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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Sam Harris is Funny?
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Joe Rogan seems to be taking a lot of flak from the media right now, and when you talk for three or four hours with someone, there's alw...
Yan Can Cook (and So Can Dave)
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I thought I disliked cooking but it turns out I like to cook if the rest of the family goes to the gym and I can drink, etc. and listen to w...
Two Good Podcasts
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I didn't really explain yesterday's post title (Dave Eschews the Metaverse) but basically, I listened to this podcast and decided t...
Dave Eschews the Metaverse
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I'm happy to report that for the first time in a while, I played tennis on Saturday morning and then was able to stretch out and put on ...
Even More Tennis Notes
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I played Bud today in the tennis league and beat him fairly handily (although it was 2-2 at the start, I won 11-5 and went ahead 9-3 at one...
Thought Leader or Public Intellectual? You Be The Judge
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My friend and colleague Liz showed me an intriguing video this morning and it was perfect for class: we've been reading an excerpt by An...
Lessons from The Extended Mind
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I recently listened to Ezra Klein interview Annie Murphy Paul and her ideas were so inspirational and invigorating that I read her new boo...
Congrats, Dave!
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Congratulations are in order: I walked into the English Office this morning and was greeted by a four-pack of incredibly tempting cupcakes f...
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Mystery Solved!
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My wife complained about how close the Mazda was parked to the house . . . but upon reflection, she realized that SHE PARKED IT THERE.
Book of Mormon . . . Finally!
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My wife and I finally saw The Book of Mormon-- the tickets were a fiftieth birthday present but then the pandemic hit, so I took us nearly t...
Longmire Does Philly?
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In the third Longmire novel, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Craig Johnson inserts Sheriff Longmire, Henry Standing Bear, and Dog into Vic Morett...
The Usual Saturday Tennis Notes
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I beat my buddy Cob 12-3 today in the 7 AM Tennis League for the Insane, Obsessive and Otherwise Mentally Ill and here are my notes, reflect...
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Escobar's Cocaine Hippos?
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Today I learned something new-- and serendipitously complementary to the book I finished yesterday : Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar kept ...
Bad Gulls Bad Gulls Whatcha Gonna Do?
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Mary Roach's new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law tackles man vs. nature in a legal, humanistic sense-- what is to be done when na...
Dave is Killing It, Fruitwise
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I'm killing it today, healthwise . . . I've already been to the gym-- where I played some basketball-- and I'm also killing it f...
Winter Gets Wintrier
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It's frigid today-- so cold that Lola dragged me home from her walk-- after she did her business, she was like LET'S GO . . . WE COU...
Winter Has Come . . .
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Catherine tested negative for COVID . . . so she has the cold that I had; meanwhile, I am still on remote school, which feels oddly disembod...
Longmire Heads South of the Border
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In Craig Johnson's fifteenth Longmire novel, Depth of Winter, Sheriff Longmire's moral compass spins all out of whack when he heads...
Dave Beats the Guys Who Beat the Guy . . .
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I beat Wayne this morning in the early morning tennis league 12 - 4 . . . he's a good player, especially at the net, but he made some un...
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Thus Endeth the Streak . . .
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Thus endeth the Wordle streak and thus begins the Wordle slump . . . and it's appropriate that the first Wordle I missed was the word &q...
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You Can't Fight City Hall
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You have to wear a mask while you work out at the East Brunswick Planet Fitness but you don't have to wear one at the Edison branch . . ...
You Think Wordle is Hard?
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My friend and I have all been enjoying Wordle -- give it a try, it's all the rage-- but the boys and I stumbled on an even more difficul...
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Why Online School Crushes Your Mind
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Ezra Klein's interview with Annie Murphy Paul explains why I hate online school so much-- Paul's new book "The Extended Mind&q...
Here We Go Again?
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The world is getting weird yet again because of the pandemic; yesterday I was tailgating at the Jets/Tampa game . . . partying with tens of ...
Dave's Book List for 2021
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1. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers 2. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes To a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib 3. Mooncop b...
Final Pub Night of 2021
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The final Thursday pub night of 2021 was oddly reminiscent of a pub night a year ago-- but there were some notable changes; we started at As...
Four Bridge Day . . .
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Yesterday my wife and I walked to the train station to catch an 8 AM train to Newark-- so we crossed the bridge over the Raritan to the trai...
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Too Much of a Good Thing = Not a Good Thing
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My wife wouldn't let me have any of the salad dressing in her Trader Joe's salad dressing packet because she wanted the rest for whe...
In The Afterlife, You Could Be Headed for Digital Strife
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I just finished Neal Stephenson's newish novel Fall, or Dodge in Hell and I read a good 750 pages and then I finally had to do some ski...
Socks: Are They Conscious?
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After some mild trepidation and complaint, the boys and I agreed to my wife's project: we poured out all three sock drawers onto the flo...
A Wonderful Boxing Day
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Some people love the holidays and some people love the day after the holidays-- and I fall into the latter category; I went to the dog park ...
Happy Hyper-capitalist Environmental Destruction Day!
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Although we consumed some wrapping paper and exchanged a few materialistic gifts this morning, my wife pointed out that one of our Xmas pres...
Winter Break!
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An oddly festive school day considering New Jersey clocked over 15,000 positive COVID tests (including my brother, second time) as there was...
Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Worse . . .
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School is pretty weird right now: I'm getting paid to cover classes almost every day because there's a staffing shortage due to covi...
Moderna! Summer is Winter in Florida
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I was all for Pfizer when I got my first two shots, but yesterday I got a Moderna booster and I'm not suffering any side effects (beside...
