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Sketchy Things I Saw Today
A dude in a huge bulging leather jacket and baggy pants. It’s almost 30 degrees out. I first see him as I’m waiting for a light to change. He goes out of his way to cross against the red light to continue along my side of the street. The next block down, he crosses to…
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Vodka Illusions
Bill Deys recently wrote about a Business Week article stating that, in a blind taste test, all vodkas taste pretty much the same. It was an informal test with a writer and a few friends. Without statistical analysis, it’s impossible to tell if the friends were guessing at an above-chance level or not (there was…
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Life After Death
I’m not high or anything, but think about this. I’m not a religious person, but I have been known to use the word “soul.” Sometimes it’s in a sarcastic way, but other times it’s a metaphor for identity; a quick way of summing up the core of what makes a person a person in one…
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