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Nov 29
Sewiously, how cwingingly gwating is Sesame Stweet’s Baby Beaw? Evwy time he’s on-scween, I want to fwiggin’ scweam!

Sewiously, how cwingingly gwating is Sesame Stweet’s Baby Beaw? Evwy time he’s on-scween, I want to fwiggin’ scweam!


Feb 3
“Pretty soon, humans will forget how to move their lips to make words and sounds because they’re too busy reaching for their cell phones or laptops and tweeting people who are too busy to read your tweets because they’re furiously typing theirs. To you.” The 100 Most Annoying Things

Dec 4
For those wondering…
It’s been a crazy couple of days since Thanksgiving.
First, Mumbai went to hell and with it, my days off and my sanity.

Once the ugliness died down and I hoped to get back to my regularly scheduled life, I realized it was mere days to my month-long vacation to New York, Dubai and Dhaka.
So here I am now trying to do my annual self-evaluation before I leave — but the world keeps misbehaving.
Hope to see you all in 2009!

For those wondering…

It’s been a crazy couple of days since Thanksgiving.

First, Mumbai went to hell and with it, my days off and my sanity.

Once the ugliness died down and I hoped to get back to my regularly scheduled life, I realized it was mere days to my month-long vacation to New York, Dubai and Dhaka.

So here I am now trying to do my annual self-evaluation before I leave — but the world keeps misbehaving.

Hope to see you all in 2009!


Nov 13

Popular press clichés

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A Factiva analysis of a whopping 10,000 news sources found that the most overused cliche is “at the end of the day.” “In the black” and “in the red” follow at no. 2 and 3, respectively.

Also: Oxford University’s list of annoying phrases


Nov 7

Sep 18

The 8 Worst Bosses To Work For

Between having to show up at work and having to actually do work, no one likes having a job. But it doesn’t get any worse than working for one of these eight annoying bosses.

Continue reading to figure out what kind of boss you have ….


Sep 11

8 Types Of Annoying People Inside Starbucks

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A pretty spot-on list. My favorite is “Study Groups.” Take up all the tables, why don’t you?

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