The Daily Outrage

A Weblog by Tim Perkis

Wednesday, July 12, 2000

WSJ "These Type A Workers Learned to Get a Life" "Mihail Lari, CEO of Electrifier, an e-commerce concern, hadn't had a vacation since 1996...He booked a week in Miami Beach.... To fill blank spaces he searched his past for old passions. Recalling that he had once loved to hang out an cafes and read, he bought some books. Although the books were about the Internet, he admits, he visited a bookstore to get them rather than ordering online.... "New clothes helped him don a new attitude. Mr. Lari replaced his customary khakis and trad-show T-shirt with his first pair of black vinyl pants and a black shirt. 'I had a blast!' he says. 'It made me forget about business models and venture rounds, if only for a few hours.'"
Fourth of July at Berkeley Marina: signs posted ZERO TOLERANCE FOURTH OF JULY. Where did this drug war "zero tolerance" phrase come from? Like overtones of engineering parlance, like precision social engineering...

Monday, June 19, 2000

"Where once it could be said that 'no one knows you're a dog,', a more contemporary caption to the New Yorker cartoon would read, 'On the Internet, everyone knows you're an aging, overweight malamute-retriever mix living in the Southwest, and with a preference for rawhide."

-- The Industry Standard, June 19, 2000
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