http://www.escapefrompianosa.com Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:29:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Dwight has overcome his struggles with the self-aware computer and focused his energies on 'agrotourism'? Really, agrotourism? Ok. Tell me more Dwight.. Agrotourism is a lot more than you think... "it consists of tourist coming to a farm, showing them around, giving them a bed, ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/18/the-office-schrutes-beet-farm/ I agree with Jackie. Meetings with agendas and objectives suck. I'm very thankful that my current work situation doesn't involve endless meetings. It does involve a lot of creative collaboration and ad hoc discussions, but nothing of the "sit in the conference room with 15 other people and watch PowerPoint" variety. When ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/12/why-not-unmeetings/ I love these Seinfeld commercials. I don't understand why advertisers don't use these story commercials more often... stories that are three short episodes shown during a TV show. People love stories. Maybe they're worried about channel-flipping? I don't know who could tune in to The Office and turn off the ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/11/the-office-dwight-vs-the-computer/ Good news and bad. The good news is that I won my fantasy baseball league (finally!) and there are sweet sweet prizes involved. Congratulations! Your outstanding performance in this season's Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball PLUS competition has made you the potential recipient of one of our League Winner Prizes -- ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/10/in-maryland-its-illegal-to-win-a-bobblehead/ Being in a high-paying but miserable job is a nasty combination. Really really nasty. It's easy to leave a bad job that pays poorly. What do you have to lose? Worst-case scenario, you're back in another miserable job. But being in a miserable job that pays well; that's really tough. Because ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/09/if-you-hate-your-job-but-love-the-money/ I just started watching The Office and I'm kicking myself for missing the past three seasons. Michael is a brilliant character and he's already taught me something about online marketing: Michael: "Business to business. The old fashion way. No blackberries. No websites. I would like to see a website deliver baskets ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/07/the-office-what-michael-said-about-websites/ Thank you Nora, you said some very nice things about me. My run as a freelancer (which included a lot of real estate and some dabbling in writing among other things) has come to an end, at least for the foreseeable future. My first job is at a small online ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/05/i-took-a-job-or-two/ Do you like crunchy leaves? Will you go out of your way to step on them? Well you're in good company. Finally, a social networking site where I can meet people just like me! In fact Facebook has at least 20 groups related to stepping on crunchy leaves: I Will Go ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/10/04/facebook-fun-do-you-live-crunchy-leaves-me-too/ This is an idea I hear a lot from people that until recently, I took for granted. "Writers are in high demand" or "it's so hard to find people who can write well." Anecdotally, this rings true for me, but when I went looking for jobs as a writer, I ... http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/09/25/are-good-writers-really-in-high-demand/ This season of Curb has been a little slow but that was a great line. http://www.escapefrompianosa.com/2007/09/23/just-knowing-you-is-a-liability/