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A recruiter in the U.K. is blaming the lack of gay job candidates in the financial industry on the credit crunch.  Yup, I could just stop writing right there.

According to the Financial Times, a study conducted by Joslin Rowe Associates attributes a drop in openly gay applicants for city jobs in London to the fact that the credit crisis makes job seekers less confident overall, and therefore less likely to disclose their homosexuality during the recruitment process.

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I don’t know how it is with women, but you will never learn more about a guy’s self-image then sending him to Supercuts to get a haircut. Supercuts, and various other like stylist chains, pray on men’s vanity worse than Bowflex commercials. They create an atmosphere where every fellow gets 15 minutes of personal attention and he leaves feeling validated and handsome, wanted and sexy.

It’s never a surprise to scan the Supercuts lobby and take stock of [[Read the Rest]]

The unofficial marker of autumn is upon us with the start of the next season of Monday Night Football (the Monday after Labor Day), the start of a new semester of classes, and another birthday.   Of course, fall is also the start of a new television season, after enduring so much new summer filler they threw at us on television.

I don’t watch much television, most of it seriously sucks, but there is room for America’s Next Top [[Read the Rest]]

I just spent 20 minutes looking for the tray to my printer. How, you ask, does one lose a printer tray?  Well, it is detachable so at least in that respect, it could be removed from the vicinity of the printer (a prank perhaps or theft?)  But let’s be real, that’s weird thing to steal.

Nothing in my office has any intrinsic value except maybe the computer itself. I have a shelf full of college guides from the last few [[Read the Rest]]

I attended a charity event to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for cancer research tonight. The event, hosted at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street in downtown Boston, was a beer sampling of Beer Works’ custom brews. The night started with a cocktail hour and a compelling speech from a Leukemia survivor who opened with the joke, “beer cures Leukemia.”

Well, maybe not “cures,” but a beer night is a nice way to raise money [[Read the Rest]]

Encarta Cascade. science: a succession of things such as chemical reactions or components in an electrical circuit, each of which activates, affects, or determines the next

Cause and effect is one my favorite topics when I want to wax philosophically about the nature of the universe and wonder at the cascade of events that leads from one point in our lives to the next. Often, the markers of succession go by virtually unnoticed. A innocuous decision snowballs into a [[Read the Rest]]