My Notebook features over 500 posts across over twenty years, covering everything from movies to ethics to personal stories to random links. Browse recent Notebook entries below, or use the category buttons or search to go deeper. The “Clip File” category contains my favorite writing.
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Practice Makes Progress
“Practice makes progress” As a lifelong perfectionist (and as someone living with OCD – yes that was diagnosed by a psychologist, not TikTok) this phrase hit me hard when my excellent career coach Martha Schmidt shared this with me earlier today. Many of you are probably well familiar with this advice by now. For me,…
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Bangor Daily News blurs the line between news and advertising
The Bangor Daily News is back at it with more ethically-questionable practices on its website, this time in the form of its new “BDN Marketplace News” section which attempts to disguise advertisements as news headlines. What’s Going On? At the bottom of article pages, the “BDN Marketplace News” appears directly under a larger “Similar Articles”…
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This time of year.
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Meet T-Paw
I get that taking some share of the youth vote away from President Obama is going to be a key to victory for Republicans in 2012. But that still doesn’t fully explain Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty referring to himself as “T-Paw” on his campaign website: If a Pawlenty fan (or foe) out there can explain…
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First soccer game of the year
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My walk to work today, 4/1/2011
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Walk to work, 3/24/2011
Walk to work, 3/24/2011, originally uploaded by jgclarke.
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Ratio of tweets to alcoholic beverages
I noticed that people (myself included) seem to tweet more frequently when they’ve had drinks, so I made this chart to describe the rise (and fall) of tweets to drinks.
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The “Docs”
I made this graphic in honor of all those folders on computers full of random documents and labeled simply “Docs”. Click it to enlarge.