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Re: Sexy Time in Jack’s Book?

cherbert — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:28:02 -0000

You guys liked it? That makes me feel special. I'll pull the gun out
of my mouth now.

No really, my fragile outsized ego is dependent on comments. For
Christmas, I want you to get me unique visitors and pageviews for the
whole year.

Re: You Just Can’t Teach This Stuff

cherbert — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:26:37 -0000

Next time try harder to strip the jealousy out of your comment.

You know my system is superior in every way and that I am revolutionizing
the grocery shopping process. Soon I will start sending my little men, Jack
and Charlie, on strategic missions in the store, armed with tear-off sheets
located at the corners of the page. Take notes.

Re: You Just Can’t Teach This Stuff

Kate F. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:18:26 -0000

Some of us are able to struggle through daily life without affirmation for everything down to our *grocery lists,* My Child!

Re: You Just Can’t Teach This Stuff

cherbert — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:17:13 -0000

That would be good, alastair. Better still would be something where I
could enter my meals, generate a list, and then have a pricing
comparison analysis performed automatically.

By the way, Kate, I don't see your shopping lists anywhere on your
blog. Stop copying my grocery list layout ideas, which are brilliant,
original, and male.

Re: First set of Charlie pics

cherbert — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:32:21 -0000

Nice. thanks, Kate. Those are not my cameras...most of them belong to
Greta's parents. For some reason, every time anyone does anything remotely
cute, every camera needs to capture the moment. even though one of hte
cameras is 500% better than the others...

Re: Wilton - Anyone out there blogging?

cherbert — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:16:13 -0000

Love the 1 am comment from the new mom! Jeesh- maybe I have to carry
this dry town!

Re: Anne Rice is a Christian!!!

cherbert — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:53:17 -0000

I just think that anyone who subscribes to a religion is turning over
their brain to a set of absurd beliefs.....refusing to accept that
there are infinite possibilities for why we are here and what happens
when we die. it is easier for many to simply accept the religious
world view story and reject all the other possibilities, abdicating
their imagination, creativity, and responsibility to search. Most
people would say they don't believe in most parts of the bible and
therefore still have an imagination etc, but that half-belief is
almost worse- hypocritical and two-faced....

Re: Anne Rice is a Christian!!!

look in the mirror — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:17:49 -0000

Christians are not just one person. All Christians do not believe in the same things and are not restricted to their beliefs. This is probably the stupidest comment here...
Can a Christian have an imagination? A Christian is a person, just like you, and wow this is a retarded comment... I'm just 16 and I can see that...

Re: What we need

cherbert — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:28:15 -0000

I'm not laughing.

Re: We Lost Our House

cherbert — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:56:58 -0000

what's amazing is that we had a signed deal at 570,000. then we found all of these problems at the inspection and decided it'd be a black hole of expenses. when they refused to mitigate, we walked away. 1 month later we found a house that is twice as nice, bigger, more land, superior school district....all for 675,000.

Whoever paid 619,000 for that place is out of their mind.

Re: Why Doesn’t Bugaboo Make a Stroller for 2?

cherbert — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:23:14 -0000

Jack loves the seat! The storage is great...it expands and can hold a
lot. Like 3 bags of groceries from target. The only downside is that
it takes up a lot of room in the trunk of the car, and it could be
easier to fold up.

Re: Anne Rice is a Christian!!!

cherbert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:41:09 -0000

Update: I'm reading The Witching Hour and am completely hooked. I had a debate with a friend over the weekend about whether a Christian can have an imagination... I argued that someone with so brilliant an imagination as Anne Rice could not possibly be constricted by a simplistic, rigid, clearly flawed religious worldview. He disagreed.

Then we discussed whether she could have converted solely for the commercial potential....would a conversion to Christianity open up vast new markets for her work? I am looking forward to checking out her work on the life of Jesus...to see how she approaches it. No idea how commercially oriented she was or how large an audience her books have reached...

What comes after The Witching Hour? Are there more books in the series?

