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Buffy, Angel, Socrates, and a few agile managers (continued)

If you're unsettled, relax with a cup of Wadsworth
If you're on a cusp, if you feel unsettled and unsure of what to do next with your life, you might find this book soothing and helpful. Mr. Wadsworth really seems to want you to achieve your goals, and it seems likely that if you do follow his advice, you're bound to get where you want to go. Some of the exercises seem a little obvious (or macabre -- I like the one entitled "Write your own obituary"), but they may actually help you figure out what you want to do and what to focus on. It seems to me it'd be more helpful if you could share these exercises or readings with some friends or a group of people, as you may not really be the best judge of your own best skills or failings. Lots of people have big blind spots when it comes to themselves.

If you feel inclined to read Mr. Wadsworth's book -- all 383 screens of it -- it's entirely possible that you may come away, if not an agile manager, at least more focused about your own goals and how you intend to achieve them.

But then you need a sugar boost
For me, that much focus makes me dizzy. After whipping through some Wadsworth, I needed to unwind. One of my personal goals involves enjoying eye candy television, so I surfed on over to MemoWare to pick up the latest version of the episode guide to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Just search MemoWare for "Buffy" and it pops right up, or see http://www.memoware.com/cgi/mwsearch.cgi?string=buffy. (We have had some problems with the search feature on MemoWare; if it doesn't work for you, just try again later.) Chris Mauricio has done a great job with this site, providing really exhaustive yet brief summaries of every episode and (this is the important part for me) reporting the name of each episode's writer. I like knowing which writers are doing the episodes I like best. Of course, most of them are now working as writers or producers on "Angel," causing it to be awesome as well.

There are bookmarks for each and every one of these episodes, so you can go straight to the one you want. Some of the formatting may have negative effects, however. For instance, the title of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" runs off the screen to the right.

Despite the October date on the download file and the September date in the Readme file, the information really hasn't changed since August. Also, this file is formatted for TealDoc, so if you don't have that program you won't get the benefit of the nicely organized formatting, much less the logo at the top of the file. I can't actually see the logo either, as I don't have TealPaint installed. So looking at this document with my trusty SmartDoc doesn't get me much payoff. But fortunately, I also have (and like) TealDoc.

All in all, this is a must-have resource for those of us glued to our Barca-Loungers on Tuesday nights. But even Buffy and Angel have been tangling with some pretty big moral issues. Y'know, whether or not demons can be good people and all that.


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