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How I Ended Up Sleeping on Mike Arrington's Couch (codusoperandi.com)
26 points by jayro on Nov 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


"was finally able to secure a spot and in fact still remember Nivi not making it onto the list in time and plaintively writing on the page, "Can't Nivi come?".

I remember this first party, pretty sure Nivi was living at the house at the time.

And I ended up "crashing" at the house for 4 years.


Yeah, it was you! I couldn't remember your full name or Omnidrive for some reason, but I remember you were sleeping in one of the bedrooms at the time. Cool, I'll update the post.


So what happened to preezo? I noticed you weren't linking to the homepage preezo.net but to http://www.techmixer.com/online-powerpoint-presentation-crea... and that links to preezo.com.


The full story is told in my next post, which should be done tomorrow and will be entitled "How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition".


'"So, when Arrington started hosting BBQs for anyone working on a startup who might want to stop buy and do a little show and tell, I thought, "man, I got to go to one of those."'

s/stop buy/stop by/


Fixed! It's amazing that no matter how carefully I check for mistakes like that I never seem to be able to catch them all.


Had an english teacher explain a technique for slowing down enough so that you can catch those mistakes. Read the piece, word by word, in reverse (last word first). Then re-read sentence by sentence in reverse. Paragraphs, etc.


hard really is backwards reading




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