Mixing business and pleasure-is it really possible?
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Business And Pleasure/Drinking On The
Job
Business And Pleasure/Drinking On The
Job
01/12/2004 12:45 AM Could This Be The Renaissance Of The Three-Martini Lunch?
Do business and alcohol mix? Do business and pleasure? Must we be all
be utterly sober when we do deals? Or work? Is a little lubrication
slowly replacing mineral water and political correctness? Surely it's
not only writers who gain from the odd whisky and soda or gin and
tonic? Have
you ever done any worthwhile work while under the
influence? Please feel free to choose your drug of choice. Tobacco,
amphetamines and benzodiazepines included. [
Via eGullet's recent thread, started by Beans.]
The Anticipation of Pleasure
The Anticipation of Pleasure
05/03/2004 02:36 AMIllustrated...
The point of pleasure
The point of pleasure
12/19/2004 03:41 PMScientists are trying to figure out why, when we already have it all,
we risk everything for more excitement.
Two Hours of Pure Pleasure
Two Hours of Pure Pleasure
01/07/2004 03:18 PMI know I’ve done this before, but last night I sat up and listened
once again to
Little
Steven’s Underground Garage and you know, it’s just so
unreasonably good that I can’t resist another plug. It is erudite,
scholarly, funny and it ROCKS; what’s not to like? Last night’s
show was enitled
Soupy, Elvis, and Maynard (Elvis’
birthday on the 8th) and it was an end-to-end blast. You can listen to
’em on the website, but to get a flavor, check out
last night’s
set list; in particular the Elvis’-birthday section. Little
Steven made a special request last night; that everyone who cares go
out and buy Iggy Pop’s latest,
Skull Ring. I’m going
to.
Super Sized Guilty Pleasure
Super Sized Guilty Pleasure
06/13/2004 07:27 AMMy daughter and I enjoyed Super Size Me last night. It was funnier and
more surprising than I'd expected. Even though there are many places I
wince during Michael Moore's movies, and I come out of them thinking
that they are not actually coherent, I am glad he makes them and am
even happier that he's inspiring others to make polemical. comic stunt
documentaries. They shouldn't be the only food in your diet, but they
enable some topics to enter the art-house mainstream despite (or
because of) their sloppy presentation....
Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth
Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth
09/01/2004 10:34 PMPleasure Boat Captains for Truth .. this internet campaign
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"Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth"
"Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth"
08/28/2004 03:02 PMFire at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Fire at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
05/20/2004 07:07 PMA major fire has broken out at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, the fire
service says.
Mixing Metaphors
Mixing Metaphors
12/27/2002 06:32 PMSo I'm reading some official documentation about JDBC and I run across
this bit of text (emphasis mine): The second major advantage is that
the DataSource facility allows developers to implement a DataSource
class to take advantage of features like...
Mixing Linux
Mixing Linux
07/25/2004 01:11 AMG4 Tech TV Jul 25 2004 5:08AM GMT
It's official; ticking people off is
pure pleasure!
It's official; ticking people off is
pure pleasure!
08/27/2004 03:47 PM123Bharath.com Aug 27 2004 8:28PM GMT
Apple Pleasure: iPod Mini Demystified
Apple Pleasure: iPod Mini Demystified
08/10/2004 09:19 PMAple's iPod mini is a deliciously cruel device. Like a chocolate cake
when you're on a diet. It's possibly the most beautiful piece of
digital audio hardware currently in existence -- but it costs over Rs
20,000 and has a capacity of only 4 gigabytes. By Shiv Aroor and Ashu
Kumar, Financial Express (via MyAppleMenu)
Telgis pleasure police officer in stamp
net
Telgis pleasure police officer in stamp
net
01/08/2004 08:24 PMCalcutta Telegraph Jan 8 2004 0:31AM ET
Mixing drinks the iPod way
Mixing drinks the iPod way
07/20/2004 02:47 PMWhat can I say I think this article is cool I'm a geek after all.
My Pocket PC already has a cocktail recipe database installed. This
was done after my wife ordered me to make her some wild cocktail they
drink in Japan. The database has made me pretty popular at parties and
I am usually the duty bartender. Now it seems we will be able to jam
to our favorite music and use the iPod to pull up cocktail recipes.
