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Letter to a friend living in a different world February 9, 2021 politics A friend sent me this note and attached video: I listened to the whole thing. Humphrey exclaims, “Biden says, ‘Every American gets the vaccine’”!!

I find myself defending the Super Bowl February 7, 2021 culture Letter to a Brazilian Friend I understand your reluctance to watch the Super Bowl, but, much to my surprise, I find myself wanting to tell you why

Urban Tunisian Children February 6, 2021 tunisia I wrote the following comment to Michael Kaplan’s FB photos of Gafsa children. These children are beautiful and often very sweet to deal with. On

I take a jab at “jab” February 5, 2021 friends

My friend Rob Anderson posted this on Facebook yesterday. This link might work better. I proudly out myself as the person who tried to help Rob by

Africa January 31, 2021 peacecorps & tunisia

Berbers move into Africa Here is the second paragraph for you to read more easily: In other words, the red arrow along the Tunisian coast is

Alfred-Stieglitz-and-the-Making-of-Modern-Photography January 29, 2021 photography

FRAMES Magazine (my emphasis) Most readers have at least a passing familiarity with Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), the early twentieth-century

CJ Suitt January 25, 2021 friends & poetry

source. Emphasis is mine. January 22, 2021 05:45 AM, ‘In the Aftermath’ of COVID-19 Chapel Hill Poet Laureate CJ Suitt talks about his inspiration

My motto: « Besta é tu se você não viver nesse mundo. » January 24, 2021 besta-e-tu My motto: « Besta é tu se você não viver nesse mundo. »It comes from a songMy friends discuss the translation« Besta é

Janet Yellen January 21, 2021 politics & music WHO’S YELLEN NOW? You can read more about this here

marked-image-server.md January 16, 2021

The directory /Users/ge/Dropbox/Apps/Blot/Posts/2021/01/16 contains the following files, among others: ./marked-image-server.md

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Blot locations test January 16, 2021 blot

I would say that Marked 2 doesn’t read underscores, as in *_assets* correctly. journal_entry:

The Solid Project January 11, 2021 privacy & security

This article about Tim Berners-Lee in the NY Times got me to look at Solid again. I have heavily redacted it. Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in

Mapping Posts to their Assets January 11, 2021 blot I have written /Users/ge/Dropbox/markdown/blot.im/blot-asset-locator.rb, a cute little Ruby script to map a Blot post to its corresponding assets

Pauline Harmange January 10, 2021 politics & from-the-back

I learned about her from the NY Times. She has made waves because of her book Moi les hommes, je les déteste. Pauline Harmange also has a blog.

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Twisted brilliance: Patricia Highsmith at 100 January 9, 2021 books & snails There has always been something fundamentally difficult about Patricia Highsmith. And not difficult in

Vim Creep January 5, 2021 geeky This is for my geeky friends, the only kind who will understand. Your browser does not support the audio element. I found this here. I’ll long

For conservatives, a time for choosing January 4, 2021 politics & racism Excerpts, with my emphasis from this source Sedition n. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority. Yesterday, the

Lee Smith was a Go-Go dancer December 27, 2020 friends I found this in a Woolf Society PDF. A Factoid Regarding Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture: Discovering the 1960s Virginia Woolfs Rock Band Lee