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Nodes for the term “2020”
Dropping Keys, by Hafez
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My favorite meditation instruction for beginners
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The Scala 3 if/then/else-if/else/end syntax and examples
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Martin Fowler on lambdas, circa 2004
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My favorite star (Venus, actually) and a snow-white tree
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Eckhart Tolle on temporary forms and life and death
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Entrance to the Flying Squirrel Bakery Cafe in Talkeetna, Alaska
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Implicit methods/functions in Scala 2 and 3 (Dotty extension methods)
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Indomethacin withdrawal can lead to migraines, uncomfortable vision
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The one good thing about chest pain
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The karma of pericarditis, and using Drupal
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“That was a lot of kidney stones”
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Some of Shinzen Young’s sayings in the first core lessons of the Brightmind app
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Creating and populating a Java ArrayList (Java 9 and newer)
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An example sbt build.sbt file for a Scala 3 (3.0.0-M3) project (including scalacOptions)
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The Scala 3 'for' loop (for/yield) syntax and examples
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Visual Scala Reference project
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Scala: Akka Typed tutorial: How to delegate work to child actors
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A child, a dog, and a mask
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Another amazing Colorado sunset
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The trouble with names
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One of my bad days
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What makes Scala special
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Three photos of a Colorado “Pink Moon” morning
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Rocky Mountain sunset, March 17, 2020
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How to run/execute a JAR file created with Dotty (Scala 3)
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The monk who broke things
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How to emit raw HTML with the Play Framework and Twirl template library
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How to create inline methods in Scala 3
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I wish it need not have happened in my time
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Death of the Father
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“Sometimes I think of Frank as the catcher in the rye”
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An awk script to extract source code blocks from Markdown files
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The Rocky Mountains, Longmont, Colorado, December 31, 2020
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How to write infix methods with extension methods in Scala 3
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Started the morning with some hot chocolate
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Prolong not the past, invite not the future
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The Law of Success affirmation (Paramhansa Yogananda)
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It’s only fear that makes you run
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GOTO and COMEFROM statements in programming
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Dick Allen passed away today
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Analemma of the Moon
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Heartrate while sleeping (via Apple Watch)
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Let Me Love You Like a Woman, by Lana Del Rey
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The Moon in the morning, December 3, 2020
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How to print an sbt project’s version from the command line
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I Won’t Let Go, by Rascal Flatts
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A Longmont, Colorado newspaper
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Dave Chappelle speech after the 2020 Presidential election
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Fringe and The Friends of Mr. Cairo (Jon and Vangelis)
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November, The Moon, Rocky Mountains, and Colorado (Photo 1)
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Cat gets a free 2,500 mile ride to Alaska
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Colorado farmland, mountains, and big sky
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A hawk, a farm, and the Rocky Mountains
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Sherry Simpson, mentor to a whole generation of Alaska writers
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Scala/Mill Build Tool: Step 1, Creating a new Mill project
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AsciidocFX, an Asciidoc editor with a live preview
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Friendly Functional Programming
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Prairie dogs and mountain ranges, Longmont, Colorado
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Whispy clouds, Louisville, Colorado
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A crazy thing about mast cell disease
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An extremely helpful little blue pill
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“You have to suffer”
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The mountain view from the Boulder, CO Foothills hospital
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Under anesthesia for the 19th time
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Ninety-nine dreams I have had
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Five days after a bee sting
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Depth of the Rocky Mountains front range
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Stung by a bee
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Bazel docs style guide “Defining Principles”
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“You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America”
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Four kidney stones
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The old SCO clock
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My nieces don’t know me as a small business owner
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How often do you use Identity Monad and what for?
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Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail ...
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Hard to stay upright without blood pressure
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Brown sunlight (Colorado rockies wildfires)
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110 thunderstorms in 105 years
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Eighth of an inch stone
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Empathy Deficit Disorder (EDD)
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Tyler Chatwood forkball changeup grip
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Chicago Cubs social distance celebration
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Surgical procedure #1 of July, 2020
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COVID-19 cases are sharply on the rise in Colorado
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Tom Hanks comments about COVID-19
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How are you doing? Really, how are you?
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Three people injured when a whale collides with a boat
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The neigh-bors
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Drilling in my head again
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My favorite part of doing lower-body yoga work
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Scala/Mill: Step 2, Using ScalaTest with Mill
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Happy Father’s Day, 2020
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Eric Trump refers to protestors as “animals”
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Blood pressure change, April through June, 2020
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Ketchikan warns of possible virus spread after quarantine break
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Steve Sinofsky on Mac computers with ARM processors
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Sunset, June 11, 2020, Broomfield, Colorado
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When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder ...
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June 12, 2020 sunset, Broomfield, Colorado
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Martin Buser is an Iditarod double-winner
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The Scala Cookbook 2nd Edition is 83% complete
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A happy dog going for a walk
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2020 iPhone SE faster than 2019 MacBook Pro
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You are born as what you need to deal with
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A man dies when ...
