January 2011
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On My ADD Medicine
The best way to describe my ADD medicine is to say that it’s much like having a jet-propelled brain. I’m a naturally slow person. I talk slowly, process information slowly, move slowly, enjoy music and movies that move at a slug’s pace. But when I get that Focalin in me, it’s like there’s a jetpack strapped to my head and it pushes me through every task like I was...
November 2010
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On Rufus Wainwright
Before I was married, I used to say Rufus Wainwright was like sex for your ears. Now that I am married, I have solid evidence proving my analogy correct.
Want Two? Yes please.
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E-Commerce Website Navigation is like a Restroom...
Situation: The client has a basic retail website and wants the navigation and dropdown menu to be fancy and unique “so it won’t be like a template.”
Analogy: Think of e-commerce website navigation like a restroom sign in a store. That restroom sign could be gold plated with an LCD screen, a brass band and flying monkeys, but it won’t make the customer any more likely to buy the...
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The Marriage Train and the Dating Taxi
Dating is like a taxi in New York; constantly stuck in the traffic of other taxis, all desperately looking for somebody to flag them down. Eventually someone will come along, and sometimes he’s a complete looney and sometimes he’s okay, but in the end, you’ll go around the block a couple times, he’ll get off and you’re stuck in traffic again, looking, always looking, never getting anywhere....