Month: March 2018
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two things
Saw this rubbish on Facebook: These two short sentences tell you a lot about our government and our culture: 1. We are advised not to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge All Gun Owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works. And… Read.
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tweet and response
The first 12 tweets I read this morning and my reactions to them, for no reason whatsoever: @brookingsinst: “Empirical evidence rules out high and rising inequality as a cause of the Arab Spring uprisings. Was the Arab Spring a black-swan event?” I wish I knew more about the Arab Spring uprising, but my first thought… Read.
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The best weekend things
The best weekend things: Drinking 63 cups of boiled coffee: I drink one, sometimes (but rarely) two cups of coffee a day, because being jittery at work hinders more than it helps me. I make the coffee for B and I drink a cup in the five minutes or so I have after finishing my… Read.
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Melted
As I watched the sun rise the other day, enjoying the warmth of its golden rays I thought, “If I was doing this on the moon right now, my face would be melting. “ Read.
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scooter
Scooter the cat shows affection to Barb: He snuggles up against her chest and buries his face in her neck. Scooter shows affection to me: He scratches my knee to get my attention and when I reach out to pat his head, he turns around and shows me his butthole, hoisting it high in the… Read.
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stinky cheese
Someone cut the cheese in the elevator we took down from the top floor of the parking garage Wednesday morning. Whatever he ate must’ve died inside him because that elevator still reeked by the time it climbed up to our floor and we got into it. All the way down B whispered under her breath,… Read.
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Ringing
A coworker was very alarmed to learn that my ears have been ringing non-stop for the past twenty years. When I overheard him mention he’s been losing sleep because one of his ears won’t stop ringing and he couldn’t figure out why, I thought I’d rib him a little, throwing in my two cents by… Read.
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sing-along
Let me tell you about one of the fun things we did on the boat. A guy named Travis McElroy hosted a sing-along on the main stage on Thursday night. I’d never heard of Travis before this cruise but a sing-along sounded fun, especially as it was billed as a Disney sing-along. Turned out Travis… Read.
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sheeple
Chem trails. One of the cab drivers we ran into in San Diego spent fifteen minutes or so telling us about how chem trails were controlling the weather over the city. Have you ever heard of this conspiracy theory? When weather conditions are right, trails of water vapor condense behind aircraft. Some nutjobs think these… Read.
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Hari cool
Here’s a somewhat strange, wonderful, cool thing that happened to me just thing morning: I was flipping through my Facebook notifications while waiting for the coffee to brew and among the usual likes and comments from my more familiar Facebook friends I saw one in particular that stood out: Hari Kondabolu liked one of my… Read.
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