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A Day to End All Days

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:49:40 -0700

The Wishniaks

"Catch 33 is a great college pop record; by that I mean it’s a very accessible collection of catchy tunes with intelligent lyrics that are alternately wistful and snotty, which tend to concern themselves with parties and crushes. (See also: The Primitons). In my 20s I bought tons of records that fit this general description; this is one of the very best." -- Little Hits

Couldn't have said it myself.

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Crazy Rhythm

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:45:19 -0700

Crazy Rhythm

Whispering Jack Smith with Carrol Gibbons & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra

Love this song, love the lyrics, and LOVE the performance.

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Junkie

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:31:25 -0700

There are days when I have so much coffee I must look like a meth addict, all quick, barely controlled gestures and involuntary tics. This is one of those days.

Don't worry folks, it's just the caffeine. I'll be fine once I come down.

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Lapsed

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:53:14 -0700

I let my domain expire. Oops :-)

Expired

On the upside, we get a look at what my domain name registrar thinks a site called "OldTasty" should be about:

Good -- Tasty Meals -- Light And Tasty -- Bakery -- Free -- Desserts -- Spicy And Tasty -- Light And Tasty Magazine -- Tasty Flavors -- Treats
Organic -- Tasty World -- Champion -- Mazine Tasty
Catering -- Diet -- Tasty Kakes -- Tasty Snack -- Tasty Eats -- Tasty Foods

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I am a cliché

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:00:09 -0700

First rose of the spring

I believe I have hit the Flickr full house: a flower, a sunset, an adorable child, a cat and a self portrait all on the first page of my photostream. Alas, none are HDR, but it certainly appears inevitable.

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Vox Hunt: Shoot the Sunset

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:43:49 -0700

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." -- Pamela Hansford Johnson
Show us a self-taken picture of the sunset.
Submitted by Connie.

Sunset over South St. Louis

Arriving in Kunming, 1991

Wuzhen sunset

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Motion != progress

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:46:12 -0700

A few years back, I attended an offsite brainstorm with my (former) company. We were a relatively small interactive development shop within a larger PR agency and felt we were being held back. This was sometime in 1999 when tech was flying high -- the PR side of the business was just coming out of a slump, we were bringing some significant non-PR clients and felt our team was not reaping proportional benefits from our revenue. If I remember correctly, one of the flashpoints was not being able to get sufficient bandwith at the office, and how hard it was getting the PR side to understand why we even needed faster connections.

So the task at this offsite: how to better get the resources we needed to develop the business. The corporate big-wig/facilitator set us off and ideas were flying -- change accounting methods so we had more license to spend from our revenues, split from the company, nothing was off the table...

...until we presented to the facilitator, who in imploring us to be more realistic used these words to summarize our morning's work:

"Motion isn't always progress."

This wasn't what we expected to hear (particularly since the dude hadn't laid out any boundaries), but it's proved to be one of those lessons that stays with me.

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Compulsive vacuuming

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:02:12 -0700

The new Groetsch/Lu homestead

So there are two relatively new things in my life: a rental house in Mountain View, California that features wall to wall carpeting, something I haven't had since I moved out of my parents' house in 1986 (and which they promptly pulled up in favor of the hardwood floors underneath) and a bagless vacuum, which I picked up on the cheap Friday night. Consequently, my weekend was filled with obsessive vacuuming. And by obsessive, I mean every room, a couple of times over, with uniform vacuum patterns. By the time I was done, my living room looked like a putting green or a major league infield. You can imagine what it did to me to leave footprints all over the place... but it only presents more opportunities to vacuum :-)

Just call me Martha.

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Damn It's Hot

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:33:59 -0700

Damn It's Hot [Part 1]

Sharon Jones

Damn, I love me some Sharon Jones. You've never heard of Sharon Jones? Well, I'm sure you've heard her band backing up famous British crackhead/trainwreck Amy Winehouse. The New York Times has the lowdown...

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Hello dear

nobody@vox.com(OldTasty) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:57:10 -0700

"Meanwhile i have spoken with the bank,and have also discussed the possible transfer of the fund, my father left a clause that i must not invest in any where in africa that i have to introduce a trusted foreign partner who would be my trustee to help me invest this fund hence the need for your assistance."

I have to believe this 419er's heart just isn't in her job. That's the best you can come up with? Poor effort.

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