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A Degree of Modesty
Last week I decided to pop by the university and get a PhD. Since then, a lot of people have been asking, “do you feel any different now that you have a PhD?” Well yes, of course I do. Whenever I insist that someone call me “doctor Phronk”—whether it’s government documents, or my friends, or…
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Family Ties
I’d like to have kids someday, but even more, I’d like to have grandkids. With those things, you get all the fun of kids being around, without them being around all the time. What would be ideal is having grandkids without having to raise kids first. Is this possible? I began to think of the…
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Toaster Chicken, the Galaxy, and the Perks of Being Social With Social Media
I recently came across these in the supermarket: Two words that should never go together are toaster and chicken. So of course I bought a box, and was soon obsessed with toaster chicken; mostly because “toaster chicken” is so fun to say, but also because FlatJacks are surprisingly good, in a chicken nugget sort of…
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