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Nodes for the term “2016”
Notes on how to update a Drupal 8 website
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How to hide annoying MacOS update notifications
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Benefits of Functional Programming
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Song of the Day: Minutes to Memories, by John Mellencamp
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Drive back from Golden, Colorado (and Lady Cab Driver)
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“Maintain full awareness during dream as well as in waking life”
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Louisville, Colorado: White trees on a cloudy day
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Feeling like I have been drugged
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It’s important to distinguish opinions from facts
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Talked to a doctor about diets, statins, apples, bees, Zen ...
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My week in review
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The Taoist story of the old farmer
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2016 voter angst
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Nome National Forest (an Iditarod joke)
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Passing out at an ice cream shop
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I have never liked the Electoral College process
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Alaskan “I Voted” sticker
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“Bad news, it’s curiosity” (cartoon)
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Luke Skywalker black and white “life sketch”
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The long road back
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I don’t always get sick, but when I do ...
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“I think your heart grows back bigger”
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Ruthlessly edit this text
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Things to do in Anchorage, Alaska on New Year’s Eve
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Can never remember the name “brussels sprouts”
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Within You Without You (lyrics to the Beatles song)
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Some people come into your life and change it forever
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Findout out that I have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
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What hurt Hillary Clinton with voters
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Stocks owned by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway
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Song of the Day: Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
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Corn field maze tribute to the Cubs
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August 31st, a new anniversary
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Just released 21 new lessons of my Scala/FP book
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Cured meats bad for asthma
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A short description of “Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS/MCAD)”
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Wind farm
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National Park Service: 2016, 2017
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The causes of the Samsung 7 battery explosions
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The best Linux laptops of 2016
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Tony Fadell and the creation of the first iPhone
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Solar energy to be cheaper than coal
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Steve Jobs: Products vs profits
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Happy holidays, I’m preggers (jk)
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We gotta get out while we’re young
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Evaluating the state and development of Scala
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Microsoft, rebooted, emerges as a tech leader
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National Popular Vote website
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Could you get a job at Apple?
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The snowiest place in Alaska
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Scala/Akka scalability
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-52 degrees in Alaska
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The Best Way to Learn Anything: The Feynman Technique
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Hives (December 5, 2016)
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Latest ThinkGeek “geek gifts” holiday specials
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I wonder what else I did
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Raspberry Pi 3 starter kit
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Amazon Black Friday deals
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ThinkGeek “Black Friday” deals
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Do you know why your triglycerides are high?
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Truck drivers may need a new trade
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Mesa or bust
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Supermoon over the Rockies
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Writing again (November, 2016)
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The drive back from Golden, Colorado
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Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara on the 2016 U.S. Presidential election
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Physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill in Colorado
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Interactions with Cubs players in my youth
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Chicago’s Hamilton cast performs “Go Cubs Go”
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Apple: A dongle maker that happens to sell other things
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Cubs beat the Indians in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series
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Aroldis Chapman takes the ball in Game 5
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Mac exodus (part 2)
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ThinkGeek: Warehouse clearance sale
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“And I looked, and behold a pale horse”
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“Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race”
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Lightbend interview with Raymond Roestenburg, co-author of Akka In Action
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Chicago Cubs win the 2016 National League Pennant
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Where does Kyle Hendricks throw the ball?
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Javier Baez steals home
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A squirrel the size of a human?
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Bear cub chillin’ in Boulder
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Sweep the leaves, but don’t hate the trees
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Cubs beats the Giants in the 2016 NLDS
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Triggers for mast cell diseases (and histamine intolerance)
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Donald Trump and microphones
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Though it tastes like pond scum, Spirulina ...
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Mars or bust?
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“Tell them I was a writer”
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Help Me Make It Through The Night, by Willie Nelson
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You know that all your activities are subject to abrupt cancellation
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You love hard. There is no shame in that.
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A friend, ready to stab me with an EpiPen
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Song of the Day: Fool to Cry, by The Rolling Stones
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Song of the Day: You Want It Darker, by Leonard Cohen
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Android Studio 2.2 is available
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Mindfulness in baseball (Joe Maddon, Cubs)
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Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function
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Song of the Day: Coming Out of the Dark, by Gloria Estefan
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Mast cell activation syndrome (or mastocytosis) explains many mysterious health problems
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“Nonimmunologic histamine releasers other degranulation triggers” (mast cell diseases)
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The iPhone 7 is pretty fast
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Song of the Day: Can’t Shake You, by Gloriana
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Stat of the Year: Kim Kardashian vs sharks
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Krispy Kreme in Alaska
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Ryan Lochte, do you have your homework?
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The big “fat” lie
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40 degrees overnight in Boulder, CO
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The most expensive housing markets in the U.S.
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Song of the Day: Breaking The Girl, Red Hot Chili Peppers
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No new book chapters this weekend
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The best-selling product of ever
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Apple spends billions on equipment and manufacturing
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More chapters from Functional Programming, Simplified
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You can’t always do what you’re told, darlin.’
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The Blues Brothers, on the road
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Minding your mitochondria
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Stay Or Leave, by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
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The best of Colorado wines
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A founder’s perspective on Haskell
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Hernia
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Denali gives me the opportunity to be my best self
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25,000 lightning strikes in two days
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Heading to Alaska for Christmas and New Year’s
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New book?
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DispatchHealth - Denver, Colorado Startup Business of the Year
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Wake up Alaska, it’s a big earthquake
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Learning Scala can get you a significantly higher salary
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Is Twitter (TWTR) a stock buy?
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Intel stopping production of Atom CPUs?
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Apollo 11 source code bug report
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BP and heart rate after the latest “event”
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Large fire in Nederland, Colorado
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Alaska bear cams
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Sticks and stones, compliments, and social anxiety
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Switzerland testing driverless electric buses
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Back to college
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Volkswagen all-electric microbus concept
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Why does everyone continue to pull so much oil out of the ground?
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Keep your stock market investing simple (Chuck Carnevale)
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Peyton Manning and the Broncos vs the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Cold weather, hot beverages
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Installing multiple versions of Android Studio
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My “XO Play” football game, now in the Google Play Store
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What is a “value trap” in investing?
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Wade Phillips kicks the door down
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NY Yankees motivational sign
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Windows Phone sales 1.1%, Android 80.7%
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“Energy words”
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Peyton Manning: If I tell you it’s Easter, you better hide eggs
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Free online course: Scala for Data Science
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Android N multi-window support
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Biohazard
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Broncos make an expensive mistake on C.J. Anderson
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The North wind is blowing
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Scala: A “most loved” language and top-paying tech job
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Lil iMac - 120 days later
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View from the apartment
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Today’s weather
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Android experiments I/O challenge
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Solar City produces enough energy to charge every Tesla car
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Let it snow, let it snow (April 17, 2016)
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“A Survival Guide for New Consultants” - now online, free
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Google creating a hardware division
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Viv - intelligence becomes a utility
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Alaska is off to a record warm start in 2016
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May is mental health (awareness) month
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Google - Material Design for Wearables (Android Wear)
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Why I don’t read medical stuff online
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