always like the way that condo looks, but by the time we left it was freaking spiffy. Home to Marblehead in plenty of time to watch the Pats.
Airam Newor said...
No worries for the MoaM and his Madame. The Cootie-Catchers(C-C)are in control and will corner and contain all contaminants. C-C cautions don't fill holes with goobers.
Pisc said...
Sounds like someone needs a refresher in his Project Management Institute principles.
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I don't mind renting it to frends, because you know they don't have cooties.... or at least their cooties don't gross you out.... and vice versa.
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So Joanne and I went up there over the last few days and cleaned out all of the closets and goober holes that accumulate useless crap over a dozen years or so. Since we are always in a recreational mode when we go up there, we have never really spent time organizing, cleaning and throwing stuff out. Stuff like broken computers, clothes that we never wear, and TV sets that sit in a corner out of the way for a couple of years while we come and go.
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We didn't even go out to eat. Bought a couple of $5 Foot Long Italian Subs from Subway and powered through.
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I always like the way that condo looks, but by the time we left it was freaking spiffy. Home to Marblehead in plenty of time to watch the Pats.
Airam Newor said...
No worries for the MoaM and his Madame. The Cootie-Catchers(C-C)are in control and will corner and contain all contaminants. C-C cautions don't fill holes with goobers.
Pisc said...
Sounds like someone needs a refresher in his Project Management Institute principles.
Snow Watch
So the storm wasn't a dud. We even lost power for a couple of hours last night. But the temps are above freezing and this will melt fairly fast. I wouldn't get too ambitious with a shovel because this won't freeze and stay.
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Course if Joanne wants to shovel, I won't get in her way.
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By 4:15 when the Pats play the Steelers, this one will be in the books.
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Course if Joanne wants to shovel, I won't get in her way.
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By 4:15 when the Pats play the Steelers, this one will be in the books.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Gearing up for Spring
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All of the meteorologists are saying it could be a record breaking 10 inches or so. That always puts the whammy on a storm.... when the weathermen get all hyped up about it.
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I figured that I had the month of November at the very least to fix my snowblower, having broken the shear pins last year, and then ordering two sets on Amazon that didn't fit. There has to be one dealer around here who has the right freaking shear pin size!
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Course... a shovel and a little manual labor should do the trick in this non-event. I can't imagine that this stuff will accumulate and stick to the ground this early in the year. Which is a reason to believe that this might be the real thing.
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Actually, I could care less whether we get hit or not. I have four wheel drive, winter boots and my ski jacket close by. And Joanne still can wield a mean snow shovel.
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Whatever happens.... spring is right around the corner. Happy Halloween.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Eight Inches
We have some work to do in New Hampshire this weekend and it looks like we'll run into 8" of snow that is predicted. An October snowstorm. Earthquakes, Tornadoes and an October snowstorm. Looks like those freaking Mayans might have been on to something.
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It won't impede our progress, but it definitely feels weird.
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It won't impede our progress, but it definitely feels weird.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Another Down Day
Still no big national new events today. Something screwed up has to happen soon to break through this news drought. Channel 5 has a story about Roslindale High going Number 1 in the state on some academic competition. And some punks spraypainted some swastikas in Concord, NH. At least there is a chance of snow in the weather report.
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Brendt D'Orio said that he checks out Boston Barstool Sports and the Nanepashemet Blog every morning. That explains why Brendt is so well versed. I generally don't look at Barstool, because of the strong sexual content. At my age, you can't afford to get too excited every morning. That can get even more aggravating than watching George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America.
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Once again, I've offered up a post utterly devoid of substantive content.
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I could write about whether Michael Jackson's Doctor should do some time for putting the King of Pop out with heavy anesthesia every night to cure his insomnia. But nobody really gives a shit about that. The King's time had come and gone, and he was way too weird.
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I could offer a rant about the Occupy Wall Street losers who are protesting their lack of jobs and wealth. Who would hire these knee jerk misfits anyway? I could care less where they pitch their pup tents.
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I could discuss the First Lady, Michelle Obama's propensity for expensive vacations on the public doll to give her daughters a break from life in the White House. And how she brought her mother to Africa because she had never been there before. And how she doesn't want her kids to watch the Kardashian's which the Kardashian's immediately seized upon for whatever marketing and self promoion that it was worth.
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But things are so dull that even the crass, inappropriateness of our Nation's First Lady doensn't get a rise here.
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There's the story of Bernie Madoff and his "out to lunch" wife trying to commit suicide by downing a handful of pills, then waking up in the morning anyway. They must have had strong stomach linings to go along with their utter lack of conscience.
