May 2013
34 posts
I will not overshare and turn this blog into a record of my saddest thoughts. Admitting that I’m struggling with them is enough.
May 20th
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May 18th
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Priorities
When a coworker learned that I never mentioned my birthday several months ago she was upset. “You deprived us all of a birthday cake. It’s not about you, it’s about me having cake.”
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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historical-nonfiction: Kim Jong Il, jealous of Seoul’s Olympic Games in 1988, decided to create his own. He called it The World Festival of Youth and Students. To prepare, Pyongyang was cleared of people who were disabled and shorter people had to take ‘height medicine’ to grow taller.
May 10th
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GeoGuesser limitations
GeoGuesser isn’t as extensive as I first thought. I regularly see repeat locations, which seems incomprehensible given the amount of Google Street View data that must be out there. So the database must contain a relatively small set of hand-selected spots. And there are a metric buttload of locations in Australia. Whenever you don’t know where a town is try dropping the marker in...
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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Do Over
A small dumb thing happened tonight. I lost my patience with someone who was acting obnoxious, and I was right to do so, but I handled it poorly and said a few things that I’m not proud of. For a few seconds a minor scene occurred and then it quickly blew over. The hard part won’t be relearning a lesson I first learned many years ago. I’ve already done that. It will be not...
May 5th
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Ten Minute Podcast: Arnold, Jason and Jean-Claude →
So good. Will Sasso’s Schwarzenegger impression cracks me up. (NSFW) Ten Minute Podcast
May 5th
May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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May 1st
May 1st
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May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2013
27 posts
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Heart of the matter
To be fair, I know plenty of people whose blogs or Twitter feeds don’t pique my curiosity and it’s fine when they’re not interested in mine. I hardly ever mention my online hobbies in conversation and I don’t require knowledge of them as a condition for friendship. I feel like that’s one of the few things I’ve gotten right.
Apr 29th
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Completist
After several years I’m slowly learning how to dip into social media timelines and treat them like rivers instead of spending hours compulsively reading every single post. I know that I’ll miss things and that’s okay. I’m able to follow a few more people now. I’d love to explain this to various acquaintances I have unfollowed during clumsy attempts to cut back on...
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Truthful Tuesday
Solitude has left me overly susceptible to crushes. And not just the unattainable kind, some of which I’ve harbored for years and would never mention for various reasons. Random acts of kindness set my heart aflutter and fill my head with daydreams. A smile by a stranger on the street makes my day. A question about my life makes my week. Sometimes I feel like I could fill a Missed...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Plenty
It’s hard not to resent people who still have so many unattached friends and admirers that if they so desired they wouldn’t need to be single for more than a few days or weeks. I’m trying, though. I know that it’s probably not that simple. It took me a month just to drain most of the cynicism from this self-pitying train of thought. I hope they appreciate how good things are for them right...
Apr 21st
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