Re: Talking Blackberry

danbuell — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:07:23 -0000

Don't use Google Calendar in general but it looks pretty nice on Safari on the iPhone and I've read some hacks that pretty easily let you load it to your calendar. I'll try a few out and let you know if any of them are decent. When I use my blackberry, I usually delete my E-mails off of it and let them sit on the E-mail server or my laptop when I'm done with them so I don't think I've used that feature more than 2-3 times but it would be cool on an i-Phone. I used the Gmail app on the bb and it pretty much sucked compared to the i-Phone.

In RE to contact look up, would race you on the iPhone any day. With favorites, voice recognition apps (which blow the vr on bb away) and the ability to simply click a letter on the side and role to the contact name I find it a lot faster than bb but it may be a tasted thing.

Bottom line: All of these activities at best would take up a couple minutes each day of my life. I spend a lot more time on my i-Phone using apps and core functionality that the bb can't do than these sort of abilities but I'd definitely add them to the "wish list"

Re: Talking Blackberry

cherbert — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:08:34 -0000

How about the ability to search your email on the iPhone? Or to sync Calendar with Google Calendar? Or to start typing a name to dial and have Contacts filter until the correct name pops up (whether first, last or middle).

I find iPhone and Curve extremely complementary, but I hate carrying them both around. I just rock the holster and explain to fashion police that I'm married.

Re: From E*Trade To Twitter

cherbert — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:21:02 -0000

To add to the chorus: pimp away, Fred!

I wish I could blog about my job, and the best part about A VC is your openness about your life--all aspects of it. I believe that the Internet is going to enable a revolution in personal creativity, freedom, and fulfillment. And it will be rooted in the increased sharing of information that brings communities together and allows new ones to form.

Last year, I started a new job in management consulting. My firm has strict values around privacy (for good reason), but it often leaves me feeling constricted and stifled. I w

Re: Best of Today

cherbert — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:10:06 -0000

I read somewhere that the Creator of Garfield found it disturbing and
hilarious. But he was into it. That really elevated my respect for him,
because he easily could have dismissed it and sued the guy. (although i
would argue that it's an interpretation)

Re: Help Save Democracy

cherbert — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:46:05 -0000

Yes, I also hate Boston's guts

Would love to meet your friend!

Re: Who's watching the watchdogs?

Chris — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:05:12 -0000

Interesting observation. I might argue that the symbiotic relationship has some natural synergies that are in each group's interest:

politicians need to get their message out and sway public opinion

journalists need something to write about

clearly there is room for abuse (by both sides), but when i'm feeling cynical i think of tim russert. that guy was a tough journalist, but politicians sort of had to go on his show, for credibility.

then again, russert was in a league of his own...the coziness of the nyt reporters prior to iraq is just 1 of many examples of the opposite holding true

finally, question: do ordinary bloggers have more or less to gain (than professional journalists) from cozying up to institutions?

Re: Delay

cherbert — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:36:05 -0000

I laughed at how silly it was that these people felt such a strong need to
vent. I enjoyed a brief moment of superiority. Then I popped open my
laptop and spewed my thoughts to the Internet!

Re: Testing ScribeFire

cherbert — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:09:08 -0000

I used Flock for a while, thought it was great, but then I got a new hard
drive. Scribefire seems to include all the great blogging features that
Flock had, but I'd say stick with what you're used to. I'll let you know if
I find anything earth-shattering about Firefox 3 that would make it worth
switching.

Re: Marilyn

cherbert — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:52:10 -0000

Does your assessment change knowing that I made my wife take the picture?

Re: Or Brian Austin Green?

cherbert — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:26:06 -0000

He looks like me. But thanks.

Re: CT Plates 392-DKO: MOVE YOUR CAR!

cherbert — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:06:08 -0000

Please share! What would you recommend?

We thought of one: setting the alarm off on purpose, over and over again,
until the battery dies. But it seemed a little too close to vandalism.

Re: &%#$&

cherbert — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:59:06 -0000

Yeah, but how much does it cost to get a Platinum card? And if I'm the only
person on my team with access to the lounge, is it OK to abandon my
colleagues?

Re: Stuck on Runway AGAIN

cherbert — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:09:04 -0000

thankfully it was a great seat. 1A.

The only tolerable thing about air travel is that it gives me something to
vent about here in these pages!

That, and the first class meals on Continental are scrumptious.