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LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick is a prankster, as evidenced by his Halloween costume last year, when the new Googler dressed up as Facebook to mock his coworkers' fears of the social network. I'm told that in Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, Sarah Lacy's new book about Web 2.0, there's an anecdote about Fitzpatrick submitting an expense report — successfully! — for "hookers and blow" when he worked at blog software startup Six Apart. That was likely a reference to the early days of LiveJournal, when users made ridiculous accusations that Fitzpatrick was spending money meant for servers and bandwidth on "hookers and blow." We'd love to hear more, but alas, Fitzpatrick only got 8 out of 294 pages, according to the book's index. Here's the page for "D" through "F":
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When are we going to get the scan of the table of contents? I'm tired of this index shit!
And can I get an RSS feed of Sarah-Lacy-Book-only posts? God, these are more worth reading than first aid instructions in a medical emergency.
Look, Leah's gotten around a bit, but it's still not nice to say those things about her.
The comments on amazon convinced me not to buy.
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Who cares about the book. I only wish I worked for somebody else, so I could submit an expense report for "hookers and blow". Who cares if it bounces, it's blog fodder!
Some hard-hitting journalism, Sarah Lacy is becoming the Deep Throat of our generation.
Perhaps instead of going A-B-C you could increase the suspense by going Z-X-C? By the time you get to M the readers will be on the edges of their seats.
You do make my value more my current gig (repairing corrupted Microsoft Visual Source Safe.) After I'm done with it next week I will not have to do it for about a decade. And you will look for another book to serialize.
But your office space is cooler than mine.
The way to do this is a naming convention where your servers are named things like hookers and blow.
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