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I can feel so unsexy for someone so beautiful

So unloved for someone so fine

I can feel so boring for someone so interesting

So ignorant for someone of sound mind

:lyrics from “So Unsexy” by Alanis Morisette in her album Under Rug Swept

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Biding time…

My postings on sneaker.org have ben far and few in recent weeks. Haven’t had the motivation to really post information for a while, but it’s revealed itself to be something I need to continue doing from time to time to maintain perspective and sanity and more importantly just to vent. Still am not in a position to write about some things, but here is at some new content…

New in Thought — caught in the act!* on Monday, May 13, 2002

  • Another Taliban in the making – The scum of society will contantly rise to the surface and every so often we will need to go in and clean the pond.
  • Writing about not writing – The primary reason is probably the return of ambivalence in terms of what information I can and cannot share in a public medium.

    New in Rants and Raves* on Monday, May 13, 2002

  • Las Vegas – And not to forget the highlight of my Vegas trip… Blue Man Group. They ROCK. Go see it. Enough said!

    New in Eavesdropped!* on Monday, May 13, 2002

  • I can feel so unsexy for someone so beautiful

    So unloved for someone so fine

    I can feel so boring for someone so interesting

    So ignorant for someone of sound mind


    – lyrics from “So Unsexy” by Alanis Morisette in her album Under Rug Swept

  • Bitches. Just bitches. – sneaker
  • “So are you telling me that the customer is a mental midget?” – a brilliant response from a customer service agent requesting assistance on an issue where the customer just wasn’t understanding how to do something.
  • “I can’t even count how many women I’ve slept with” – One of the female executives of a partner startup company as we exchanged notes on how in the early days of our companies we doubled up people in hotels/ on trips in order to save costs.
  • “It’s all about chicks man, it’s all about chicks” – Random drunk guy in the back of a cab in Cambridge who motioned us to put the window down while I was parked next to the cab at a stop light so that he could tell us his deep thoughts!
  • “Are you guys gay?” – Roxanne. – okay, okay, there is no story behind that other than my friend who I was visiting happens to live in an area which is considered the gay-area (he claims he didn’t know before he moved there.. yeah right 😉 ) And so when his neighbor saw three of us guys returning late at night, she asked us… “Are you guys gay” (maybe I should also menion that she was so drunk that we were afraid she wouldn’t make it up the steps okay).
  • Things you own end up owning you. – the chracter of Tyler Durden in Fight Club
  • Baker. – the character of Dominic Pizzola in The Bread My Sweet
  • we’d gather around all in a room

    fasten our belts engage in dialogue

    we’d all slow down rest without guilt

    not lie without fear disagree sans judgement

    we would stay and respond and expand and include

    and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve

    and discern and inquire and accept and admit

    and divulge and open and reach out and speak up

    this is utopia this is my utopia

    this is my ideal my end in sight

    utopia this is my utopia

    this is my nirvana

    my ultimate


    – lyrics to Alanis Morrisette’s song Utopia in the album Under Rug Swept

  • It takes more strength of character to wear your heart on your sleeve than to guard it like a fort. – Annie in a comment in response to The Fallacy of Free Speech

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  • Writing about not writing

    It has really be a long time since I’ve posted any information to sneaker.org. And so I figured it probably begs some explanation as to what is going on here. And so this blog entry is actually going to talk about why I haven’t been writing.

    In a nutshell the reason I haven’t been writing is s combination of factors. The primary reason is probably the return of ambivalence in terms of what information I can and cannot share in a public medium. Several people who I know and interact with on a daily basis know of this site and probably – from time to time – read it as well. That is good, but sometimes it is also the cause for a lot of second thoughts. My style of writing has been such that I try to stay away from specific incidents and mentioning specific people, but the fact remains that the incidents and more likely the people who are part of those incidents will know when I am talking about them regardless of how much I try and veil the specifics. Or it may just be that since I know what and who I am writing about, I feel paranoid that if that person reads it he / she would know as well.

    There are other reasons as well – timing is a big one. I feel that there is a sort-of reverse statute of limitations on when I can write about certain things – i.e. there are some things that I cannot write about while they are currently happening – in real-time since putting my thoughts on the topic would be hazardous. Whether it is work related or personal… for somethings it may be better to allow some time to pass. The flip-side of course is that then the entries will never be as charged as they would be otherwise.

    Furthermore, I think for some of the issues I would eventually like to discuss here, I am not done formulating a position on them. And they just require a lot more thinking and also more experiences in order to really know which way I stand on some of them. I guess it’s a work in progress.

    It definitely hasn’t been easy to not have my usual venting valve open and instead have it squeezed tight. But hopefully over the next couple of months the timing and the thinking should all like up so that I can actually write more openly about some of the things. I think I might actually try to start on a couple of things sooner than later though since I seem to tend to forget otherwise interesting blog-topics if I don’t write about them soon.

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    Eavesdropped!

    “So are you telling me that the customer is a mental midget?”

    :a brilliant response from a customer service agent requesting assistance on an issue where the customer just wasn’t understanding how to do something.

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