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Adventures in Chaos has a new location
Posted on Feb 26, 2009 4:13:29 PM | By SimplyStatedAdmin

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Everyday Life | Miscellaneous
Thanks, but no thanks
Posted on Feb 10, 2009 4:56:54 PM | By KristinVanOgtrop

A few "helpful" things that I'd rather just skip, actually: --lowfat muffins --telephone solicitations --people who break bad news gently --online surveys --ATM receipts --packing peanuts --department store credit cards --emails from PR people who clearly have never read a single issue of Real Simple and are promoting things we would never cover, like sex toys and American Idol winners --short escalators --frozen yogurt

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Why I hate technology: reason #4,527
Posted on Feb 2, 2009 1:51:00 PM | By KristinVanOgtrop

I work in a nice office on a nice floor of a nice building in midtown Manhattan (which is mostly nice except at Christmas when it is overrun by tourists who walk in the middle of the sidewalk, staring up, and preventing ordinary citizens like me from making it to the train on time). When it comes to my office there is very little I can find to complain about, and the fact that I even have an office to go to in this day and age is certainly a blessing. But there is one little issue that really sticks...

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