Brief Episode

All the week’s briefs that are fit to tweet:

Travel

• thinking about trips to Rio, Buenos Aires, Vancouver & Melbourne. Someday! #
• See Resume, See Door, See Applicant Run: why really stupid crap from recruiters should make you stand your ground or walk http://bit.ly/NsjC #

Career

• got email request from the joint chiefs of me at day job for my delivering training to the Bangkok office via web. Would prefer miles or OT. #
• with the market being what it is, it will be another destination on my resume of cities where I will have trained and coordinated training. #
• At an ILTA lunch meeting regarding Office 2007 in law firms. The meeting is in Microsoft HQ in downtown Los Angeles. #

Around Town

• at the Griddle Cafe for a quick breakfast before work with Dad. Slow service & empty. Staff was with police because of attempted robbery. #
• Brought out the space heater & turned it on. Layered another coverlet on bed. Wrapped myself tightly. Realized winter is early this year. #
• the construction going on inside the new Kitson store on Melrose is going fast. Pretty soon there will be more celebs & even less parking. #
• meeting my Dad for breakfast which I’m doing a lot since he moved out. He used to meet me for Chex before work when he was my age. #
• Three piece string band playing Oasis on Canon Doctor in Beverly Hills outside Crate & Barrell. Very cool! #
• Another three piece band, but jazz on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills across the street from the Gap. Badges show it’s a Beverly Hills effort. #
• Left a happy hour party with major food at McCormick & Schmick’s in Beverly Hills. Beggar woman asked for cash or food. I gave her 20 wings. #
• in Los Angeles it’s 55 F in the shade & 60 F in the sun. Didn’t wear a jack walking to lunch so staying on the sunny side of the street! #

Television

• CNN: Bush kisses Streisand during hug. She didn’t barf, so it looks like he went back for seconds on the lips. She bent back to get away. #
• decided not to go to CPK for lunch today. Sliding glass door opening into the bar area would have effectively meant air conditioning. Not! #
• BSG returns in 5 weeks. BSG Webisodes available at mobile.scif.com/bsg & scifi.com. #
• watching Heroes. The cheerleaders parents really, really look 16 years younger with the time travel. Is there a 1 day botox? Can I get some? #
• seeing there’s a plot point on Heroes for a Japanese dish — tamogayaki, I had to wikipedia it because it might be delicious to try it soon. #

Blogosphere / Twitter / Social Networks

• sweet compliment tonight on my Tweets / Facebook updates. Friend said she had a rough day, read my parasailing drag queen update & laughed. #
• seeing Magilla Gorilla, reading Sookie Stackhouse #4, sipping iced tea & eating habanero mango chicken chilli at the Griddle Cafe with Dad. #
• I’ve been going through recent followers. One has a blog post with this line: Innuendos of whoredom and fornication can be seen everywhere! #
• Reading an article called RSS: Really Simply Shallow (against RSS feed reading). If you read blogs a lot, do you agree? http://bit.ly/NQY3 #
• Mobile Facebook Tip: when friends’ updates merit a yap, don’t Wall — use Facebook’s mobile site & Comment. More fun to join commentary. #
• Petty or not? Debating unfollowing two people recently added on Twitter have humongous avatars when viewed from TinyTwitter. #
• Can updates be bitchy? Default MySpace update: “is in your extended network.” I changed it to NOT & appended “spends more time on Facebook.” #
• have decided just today to auto-follow everyone who follows me after reading @guykawasaki ’s post. Saw him speak when I was 13 & he’s great. #
• Noticing that on Twitter, Direct Messages arrive much faster by text than by email. Sometimes 10-60 minutes faster! #
• my aunt sent me an email urging women to wash new bras because of flesh eating bacteria. Thanks, great way to finish breakfast! #
• I’ve spent 62940 Seconds or 1049 Minutes or 17.48 Hours or .73 Days with 2098 Tweets on Twitter! Grandma did more. http://tweetwasters.com #

Marriage Equality

• U.S. Supreme Court lets stand VA ruling enforcing Vermont court order awarding child-visitation rights to a lesbian mom. http://bit.ly/17wYs #
• Blame The Gays: NY Senate Deal DEAD, Anti-Gay Dems Cut Off
  http://tinyurl.com/5ejovz #
• I agree, INNUENDOS of whoredom and fornication are bad. Let’s trade them in for the real, unvarnished and indisguised things. Praise Jesus! #
• my new favorite Twitterfriend is @wshakespeare — the Bard shows 140 characters are enough for immortality several times a day! #
• wondering if anyone on the web has done a cost benefit analysis of buying an XM portable device for car & home versus iPhone & Pandora. #
• Joe the Plumber: McCain appalled me – & Joe dumbfounded us. We found him, he was dumb.
  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16385.html #
• only 1 present from an employer says, “I love when you’re alert.” A Starbucks gift card. Addict of tea with soy, so bribed into alacrity! #

Technology

• If you’re looking for a new WordPress theme, this article has 70 Free or Premium Themes: http://bit.ly/M2tn #
• Watching a movie in a bar without sound. Computers are important to the plot. DOS! Looks like 1909. Should have used Macintoshes! #
• thinking that Twitter & Facebook updates are a modern day miracle connecting us with very dear friends who we might not see everyday. #
• just started making plans with a friend to catch up after the holidays, which means next year! Where did 2008 go? Whoosh! And… scene. #
• reading How Twitter’s competitors do what it doesn’t http://bit.ly/kLVn #
• noticing the guy in front of me at the lunch meeting has on his BlackBerry home screen an image of someone else’s butt crack. #
• Exxon has gas for $1.79 in West Hollywood. Feels like time travel or mental regression for suppressed memories. #
• When you allow people to text you from your website, you know that you’re a texting ho! http://www.BriefEpisode.com #
• made an offer on a domain for $125 earlier this week. Still haven’t heard back. Kinda hoping no news is great news. #
• Steeling myself for meeting when I walk in the door. Settling details for my working with translator in Bangkok for remote Thai trainees. #
• Ex-Mormon Jon Powell calls on musicians & artists to stop licensing their work to groups associated with the LDS Church. http://bit.ly/sUTo #

Celebrity

• Sexy S&M pin-up star Betty Page dies in LA at 85. Many great pics on the web. Search results in this link may be NSFW. http://bit.ly/EeMi #
• After midnight it’s so hard to decide anything. Go home? Sober up & sleep it off? Have one more? Grav tacos? Hot dogs with bacon? Decisions! #
• I like your turn of phrase, news from noise. Sometimes news feels like noise, though! @Scobleizer #
• Read 83 Must Read Articles for Bloggers http://bit.ly/2Dk8 — I’m finding interesting new blogs to explore by looking at theme gallery pages. #
• OMG!!! http://www.GetSnuggie.com commercial for a blanket with sleeves commercial. Family roasting marshmallows looks like a monastery of monks! #
• Looks like the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills was bought out or renamed as the Paley Center for Media. Ending of an era? #
• Seeing new Doritos Collisions: zesty taco & chiptole ranch released when I just conquered my nacho cheese flavor addiction. Must. Not. Try! #
• At Hollywood & Highland, an arrangement of flowers stands on the star of Beverly Garland. Wonder who she was & if it’s her birthday. #
• Sipping a cosmo & watching a movie with a very young Alan Alda. Waaay before MASH. He looks very cute! And there’s an adorable dog, too! #
• Oprah’s in the news, confessing she has weight problems, it’s up & down for 20 years. Hello? Think we didn’t notice? We just didn’t care. #

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