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Entries Tagged as 'Life of the mind'

Holly’s Corner: all grown up and … an outsider for some nights

December 16th, 2008 · by Holly · No Comments

One recent evening whilst googling myself, I came across an 801a post from days past simply entitled “Ask Teen Works: I’m a Flirt” written by a jovial, slightly younger Andy Pressman. Sometimes, much like the author of my favorite blog, I wistfully look to the past — the heyday of the 801a blog, perhaps — [...]

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Tags: Holly's corner · Life of the mind · anniversaries

This came in an email from StopGlobalWarming.com or something.

March 12th, 2008 · by Andrew · No Comments

NEW THINKER OF THE MONTH
Innovative individuals are doing some creative problem solving by re-thinking things we take for granted. Noah Horowitz, an NRDC engineer, took a look at the energy hogging vending machine.
There is now one soda machine for every 100 Americans! Some 3 million machines are humming away 24 hours a day, 7 days [...]

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Tags: Life of the mind · Success

Pundit’s Circle

January 8th, 2008 · by Andrew · 1 Comment

In Attendance: Andrew, Andy, Holly, Renda. Absent: Geoff, Jen
This morning brought the winds of lively national conversation through the open window of 801a. With today (finally) bringing our nation its first primary, the rules of polite company were broken as we shared our opinions on this exciting race.

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Tags: Important Cultural Moments · Life of the mind · Safe Space · polictics

Email Prose

November 18th, 2007 · by Holly · No Comments

from Holly Gressley
to Andy Pressman
date Oct 17, 2007 5:14 PM
subject email prose
Andy,
We’ve talked about creating a podcast that addressed the problem of email prose. I think email would be a more appropriate venue to debate and discuss the varying approaches to email prose. [...]

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Tags: Administration · Elements of Style · Internet · Life of the mind