[Engadget]
How To Create Your Own Fad - Mixing
Bluetooth And Sex
How To Create Your Own Fad - Mixing
Bluetooth And Sex
04/19/2004 12:26 PMLast month we saw the first article about the practice of "toothing" -
using a Bluetooth-enabled phone to randomly, anonymously proposition
people for sex on trains in the UK - and pointed out that it really
sounded like
a made-up
fad by a few guys who really really wished it were true. They may
be getting their wish. Following that first article, now Reuters has
picked up on it and
written their own article
about the practice, which is sure to get plenty of press
attention. This article, like the previous one, makes no effort to
establish how widespread the practice really is (and how much of it is
just in the minds of a bunch of horny commuters). Still, with this
press coverage, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So, all you
need to do to create an overhyped fad is take some sort of
communications technology, and figure out how to use it for sex.
Then, you can anonymously tell the press about it, and they'll
basically believe everything you say until the made-up fad sounds
legitimate. Now, if they really wanted to get publicity, they should
find a religious group that wants to ban Bluetooth because of this.
Mixing and Mingling With Yahoo!
Mixing and Mingling With Yahoo!
03/19/2005 02:41 AMBudding DJs mixing on mobiles
Budding DJs mixing on mobiles
06/26/2004 08:28 PMFestival-goers at Glastonbury 2004 have been getting a taste of making
their own music with a new service launched by Orange.
U.S. Retools Hussein Pleasure Palace as
Camp Victory
U.S. Retools Hussein Pleasure Palace as
Camp Victory
06/12/2004 12:30 PMAt a desert retreat where Saddam Hussein's cronies hunted and
entertained, the American military is building one of its largest
overseas bases since the Vietnam War.
Mixing and Matching, 2 New Palms Emerge
Mixing and Matching, 2 New Palms Emerge
04/28/2004 07:02 PMPalm, the company who spawned the current age of palmtops and smart
phones, has two new models out. Do they break new ground?
Audio Mixing And Manipulation Project
Audio Mixing And Manipulation Project
01/11/2004 04:53 PMWorking towards 0.2
Network mixing PC and Mac doable, but
not so simple
Network mixing PC and Mac doable, but
not so simple
09/13/2004 06:18 PMPhiladelphia Inquirer Sep 13 2004 9:28PM GMT
Ask MacSlash: Best Audio Mixing Software
Ask MacSlash: Best Audio Mixing Software
07/24/2004 05:44 PMBill allows mixing of religion, politics
Bill allows mixing of religion, politics
06/07/2004 08:42 PMHTML Tip: Beware of Mixing Forms and
Fonts
HTML Tip: Beware of Mixing Forms and
Fonts
11/30/2002 12:30 AMNet Mechanic Nov 29 2002 11:13PM ET
Mixing Google GMail and Yahoo Groups
Mixing Google GMail and Yahoo Groups
05/12/2004 11:09 PMSearch Engine Journal May 13 2004 3:18AM GMT
Mixing and matching on one's public page
Mixing and matching on one's public page
06/06/2005 12:13 AMThough the stylesheet is still rather conservative, and the range
of external modules still limited; take a look at my public
page on Tribe.net (below.) Imagine this was your "About Me" page.
Notice that we're meshing in de.licio.us and RSS feeds, giving our
end-users the ability to put up more than one 'desktop image' up into
their interface and combining internal and external blogs.
We're also displaying different combinations of friends and groups
- and in general - fulfilling the 'customization' requirement of
DLAs.
This is what we all need - every DLA, portal, social network and
blogging tool around. The ultimate "About Me" page. Now that Tribe
has set the new standard, all other systems will be compared to
this.
I especially like this approach as it allows one to add in
additional modules - without fundamentally changing the UI.
Sure it looks allot like MyYahoo, and it could use three columns,
and sure we'd like sexier stylesheets and Tribe still needs a better
header - but that all will come with time. It's the ease of use and
power quotient that I'm excited about right now.
It's taken years - but the Tribe team: Paul Martino, Brian Lawler,
Chris Vale, Elliot Loh (among otehrs) - and the product marketing
dudes - Chris Law and Gary Chao - have finally figured it out.
It's called product iteration - and it's what we did with
VideoWorlks - for five years till we got Director - just right.
