Powen’s Preposterous Posterous - a blog about food, philadelphia, and whatever else strikes my fancy

What Color Is Your Leaden Weight? (from Tim Burke's Easily Distracted)

I think you’d be better off being working for four years as a plumber who had a wide range of interesting knowledge and training and then going to graduate school than being an underpaid and underutilized white-collar worker in a struggling think tank or community non-profit frustrated by the dysfunctions of your organization and by the drone-like quality of the work you’re assigned to do. Better off not just financially but intellectually.
via weblogs.swarthmore.edu

I don't read Tim Burke's blog regularly anymore, but this entry caught my eye, and this paragraph particularly.

I'd even go so far as to strike out the "and then going to graduate school".

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Posted March 12, 2010
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Weekend Visitors in Hamburg

Matthew and his French coworker Alexandre came to visit me in Hamburg last weekend. I got to do some things and visit places that I usually don't, which was fun. We'd talked about staying up all night (or really late) to go to the Fischmarkt on Sunday morning, but we never made it. Next time!

                           

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Posted March 10, 2010
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Random Stuff: Project Triangle for Romance; Gay Taylor Swift Video Parody; Husbands & Husbands (cute alert!)

Instead of good, cheap, and fast there's intelligent, good looking, and emotionally stable

A men's a cappella group at the University of Rochester made a gay version of Taylor Swift's video... so cute, and terribly reminiscent of my high school years (except for the part where they realize they like each other) 

This is the cutest little kid... HUSBANDS & HUSBANDS!

Bonus: 2nd Grader's list of 90 Types of Bitches
http://andiamnotlying.com/2010/types-of-bitches/

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Posted March 9, 2010
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A Common Work Occurrence

via loldwell.com

so true. this happens to me multiple times a day.

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Posted March 5, 2010
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Are penguins the next big thing?

Seen at a bookstore in Hamburg's main train station.

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Posted March 4, 2010
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US Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Nation opposes Health Care Reform... as if this weren't a top priority for SMB

Seriously?! This is absurd.

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Posted March 4, 2010
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Kate Bornstein Stencil at Linker Laden in Hamburg

I was there for a screening of 'femme femme femme' a documentary
interviewing 3 femmes in Hamburg. Didn't get a shot of the outside
unfortunately.

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Posted March 4, 2010
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New Yorker Cartoon: "You used to love the way I annoyed the hell out of you."

via newyorker.com

There's something about this that resonates with me :)

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Posted February 22, 2010
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My morning is already going SO MUCH BETTER with soy creamer. Thank you Alpro Soya!

It's a little thicker than Trader Joe's Soy Creamer, but the taste is perfect.

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Posted February 22, 2010
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dusk in hamburg

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Posted February 21, 2010
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