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An Awesome Google Reader Find

Nov 06. 2009

Are you as obsessed with Google Reader as I am? One of my favorite G'Reader features is the ability to subscribe to your friends' "shared" feeds. This is a great resource for discovering new blogs, as well as interesting articles you wouldn't have found otherwise. Today, my friend Brooke shared a post from photographer Alison Conklin's blog. Alison had recently shot a wedding with a ceremony that had left a lasting impression. Check out these beginning lines from the ceremony: 15 years ago Shawshank Redemption was in the movie theater, Keanu Reeves was "speeding" on a bus, Ace Ventura was detecting pets, Forrest Gump was "running" through the academy awards, and Samuel Jackson was eating a Royale with Cheese. During that time...

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Personal, Relationships, Touching

That Friend

Nov 06. 2009

If you've never heard of That Wife, shame on you. That Wife — aka Mrs. Avocado — aka Jenna — is a beautiful person inside and out, a great blogger, a fantastic photographer, and one special friend. When I first announced my pregnancy, Jenna enthusiastically emailed me to let me know that she just recently found out she was pregnant too. Being only a week apart, we kept in touch and dreamed of mommyhood together. A few weeks later, I was able to meet Jenna in person at Christiana (aka Mrs. D'orsay)'s wedding and again at the NYC Bee Party '09. Although we've only met a couple of times and are by no means bosom buddies, I think that Jenna took the news...

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Personal

My New Driver’s License

Nov 06. 2009

I have lived in New York for the majority of my life. Hence I have been trained and brainwashed to think that New Jersey is an inferior state reserved for wannabe New Yorkers. The armpit of America. The toxic wastedump of the northeast. A garbage dump for New York. I have heard, and used, them all. So imagine my embarrassment when New Jersey became our first home after marriage. I'm still in denial. I really am. When people ask where I live, I say "the New York area" (which is technically true, seeing that my commute into midtown Manhattan is a lot shorter than that of those living in Brooklyn, Queens, or even uptown Manhattan itself). On the rare occasions when I get...

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Android, Apple, Gadgets, Geek

How Many iPhone Apps Do You Use?

Nov 06. 2009

I admit it — I'm a cell phone whore. And as much as I love my HTC G1, I hate, hate, HATE the T-Mobile network. The problem is made worse by the fact that I had switched over to T-Mobile from Verizon (the best network in the U.S.) for the G1. I refuse to switch over to the iPhone. I hate that it is a closed platform, and that it forces developers to jump through hoops and wait unreasonable lengths of time for an app to get approved. (Case in point: the Squarespace iPhone App was finally released this week. Apple's approval process had taken so long that the Squarespace team is already well into the next version of the application. As...

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