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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

One bright morning in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and ran to save the two dead boys. If you don’t believe this lie is true ask the blind …
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Many years ago, one of my colleagues told me, “if there’s more than two people in the room, there’s politics”. He’s the same guy who told me to never go into a meeting without a prop (his favorite was a cup of coffee (and sometimes a notebook & pen)). I think Jim was wrong. There’s …
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When I was little, I used to get up (on my own) early – often between 6:30 and 7. And when I would get up, I would walk down the hall, knock on my parents’ room door, tell my mom I was up, and ask if I could watch some cartoons. Generally, my mom was …
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Maybe I should have expected this. But Seattle is hilly. Surprisingly so. For something so close to the coast, I wouldn’t have expected so many hills. Apparently I need topographical overlays turned on for my GPS apps.

For the better part of a decade, I have done travel consulting. It’s great in that I get to see different places, meet new people, and – generally – get a lot done for them while I am there. But I don’t get to see anything “interesting” – everything closes before I get done at …
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I understand there are different strokes for different folks, but there are too many social networks, messaging platforms, etc out there. Mastodon, Twitter, Google+, Telegram, Facebook, Slack, HipChat, LinkedIn, blogging, plogging (https://byrbyr.ga/H), Hangouts, SMS, iMessage, Nextdoor, SnapChat, WhatsApp, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram… and I know I’ve missed scores and scores more. Oh – and don’t forget …
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`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!” He took his vorpal sword in hand: long time the …
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Does writing less (each time) lead to writing better? Does writing better lead to writing more [often]? That’s one of many things Paragraph is trying to find out. Well, Paragraph, per se, is not going to find out; its users will. I think helping to force concision on an author for sake of clarity and …
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On display on this blog is a pair of graphics (a logo, and an RSS icon superimposed on the logo) I built with Assembly – a sticker-creating app for iOS (https://byrbyr.ga/G) that will export to SVG, PNG, or PDF (with subscription). In combination with some post-processing by Boxy SVG (https://boxy-svg.com), I’ve been making logos (see …
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Welcome to Paragraph.cf – the first blog running the Paragraph WordPress plugin (see https://plugin.paragraph.cf). The beauty (and entire point) of Paragraph is that there is no HTML formatting in any post or page – no tags: it’s all just text (albeit formatted by the theme’s overarching basics (font, color, etc)). Paragraph is an experiment in …
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