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Nodes for the term “2017”
The farther you get away from the body, the more you know you
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Songs from the movie “Coffee Shop” (Laura Vandervoort)
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Sanctify Yourself
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A bear walks into a hotel ...
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A Scala method to run any block of code slowly
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Android: FLiB, a free Fast Little Browser
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Ocean sunrise (Virginia Beach)
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It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward
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Functional Programming, Simplified is currently an Amazon best-seller
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Functional Programming, Simplified: #1 New Release
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Orange sky at night, Broomfield, Colorado
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Vitamin D helps stabilize mast cells
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Make a game of active mindfulness meditation
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Mama always told me not to look into the eye’s of the Sun
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“Please comply” (a dream story)
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The next release of Functional Programming, Simplified (Scala edition)
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Version 0.1.4 of “Functional Programming, Simplified”
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Feeling like I have been drugged
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Tornado warnings and sarcasm tees
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Christmas gift exchange (part of an ongoing dream series)
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Do not try to experience satori
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Before I die I want to ... (Juneau, Alaska)
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Up With the Sun, Gone With the Wind
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Dark sunrise, Virginia Beach
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Alaskan “I Voted” sticker
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A bear walks into a liquor store ...
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Back to life and yoga
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Moonrise over the ocean, Virginia Beach (#2)
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A demonstration of how the Houston Astros were stealing signs
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Notes on how to update a Drupal 8 website with Drush and Composer
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New meditation cushion (zabuton)
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The long road back
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A tub of applesauce exploded
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If Functional Programming, Simplified seems large ...
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What’s going on?
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Carlos Santana: The Universal Tone (autobiography)
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One must do asana not merely as a physical exercise
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Each movement must be an art ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
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Perform the work that has to be done without attachment
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Listening to The Book Thief while driving
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What meditation can be like (Eat, Pray, Love)
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The secret of life: Live in the now
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Frank Jordan, you are missed
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More symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
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A dream about Don Monk, college professor
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Giving mom a chocolate cupcake
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Scala 2.13 Collections Feature Freeze
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice ...
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Warning, coyote activity
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The Verge has two stories about Google, Android, and hardware
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Apple’s Terms: We may slow down your old iPhone
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ThinkGeek clearance sale
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It’s going to be a White Christmas
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When elephants see a human being their brain lights up
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There’s a lot of things that take place in this business that you can’t control
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Hello, Scala: A Scala tutorial
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Hello, Scala (Scala tutorial website)
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Toyota and Panasonic teaming up to make auto batteries?
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Seven questions you were too embarrassed to ask about Bitcoin
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A story about a black-hole merger
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A little snow in the big mountains
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Sizhao Yang tweets on “thinking”
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A hospital robot named Tug
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Progressive is much cheaper than Geico
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How AlphaGo Zero works
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New Jonathan Ive interview
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AlphaZero generalized to learn more games by itself
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“I’m trying to save my marriage”
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Jonathan Ive focused on design, again
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Third proof of Functional Programming, Simplified
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Projected growth of robot markets
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Republicans open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling
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Meanwhile, in Fairbanks, Alaska ...
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“Fox looking at the Moon” Christmas card from Santa Fe
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Strange cloud formation in Colorado
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Story about Lakers’ coach Luke Walton (and mindfulness and meditation)
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Functional Programming, Simplified: Print version, coming soon
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Amazon AWS is bringing AI and deep learning to the masses
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Thoughtworks technology radar
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Roadrunner in hightops
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Scrivener 3 for macOS (review)
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What’s wrong with SBT?
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Amazon is backing ONNX
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Mysterious Particles are Slamming Into the Earth
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time.com article about iPhone X (and Jonathan Ive quotes)
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Slides from “Scala 2.13 and Beyond”
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Ram Dass on spirituality and meditation
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Boston Dynamics: Atlas now jumps and does a back flip
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Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions?
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GPUs vs. TPUs: Can NVIDIA Hold On To Its Lead?
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You could become an AI master before you know it
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MINIX Inside (Intel CPUs)
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One-time donations to The Guardian
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Maria Menounos was diagnosed with a brain tumor
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Walmart deploying Mac computers to save money
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A By The Bay interview with Tim Perrett
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Einstein’s theory of happiness sold for more than $1M
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Apple’s struggle to get the iPhone X to market on time
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National Geographic ranks Anchorage, Alaska as the 10th-happiest city in the United States
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Microservices, the future of society ...
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Bears and moose are par for the course in Alaska
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Cold and snow in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Use your Samsung Galaxy as a desktop computer
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Squirrel behaviors in the fall
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What the gravitational waves discovery means for the future of astronomy
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Functional programming in Scala: Kindle eBook, coming soon
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Sunrise in Virginia Beach, Virginia
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MCAS/MCAD: Another skin reaction
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The CIA’s AI projects
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Medium’s mission, five years in
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First snow (fall, 2017)
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First snow, coming soon
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Broncos’ Von Miller helps out at Texas A&M restaurant
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Oracle doesn’t want Java EE any more
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Tom Petty and The Traveling Wilburys’ “End of the Line”
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One fighter with a sharp stick and nothing left to lose can take the day
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Ikea bought TaskRabbit
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Fairbanks, Alaska got its first official snow of the season
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Rob Lowe and addiction
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The Cubs reached the postseason for the third straight year ...
