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Month: May 2022

Total 5 Posts

Degrees of Stupidity

I was having lunch with a bunch of 30-something people I work with.  After a couple of minutes, it occurred to me I have practically nothing in common with any of them.  So, I mostly just sat, listened, and thought to myself, “been there, done that”. Which was a good

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The End of Excellence

My wife and I have an inside joke.  I’ll do some project for her and ask her if she’s satisfied with the results.  She’ll say, “It’s fine.”  To which I’ll reply, “Fine is what I aspire to be.” I admit, it’s not a great joke, but it amuses us.  Because

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Really Deep Fakes

I have a Twitter account.  I never use it, but I have one.  And about once a week or so, I receive an email from Twitter telling me about things they think I should know about.  A couple of articles ago, I talked about how there was a tweet saying,

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Just a Cigar

Sigmund Freud made a living out of telling people that everything is a phallic symbol.  In other words, Freud used to say that everything looked like a dick.  So, everyone expected him to make a big deal out of cigars looking…well…dick-like.  Add the fact that a cigar is something people

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Bruce 5:30

I was at a grocery store last week.  My wife and I had made a bet about whether or not the bag of groceries we were buying was going to cost more or less than $100.  She took the under and I took the over.  While checking out, I started

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