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Considering “Julia” and the George Orwell extended universe
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Continue reading →: Considering “Julia” and the George Orwell extended universe“1984” is one of my favorite novels. I’ve easily read it six times, and I’ll surely read it several more before I pass on. For such an intense read, it’s a surprisingly quick one; no more than a couple of hours long. The story is told with such clarity and…
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Continue reading →: Feeling peachy after the Publix Atlanta MarathonI ran the Publix Atlanta Marathon on Sunday for 11th straight time since 2014. It’s a surprisingly gnarly race, with more than 1,000 feet of elevation change, which often surprises folks from other places. Atlanta isn’t known as a hilly city, but it definitely is, and this course usually backloads…
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Continue reading →: Replacing the battery in a Kindle KeyboardIf you can fix something, it’s always better to fix it than to buy a new one. I had an old Kindle Keyboard that had a mostly dead battery and decided to pop it apart and put in a new one. Super-easy disassembly and successful replacement, so come along for…
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Continue reading →: “Start slow, then taper off”Senior year of high school, you’ve got that weird moment where you have to choose a senior quote. If you’re from Summerville, South Carolina, a lot of folks choose country music lyrics (“A country boy can survive!”) or Maya Angelou or, if you’re a big lit nerd you might choose…
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Continue reading →: The Universal Monsters house playset was… weird.I was absolutely obsessed with action figures as a kid. In the 80s, the shelves of every toy store and K-mart were lined with action figures from every conceivable franchise, and during my childhood I collected pretty much all of them. One of my favorites was a very small and…
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Continue reading →: For sale: Whitestrips, barely used
I like to save a buck as much as the next person — maybe more — but some things you just pay full price.
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Continue reading →: Access LLMs locally with LM StudioA couple of people have recommended LM Studio to me in the past week, so I downloaded it tonight. The application lets you experiment with packaged Large Language Models on your local PC without sending any data onto the internet. Setting it up is really easy, with downloadable installers for…
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Continue reading →: Words I want to learn, part 1As I’m reading, I keep a running list of words that I want to learn. Some of them were new to me, and some of them I just have to look up every time I come across them. If you like that kind of thing, here you go. I’ll keep…
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Continue reading →: When a problem comes along, you must MIF itI just finished Al Abdaal’s “Feel Good Productivity,” which is a welcome salve to the endless river of productivity optimization literature. Abdaal’s book launch was, in a microcosmic way, a triumph of marketing: in about 12 hours, one of his videos showed up in my YouTube feed, he was interviewed…
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