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Louisville, Colorado sunset, June 1, 2020
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True emptiness is before thinking
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The wild horses of the Sand Wash Basin
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Love at the Five and Dime, Nanci Griffith
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Our Town, by Iris DeMent
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The Buddha way transcends being and nonbeing
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Had to go to the hospital today (May 1, 2020)
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MCAS + pizza leads to pre-syncope
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A new Scala Book cover
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Nurses in Denver, Colorado, blocking anti-lockdown protests
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Albert Einstein’s office on the day of his death (April 18, 1955)
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If you want to understand all the Buddhas ...
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The most difficult yoga asana is ...
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Anchorage, Alaska: Cruise ships canceled
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A dementia story
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Moon setting in the west, Sun rising in the east
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RIP, Bill Withers
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Straight Out of Line lyrics, by Godsmack
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The Moon at 5:15 this morning (April 6, 2020)
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Bill Gates says the U.S. needs a nationwide coronavirus shutdown
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How to use one version number variable in many Linux shell scripts
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The U.S. picked a horrible time to elect people who don’t believe in science
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Not having a nationwide lockdown, and a “peeing section” in a swimming pool
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Carl Quinn, software developer, passes away from the Coronavirus
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The west star over the Rocky Mountains
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The bright star due west over the Rocky Mountains
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo
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Under Your Scars, by Godsmack
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Where the spring breakers went after Ft. Lauderdale (Coronavirus 2020)
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Pastel sunset
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The New York Times front page, March 27, 2020
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The actual number of coronavirus cases is probably much larger
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A Linux shell script that shows find and tar with multiple image filenames
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Amazon Prime Video reminds me of WeakHashMap
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My Static Drupal app: CPU usage drops by more than 50%
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One example of how to avoid using `var` fields in Scala
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After ten years of Drupal ...
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Colorado is up to 216 Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on March 18, 2020
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Programming tip: Start with something easy in the morning
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Mitch McConnell chose a party over fighting the Coronavirus
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Coronavirus effect: the local pharmacy can’t get medication in stock
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Living and working in a nice area, or not
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New alvinalexander.com front page (coming soon)
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Colorado COVID-19 cases increase from 11 to 33 in two days
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Grocery shopping lately (Can you spare a square?)
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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy”
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A “sophisticated” Norman Door door lock
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The 2020 COVID-19 stock market retreat
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Colorado now has 11 people with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Scala 2019/2020 developer survey
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New Heart Sutra translation by Thich Nhat Hanh
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A job interview with Apple (a dream story)
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I can’t imagine why someone would love me
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Life of Pi meets In Treatment
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Mars Curiosity Rover took a series of high-res photos on Mars
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“I used to think when someone cheated on me that I was flawed”
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You can only be a writer if you can afford it
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Catfishing
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“We need wise self-interest”
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We all need a little tenderness
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Meanwhile in Fairbanks, Alaska ...
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New dream series, Fools Rush In, Rosemary Clooney, and Miguel Ferrer
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Ten-inch hands
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Trump says he should be loaded into a cannon and shot into the sun
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Some of the Coldplay “Clocks” lyrics
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Donald Trump, Jr. has a license to kill grizzly bears in northern Alaska
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His name’s Chappy
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Famous presidential quotes
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Owensboro’s mosaic mural of mirrors getting an update
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Steve Sarkisian, University of Colorado football coach (or not)
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First day I could walk for 15 minutes
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“Energy and persistence conquer all things”
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If you leap, a net will appear (Monk)
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The Oral History of Santana and Rob Thomas’ ‘Smooth’ (Rolling Stone)
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Two tweets: horrible traffic, tremendous swing
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Back in the day, squirrels were popular pets
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Karma means action, and you are your own master
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If the Houston Astros want to do the right thing ...
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“You are destined to be together forever”
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Flying in the Alaskan bush
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Denver’s Nikola Jokic with a 30/20/10
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Downtown Talkeetna, Alaska, February 5, 2020
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Dog goes sledding, by itself
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Temps dropping 79 degrees in two days
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“Stagnation is regression” (Novak Djokovic)
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Second Edition of the Scala Cookbook
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After five weeks I can sit down again
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My “standing up” workspace
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The benefits of mantra in meditation practice
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Meditation: From Guilty -> I could do this forever
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Yay, I can sit down again
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What schizophrenia does to families
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Now this mountain I must climb, feels like the world upon my shoulders
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First night without pain in over two months
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Sri Argala Stotram, by Krishna Das
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A demonstration of how the Houston Astros were stealing signs
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A lot of people think that because you’re writing, you’re an expert
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Morality, the first meditation training
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Politicians: Lie on one channel, apologize on another
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This “I” does not exist
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Six ways to meditate (Vince Horn, Buddhist Geeks)
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Google AI Blog: A look back at 2019
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Bells
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Grandma’s cookies
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Awakened by the moon shine
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A momentary lapse of reason that binds a life for life
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Happy New Year, 2020
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Scala 3.0 (Dotty) scheduled for release, Fall, 2020
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