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Honor in the Machine
A water pipe in my apartment broke for the second time in my short stay here. Upon asking the property manager why this keeps happening, his tone…
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Middle American Irony
The lobby of the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas would have me believe that Dallas was frequented by 20th-century aristocrats. To bring home this message…
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Everyone is a Performance Artist Now
I was getting lunch with a friend with whom I sometimes struggle to find things to talk about. We were seated on either side of a rectangular table with…
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Some Kind of Mediocre Genius
I was soaking in the sun at the local watering hole on a rare spring afternoon in Austin when an oddly familiar mop of dirty blond hair turned the…
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Your Body is The Palace of Versailles
Every now and then I end up running into guys with floppy hair and a permanent smile plastered across their face. I call them Golden Retriever guys…
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Are You Content Yet?
Programming note: I turned on paid subscriptions a couple of weeks back. Thanks to everyone who noticed and subscribed. I will be writing 3 free and 1…
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Context Window Problems
When I moved in, I didn't make much of the old smoke detectors left on the bathroom counter. One day a beep beep made me realize that the maintenance…
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Summer Lightning
Summer Lightning
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