I discovered that my neighbor whilst growing up is (or was many years ago) a Suicide Girl. Not sure whether I should acknowledge the discovery to her or not. We're still sort of in touch online. Kind of weird.
Stop it, America.
www.newsweek.com/great-American-working-vacation-300463
Lately I've gotten interested in vintage girly / pinup magazines from the 50's and early 60's. I think it's pretty interesting to see what people 60 years ago were into, and how some things don't seem to have changed all that much. Most of the earlier magazines are cheesecake or sometimes topless shots, but by the early 60s the same magazines had started doing full
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I travel quite a bit for work, and wind up spending a couple weeks a year in hotels. Let's say I'm in hotel rooms 10 nights a year.
On any given night that I'm in a hotel room, there are people in at least two rooms directly adjacent to me - so that's like 20 person-nights beside me each year I'm exposed to.
Stick with...
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Tonight I'm in Denver for a work conference.
Normally I live and work right next to the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, but tonight I'm 1,200 miles from the ocean in the Mile High City drinking water from a bottle.
I'm a sociology research scientist at a policy think tank, but the conference is for economists. Sociologists and economists have very different approaches to...
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