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British Phil Doesn't Read
27 February 06 10:00 PM | Jason Looney | 1 Comments   
British Phil usually has techie magazines lying on his desk. Recently, I wandered into his cube, picked up one of the newer ones, and asked: ME How are you liking this mag? BRITISH PHIL I read maybe one article per issue. ME Hmm. If you were smarter, Read More...
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Ask Anyone Who Drinks And Writes Letters To Newsweek
06 February 06 07:30 AM | Jason Looney | 0 Comments   
I subscribe to Newsweek , mainly for the columnists, but partly because it's now a thesaurus for awkward ways to say "an unidentified source." When Newsweek fell into hot water a few months ago because of their use of unidentified sources they committed Read More...
Getting Getting Things Done Done
02 November 05 03:00 PM | Jason Looney | 3 Comments   
I had the book Getting Things Done several months before I got around to opening it (naturally), and once I opened it I had some trouble getting through Part I. In fact, if I hadn't been trapped in an airplane, I probably would have given up on the Read More...
Keep This Man Away From Your Children
05 October 05 01:45 PM | Jason Looney | 2 Comments   
According to this Oddly Enough! article from Reuters , Jay Leno is releasing a book for children titled How to be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your Class) . I will now point out several things that are so obvious they hardly need Read More...
One Sly Move Away From Jumping
12 July 05 07:00 AM | Jason Looney | 4 Comments   
Instead of criticizing it, I’m simply going to point out a few things about the magazine sitting to my right. The magazine is titled SLY and has Sylvester Stallone on the cover. Coincidence? Nope. SLY is the nicknamely-eponymous magazine created Read More...
You May Think
08 July 05 07:30 PM | Jason Looney | 1 Comments   
Endings are tough. Sometimes I write something I like, but have no ending, and it stresses me out. What I didn’t know is that I don’t need an ending. I just need an editor. Check out this “Editorial Note” from a magazine given Read More...
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Bookstores are for smart people. And Alex.
21 April 05 06:45 AM | Jason Looney | 17 Comments   
Walking through the bookstore on our coffee break, Richard stopped, turned to the rest of us, and pointed to this month's Architectural Digest . It had gold embossing on the cover, declaring this issue the "Architecture Issue." Richard said nothing. He Read More...
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