Yikes . . . But Impossible?

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Description ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 PM EST TUESDAY... WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total sno...
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A Loss is a Win . . .

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Although I lost my tennis match 10 games to 9 today, I was happy to survive it without mishap-- I squandered my lead on Lee but made the mat...
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Dave's Back! Sort of . . .

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In case you've been following my "brutal, crippling quadriceps injury,"  you'll be glad to know (or-- if you're my opp...

Dave Keeps It Real

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I went snowboarding with my older son Alex today, so we had plenty of time in the car for him to describe his grand plans to become an aeros...
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Hidden Valleys of the Brain

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I'm not even going to attempt to summarize Robert Kolker's meticulously reported and compassionately told story of the Galvin family...

Hyberbole and a Half

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If your dog and your brain don't always obey your commands, you're going to thoroughly enjoy Allie Brosh's memoir/web-comic Hype...

It's Comment Appreciation Day!

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Yesterday was quite a day for me-- I don't handle changes in routine all that well, and I get very nervous when I'm involved in any ...
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The Things You Find Important? Most People Don't Give a Fuck . . .

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I was very excited for school today because-- due to a serendipitous string of coincidence-- my senior English class was expecting a visit f...
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And Now For Something Completely Different

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I made a vet appointment for my dog weeks ago, and I thought I scheduled it during a "B-Day" of remote school-- because on B-Days ...
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Go Ahead, Listen to Some Old School Hippie Hip Hop (in the rain?)

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Hanif Abdurraqib's rambling and perceptive "love letter to a group, a sound, and an era" inspired me to listen to a number of ...
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Dad is Extra

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I might have been a wee bit melodramatic yesterday when I arrived home from my tennis match with a pulled quadricep muscle; I called the boy...
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Tennis Notes . . . I Am an Idiot

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I was really looking forward to my tennis match this morning with Bill-- who is a consistent grinder a few years older than me-- because whi...
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Could This Book Explain That Book?

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Now that I have begun Robert Kolker's  Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind of An American Family, I am wondering if the mysteries and en...

Piranesi

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Susanna Clark's elegant new novel Piranesi  is a major departure from her last book;  Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which she publi...
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Sam Harris Adds Clarity . . . Lawrence Wright Adds the Anecdotes

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The new Sam Harris podcast An Insurrection of Lies  provides some clarity of thought about the storming of the capitol; Harris is worried ab...

Excursions of Dave

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I'm reading Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib so today I'll let Q-tip do the talking: Beats t...

Tennis Notes

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I took it easy this week-- alcohol-wise and exercise-wise-- because I thought I was playing an excellent in the Saturday morning tennis leag...
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Dave Reads His Second AI Novel in as Many Months

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I am becoming a bigger and bigger fan of sci-fi writer Becky Chambers . . . I loved her novel The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet -- her fu...

My Son Might Be Smarter Than Me?

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During this pandemic, I've seen my kids do number of things that don't seem smart at all-- for example, my sixteen year old son Alex...

To Infinity and Beyond . . .

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While we were watching football, my son Ian asked me if you had to kick a field goal through the goal posts and I told him that you did not-...
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