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Nursing home research

Sarah’s grandmother in California needs a new facility during the rehab for her hip surgery. The current facility really blows.

I can’t tell you how hard this is to do this sort of research for a place on the other side of the country that I don’t know, and can’t return to very often except at great expense. And of course, I do product research as part of my job, but nobody’s grandmother suffers as a result of overlooking a detail in my evaluation of an e-mail vendor. There’s a lot riding on how well we handle this.

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New weblog software is up

If you’ve previously been to 3mouths, you’ll notice that this looks different. I’ve found some web logging software that’s much better than PHPNuke called Movable Type

We’ve imported all the stories and comments from the old site and brought them here. Please let us know if you find something amiss.

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Glo-product research for Burning Man 2001

I’ve just done a quick survey of Internet glow stores. I think I will save you some trouble. I think Glowstickfactory has the broadest selection of products, and is slightly cheaper on some things than these others that I checked. ExtremeGlow MegaGlow Glo-Net LiquidLight4Glow However, don’t miss the glow in the dark plastic pellets that…

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Must see films: O Brother and Snatch

This weekend I saw two new films, Snatch and the O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Although not everyone I was with was unanimous in their love of Snatch (I loved it), O Brother was wildly popular among the audience and us, and if it hadn’t been such a conservative audience, would have received a standing ovation.

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1999 Burning Man Haiku4Beer haiku

In 1999 I started a theme camp at Burning Man called Haiku4Beer. The concept is simple enough: you come to the camp and write a three line poem of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and I give you a cold Japanese beer.

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