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Dave — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:24:56 +0000

The guy next to me on the trans-bay commuter bus is clearly working Very, Very Hard. He is hunched over his laptop like a bomb disposal technician, typing furiously and occasionally cracking his knuckles in a let’s-get-down-to-brass-tacks fashion. He just shook his head vigorously from side to side and made a “hurrnnnnh” noise. I expect ...

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Hurricane hubris

Dave — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:48:32 +0000

We were flying home from Vermont about five years ago and our flight from DC to RDU was cancelled because of a big storm “I don’t remember which”. I had to fly out to San Francisco the next day for work and decided to rent a car and drive us all home. I picked a ...

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Dave — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:20:08 +0000

On the long, weary stumble from the airplane door to immigration in Bangalore’s Kempegowda airport, the moving walkway takes you past a large room behind plate glass windows, where about 50 serious-looking men and women sit in ergonomic chairs behind multiple monitors, engrossed in some sort of important airport business. Putting them on display is ...

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Dave — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:22:55 +0000

From eight years ago:

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Dave — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:15:05 +0000

On further reflection, the reporter must have said that food banks from all over California are cooperating to help with high demand from fire evacuees. This makes a lot more sense than the way I heard it, that they are cooperating to help hide a man from fire evacuees.

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Dave — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:13:57 +0000

There’s a lovely family having breakfast at a table near mine. I’m guessing it’s Mom, Dad, college-student son and his girlfriend. I can only assume they must have been discussing genetics or phrenology or something similarly skull-related because at one point they all started rubbing one another’s heads in a methodical fashion. It was a ...

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Dave — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 22:22:19 +0000

In my air travel experience, “full flight” means mostly full and “completely full” means a handful of empty seats. You know it’s really, actually full if they’re repeatedly making dire warnings about checking bags. The gate attendant just said, “This will not be a full flight,” so I assume it’ll just be me.

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Dave — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:33:38 +0000

As much as I appreciate the craft beer movement, it left me behind a while ago. Nearly every new beer I try these days tastes like it should be called “Death By” something: Death by Hops, Death by Malt, Death by Belgium, Death by Alcohol Poisoning. from a 2013 Facebook post

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Comparison is the thief of joy

Dave — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:34:05 +0000

I was surprised to learn Teddy Roosevelt said that, perhaps because I’m more likely to think of him riding roughly up a hill shouting “Bully!” Regardless, I find it to be true, more and more the older I get. Just now I was looking at the work of some sketchers I admire, and thinking how ...

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Dave — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:37:19 +0000

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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