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I love live music, but I simply don't enjoy enough of it. Lee and I have been making efforts to get out more to see some shows; the shins and macon greyson being two of those. This weekend, Whitney was in town and we got to see macon greyson again together. They're the band that brought us together, albeit drunkenly, but together nonetheless. They put on a great show and it's always a good time. Last night, we went out to the Gypsy Tea Room with Jill and Chris...

More times than not, I'll get a good (meaningful) fortune from a fortune cookie. The day before I left for New York, my fortune was: "you are about to embark on a life-changing experience." Today: "Don't pursue happiness, create it." Pretty profound if you think about it......

"People haven't been willing to invest this much time and money or engineering in a store before," says the Apple CEO, his feet propped on Apple's boardroom table in Cupertino. "It's not important if the customer knows that. They just feel it. They feel something's a little different." And not just the architecture. Saks, whose flagship is down the street, generates sales of $362 per square foot a year. Best Buy (Charts) stores turn $930 - tops for electronics retailers - while Tiffany & Co. (Charts) takes in $2,666....

In the past 15 or so days, I've made a soup thirty-three times, all different versions, searching for the one that would satisfy what we were looking for. It became so monotonous that I could recite the recipe by heart and I could taste it in my dreams. So I present to you... Thirty Three Things Less Fun Than Making A Soup Thirty Three Times: 1) not getting to see the Shins live this week 2) having your whataburger taste like it was smeared with onion 3) getting punched in...