Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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Who needs a plumber when you have Twitter?

July 1st, 2009 · Comments · Twitter

I’m a do-it-yourself kinda girl, so instead of putting in a work order with the building staff, I’d prefer to at least try to fix things around the apartment myself.
Lately I’ve been noticing a problem with my dishwasher, so I thought I’d ask Twitter:

Not surprisingly, I got a lot of great advice. Here’s what the [...]

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Awesome Email of the Day: Evangelizing Myself

June 2nd, 2009 · Comments · E-mails, Pleasure

Being able to help people change their lives for the better is worth more than any client check. I’m very fortunate to get amazingly kind emails from strangers around the world. I promptly add them to my Happy File to look back on when I’m feeling down and doubting myself. Here is a recent email [...]

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Photo of the day: How to make the perfect egg cream

May 20th, 2009 · Comments · Design, Photography, Pleasure

This photo was taken at the famous Junior’s Restaurant in Brooklyn on my first date with Orian. God what he must have thought when I eagerly pulled out my camera to snap this pic. I’m on a date with a chick who takes photos of her food? If it weren’t for that milkshake I might [...]

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Photo of the day: Accommodating large parties

May 13th, 2009 · Comments · Customer Experience, Photography, Pleasure

While at the IA Summit in Memphis in March, a large group of us went out to dinner at The Majestic Grille. When I say a large group, I mean 60 people. We were split up at a bunch of tables, and I ended up at a table of ten.
We all ordered drinks and entrées, [...]

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This email is bloggable

May 12th, 2009 · Comments · Blogging, Pleasure

Last month I got an email from Jonathan Berger, whom I had met briefly at NY Tech Meetup several months back. He just launched an online vintage marketplace called Market Publique and wanted to spread the news (I’ve already bought two items from it and it’s actually pretty rad).
I get a lot of emails from [...]

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