It's a conundrum.

If you schedule out everything you need to and want to do during any given day, you run out about half way through.

New phone books out in a couple of months. Apparently there's an 800 number you can call to request not to get one.

Quoted: Phone books - how not to get them - revisited

Calacanis's reaction to the NY Times story on death by blogging.

Quoted:I've realized that life is just a big video game and if one game doesn't work out you put another quarter in and try again.

Quoted: At some point, I’ll have a nervous breakdown and be admitted to the hospital, or something else will happen.”

“This is not sustainable,” he [Michael Arrington] said.

He must have had a lot of spare time.

Quoted: Of course it is always best to bring your own chopsticks, but the next best thing is recycling. Shuhei Ogawara, a retired city hall employee in the Fukushima Prefecture, spent three months gluing 7382 used chopsticks into a 66 pound, 13'-4" canoe

Quoted: Call centers do it. IT firms do it. Manufacturers are doing the hell out of it. Even the CIA does it. So why can't I?

Oddly, I seemed to have gotten over my sheer panic and terror about flying last year, but I still have my moments...

I'm so much better now with clutter than I was before, but I feel that I have to be vigilant so it doesn't creep back in.

We've met lots of people in Tulum who are in the US and decided to move down here for a while, including an assistant analyst at an investment bank who decided banking wasn't for her.

Quoted: In a comment on a recent post, Mark asked about how we choose where to live: How do you go about choosing locations, and what other locations you have on the list?