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About That A1C
As part of a Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis, and just generally getting older, I have to give regular samples of my blood so I can be evaluated for many things. This time around, I got it in just under the expiration of the orders, about three months past when I should have. It resulted in…
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There is No Escape, Only Movement Between Trash Fires
From All Human Systems Are Enormous Trash Fires So if you’re wondering why the particular system you’re in is always such an enormous trash fire, the answer is because there’s no other way for it to be. No other place is going to be any less of an enormous trash fire. Everything is ablaze, always…
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How I Vote, 2016 Edition
In 2004, I wrote a post about picking the lesser of two evils, wherein I articulated some support for Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik. I still like this quote from an interview he did (though I can’t find the original reference): “If you vote for the lesser of two evils, and your candidate wins,…
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Verifying Myself on Twitter
I have to admit I’ve been jealous of the handful of people who have verified accounts on Twitter. I actually created an account that ultimately became verified, the one for Check Point Software. That was a while back and I don’t post from it very often, being a corporate account and all that. Recently, Twitter…
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Emotionally Hungry
I learned a long time ago not to make decisions when I am emotional. Heeding this advice has probably saved me numerous times from making life-changing decisions needlessly. Sadly, there is one area in my life where I have not applied this same advice–when I eat. I’ve known about emotional eating for quite some time.…
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You Still Have to Do The Work
From There Are No Fucking Keys To Success If you try to avoid the work by looking for all of their “keys” you’re only wasting time, procrastinating, and letting yourself down. And here’s the thing, I can’t guarantee that putting the work in will mean you’re going to succeed. But not putting the work in…
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When Do The Filters Come Off?
As I’ve written in the past: You’re better off assuming anything you input into social media, SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or whatever can and will be made public. Act and share accordingly. Likewise, I assume everything I post will eventually be read by someone I wish didn’t. I had some experiences where I didn’t experience…
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If You Want To Be Seen, Show Your Work
From Make Your Work Public or You Don’t Exist: That’s the world we’re living in: open, competitive. A world where people don’t read your cover letter — they search your name on Google and Linkedin. What have you achieved? What comes up if I Google your name? If nothing comes up, I’ll assume it’s because you haven’t…
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Never Been Happy with the CMS
It seems like every couple of years, I will change the CMS that is used for my various websites. This has resulted in some messy, messy transitions. As it is right now, phoneboy.com and phoneboy.org are both using Jekyll, one hosted on a VM somewhere, the other hosted on GitHub. For what I am doing…
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Are Computers Killing Our Culture?
From How Computers Are Killing Our Culture: Whether your desire to have a clean, perfect document is pathological or simply a result of the way you want to present yourself to the world, we are eliminating some of our finest work when we edit ourselves online, on the computer screen, in our writing programs. For…