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People I Could Do Without: #32. "...If I get a haircut and I really like it, I've been known to tip 40%. If I'm at a restaurant and the waitress doesn't even make eye contact or at least pretend to care about how my food is, I can be a real bastard. I know that some people don't tip much or at all, but nobody should expect me to tip more than what someone is worth. Whoever made up that 15% stuff is full of shit."

New Choices: Hairstylist: 15 percent of your bill.

Tipping the person who cuts my hair wigs me out. (pun intended.) I always wonder: Should I tip? If so, how much should I tip? And What constitutes a tip-able haircut? Conversation? Craftsmanship? No blood? It's really a puzzling event. I mean, going out to eat we have rules: 10-20% of your bill based on your dining experience and service. But haircuts? hmm...

Yesterday I was talking with some friends about web.crushes. Everyone admitted to having a crush on someone's online persona or to having them in the past. And with the current proliferation of weblogs, I think web.crushes will be even more common. I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I just like to say web.crush over and over again. It's kinda cute.

I wonder how singing bowls are related to Eolian Harps. I bet the romantics would have dug them.

skp gave me the gift of zen moments in the form of a tibetan singing bowl. It's always interesting to me which tone it "chooses" to play and how it moves to different tones while you "play" it. The harmonics sound good too. When I play the bowl, I play the bowl.

Wally News: "Wally is the quintessential every man who uses humor to pull the listener in and irony and sincerity to provoke thought and warm the heart. His live shows are like escaping to a planet where everyone is nice. And it's well worth the trip!" and how.

some free advice: never buy a processed cinnamon roll sold in a cellophane wrapper. (sorry stomach, it sounded so good at the gas station.)

yeah jake, I miss my wally pleasant cd. ;) one of my favorite lyrics: I went to the mall one sad day because I needed a haircut in a bad way. When she was done I looked in the mirror and almost fainted because my head looked like something Picasso painted. I had a bad haircut. bad haircut. b-b-b-bad haircut. bad haircut.

I hadn't used CVS until this week. Now that I'm used to it, I think it's very helpful. (And I feel all official and stuff when I make code changes.) I'm very curious about web based tools to extend CVS features to distributed teams.

remember Garbage Pail Kids?

in the cd player this morning: Paul Weller - Wild Wood.