ok, doing #PostcardsToVoters and came close to the perfect zip code: 31415-9265. Can you just address your letter to, John Doe, Pi?
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JUST IN: President Trump directs his team to cooperate on transition for President-elect Joe Biden but vows to keep up fight trib.al/Hiv3NUL
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This is likely the closest we're going to get to a concession from Mango Mussolini. Michigan results are now certified (for Biden, obviously). The transition is going to formally begin. @realDonaldTrump is done.
I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see th...
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LA County has done a great job with their COVID testing website. I was able to schedule a next-day appointment for a drive-through “PCR” test tomorrow morning. Cross your fingers and toes and pray to $DEITY of your choosing. The LaCour fam will celebrate Thanksgiving next week :)
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According to Pandora, my household income is both above $100k and below $100k. And it is also above $75k. All three features are right next to each other in the CCPA export. No wonder the ads I'm seeing are soooo very well targeted.
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Looks like a certain comedian is running yet another FunkoPop giveaway which means my notifications are once again filling up with people who don't understand how usernames work. Sigh.
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Oh, and in case you are worried, I have received an initial negative COVID rapid test, but my symptoms haven’t fully diminished, so I am not out of the woods. Awaiting advice from my doctor, I continue to quarantine. It sucks. But, hey, I’ll get over it. Safety first.
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It’s much less bizarre when you realize that she is a partisan hack. Good riddance to her.
That said, I’m glad we can move forward. I’ve been sitting in bed sick for four days, and this is at least some good news.
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NEW: GSA has informed president-elect Joe Biden the administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from administrator Emily Murphy ...
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Time to engage with the outside once again during eternal Caturday.
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Build it and they will come.
Truth be told, they rarely do.
But in this case…they did. One person came. And then another. And then another. And then some of the first people who had come started to help some of the other people who came later.
A movement was born…
If you’ve struggled with staying motivated and creative in this crazy time, or if you're wondering if you’ll ever really “make” it, **you’re not alone!**
In wh...
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My life was spiraling and the world had gone mad. Anything anyone was doing seemed a little crazy by default.</p>\n\n<p>So I threw caution to the wind and kinda just went nuts with it. I put in a ridiculous amount of time\u2026staying up into the wee hours of night, getting the first real release of Bridgetown out the door, putting a whole new website together, figuring out what the basic \u201cpitch\u201d would be to get folks excited (maybe), reaching out to podcasts I\u2019d never been on before, and so on and so forth. <strong>Build it and they will come.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Truth be told, they rarely do. But <em>in this case</em>\u2026<strong>they did</strong>. One person came. And then another. And then another. And then another. And then some of the first people who had come started to help some of the other people who came later. And before you know it, I was witnessing my little wackadoo software project sprout a life of its own. 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(If you really must know, it\u2019s a static site generator built with the Ruby programming language. A tool for web developers. Fun nerd stuff.)\n\nWhat\u2019s germane to my tale is: when I started work on the Bridgetown project, I had absolutely no idea what might come of it. Quite honestly, I figured I was off my rocker and it\u2019d crash and burn big time. After all, I was forking an existing, fairly well-known open source software codebase sponsored and utilized by a major corporation (a subsidiary of Microsoft no less)\u2014an endeavor that frankly I wouldn\u2019t recommend anybody try on a whim. Who the bleepity-bleep did I think I was anyway? But the thing is, I had nothing to lose! My life was spiraling and the world had gone mad. Anything anyone was doing seemed a little crazy by default.\n\nSo I threw caution to the wind and kinda just went nuts with it. I put in a ridiculous amount of time\u2026staying up into the wee hours of night, getting the first real release of Bridgetown out the door, putting a whole new website together, figuring out what the basic \u201cpitch\u201d would be to get folks excited (maybe), reaching out to podcasts I\u2019d never been on before, and so on and so forth. Build it and they will come.\n\nTruth be told, they rarely do. But in this case\u2026they did. One person came. And then another. And then another. And then another. And then some of the first people who had come started to help some of the other people who came later. And before you know it, I was witnessing my little wackadoo software project sprout a life of its own. This wasn\u2019t a mirage, a whimsy, a fanciful expectation of what might be.