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Are you excited about The Social Network movie?

| August 6, 2010

I’m so looking forward to The Social Network movie I can already taste and smell that theater-buttered popcorn! The movie trailer including the hauntingly beautiful sound track (a choir performing Radiohead’s 1993 hit Creep) immediately captured my attention when I first saw and heard it. Love the theme, “You don’t get to 500 million friends …

The Journey to Ithaca

| July 5, 2010

Thanks to the magic of twitter (Chris began following me and I returned the favor), I was fortunate today to stumble across Chris Guillebeau’s The Art of Non-Conformity blog. Chris just happened to have posted one of my favorite poems of all time about the Journey to Ithaca by Constantine Cavafy. I love what both …

When the kid voted "Most Likely to Succeed" loses his job

| March 10, 2009

This blog, a chronicle of the pain of my recent job loss, has particularly resonated with my fellow Cornell alums on LinkedIn. I posted it on the Cornell alumni LinkedIn group and I receive daily notices from other Cornellians who have recently gone through the same stages of grief.  Since they have been posting to LinkedIn and …