Up the Tree

Author: Funtime Ben

  • the 9 to 5… 6

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    I am slaving away at the job recently, dealing with an apparent torrent of work that has been coming in. My good pal on the west coast is loosing her apartment. Elliott Smith dies. I get a new computer, which doesn’t know me at all. We come in 10 grand over budget on a project…

  • Good Bye Elliott

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    “We’ll miss you.”:http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-10/22.shtml _My friend Steve is going to be devastated._ “in the iTunesStore”:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=2893900

  • Huggy Ball

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    I often wonder, where does my cat, Pepper, hide her multicolored balls. I buy her packs of 4 for $4.95 (which I take issue with anyway) and at the end of the month she’s all out of balls. I come home and there is little Pepper, looking at me with her big yellow eyes and…

  • Mondays

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    There is something magical about Mondays. It might be the energy of a week freshly started, it might be the cloudless sky after a weekend of rain (as we have had in New York most of the summer), it might be that clients are far more forgiving at the start of a week then at…

  • iTunes For You Guys

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    If you haven’t heard already, Apple has just released a windows version of “iTunes,”:http://www.apple.com/itunes/ free of charge. It’s filled with the same great features that made it an instant success on the Mac platform. Did I mention it’s free? It makes MP3s and AACs (MP4) free of any charge. What are you waiting for?