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A ZIO 2 cheatsheet
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Mad As a Hatter, by Larkin Poe
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My favorite meditation instruction for beginners
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Long lucid dream about wife doing drugs (hidden drug addict)
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A snow white tree, Louisville, Colorado
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Snowy trees, Louisville, Colorado
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Scala: How to get the current month as a number or string
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Cute motel in Canada in the winter
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The karma of pericarditis, and using Drupal
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Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way! (free preview)
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Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way!, full paperback cover
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Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way!, a Number 1 New Release
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Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way! (paperback)
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Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way! (new book cover)
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Rust learning resources
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Some of Shinzen Young’s sayings in the first core lessons of the Brightmind app
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The back roads from New Mexico to Colorado
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Orange sky at night, Broomfield, Colorado
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Another amazing Colorado sunset
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Mast cell disease and the Covid vaccine (my experience)
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Louisville, Colorado: White trees on a cloudy day
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Boulderstrong: King Soopers in Louisville, Colorado
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I got vaccinated (Boulder, Colorado)
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An Alaskan day in Colorado
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Phrases to use instead of “foo bar baz”
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Rocky Mountain sunset, March 17, 2020
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March, 2021 snowstorm (Longmont, Colorado)
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The moon setting over the Rocky Mountains
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“The Tree Holding The Moon Over The Rockies”
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The 2011 Iditarod race, Willow, Alaska
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A map of Talkeetna, Alaska
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How to emit raw HTML with the Play Framework and Twirl template library
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Independence Mine railroad in Hatcher Pass, Alaska
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Don’t post stuff on social media, take action
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Balto statue, Palmer, Alaska
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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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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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That time I ended up stranded in Vail, Colorado
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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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Keep right, if you can (road to Seward, Alaska)
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What happens at the motor home stays at the motor home
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Scala/Dotty SIP process: A better `main` approach?
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If you try to drive through Canada in the winter with those tires ...
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Overnight snow
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What’s going on?
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The disappearing Pedersen Glacier in Alaska
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The day the Court Circuit came to town
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Stranded in Dease Lake, British Columbia
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When You’re Gone, by the Cranberries
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Consuming edible marijuana products can lead to repeated and severe bouts of vomiting
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Schism, by Tool
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Scala 3 SIP `main` method proposal
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Nvidia Jetson Nano developer kit
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Christmas for a highlighter nerd
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American doctors, and medicating the effect rather than treating the cause
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My college admission story
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Up to 50” of snow this week in Seward, Alaska
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This Boulder, Colorado winter reminds me of Alaska
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“Hello, Scala” on sale for $10 (paperback)
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Jim Valvano speech, March 4, 1993
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Ben, you will be missed
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Funny tweet
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Business scandals/problems and how they affect stock prices over time
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“Dark Scrum: The case against the Sprint”
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Why is FP seen as the opposite as OOP rather than an addition to it?
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WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
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Asking my neighbor if he’s deaf
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Helplessly Hoping
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Volkswagen’s big push into EVs (electric vehicles)
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Buffett-style investing as a three-legged stool
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The Five Gatekeepers of Speech
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“He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me”
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Comments disabled for a while
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Columbine students protesting gun violence
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Trying not to go unconscious at 2:15am
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What joy is there in this moment?
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Gary Kubiak quotes about Case Keenum
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How to invest in artificial intelligence and robotics
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Political issues affect clocks
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View from my PCP’s office
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Android users have a higher loyalty than iOS users
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David Lynch, transcendental meditation proponent
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JavaFX is going to be removed from the Java JDK
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Giving up
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“Hello, Scala” will be going up to $9.99 on March 1st
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Handstand
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AI develops its own ‘alien’ language
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Mast cell disease fact sheet
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The plague in Broomfield, CO
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Heart disease deaths linked to poor dietary choices
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Instructions for filing an Android bug report
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Async is not about performance - it’s about scalability
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Good news (finishing book), bad news (syncope)
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You’re going to end up as a statistic
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Free online course: Scala for Data Science
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Biohazard
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View from the apartment
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Today’s weather
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The hitting drill of new Cubs manager Joe Maddon
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Windy
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Snow defeated by altitude and sunlight
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