Talmadge Boyd - Latest Comments

Re: My Dell Computer Rant

Talmadge Boyd — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:29:55 -0000

Exactly.

Re: My Dell Computer Rant

ileenieweenie — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:18:44 -0000

Damn, do they want to sell you a computer or not??

Re: How To Get Traffic – Crowdsource your Cringe

Rachel Truair — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:56:57 -0000

I wrote a little about this and thought the biggest problem with the Groupon ad was the amount of time they took to put out the fires. Part of me wonders if the "cringe" was part of the marketing ploy - that they wanted people to get mad at them, in hopes that they'd stay on the forefront of people's minds long after the Super Bowl hangovers wore off.

Re: I Quit

Talmadge Boyd — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:49:58 -0000

Thanks for your thoughts and adding me to your tumblr. I appreciate it!

Re: I Quit

The Rambling Taoist — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:37:40 -0000

Very moving post, I must say. I think you captured the essence of Taoism well and illustrated, through your own unique experience, how it can work in a person's life.

P.S. I added this post to my tumblr log.

Re: Methylpredinisolone and the Demyelinating Monster Day 2

Talmadge Boyd — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:46:38 -0000

Why do you think I have to use so much gel?! Thanks, Nanette!

Re: Methylpredinisolone and the Demyelinating Monster Day 2

Nanette Labastida — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:22:04 -0000

nice kitchen
nice organic oj
yuck meds
your hair looks long
thanks for being brave and sharing

Re: How To Read A Book – Share it.

bigmanweston — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:05:34 -0000

To your point about readers adding their thoughts to books: Read with a pen, or several, in different colors. And don't just carry that mark-making arsenal around to write in a notebook. Write all over every page of the book you are reading as you read it.

You are not holding a collector's item that won't exist forever for all of humanity without your heroic efforts to preserve it. Unless it's signed by an author that changed your life, you are entirely wasting your time with any self-indulgent, half-formed intentions of keeping some tome in "collector's condition" to add to your fantasy book-lined library or study or whatever. You're not impressing anyone. We have an internet. The canon will survive without you.

That book is only as good as you are able make it a part of you. It was written and printed for you to buy, enjoy and share. Show some gratitude and interact with it--write in it. Dog-ear those corners and tear those pages.

Is there a good picture? Rip it out and tape it to the wall where you can see it tomorrow. Or skip that step and put it somewhere that someone else will see it--on a parking meter, in a waiting room, on the conference table after the meeting, on a chair at the DMV, et cetera.

The more you leave your mark on that book, the more your friend (or biographer or whomever else cares to read what you read) will love it when you give it to them.

If none of the above sounds like something you would ever do with the book you are reading, immediately throw it away and get a few others.

That is all.

Re: 4 Ways To Actually Listen To Someone: An SXSWi Guide

Talmadge Boyd — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:09:00 -0000

Totally. We're always looking for the cool kids. Make the person in front of you feel like a cool kid.

Re: 4 Ways To Actually Listen To Someone: An SXSWi Guide

Nanette Labastida — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:20:01 -0000

awesome points - these skills are especially lost at events like sxsw where eyes are focused at badge level, or scanning horizon for the next cool person to talk to - maybe the nugget you need is right there in the current conversation

Re: How To Read A Book – Share it.

Talmadge Boyd — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:53:42 -0000

That's the stuff. Yes, I would like to borrow it. We're just going to have to do lunch!

Re: How To Read A Book – Share it.

Nanette Labastida — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:32:09 -0000

simple and right on. i just finished Diving Bell & The Butterfly - unbearably painful and beautiful - wanna borrow it?