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Acronyms: How to get Instant Nerd Cred!

I am currently taking an online course in Cryptography and I’m learning a lot about the nuts and bolts of modern encryption, especially the standards, how to write proofs, and other elegant details about encryption that we all use everyday without thinking about it. In taking this course I am learning about all kinds of …

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Yes, I actually sent this email today.

The following is an email I sent today to a Pinball Arcade in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, I am totally serious about doing this! Hey there. Remember me? I’m the guy who wants to break a World Record for playing pinball! I would like to meet up to discuss this idea in person, …

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My Roommate Soup’s Final Resting Place. (One of them…)

I made a box for my late roommate Soup. Soup was not a human. Soup was a cat . Soup was not my cat. My friend Jen was Soup’s human, and we all used to be roommates some time ago in a house in Berkeley, California. (Jen is a musician who plays for The Hammerbombs …

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When you’re talking to someone and you get all “…”

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This post was from a few years ago. I was at my German speaking group and I was talking to a vegan about Sarah Kramer, a …

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Matucha Of Berkeley’s Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks

Matucha Of Berkeleys Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks With Pixie Stix And Moonshine You can find this recipe here! Prepare a large quantity of Hackey Sacks for cooking. Combine Pixie stix, coffee grounds, Potting mix, and bread crumbs in a small bowl – sprinkle Hackey Sacks with Pixie stix mixture. Place Hackey Sacks in a circular …

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From the LiveJournal Archives: When La Vida Loca Follows You Around…

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This is a post I wrote nearly four years ago in January of 2016. The woman in question is currently MIA, though I do still wonder …

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The one time I went Christmas Caroling

Christmas caroling is considered to be quite old fashioned around these parts, but it was still, (sort of,) a thing when I was younger. It was not such a thing that I ever considered going Christmas Caroling. Christmas singing was common enough during the holiday season, but not so much caroling. Nevertheless I did go …

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Bit Characters Gone Wild – The Writing Process

“…don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t.” – Anne Lamott I’m currently working on my next novel, What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? I’m not spending as much time on the work as I would like at the moment, but I’m filling in more of the …