W3C publishes plan for mixing XML markup
languages (InfoWorld)
W3C publishes plan for mixing XML markup
languages (InfoWorld)
09/12/2002 03:11 PMKagi Media Presents Pro Tools Mixing
Site HardDiskLife.com
Kagi Media Presents Pro Tools Mixing
Site HardDiskLife.com
08/21/2004 03:05 PMKagi Media, producer of pioneering Pro Audio training products, is
pleased to be hosting Grammy-winning engineer, mixer and producer
Charles Dye's groundbreaking Pro Tools mixing column Hard Disk Life at
HardDiskLife.com.
Weekend Movies: Mixing Oscar Talk with
Absurd Comedy
Weekend Movies: Mixing Oscar Talk with
Absurd Comedy
12/12/2003 07:45 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 12 2003 6:50PM ET
Primagraphics adds alpha blending and
cross mixing to Cobra quad-video windows
solution
Primagraphics adds alpha blending and
cross mixing to Cobra quad-video windows
solution
05/31/2004 02:07 PM [PRWEB May 28, 2004]
OUR PERVERSE
PLEASURE IN OTHERS' MISFORTUNE
OUR PERVERSE
PLEASURE IN OTHERS' MISFORTUNE
12/29/2004 06:17 PM
Schadenfreude. It's a German word that literally
means "joy from damage". It refers to the perverse pleasure we take in
observing or hearing about the misfortunes of others. That pleasure
seems to be enhanced by talking
about it with others -- gossip would be empty without it, and when we
hear about a disaster, like the horrendous catastrophe of this week's
Asian earthquake and tsunami, we have an almost instinctive need to
share the news with others.
If you don't think it's pleasure we feel in these situations, here are
some more examples:
- Our reaction when we hear that another couple's marriage
has broken up, or suffered a sex scandal
- Our reaction when
someone we know (but don't love) loses their job, or their life
savings
- Our reaction when we hear of an unexpected death or
tragedy outside our immediate circle of family or friends
- The
pleasure we get from comedy that recounts the
protagonists' stupid, catastrophic or pathetic behaviours and their
consequences
- The satisfaction we get from hearing about
criminals' dire, even cruel, punishments
- Reality TV
- The joy many felt at the bursting of the dot-com
bubble
- Our media-pandered fascination with celebrities'
scandals
- The pleasure we get from winning a game or sporting
event, that we wouldn't get if there wasn't a 'loser'
- The
popularity of movies that dwell on, and exploit war, suffering, and
horror
There's even a book, When Bad Things Happen to Other
People,
on the subject, written by John Portmann. Portmann believes
Schadenfreude is harmless, a natural and healthy stress-buster. At the
other extreme, the sublime ecstasy that psychopaths feel when their
lies and bullying and manipulation cause misery to their victims is
extremely harmful, and perrhaps addictive. How dangerous and
unhealthy
is this all-too-human proclivity? And why do we feel this way at all?
Is it because others' misfortune, in a world of scarcity and
competition, vindicates our own behaviours and decisions, increases
our
own stock and our self-perceived likelihood of success, or at least
survival?
Writer Valerie Weaver-Zercher suggests<
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what may be behind this is our dual need to see others as needy (which
plays to the nurturer in us) and to see ourselves as not needy (which
plays to our egos, and our feelings of learned
helplessness).
She calls this the "head-shaking syndrome". Some writers say it
reflects a subliminal (or not-so-subliminal) desire for revenge
against
those we feel have wronged us or shown us up in some way.
I confess I'm like Calvin's Dad in the cartoon above: I don't get it,
though I recognize it seems to drive an enormous amount of human
behaviour and activity. I loathe reality TV and the plethora of
programs and films that wallow in human misery and suffering. I love
games, and play to win, but afterwards I feel badly for the 'losers',
and it is the social and learning aspect, rather than the competitive
aspect, that I enjoy: I would get as much, if not more, pleasure from
a
collaborative social activity that everybody 'won'. I find comedy that
ridicules and humiliates people to be pathetic and exploitative, not
funny at all. And although I have been predicting a growing cascade of
social, economic and ecological catastrophes, I will get no pleasure
from being proved correct. I change the station when news comes on
about disasters, crimes, and the undoing of celebrities: If there's
nothing I can do about these things, to me it seems merely morbid to
dwell on them. Can someone please explain to me how these things are
pleasurable, or even cathartic? What perverse joy can anyone get
watching people eat worms, women screaming at the loss of a child,
athletes and film stars humiliated, losers of card games groan, or
stand-ups reveal grotesque embarrassments from their past? Taking joy
from these things seems deranged to me, evidence of great mental
distress and anguish, or at best a bizarre, reality-detached
ennui.
