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Ideas Are Cheap (and Often Dumb)

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When I was in high school, I had this absurd idea about making a guitar effects pedal that runs the electrical signal through water-- or so...
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The Club (Women Need Not Apply)

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If you had your druthers (and you were a white man) where would would you choose to hang out on a Friday evening in the late 18th century? ...
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The Straight Dope on Fake-Handwashing: You Can't Fake-out a Coronavirus

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The Wuhan coronavirus is making its way out of China and spreading throughout the world.  And my friends aren't helping matters. Last ni...
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Fair Play Tennis and Dirty Money

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Lately, I've been reading more  spy novels  than usual . . . like David Mamet, I'm a big fan of well-executed genre fiction , and I ...

Tragedies, Cars and Phone Etiquette: A Bad Combination (for Dave)

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Yesterday while I was driving to pick my son from track practice, my wife called me. I'm not very good on the phone when I'm no...
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Dave Figures Out His Cellphone, OCR Technology and the Internet

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Yesterday, I learned that Google Drive has a "scan" feature, and that you can scan a document and convert it to editable text in a...
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What is the Opportunity Cost to Listen to Three Podcasts?

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I'd like to humbly recommend a few podcasts. I understand-- because of the first podcast that I am recommending-- that there is an oppor...
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Kid in the Store Reversal!

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There was a time when my wife and I would NEVER bring the kids shopping. We were always flabbergasted when we'd see a family of five in ...
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My Wife is a Tough M#therf&cker

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The other night I fell fast asleep before 9 PM. I woke to the sound of fisticuffs in the hall bathroom. Apparently, Alex was trimming his to...
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Monkey God, Jaguar City, Sandfly King

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I thought Douglas Preston's  The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story  was going to be the usual archaeological/adventure/travel st...
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New (to me) Music

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I think I might make this a recurring bit. I don't keep up with new music, nor do I want to. I don't need another chore. I can bar...
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Are Dogs the New Black Dudes?

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Once upon a time in America, horror and war movies often implemented the  Black Dude Dies First  trope. But times have changed, for the bett...
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Pain Turns Dave into A Troglodyte

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At Midori -- the sushi place in town-- they give you green tea in a squat, thick-walled cup. When I picked it up to take a sip, I b...

Staunton and Beyond: A Deadly Hike, Breweries, and Cider Houses

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The rest of our trip to Staunton was a bit more relaxing than the first two days.  The day after our epic hike up Elliots Knob it rained, so...
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Duct Tape and Banana Man vs. Dr. Octopus Shoe

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You've probably heard about  Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece "The Comedian."  If you haven't, here's the...

Dave's 2019 Book List

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Another year, another book list . . . I read forty books in 2019-- a number which seems about average-- and for the most part, I kept it e...
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