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Just nothing out there is inspiring/annoying enough to get a close inspection on the Nanepashemet Blog today. Maybe you should check out Boston Barstool Sports and see if anything better is going on there.
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Brendt D'Orio said that he checks out Boston Barstool Sports and the Nanepashemet Blog every morning. That explains why Brendt is so well versed. I generally don't look at Barstool, because of the strong sexual content. At my age, you can't afford to get too excited every morning. That can get even more aggravating than watching George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America.
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Once again, I've offered up a post utterly devoid of substantive content.
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I could write about whether Michael Jackson's Doctor should do some time for putting the King of Pop out with heavy anesthesia every night to cure his insomnia. But nobody really gives a shit about that. The King's time had come and gone, and he was way too weird.
~
I could offer a rant about the Occupy Wall Street losers who are protesting their lack of jobs and wealth. Who would hire these knee jerk misfits anyway? I could care less where they pitch their pup tents.
~
I could discuss the First Lady, Michelle Obama's propensity for expensive vacations on the public doll to give her daughters a break from life in the White House. And how she brought her mother to Africa because she had never been there before. And how she doesn't want her kids to watch the Kardashian's which the Kardashian's immediately seized upon for whatever marketing and self promoion that it was worth.
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But things are so dull that even the crass, inappropriateness of our Nation's First Lady doensn't get a rise here.
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There's the story of Bernie Madoff and his "out to lunch" wife trying to commit suicide by downing a handful of pills, then waking up in the morning anyway. They must have had strong stomach linings to go along with their utter lack of conscience.
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Just nothing out there is inspiring/annoying enough to get a close inspection on the Nanepashemet Blog today. Maybe you should check out Boston Barstool Sports and see if anything better is going on there.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Social Networking
I've been on Twitter for a couple of weeks now.... and I'm just not getting it. I've been following some celebs like Serena Williams, Paris Hilton and OchoCinco, but their one sentence diatribes don't do anything for me. And about 50 are following my tweets... why?.... I have no idea.
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For that matter, Facebook seems to be losing its cache as well. It was fun for a while when I was aggravating Liberals and Bible toters, but then the Liberals wouldn't take the bait anymore and the Bible toters got really pissed.
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I did touch base with a couple of old friends, which was worthwhile... but it seems that anybody who I was to uncover has been exposed.
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I have about 200 "Friends" on Facebook and look in amazement with all those who have 1000 or more. I don't know 1000 people period.... friends, enemies or whatnot. I've only "defriended" a few people. One guy I really like, but I couldn't stand to read about him constantly in post after post everyday. Another guy was an asshole from the old neighborhood who I never liked 40 years ago and didn't want to pretend to like today.
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LinkedIn is a different story. That's more business oriented and I never deter from business etiquette. I have about 500 Linkedin contacts, many of which I would walk right by on the street and not recognize, but the contacts are for business development.
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I still really enjoy posting in this Blog. It's a very selfish enterprize that I undertake solely for my own enjoyment and psychological grounding. If I wasn't doing this electronically, I'd be writing in journals like the old days when I started in college after taking a course on Emerson and Thoreau. The fact that thousands of you hapless Peeps follow my every word is an interesting byproduct that I never imagined when I initially entered this medium.
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It would only be fair if you mailed me a check once in awhile.
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For that matter, Facebook seems to be losing its cache as well. It was fun for a while when I was aggravating Liberals and Bible toters, but then the Liberals wouldn't take the bait anymore and the Bible toters got really pissed.
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I did touch base with a couple of old friends, which was worthwhile... but it seems that anybody who I was to uncover has been exposed.
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I have about 200 "Friends" on Facebook and look in amazement with all those who have 1000 or more. I don't know 1000 people period.... friends, enemies or whatnot. I've only "defriended" a few people. One guy I really like, but I couldn't stand to read about him constantly in post after post everyday. Another guy was an asshole from the old neighborhood who I never liked 40 years ago and didn't want to pretend to like today.
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LinkedIn is a different story. That's more business oriented and I never deter from business etiquette. I have about 500 Linkedin contacts, many of which I would walk right by on the street and not recognize, but the contacts are for business development.
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I still really enjoy posting in this Blog. It's a very selfish enterprize that I undertake solely for my own enjoyment and psychological grounding. If I wasn't doing this electronically, I'd be writing in journals like the old days when I started in college after taking a course on Emerson and Thoreau. The fact that thousands of you hapless Peeps follow my every word is an interesting byproduct that I never imagined when I initially entered this medium.
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It would only be fair if you mailed me a check once in awhile.
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