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Does Anyone Want Space On MySpace?

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 by admin

Wow, just a few blinks of an eye ago, MySpace was the coolest toy on the planet. If you weren’t on it, you weren’t with it.

Today, Facebook holds that status, followed closely by Twitter. It has risen to the stuff of legend, major motion pictures, larger than life icons. Nearly as important and indispensable to the human race as oxygen.

But as we take in all of the glory of the sex symbol of the day as if it is here for life. When it is really gone tomorrow.

You Don’t Get Tenure In The Real World

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by Mark

Tenure is a euphemism. A wonderfully intellectual way of saying that you can stay on the job, protected by the rules, even if your performance is as captivating as frozen pizza.

Mark in today’s New York Times Frequent Flier column

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by Mark

I LOVE flying. Maybe that’s because I go into it with the expectation that
I’m going to be delayed. Once I get through security, I go to the bar, ask
for a wine, order some death-defying foods and then do some work, until my
flight arrives.

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