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Medical records
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A milestone day
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Facebook switched from InnoDB to MyRocks and cut their storage usage in half
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Working on the book’s index
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iPhone 8 vs Intel Core i5 web performance
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Miami Dolphins owner on unity
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“Monad transformers are not too intuitive”
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What writing a book looks like
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The slow death of the iPhone 5s
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Watched The Time Traveler’s Wife for the first time tonight
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Trying to understand where the universe comes from
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Mike Klis Twitter DM gone bad
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Corn field maze tribute to the Cubs
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A little hitch in your giddyup
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August 31st, a new anniversary
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Recovering from surgery #6
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Making the switch, from iPhone to Android
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Android performance benchmarks
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The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works
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Solar eclipse today, surgery tomorrow
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Next version of Learning Functional Programming in Scala
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Good javapackager video (macOS + Java)
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SBT 1.0 is now available
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Some people in Colorado crack me up
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165 Pink Floyd songs, ranked worst to best
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There could have been no two hearts so open (Persuasion)
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Why does time exist? (A TED Radio Hour talk)
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Walk With Me, a film about Thich Nhat Hanh
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The Sun finally sets in Barrow, Alaska
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Honey badger don’t care (University of Colorado edition)
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Last day to buy “Learning Functional Programming in Scala” for $10
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“Learning Functional Programming in Scala” goes up to $30 tonight
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Ten things Idris improved over Haskell
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Sun Microsystems, Facebook, and impermanence
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Scala 2.12.3 has been released
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Talkeetna’s Mayor Stubbs passed away
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A person and his dog in Alaska
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HTTPS for everyone
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The Remix OS from Jide is dead
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Attitude during competition (2017 Wimbledon)
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Apple unveils interactive HomeKit experiences in retail stores worldwide
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Trying to pitch successfully at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado
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“Why I don’t regret moving our Android app to Scala”
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The reporter metaphor
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When people feel disconnected, their worst impulses often come out
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SBT errors summary plugin
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“Shut your mouth, work hard”
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AI Progress Measurement (eff.org)
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Why O’Reilly no longer sells books and videos on oreilly.com
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RIP to several pets
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Version 0.1.3 of Learning Functional Programming in Scala
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How to update Drupal 8 using drush
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Open Source Survey, 2017
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Next version of Scala/FP book, coming soon
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Happy Father’s Day, 2017
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Donations or micropayments to support professional journalism
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Song of the day: Fool in the Rain, by Led Zeppelin
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“How much do you think you owe?”
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Covfefe coffee mug
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Song of the Day: Tin Man, by Miranda Lambert
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Let the Sun shine (Anchorage, Alaska)
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Scala/FP book, coming soon
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Writing at the beach
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First draft of my Scala/FP book, coming soon
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President’s spokesman can’t speak for the President
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Scientists are reporting yet another burst of gravitational waves
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The Internet is broken (Evan Williams)
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Snow
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More of my Scala/FP book (free), coming soon
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Microsoft Windows ransomware affects hundreds of thousands
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How far my diet has come
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Set theory explained with southern colloquialisms
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People fired by Trump
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The history of the margarita
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Ten years since the move to Alaska
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Rocky Mountains (front range), May 1, 2017
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Eight minutes on the elliptical trainer
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Jeff Bezos’ letter to Amazon shareholders, 2017
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Receiving radio stations for hundreds of miles
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The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100,000 people
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Moonrise over the ocean, Virginia Beach
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John Gruber: The Mac Pro Lives
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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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Newly restored nuclear test footage
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover “spots clouds shaped by gravity waves”
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The plague in Broomfield, CO
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57 year old Mitch Seavey wins the 2017 Iditarod
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How teammates dealt with the death of Jose Fernandez
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Heart disease deaths linked to poor dietary choices
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The Republican Insurance Plan
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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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Well-known and under-the-radar restaurants in Boulder, Colorado
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Good news (finishing book), bad news (syncope)
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The University of Colorado Hospital
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Android advertising revenue exceeds iOS ad revenue
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We cannot get enough organics to stay in business day in and day out
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“Keep Grinding”
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National Popular Vote
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Louisville, Colorado’s Blue Parrot property purchased
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Budweiser Super Bowl ad (and immigration)
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“I am lost in your fabulousness.”
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“Silicon Valley’s ambivalence toward Trump turns to anger”
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Matching donations to the ACLU
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Next version of my Android football game
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Mast cell disease, histamine intolerance diet, and a healthy weight
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The indomitable spirit of a warrior
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National Park Service: 2016, 2017
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I’ll be drawing your blood today
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Scotch neat, please
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Going rogue (NASA, NOAA, and more)
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MCAS and orange jugs
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MacOS softwareupdate command (how to ignore updates)
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The causes of the Samsung 7 battery explosions
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Ubuntu running on a 2008 27” iMac
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Chapters from The Handbook of Applied Cryptography
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Denali, Alaska: 10 days of breaking trail
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The best Linux laptops of 2016
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Solar energy to be cheaper than coal
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