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Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #44 - An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! Self-portraits in mixed media and drugs. [Facebook-ed] A microeconomic look at the introversion-extraversion spectrum. [delicious-ed] I suspect people only visit OKCupid for the charts the way our dads only [...]

Book review: Do the Work - The only thing standing between you and what you want is Resistance. This is a how-to manual on kicking its ass.

What it takes to hew to you - In theory, we are all our own people—fiercely individual, to hell with convention, letting our freak flags fly. In practice, we cave all the time. Usually, without even knowing it. Almost always to our own detriment.

Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #43 - An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! My favorite panel from SXSWi this year—how three (excellent) different writers approach writing—is finally available to listen to. John Gruber, one of the panelists, has helpfully provided a [...]

Taking my own medicine - It has been happening for some time now—probably since I shuttered my design business, definitely since I quit acting—but the polite and puzzled apologies that “I don’t know exactly what it is that you do” have escalated to a point where I can no longer shrug, laugh or otherwise play them off. “I write and [...]

Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #42 - An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! Finally saw this trailer for a self-produced feature about people changing the world all over the world at the last stop of the Strictly Business 3 conference tour last [...]

Poetry Thursday: Of service - Virgo is the sign of service visualized as a maiden in a flowing robe, hair up or down, bearing grain. Not a lion, not a bull not a ram. Not a hottie hoisting a vat of water to his massive shoulder with his studly arms. Not a sharpshooter— a skilled, sought-after professional, never mind the [...]

Book review: The War of Art - The books I re-read tend to fall into one of two categories: treasured fiction from various stages of my life which I settle into again for comfort and entertainment; and clear-headed non-fiction that serves as guidance and/or a kick in the pants during the dark times. Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art is the rare [...]

Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #41 - An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! Only a matter of time before these kids show up with subtitles. Not that they need ‘em or anything. [Facebook-ed, via Marilyn Maciel] With all due respect to [...]

[video] Travel baggie hack! - [watch Travel baggie hack on YouTube; running time 3:01] Amazingly simple tip that has helped quell my (considerable) anxiety about arriving or departing without mission-critical dongles, USB cords and other electronic doodads when traveling. Required: the appropriately-sized zippy freezer bag for electronic crap an index card and writing device What you do: make list of [...]