Month: April 2015
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Buddha or Budai
For as long as I can remember my dad owned a Buddha. He still does. It is a little figurine the size of three standing packs of cigarettes with a green velvet covered bottom that, except for a chipped ear, managed to survive in one piece through our family’s different stages and events. Especially the movings. We moved…
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The Boss Is Coming. Look Busy.
We all know the feeling. You are happily checking your Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/RedTube accounts when all of a sudden your boss materializes 5 steps away from your desk. What to do? I’ll tell you what and you can thank me later. In the past you’d wet your chair while looking at your boss with one eye and checking for a browser tab that showed something…
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Foreigners & How To Spot Them
Even though by now most racially insensitive stuff is already out of print in the Western World, you can still find the “classics” online. You can buy “Mein Kampf” in Amazon (used and new from $4.99). And I recently bought a first edition of an American biography of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gomez in which Venezuelans are described as the expected result…
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Most Influential?
There’s a world outside the world where I live in where this is true. Please share how Kanye West influences your life. I might be missing something. Facebook Post