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  1. Paisley

    youtube addictions and delights

    I'm still hooked on Death Note AMVs: L is Bringing the Sexy Back! L Knows How to be a Princess Mello Tribute: Tick Tick Boom Mello Likes your Hair Mello's United States of Whatever
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    The Green Hornet

    I liked this movie. Kato can drive me around town anytime.
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    Red lipstick and the job interview

    A lot of interviewers--probably most of them--don't know how to size someone up or test their qualifications. The less they know about this, the more they'll rely on things like appearance and interviewing skills. I'm thinking of a young woman who applied where I work a few years ago. She...
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    Gatsby Mansion to be demolished

    Having seen photos of it now, I'm not sure if they really intended to live there, or if they had no experience at all fixing up a house, or whether reselling it was a Plan A or Plan B. Who knows? Some people do restore seedy properties to their former glory. In any event, restoring it was a...
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    Red lipstick and the job interview

    Congratulations on your new job! For the benefit of other readers who asked about interview suits, at the large accounting firm where I work, ladies interview in plain black pantsuits. Now and then, you'll see a gray one on someone too pale to wear black well. I agree with Lady Day that...
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    Gatsby Mansion to be demolished

    A photographer/blogger has posted several photos of the property. It's really a shame that such a beatiful place has gone to ruin. Blog entry: http://jenrossphoto.blogspot.com/2011/03/lands-end-sands-point.html#comments Slide show: http://www.jenrossphoto.com/#Portfolio/Spaces/East%20Egg/1
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    Gatsby Mansion to be demolished

    Regardless of the owner's intent, I don't see any particular crime in taking a property that's going to rack and ruin, that would be incredibly expensive to repair and maintain, and turn the property into something that someone is willing to pay for, and sounds like it will fit in with the rest...
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    Gatsby Mansion to be demolished

    From the Newsday.com article, "Now, the front door is off its hinges, wood floors have been torn up for salvage, windows are missing and the two-story Doric columns are unsteady....[The owner] put it up for sale in 2006 for $30 million." And, "Sands Point Village in January approved plans to...
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    Fitness Training Help Needed

    A coworker of mine, who has chronic lower back pain, has had good results with Pilates. She uses a personal trainer for all her sessions so that she does everything just right. I'm sure it's expensive, but if you have a delicate spine, it may be money well spent. Whatever you do, be extremely...
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    from CNN's front page: "Vintage Health Advice ~ 1915"

    Gingerella and Rue--:arated: It's hard for me to believe that foods that we've eaten for hundreds of thousands of years, like saturated fat, are responsible for modern diseases. Stephen Guyenet at Whole Health Source did an informal review of observational studies on saturated fat intake...
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    from CNN's front page: "Vintage Health Advice ~ 1915"

    For those of us who read studies and books about nutrition with a critical eye, the prevailing nutrional advice to avoid fat and eat plenty of healthy whole grains and copious amounts of fruit are meaningless. Bacon every day? Why not? Humans have eaten meat--as in, whole animals, snout to...
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    Does anybody dance the Charleston?

    Most people who swing dance know some Charleston.
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    As A Kid, What Were You Like?

    I was like Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter, or the weird girl in The Breakfast Club. Still am.
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    A forgotten Golden Era virtue, Thrift

    I do. And as far as I know, I'm the only one at work drinks water from the kitchen sink. I have no idea what's so special about bottled water--Denver water tastes perfectly good to me.
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    A forgotten Golden Era virtue, Thrift

    When I buy food, I think of it as buying nutrients. Ramen noodles and a pork chop end up in the same place, but they do very different things to your body on the way there. That said, I buy $2.69 per pound chicken livers instead of steak, and I drink two kinds of coffee: home-brewed and free.
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    A forgotten Golden Era virtue, Thrift

    My parents are always going shopping, too, even though they have a houseful of stuff and more cooking utensils than a restaurant. For all their having grown up during the Depression, they're two of the most wasteful people I know.
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    A forgotten Golden Era virtue, Thrift

    A favorite site of mine had blog post on putting old pressure cookers into service and showed some tasty looking recipes you could make. Someone responded that if you have an older pressure cooker, you should run out and buy a new one because they had new gaskets and new safety features making...
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    Any Other Conscientious Objectors.....To New Years Eve

    I don't go out on New Year's Eve because I can go out any other night of the year for one-third the price. As for drinking to the point of illness, I just don't get it.
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    Embarrassing Moments in Dance

    Yesterday I was at a workshop that was short of women. At one point I had to lead, and our teacher looked at me like, "That's really, really, awful." If that's what she was thinking, she was right.
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    Do you say Goodbye on the 'phone?

    Yes, I always say goodbye. Everyone I know does.

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