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"Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society."

Michel de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592

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"It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work and amusements than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it."

Agnes Repplier, 1855 - 1950

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send me jobs! :-)

Send my friend Sherri to here dream job as a blogger/curator for The Great Barrier Reef - vote!

http://www.islandreefjob.com/applicants/watch/jpoz6Y5Zmv0

My best friend in middle school just contacted me via Facebook!

pinktart:

Erin and I were besties from fifth through seventh grade. We both lived in Beale Air Force Base and we would wander around the fields and climb trees. She was also the first amongst my girlfriends to have a boyfriend. Also, she had a golden retriever named Sandi that I adored very much.

This is why I still keep my Myspace and Facebook pages.

I now have more than 60 Facebook friends from my elementary, middle and high school days. It’s completely bizarre (and very interesting) to catch up with people who I haven’t seen in 25 years (I’m 40). My first business partner from a morning newspaper route, friends that were “patrols” with me on the same neighborhood corner near our elementarty school, a few guys from those early fights after school and later, from “partying” for the first time… and so much more. Everything that was so big then is like reading a book about someone else now. I barely remember some of it, yet I have retained vivid details of events that some of them swear they don’t recall happening at all.

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Facebook Long time, old friends on Facebook find all the good stuff! (via shawnblog)

Windows XP: Windows XP's Availability Extended Until May 2009

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This bums me out just a little. See, I switched to Mac because Microsoft is forcing users to migrate to Vista. I should have waited though. I would have gotten the latest and greatest Mac next year instead of what will then be my “old” MacBook Pro. Of course, I’ll be ready for the new hotness by then anyway, but I probably could have muddled through with my old Fujitsu Lifebook until next year (and saved some cash).

Vista sucks. A friend of mine who is not all that geeky or a heavy computer user (but a business owner and heavy golfer with a life many might envy) said it shouldn’t be named Vista, but sucking cavern or ravine or something like that. He’s a surveyor. It’s all about perspective, right?

Yeah, Vista sucks no matter where you stand.

Facebook status updates about the election are a great way to determine if the people you know are actually as ignorant as you always suspected they were.

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Is it bad that I deleted a bunch of them?  Not the ones that actually said how they felt intelligently because I can respect that.

Several of my ‘friends’ are bemoaning the socialist state we are going to become, while also threatening to move to Canada. I think you can all deduce the flawed logic in that one.

One of my friends went so far as to post information about how to apply for a work visa…in Sweden. Coming from a person whose primary criticism of Obama is his proposal for higher tax rates on the top income bracket, I can’t get my mind around why he’d want to move to a country where the highest income tax rates ring in at about 60%. But then, it’s pretty clear to me that he, along with most of my friends who share his ideas, know very little about economics, politics, or the rest of the world, so the fact that Mr. Down-with-the-Welfare-State wants to move to one of the most infamous welfare states on the planet really isn’t all that shocking.

I was checking Facebook on my phone on my way back from the polls yesterday morning. A Facebook “friend” I actually know in the analog world (and see around town pretty regularly) had updated his status to “I’m moving to Canada” and, since I know him and we joke around about various things, I posted a comment to his status:

“You better book your flight today then!”

I later checked to see if there were any follow up comments and was shocked to see that he had deleted my comment! There were a few other comments posted to his status by fellow miserable folks who seemed equally frightened and my “friend” had gone on to update his status with apparent talk radio quotes about socialism being the first step toward communism.

I won’t remove him as a Facebook “friend” and I won’t even disregard or ignore this guy the next time I see him around town. Even though I wouldn’t remove a comment on my Facebook status as he did with my snarky comment/response to his ridiculous assertion of moving to what is certainly closer to a socialist nation than we will ever be here in the United States, I’ll happily leave him as a “friend” on Facebook.

I think attitudes of exclusion based on differences in belief is the root of many problems in our society. I prefer to look forward and move toward greater things than to commiserate in negativity.

I hope others consider doing the same.

16 THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME OVER 50 YEARS TO LEARN:

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rachelc:

by: Dave Barry, Nationally Syndicated Columnist

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2 If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’

3. There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

13. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.

15. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

16. Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it’s up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

I have found number 13 to be pretty accurate.

#8 rings very true, every single time.

UPDATE: http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/16things.asp

* Thanks Brett :-)

jackieheartsb:

There is not much I like about Panera Bread restaurants (the food tastes fairly good going down, but doesn’t settle quite right). I make an exception for the tasty iced green teas.

I used to love it until i realized it was sort of a cross between Snapple and Kool-Aid. I still order it when I am forced to go to Panera (friends), but it’s no better than a sugary soda in terms of “health” (but it is tasty).

My friend Mike is getting some fun acting gigs!

Also, this play http://www.thrillist.com/archives/2008/09/surrender_nyc_new_york_culture_soho.html

While you might not want to give up your cushy, delivery-everything lifestyle, maybe you want a more visceral understanding of war than getting totally pwnd by fourth-graders in Rainbow Six. Here to immerse you in the grim realities, Surrender, tickets available now.

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