Dave Thumbs His Thumb at Resolutions
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Aside from my usual New Year's Resolution: doing more of the same, I'm going to add a bonus resolution-- I'm going to try to tex...
Pandemic Stuff
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Michael Lewis's new book The Premonition: A Pandemic Story is not satisfying reading but it's sure as hell informative and interes...
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Happy Media Manipulation Day!
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600 kids were out at my school today (and it was the same percentage of kids out in Highland Park, my own children reported) due to some Tik...
Chinese Democracy?
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A Chinese algorithm is proving to be excellent at school shooter terrorism . . . and many of us have let it happen, we opened the door with ...
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Covid Ruins Sick Days
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I was really tired two days ago and went to bed at 7 PM and then I felt lousy yesterday and it turned out I had a 101.5 fever-- so I slept i...
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Do Animals Understand BEEP!
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I was driving up South Adelaide Avenue early this morning-- it's a narrow street and it was still very dark-- and a deer darted from the...
Weddings and Funerals . . .
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Some people know how to wear a suit and a tie, but I am not one of those people (I have a thick neck or something).
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Dave Revises His Expectations Mid-match
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Today was my first match of the winter tennis league at the racquet club-- I'm playing in the A division, and most of those matches begi...
Rutgers! Gum!
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I forgot my loose, breathable fabric mask at home today (it's drying on the handle of our exercise bike) so I had to grab a leaf-covered...
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Silence!
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The Silent Patient , by Alex Michaelides, is one of those smoothly written thrillers that hypnotizes you with the easy reading so that you d...
The Feeling Is Mutual
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While I was on my way to one of the few water fountains in operation in the school building-- most are closed down because of Covid-- I pass...
It's Still Tuesday . . .
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What Monday is to Garfield, Tuesday is to me . . . and despite having some good ideas at work, crushing the mini, covering a class for extra...
Cat and Ed Defile the Buddha
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You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey out of the girl (or Ed) so despite my warnings of bad karma, there wa...
Sad Day (Hard to Recover After a Dart Like This)
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It's going to be a sad Outer Banks Fishing Trip this year . . . as our main man Johnny G. passed away today-- I hope he's sleeping s...
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Sexual Selection Defeats Survival of the Fittest
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My wife turned fifty today and she received a pair of lovely diamond earrings . . . and this bowerbird mating video explains why this happ...
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Dave Reads Fifty Before Cat Turns Fifty
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My wife is turning fifty tomorrow-- quite a milestone-- but more significantly, I just finished my fiftieth book of the year The Anthropoc...
Dave Might Survive
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I am the worst at being sick-- but now that I'm feeling better it all seems kind of silly; the Thanksgiving break started off well-- we ...
Something For Which We Can All be Thankful
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I just finished the third book in Ben H. Winters' Last Policeman Trilogy ( Word of Trouble) and while I will offer no spoilers, I will ...
If You're Wondering Why There's a Teacher Shortage . . .
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This morning during first period I got the weird silvery aura in my right eye that happens sometimes when I look at a screen too much-- and ...
Tragedy of the Viscid Variety
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It's the end of an era, a cataclysmically tragic truncation of the most royal jelly . . . Birnn Chocolate-- our delicious town chocolate...
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Don't Think About This . . .
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If all the money spent on lobbying and campaign finance actually went toward infrastructure and scientific progress, we'd be living in a...
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Required Listening (Whether You Go Online or Not)
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Whether or not you care for Joe Rogan-- and I love the guy, I think he's smart and curious and funny and knows how to let people talk-- ...
Sometimes a Cookie Is More Than a Cookie
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After I ate lunch last Saturday, while my wife was on the phone in the basement, I had a hankering for something sweet and I remembered that...
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That's Good Stuff
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I've been grading Rutgers essays all week and procrastinating on posting my good content, but Larry David hasn't been holding back h...
Stacey = Sherlock
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It's always an exciting school day when you've got to solve a plagiarism case-- and Stacey and I did it in a period . . . she was lu...
77 Days and Counting
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Countdown City -- the second book in Ben Winters' Last Policeman trilogy-- is a little less of a procedural mystery novel and a little m...
Ten Years of Scary Stories!
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Another excellent Scary Story Contest last night, the tenth one . . . so the prompt was "Ten Years Later" . . . Stacy and I had t...
I Like to READ Stories
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Tomorrow is the 10th Annual Scary Story Contest and Stacey and I are still way over the word limit on our story and we are giving up and goi...
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Rage, rage! Against the dying of the light!
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My wife has banned me from ranting about Daylight Saving Time to her, so I'll do it here instead: New Jersey is experiencing the finest ...
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The Midnight Library
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I'm not sure if I accept the Borgesian premise of Matt Haig's novel The Midnight Library . . . but I'm also not sure if Nora the...
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New Jersey . . . It's Dense
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Soccer season is over . . . tragically . . . so Catherine and I went on an adventure today in our newly detailed (and dry) Mazda . . . lots ...
Sports (Can Be) Extra
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Yesterday we played Middlesex in the second round of the state tournament-- they are the two seed and possibly the best team in the section-...
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Valentine Street Massacre
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This morning, my son and I absolutely annihilated a couple hundred frost-bitten lanternflies that adhered to the two small maple trees in th...
I Should Have Been a Bear
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The cool weather is finally here (and wow did I eat a lot today . . . I guess my body is getting ready to hibernate).
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Ritickulous
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I thought it was cold enough to go for a walk with the dog at Rutgers Gardens this morning-- it was in the 40s-- but apparently the ticks we...
The Last Policeman
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The Last Policeman , a sci-fi/detective novel by Ben H. Winters, is the literary equivalent of David Bowie's impending-- but not too imm...
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