1. When you’re wearing top and bottom Crest Whitestrips that are applying bleaching goop to your teeth, and you’re sitting at your desk at home reading email, don’t sneeze. Trust me on this.
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2. I went to the premiere of Evelyn tonight. Sweet movie. Drippy sweet. Pretty, green scenery, and a lovely Irish accent on Pierce Brosnan, who looked fairly comfortable drinking Guinness instead of a martini.
The “preem” was at the Academy building, and the ratio of famous::regular people was quite high; my sister Staci was impressed, and darn it, I was, too. Also, they served corned beef sandwiches and little potatoes on trays. A full house. Nicely done.
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3. Susie and I have finished two great Web sites recently. One is an artist’s online portfolio: www.pmgardner.com/
The other is a complete update of the Daily Trojan site, my hobby, albatross and avocation all rolled into one. It’s at www.hopstudios.com/dtlink/
Comments on both are welcome; the art gallery is a little more interesting if you weren’t in college with me. If you, or someone you know, needs a Web site built or redone, let me know. We’re also quite good at getting folks into search engines: The artist’s site is already high on Google, search for “pmgardner” and you’ll see.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)