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When I’m Dead and Gone

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Still, even in their unbearable grief, no one is going to write a rose-colored eulogy for these men.  No review of their herculean work or study ethic, lament for their now-silent piano.  No one is going to start a charity to continue the Biblical sacrifices they’ve made to lift up the poor.  No one is going to read their bio in primetime on MSNBC.  Complete strangers will not dot their RIPs with a single-tear emoji, a big hug emoji.  The President-elect is not going to call their wives, children, or parents.

The death of each of these men is a tragedy. We are living through an an epidemic of despair.

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Let All the Children Boogie; or, An Old Man’s Lament

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I’m sitting here at my desk, writing this post while ripping a copy Andrew Bird’s recent collection of Christmas and holiday-inspired songs, Hark!, at 320kbs. It’s January 4, 2021. I received the disc in the mail on Saturday.

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Candy Candy Candy

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I love candy. It’s a toss up between your classic Peanut M&Ms, Butterfingers, and Sour Patch Kids. Really, any sour gummy type candy will do in a pinch.

During the Pandemic, I’ve been known to go through a Family Party Bag of M&Ms in about a week. We’ve decided it’s best not to keep them in the house or I will get even closer to the size of the house.

My dental hygienist does not share my enthusiasm, although 45 years of this habit have brought about only one cavity, filled 20 odd years ago.

Anyway, as we head into prime candy guzzling season, I dug about the youtube a little bit and found some interesting videos on candy making.

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This is Good Pi, Part 1

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So, wait, what is a Raspberry Pi? If you’re not yet aware, the Pi is a palm-sized computer originally built for young student learners. It is low cost and low power. It comes with no software preinstalled. A flavor of the Debian Linux operating system, called Raspbian, can be installed on an inexpensive microSD card and plugged into the available slot on the Pi board. Some versions come with USB and HDMI ports. Recent Pi models (Including 3 B+, 4, and Zero) come equipped with Wireless and Bluetooth. It is built with the novice in mind. The full distro of Raspbian comes with packaged with the software you might want to have in order to use the Pi like any other home computer.

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Code is *NOT* Poetry

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Poetry, like a photograph or a painting or a novel, is an object crafted by a human being. Not unlike Ruby or Javascript. It is designed to transmit information. Not just the facts on the page, but an emotion or feeling from the writer to the reader. Yes, art does fail to achieve this more often than not, though even objectively “bad” poetry will mean something, to someone. Rearrange the words on the page, change the structure or the syntax of a sentence and even that can mean something. See the work of e.e. cummings.

Code, on the other hand, fails completely when syntax and structure is not met exactly.

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