Archive | February, 2008

28 February 2008 ~ 6 Comments

The Beginner’s guide to winning online debates

In the span of over 4 years of kvetching and making fun of all things stupid on various blogs I write for, I’ve received many a complicated and horrendously misspelled email or blog comment informing me in very vivid detail of how much I suck.
I’ve always tried to see these comments or emails as constructive [...]

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21 February 2008 ~ 12 Comments

Human Resources – A Category mistake

I want to add something to this post, which, in typical Seth Godin fashion, hits the nail squarely on the head.
I have worked with a lot of companies in the past and if there is one thing that’s common between all of those companies’ Human Resources departments, it has got to be the fact that, [...]

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19 February 2008 ~ 12 Comments

Negative Thinking For Idiots

The second my girlfriend handed me a copy of a Blue Mountain book about Positive Thinking, I knew I had it–The crushing validation that I, Mike Villar, Rising Internet Star, am the world’s biggest pessimist.
I know that my girlfriend has nothing but good intentions in wanting me to think more positively and frankly, I am [...]

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13 February 2008 ~ 11 Comments

Garageband Thursday: Anyone Else But You (Juno Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

In this episode of Garageband Thursday, I decided to do this catchy anti-folk number by the Moldy Peaches off the Juno Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
I think this was the song that was playing when Ellen Page was giving birth and was the song Ellen Page and Michael Cera sang on that scene at the end [...]

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11 February 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Narcotic awesome. Also, sad

The milder(compared to the previous one prescribed to me) anti-anxiety pill I’m taking reduces me to a steaming heap of messy, conflicting emotions. Sure, I do calm down when I pop one of these babies but for some reason, after I do, I get cloyingly nauseous and I feel a myriad of emotions ranging from [...]

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