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Design details
I just moved into a new house. Much of the furniture from my old apartment didn’t really fit in the new place, so I ended up getting quite a bit of new stuff. Actually, my wife and I mostly got new-to-us used vintage furniture, mostly very cheap. We have been scouring the local classifieds for…
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Weeds?
The neighbor across the street from my apartment planted some Fox Glove , which some people consider a weed. This is actually a pretty common practice in Germany, where people will plant some flowers right up against their building. Before it started flowering, another neighbor was kidding him about not weeding by his house, and…
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WordCamp Europe
Last week I was in Porto, Portugal for WordCamp Europe. It was my first time at a big WordCamp, and my first time in Porto. I wasn’t expecting that I would get much time for sightseeing, and I was right. I spent almost all of my time either at the conference center or out with…
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Thinking, waiting, fasting
Several months ago I re-read the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I had read it in my first-year tutorial in college back in 1997 (an English translation), and decided after 25 years, I would read the original in German. I didn’t remember too many details from my previous read, but I did remember the general…
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Are emoji ruining communication?*
If you are a close friend of mine, you’ll likely know that I don’t like emoji. I know that I am in the minority opinion on this topic, so I don’t often bring it up, because I don’t foresee it being very useful or making me popular. However, I recently owned up to it at…