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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)

Dave is Brave

I have completed my course of three hyaluronic acid injections into my right knee, so now my knee is full of this gel-like substance, which ...

Dave Defeats the Youth

Spring "Fake" has begun-- I headed off to school today, rather glumly, because this was supposed to be Spring Break, but we used t...

Dave Implements a Solution!

I was getting stressed about saving the enormous audio files for my new podcast (Pig on the Wall) on my very old computer and rather old ext...

If a Toilet Gets Cleaned, But My Wife Doesn't See It-- Did It Happen?

I did a bunch of chores around the house this afternoon: vacuumed, cleaned a bathroom, did some laundry, put the mattress cover and sheets o...

Too Much Music For One Sentence: Prog Rock vs. The Cars

I just finished the highly entertaining The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel-- or I found it highly en...

Teaching: Not the Job I Signed Up For . . .

I have been pretty down about education and teaching English lately: the majority of kids don't read; if possible, kids use AI to offloa...

The Winds are Dark

My wife and I just finished the third season of Dark Winds , the AMC show based on the Tony Hillerman novels, and the show lives up to the ...

A Physicist Would Think Those Wings Need to Be Bigger, But It Was the 1970s and Everyone Was on Drugs

You may be familiar with Roger Dean's artwork from the various Yes album covers, but I also learned (from the fabulous book The Show T...

Feeling Like Garfield

There are Mondays, and then there are dark, damp, rainy Mondays when your lunch consists of two hard-boiled eggs and some honey-roasted pean...

A Bad Day at Pickleball is Better than a Good Day at Work

I suppose getting thumped in a pickleball match is better than not playing at all (but at least we won a few games this time —last week agai...

I Thought Last Year Was Well Organized?

My cousin Kim pronounced last year's Easter Pizza resurrection as "total chaos" with no "quality control," and so...

Daddy Needs a New Computer for Audio Processing

My iMac-- which is now over a decade old-- is laboring under the duress of the large audio project I am working on . . . but VCU gutted it o...

The Allure of the Underdog

I've got Duke, you've got Duke-- so why are we rooting against Duke?

Menacing Ladybugs?

Today is my favorite lesson in Creative Writing class: we read James Wright's lovely meditation on nature, "A Blessing," and...

Dave is Well Appointed

I medically overbooked myself after school this week: I got my first hyaluronic acid shot in my knee yesterday—ouch; I went to the dentist t...

Can Chinese AI Predict American Madness?

I probably shouldn't reveal this, but I'm using DeepSeek—the cheap, knock-off AI—to craft the perfect NCAA bracket. However, I'm...

Pickleball Weekend

Two away Cross Club Pickleball matches in one weekend is one too many-- I played well yesterday at the Pickle House down in Robbinsville (I ...

We Used to Hang Out in There!

The Corner Tavern—the bar in New Brunswick where I met my wife (actually, I met her just outside the bar, when I exited—because she was only...

Enough of This Shit

By the end of parent-teacher conference week, the contrast between the demeanor of the English teachers with the parents and the demeanor of...

March: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion?

82°F earlier in the week, and now it's snowing-- when the fuck is the porridge going to be just right?

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