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People are polite here.
After living in the City for eight years, it got under my skin… I was constantly in a hurry, drove aggressively (ultimately bought a motorcycle so I wouldn’t have to wait for all the slow-moving, slow-thinking cagers clogging the streets) and I wasn’t afraid to use the horn. Then I moved to the sticks and shortly found myself apologizing for driving the way I did. Locals unfailingly granted right-of-way. Drivers stop in the middle of the street so pedestrians can cross at the post office. They wave; they smile; they’re at peace. That’s a foreign concept for City folk, who I guess (speaking as a recovering City dweller) are in a hurry to find some peace but never realize that the act of hurrying prevents them from ever getting where they apparently intend to go.
So anyway, today the woman on the treadmill next to mine pulled her headphones off as I was leaving to apologize for breathing so heavily as she exercised. As if she’d offended me.
I used to say “I hate people,” and lots of the time I meant it. But then I heard a statement that shook me: There are no unresourceful people — only unresourceful states (Tony Robbins). Meaning, people are capable of being good, even great, but they don’t necessarily act that way for a variety of reasons (for a variety of unresourceful states of emotion, energy, etc.). And now I guess that, for a lot of people, stressors like traffic, lack of parking, and other characteristics of city life invoke some pretty unpleasant states. Pity.
I’d invite everyone to move to the sticks, but then we’d just have all the traffic and shootings I moved away from, and instead of people apologizing for breathing heavily they’d be rooting through my locker while I exercise. So my advice to all you City people is this: stay right where you are.
Meanwhile, I’m driving slowly and smiling a lot. Peace!
I used to question the wisdom of buying those little boxes of broccoli sprouts at Whole Foods. I mean, preventing cancer is a noble goal, but $2.39 seems like an awful lot of money for a vegetable that isn’t even fully grown.
But today I discovered another value-add of broccoli sprouts: just like planting grass on a muddy hillside keeps the hill from washing away in the rain, adding sprouts to a sandwich provides critical traction to keep the insides of the sandwich from squirting out the back side when you take a bite. They’re like a small-scale erosion-control program, with a lovely health benefit on the side.
Hearty congratulations to AXIS Dance Company for winning two Izzy awards at today’s 15th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, the “Izzies”!
AXIS won an award for Best Company Performance, for their 2000 performance, The Ground, the Air, and Places in Between, at Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco.
Dancer Uli Schmitz won an award for Best Individual Performance for his work at the same show.
In addition, Bill T. Jones won an award for Best Choreography for his piece Fantasy in C Major, commissioned by and for AXIS.
I’d like to present my own award, as well: to the caterer of the 15th annual Izzies, for Outstanding Achievement in a Chocolate Brownie. Well worth the trip to the City! (Hey, those didn’t contain any sugar or dairy, did they?)
Network Solutions has long been the domain registrar that everyone loves to hate. But they apparently have some competition in buydomains.com. This story demonstrates that the folks at buydomains.com have perhaps as little concern for truth or privacy as Network Solutions.
It is necessary to understand that .com domain names can be registered at any of a number of ICANN-approved registrars, including Network Solutions (aka NSI), Joker.com, and my favorite, Dotster.com. If you own a .com domain name, you can transfer it freely among these registrars to take advantage of pricing or services — because each registrar offers vastly different levels of service for vastly different amounts of money, from ~$10 per name per year to $35 per name per year.
NSI is roundly loathed because they charge the most and take the most liberties with your personal data. buydomains.com’s privacy policy indicates that they won’t commit that sin, but they have stooped to spamming non-customers… See this excerpt of the uncolicited commercial email they just sent me:
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