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Social Networking

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** Social Networking **
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-- Well, back then, we used to invite friends, they introduced us to new friends, and so on ...
-- Mom, you mean, you had a *real* Facebook kind of thing?

[Date: June 30, 2009]   

A Paradox

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** A Paradox **
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-- A man is truly happy if he does not care how the Universe came into being.
-- The only goal that lifts man above other animals is in seeking to understand how the Universe came into being.

[Date: Jan 13, 2009] 

When Managers are Unhappy

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** When Managers are Unhappy **
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-- Look at you, Peter ... You are so unhappy .... while your employees are chatting merrily away in the cafeteria ...
--  Mary, please call everybody to a departmental meeting tomorrow morning.  Six-thirty sharp.

[Date: Feb 21, 2009]  

Midlife Crisis of a Uranium Atom

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** Midlife Crisis of a Uranium Atom **
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-- I've wasted half of my life.  Now what?

[Date: Feb 26, 2009]        

The One Minute Manager

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** The One Minute Manager **
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-- Jack, I want the sales figures *now* !!

[Date: Feb 4, 2009]        

My Radio

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** My Radio **
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-- I was listening to my radio and I thought it a bit odd because there were no advertisements.
-- Then I woke up.

[Date: Jan 14, 2009]   

Network Admin

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** Network Admin **
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-- You know you are a network admin if you try to call a colleague using his IP address.

[Date: Jan 17, 2009]    

The Sun and the Trees

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** The Sun and the Trees **
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-- If the sun were to disappear suddenly and completely without a trace, we would not know about it for full eight minutes.*
-- And the trees we see with our own eyes are but the ghost-shells of their existence a split second ago.
-- * Note: Sun's gravity would also remain for those eight minutes.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]

Being Smart

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** Being Smart **
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--  The smartest thing I did this year was to convince myself, ignoring all reports to the contrary, that I'm not that smart after all.

[Date: Dec 1, 2008]     

Good News for Cartoonists

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** Good News for Cartoonists **
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-- As long as there are managers in charge of engineers, comedy will survive.

[Date: Dec 6, 2008]

Online Shops

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** Online Shops **
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-- Bob's customer's had been ignoring his shop for years.  So he set up a digital version of his store. His customers also feel relieved: now they don't have to even ignore him anymore.
-- * dignore [vb. trans.]: In digital transactions, not bother even to ignore other people, e.g., I had dignored his emails for months.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]   

What Managers Do

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** What Managers Do  **
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-- 1. Manager has a new idea
-- 2. Brainstorms with his lieutenants
-- 3. Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project 
-- 4. Budget approved, kick-off meeting
-- 5. Project implementation
-- 6. Things get messy because there was a stupid mistake in Excel sheet
-- 7. Damage control
-- 8. Things calm down

[Date: Nov 29, 2008]   

The Only GTD Guide You'll Ever Need

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** The Only GTD Guide You'll Ever Need **
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-- Nothing is done till nothing is done.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]                  

The Bailout Blackhole

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** The Bailout Blackhole **
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-- The stellar mass of tax-payer dollars breaks up into corporate bonuses as it nears the blackhole.
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[Date: Nov 30, 2008]   

In the Beginning by Ellen DeGeneres

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** In the Beginning by Ellen DeGeneres **
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-- In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]    

Betting the Farm On It

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** Betting the Farm On It **
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-- $8 Trillion Dollar Rescue
-- They are betting the farm on it now.
-- Yep! And the farmers are included.

[Date: Nov 26, 2008]                

US Economy

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** US Economy **
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-- Everything looks OK now!  We've bailed out the rich.

[Date: Nov 19, 2008]  

Are You Compulsive, Obsessive?

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** Are You Compulsive, Obsessive? **
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-- Well, I think if you are not compulsive, obsessive, maybe there's something wrong with you.

[Date: Nov 16, 2008]     

Color Crayons

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** Color Crayons  **
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-- As a pre-schooler, God had shown a predilection for playing with color crayons. It came in useful, much later in His life, when He was designing Autumn.

[Date: Nov 16, 2008]    

Dave Bowman Finally Understands the Randomness Inherent in the Universe

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** Dave Bowman Finally Understands the Randomness Inherent in the Universe **
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-- Dave Bowman: My God, it's full of Black Swans!

[Date: Nov 15, 2008]