Zach Everson

Family friend in Louisville needs AB blood

Tom Bennett, a friend of my wife’s and the former Kentucky Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife, needs AB positive or AB negative blood.

If you have this type of blood and are willing to donate, please call the Blood Center in Louisville at (502) 540-7102 to make an appointment to donate plasma.

Please specify that you are donating for C. Thomas Bennett (he is in the ICU at Baptist East Hospital in Louisville).

Bennett was diagnosed with the rare blood disorder, TTP or Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. He is on a ventilator and dialysis and needs plasma-replacement therapy.

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Parlaying DC’s hipster-preppy feud into cash

My post about Late Night Shots, a preppy, invite-only social network, had the most traffic of all of Gridskipper’s Washington, DC, updates last month, thereby earning me a nice little monetary bonus.

The dynamic of Late Night Shots is pretty interesting—it’s essentially an extension of a southern college fraternity lifestyle.

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The Economist’s special report on mobility

Last week’s Economist included a special report on mobility. It’s a fascinating read on the evolving way in which humans interact and work. It resonated with me for two reasons.

• I am a mobile worker.
• A lot of my consulting work pertains to getting information to a target audience. As people move around more, that job becomes harder.

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If you are a writer or editor, is Scrabble ever just a game?

I have a friends who are doctors, but I don’t think it’d be held against them if they lost a game of Operation. But playing Scrabble with my wife and in-laws last weekend, I felt self-inflicted pressure to win as a result of my given profession.

Despite not being allowed to use the word “texiled” (I defined it as “the act of being exiled to Texas”), I managed to win.

And, in case I thought I was putting too much pressure on myself, that night I logged onto Facebook. My college roommate is a reporter, his fiancee’s status bragged that she’d beaten him “at scrabble 2 times in 2 days…and words are his job!”

So much for the pressure coming just from within.

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Get the dirt on living in a hotel

Gridskipper recently had a change in editorial policy: no longer are contributors restricted to map posts; now we can write feature posts as well.

For my first feature, I shared some insight from my recent 45-day stint living in a hotel:

A Guide to Long-Term Hotel Stays

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