\n\nThis. Was. Real.\n\nNow let me not overstate matters\u2026though several highly active months have gone by, Bridgetown is still a very modestly-sized project and community as far as open source software goes. But the point is that it is a community. A movement. A thing that has legs. A tool that matters to real people. It\u2019s technology that\u2019s powering a bunch of folks\u2019 websites now. Like, for real. If Bridgetown vanished tomorrow, at least a few souls other than myself would mourn its passing.\n\nThat\u2019s\u2026a pretty damn good feeling! As a kid who started out building websites in the 1990s (totally fly, dude!), being able to point to something I had a hand in creating decades later and say: \u201chey, check this out\u2026it\u2019s now helping some folks build their own websites\u201d is a dream come true. In a way, it feels like I\u2019ve finally come full circle. (Because I have!)\n\nAnd with the relative success of Bridgetown, I\u2019ve had a whale of a good time meeting all kinds of cool people online, expanding my reach on Twitter, and sharing exciting tips and resources\u2014not to mention learning from other tech wizards. I even started yet another blog called RUBY3.dev to encourage and educate Ruby developers near and far. The interest there has completely blown me away. When I pulled up my brand-new newsletter subscriber count after just a few days, I was flabbergasted. Because I can still remember the days when a single new subscriber in a month was cause for celebration. (Let\u2019s be honest: those days weren\u2019t so long ago!)\n\nI honestly don\u2019t mean to say all this to brag. I don\u2019t like tooting my own horn. The reason I want to tell you all this is to reassure you in no uncertain terms that you can do this too! Whatever your passion is, whatever dent you\u2019re hoping to make in the universe\u2026it\u2019s within your grasp. You can get from here to there. After all, I did, and I\u2019m a knucklehead.\n\nI don\u2019t care if your follower count on Twitter is 1. I don\u2019t care if you haven\u2019t even started an email newsletter yet. Be the change you wish to see in the world and go create something awesome. Maybe it will succeed! Maybe it\u2019ll fail. That\u2019s OK. I failed and failed hard for year after year, after year, after year.\n\nAnd then suddenly I didn\u2019t. And that was pretty cool too. As the saying goes, there are no \u201covernight successes\u201d. Because as soon as you scratch the surface of that megahit, you find out that it was the result of somebody toiling away in obscurity for weeks, months, years, even decades.\n\nIt takes time to make the \u201cgood stuff\u201d. Sure you can pick up a cheap slapdash bottle of wine that was aged quickly and tastes like crap. You\u2019ll chug it down and promptly forget about it. Or\u2026you can select that well-produced, hand-crafted bottle of wine by an off-the-beaten-track vintner aged several years, and *chef\u2019s kiss*. You\u2019ll remember that one. Oh yes, you most certainly will.\n\nSo take your time. Put in the effort. Experiment. Hone your craft. Discover what stirs the blood. Chase the lion.\n\nIn the words of Cal Newport, become so good they can\u2019t ignore you. Because, sooner or later, they won\u2019t.\n\nAnd then your movement will truly begin.\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #creativity\n \n #Bridgetown"
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Congrats to the quivr.ai team on their launch with @psl. They’re building interesting hardware + software + algorithms to help companies meet deep cleaning standards in the COVID-19 era and beyond. Here’s @geekwire: geekwire.com/2020/smart-cam…
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Also why funding our parks and libraries is so important.
We are desperate for restaurants and bars to be open because there is so little non-commercialized public space in America
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New post: fluffy rambles: Small probabilities add up beesbuzz.biz/blog/6984-Smal…
Rebecca Watson made an excellent video about how the recently-released COVID-19 risk map is not particularly helpful, due to the lack of context provided and the public’s general lack of understanding…
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If Dante was right, then the police in the Australian state of Victoria have a hell of an eternity ahead of them. They've classed 240 children (as young as ten!) as "yout...
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I would buy Christmas cards of this.
crying over this lynda barry comic again
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If you’ve struggled with staying motivated and creative in this crazy time, or if you're wondering if you’ll ever really “make” it, **you’re not alone!**
In which I chronicle my slump and string of failures and the silver lining that is @bridgetownrb:
jaredwhite.com/articles/seven…
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DIY Stormtropper mask and an experiment in props for fine art photography.
This pic makes it look cooler than it is 😅 Check the picture I posted in the reply to see what it actually looks like 😁
#mandalorian #mandalorianseason2 #starwars #stormtrooper #diy #fineartphotography
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