Friday, October 10, 2014

Simpatico on the M101.

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I have a 9AM meeting this morning and even though I'm running a trifle late (I'll probably get there only 15 minutes early rather th...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Bad language.

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I had a slight case of contretemps with a client last week. She changed every instance of the word "phone" in my copy to "dev...

Some Macro Thoughts.

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There was an article recently in "The New York Times" that talked about how some huge percentage of economic gains are concentrate...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

The past tense of "Gig" is "Gag."

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It seems that after six intense months of work, one of my two simultaneous gigs is coming to a gagging halt. Which means it's time for...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

I'm sorry.*

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"I see you're working with Rob now," my ECD said to me. "He's a pretty good guy." "He might be," I a...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Time and tide.

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So much of what we do in our business is meant to save time and improve efficiency. We rush to deadlines. We sit on conference calls. We w...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Stickball. Then and now.

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Fig. 1.  Every city should have a stickball Hall-of-Fame. Only New York does. It's been a year since my 1966 Simca 1000 has enter...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Jewish-ish.

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Tonight marks the beginning of the holiest of Holy days for Jews, Yom Kippur. I'm not in the least religious. I stay out of Temple wit...

On the way home.

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It felt like I worked two full-time jobs yesterday. That’s not necessarily hard from an accumulated hours point of vie...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

A sad Thursday.

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