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Pisco Sour: Peru’s Official Drink

Peru’s official drink is the pisco sour.  By official, I mean I never found a restaurant that didn’t serve them. Pisco comes in a glass the size of a water tumbler. It usually contains two ice cubes, a dollop of beaten egg whites, a little lemon juice, and enough pisco to cauterize a wound.

posted at 11:01 pm on Apr. 30, 2004
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Taxis in Lima, Peru

There is one taxi driver for every man, woman and child in Lima.  They range in size from station wagon down to circus clown transport.  You can identify a taxi by its propensity to slow down and draw near as you walk down the street, similar to a beggar asking you for change; also, they all have a colorful sticker in their front window in one of several biohazard florescent colors.

posted at 1:19 am on Apr. 29, 2004
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The Hotel Ariosto Room Situation

The room we got in the Hotel Ariosto was small but nice.  It was not luxurious by American business traveller standards, but had all the basics—nice tv, phone in room and bathroom, big closet, dresser and chair.  Lima, Peru, has great weather, and it rarely rains, so we could leave the window open—more on that later.

posted at 6:33 pm on Apr. 27, 2004
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I Join the Bob Cauthorn Fan Club

I’m crazy about Bob. Listening to him (ex-vice president of Digital Media at The San Francisco Chronicle) give a speech for the third time now, reminded me of why online news is about 17 times more exciting than traditional journalists think it is, and why it’s worth working so darn hard to build online news sites.

posted at 3:52 am on Apr. 16, 2004
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A Sudden Trip to Peru

Susie and I are headed to a Peruvian jazz festival.  This week. It came about rather suddenly, through a series of friends and coincidences.  Basically, our good friends Robin and Amy have these other two friends who are music students studying (as they are wont) at USC.

posted at 3:35 am on Apr. 12, 2004
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The Origin of TTFN—What Does It Mean?

Over the years, a handful of people have asked me what TTFN means. So here, finally, is the definition of T.T.F.N.

posted at 2:13 am on Apr. 12, 2004
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Who’s Watching “The D.A.”?

Unabashedly, I am.  It’s a mid-season television show about the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, and it’s one of the more compelling hours of television around.  The focus isn’t at all on the gorey details of the crimes (like all those CSI clones out there), but rather on various district attorneys working together and the conflicting balance of politics and justice in their world.

posted at 4:48 pm on Apr. 4, 2004
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“Oh boy! Another great opportunity for personal growth!”

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“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”

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After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.

...who said it?

“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”

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“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

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