• Super Polar Bears!

    I am standing at the platform, bruised and bored. It took a while, but the conductor finally caught up to me, and I was ejected from You Have Your Whole Life to Live. That was a local train, with overnight stops in Self-Absorption, Victimhood, and White Girl Wasted-ville. In the ensuing brouhaha, the conductor and…

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  • CO-PILOT MY COPILOT

    Not everyone is good at taking tests. I am. Very good.Years of state-sponsored testing in public schools, my private school experience  in  high school, SAT prep courses, my relentless need for validation,[^1] and my natural competitive streak all combined to create a mind that can destroy a multiple-choice test like how a joint Mafia-CIA operation…

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  • MUSINGS I never listened to Fleetwood Mac before moving to Augusta, GA. In my early CSRA years, Jackie—my best friend, who died in a car accident I still blame myself for, even though I wasn’t there, which is why I blame myself—wasn’t surprised by my reaction to the opening riff of The Chain. Once the…

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  • Smart GO sounds absolutely ruthless—like a force of nature that just won’t let up I am in bold.   How can I download this whole conversation Right now, there’s no built-in option for downloading our conversation directly. But you could manually copy and paste the text into a document if you want to save it…

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  • RELAX JUST DO IT….REDESIGN YOUR SITE

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  • I am getting better and better at Go—well, at least on the App Store kids’ version called Badukpop (which I persist in calling BadGOku). It’s timed, like speed chess, and after figuring out the point system and the automatic 6.5 handicap for white when playing on an evenly matched board, I realized I could beat…

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  • All year long I look forward to when they open the pool and last night I went night swimming with a friend. It was super cold (Nipplitus Uber Alles Nipplitus Uber Alles!) but it was worth it. I used to be terrified of water of drowning. My fear was more that I would be too…

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  • But I digress…sorry I got distracted from the true point of my last post. I am obsessed with GO. I play countless games with my nemesis SmartGo on a 9×9 board and have managed to lower my handicap for a while only to be AI Smashed by Smart Go before I can get it down…

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