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I’m Quitting the Internet for Two Months

I am about to quit the internet for roughly 8 weeks.

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Previously on Fixpert

I Quit Facebook

Jun 25, 2010

I did. I quit Facebook. It’s really not that big of a deal. But people either gasp in horror when I tell them, or say that they’re “so jealous” and “wish they could quit too.”

Drawing in the Dark: Sketches from The Wire

May 20, 2010

Drawings and Sketches from the TV Show, The Wire

Meditation and Epoxy, for Example

May 4, 2010

Yesterday, I took the time out of my insano, crazy day to sit and meditate for a while. It’s something that I used to do daily while living in LA — I mean, come on, how else do you cope with living in LA? But recently, I have fallen out of the practice. So I sat.

Fixed Gear Bikes in 37Signals’ New Book ‘Rework’

Mar 9, 2010

37Signals’ new book, Rework, uses fixed gear bicycles to demonstrate a point about under-doing your competition and keeping your feature set simple. I would add one point about why this is so effective (particularly in this example from the cycling world)…

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Human. Lady. Artist. Technologist. Rabble rouser.

Sally was born at a very early age. In 1987 she had a mullet. She's a cheap drunk, and she's terribly forgetful. She finds it a bit awkward to write about herself in the third person.

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