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11/02/09
11/02/09
See, the doddering old man who had to be reminded to take his glasses to be fixed, who uttered teeth-itching pedestrian comments, was simply not the wise and witty Literary Lion of Libya of his own self-portrait.
I remember a sampling. He and Mary in a bar referred to a 'sea heel.' Lillian wondered what that meant. "The sea's bigger than the land," answered Mary. Oh, said Lillian. Ouch, said us. #jonathanlethem
11/02/09
Good-effin' times! #jonathanlethem
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[www.hemingwayhome.com] #jonathanlethem
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However, at one point she shared an office with Benchley and described it as, " He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."
03/20/09
And no one has mentioned Lesley Stahl's bizarre question/comments:
LESLEY: Can you believe this? We are so chemical, all of us. We are so chemical. The conscious brain hardly works at all, really...
LESLEY: Well, you go into almost any geek place, and they're not dressed like you. I see you as a kindred spirit to me in this, because I think you're a girly girl. You love nice clothes, you care about your shoes; you probably have dangly earrings like mine. I don't know...
LESLEY: It makes all the sense. I'm just looking at an ad on my TV for the new iPhone, the new one that's so tiny, tiny, skinny, skinny, skinny, as you're talking about this. And I understand that. But I think that it's perhaps a new thing, I don't know, for people who go to MIT and come out of computer science, to develop or be allowed to develop a love of art, a love of pretty things.
Is there a video? Does Lesley braid Marissa's hair? I wanna see it!
03/18/09
Since I've started reading gawker, you have done more stories on this person than you have on things that I actually want to waste my time reading.
03/19/09
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03/18/09
She sounds like me. Right before the divorce and the layoff.
Truth is I like Marissa, because her part of Google is the part that does the most and works the best.
03/18/09
I use just about everything Google vends, and my biggest gripe is that much of it doesn't fit together well. There are both gaps and overlaps in functionality that should have been avoided by a grand plan of some sort, and my understanding is that is sort of her function. But it ain't happening. It seems to me insane that there are two versions of Gmail: the original one, and the one for Google Apps. Why?
I can use a Hotmail e-mail address to sign up for (for example) Picasa(web). That's great (too bad Flickr doesn't work that way) but if I have a Google apps domain it gets potentially confusing if they ever add Picasa(web) to Google apps.
I have yet to hear of anyone at Google who worries about such inconsistencies, and she would appear to be positioned to be that person.
If she's going to turn into the company's head PR person that's fine, but someone needs to be minding the store when it comes to design decisions, and as far as I know that job no longer exists (if it ever did).
03/18/09
03/18/09
Next up: Marissa Mayer on how the identities of the Final Five were totally obvious to her.
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But really, 60 minutes was like two shows. The hard-hitting interviews by Mike Wallace and Ed Bradly where they had to practically chase the interviewee down, and then all the rest that were like ads for the company being interviewed. I haven't watched the program in years, but I get the impression it ain't what it used to be.
01/07/09