But I will admit to a strange desire to spread bad news about others
(though only if I know the news to be true -- I don't traffic in
rumour). I don't know what's behind this. Maybe it's my natural
pessimism, an opportunity to say 'I told you so', to warn people: If
John and Mary are breaking up, we should all be alarmed -- maybe all
marriages are doomed, or maybe monogamy itself is unnatural,
unsustainable, and Tom Robbins' warning of the staggering difficulty
of
'making love last' needs to be heeded. If Frank lost his job, perhaps
this shows that all business hierarchies are fragile, uncaring, poised
to destroy the lives of those who rely on them and allow them to
continue. If Bill took his own life, maybe he's the brave one, the
harbinger of the future, the canary in the coal mineshaft. I love to
learn, to attach meaning to things, and bad news seems to call out for
explanation, for interpretation of meaning. Why would our amazing
planet be designed to suddenly shudder, and drown millions of her
creatures in a tidal wave of misery, and destroy the joyous lives of
tens of millions of others? What possible reason could there be for
such cruelty, such devastation? Someone, please, stop telling me how
many died, and instead tell me why?
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BRITAIN
PLANS ANTI-PLEASURE INOCULATION FOR ALL
CHILDREN
BRITAIN
PLANS ANTI-PLEASURE INOCULATION FOR ALL
CHILDREN
07/25/2004 02:01 PM
 In one of
the most Orwellian developments I've heard in recent years, the Blair
government is seriously considering
giving new babies an injection at birth of a new drug, developed by
major drug companies and currently in clinical trials, that takes away
all the pleasure from addictive drugs. The reason given for making
this
mandatory for all new babies is that it will help in the war against
drugs. It basically renders the brain incapable of registering
euphoria.
I heard this on all-news radio this morning, but there is almost
nothing on the Internet about it.
If it's true, then if you ever doubted we live in a huge ghastly
prison of our own making, now you know.
If it's not true (tell me it's not true!) please point me to where
it's debunked.
This ranks up alongside the Bush plan to test, isolate, and 'treat'
all
American children who show signs of 'anti-social' behaviour.
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Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents
Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents
05/31/2004 01:52 PMBusinesses for sale in Northern and Southern California reached a
record number 368 business & franchise sales this past week from
business brokers, small business owners, & real estate agents for the
week of May 17, 2004 thru May 23, 2004. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]
Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.
Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.
06/23/2004 03:08 AMNorthern And Southern California Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales. These Small Businesses Were
Sold By Business Brokers, Small Business Owners, & Real Estate Agents
Throughout California. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]
Southern California Business Expert
Honored as one of "The World's Greatest
Business Mentors"
Southern California Business Expert
Honored as one of "The World's Greatest
Business Mentors"
08/09/2004 02:18 AMSouthern California Business Expert Honored as one of "The World's
Greatest Business Mentors." Ron LaVine receives prestigious honor; To
be featured in forthcoming mentoring book [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]
Working with Business e-Government
project launches Starter Business
website
Working with Business e-Government
project launches Starter Business
website
06/23/2004 01:13 AMPublicTechnology.net Jun 23 2004 5:46AM GMT
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article -
Printable Version - The 101 Dumbest
Moments in Business
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article -
Printable Version - The 101 Dumbest
Moments in Business
03/20/2003 08:33 AMThe 101 Dumbest Moments in Business in 2002
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Today in Investor's Business Daily stock
analysis and business news
Today in Investor's Business Daily stock
analysis and business news
04/28/2004 10:22 AMif some in the intelligence community have their way, your online
scribblings may soon be regular reads for the FBI, CIA and various
other spook groups .. Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S.
Intelligence Officials .. read full
story>
investors.com/editorial/tech.asp?v=4/27
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Business News, India: Microsoft Xbox
emerging as a viable business
Business News, India: Microsoft Xbox
emerging as a viable business
02/01/2005 09:41 PMKeralanext.com - Sat Jan 29, 09:57 am GMT
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