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Amelia
Did I break you? the way you broke me? It wasn't your fault, of course. Or well, it was. But you didn't mean to. You didn't wake up one day and decide "I'm going to break that man." No, It just kind of happened that way. We got…
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Boy who cried wolf
the following is a short essay I appear to have written in High School, sometime around the year 2008. Below the essay itself are some recent reflections and thoughts on this essay. The above photo of (I think) a Coyote was taken in Yellow Stone Nation Park when I was…
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Trust: in the new Millenium
HAHA, IT IS DONE. WE HAVE BATTLED FOR WEEKS, BUT YOU HAVE FINALLY SUBMITTED. SUBMITTED TO BEING MY SERVANT, TO BEING THE COURIER OF MY MAIL. AND YOU WILL FUCKING SIGN IT WITH MY DKIM SIGNATURE, FOR I HAVE DECREED IT. For those of you wondering what the hell that…
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Musings - Feb 2017
It's not my heart that bleeds, it's my soul. Day in and day out, it bleeds. It bleeds for the things I've seen. For the beggar in the street who looks the same age as me. It bleeds for the friendly, family orientated people who had the misfortune to be…
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Electing Trump
To steal a quote I used after the earthquakes: "It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here." Hyperbole aside, their's a fair amount to unpack with this Trump victory. Firstly, I don't think it's the end of the world. Jon Stewart remarked…
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Algebra Lessons, Part 1.
Notes Answers with working can be found at the bottom of this page. The first few questions are relatively straight forward. The thing to remember with algebra is that you don't always get a clean answer. when presented with an equation like \( (x+2)(x+1)=\) you're unlikely to get…