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The Kitchen Sink Is Not A Garbage Can

categories: general   ·   originally posted 2006-03-16 09:50:56   ·   last edit 2006-03-16 11:50:56   ·   permalink

In the movie Bachelor In Paradise, Bob Hope is the only person in his suburban community with a garbage disposer in his kitchen sink. As a result, his neighbors often drop by with large bundles of garbage which he laboriously feeds into his kitchen sink.

Silly? Sure. In truth it's a plot contrivance, a device used in the movie to get characters together so they can interact. But it got me reflecting. I grew up with a lot of seemingly-arbitrary rules about what should and...

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My New Business Cards

categories: general   ·   originally posted 2006-01-27 08:18:35   ·   last edit 2007-03-04 06:40:02   ·   permalink

There are two main ways I organize my to-do lists: for large projects with lots to do, I'll use a text file or HTML file. For everything else, I generally use plain white 3x5 index cards. I go through 3x5 cards like a paper shredder; on a busy day I'll burn through ten or twenty.

Organizing yourself with index cards is nothing new; in fact, there's a whole category at 43 Folders on organizing with index cards. (I know, I know, that's nothing special, there's a web site...

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