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“The One is a cruel invention.” — Alain de Botton

Travis NealJuly 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Articulations No Comments
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“This happens a lot—people travel and hey find places they like so much, they think they’ve risen to their best selves just by being there.” — Joan Silber

Travis NealJuly 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Articulations No Comments
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Country Living

We are moving to the country! LEO grew up in Chicago. I say that to explain her motivation and also to explain my fear that the desire may not last. But here in central Alabama is the perfect chance for…

Travis NealJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Meta No Comments
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Pandemic: Answering the Survivabilty Meme

A FaceBook friend (are we really friends?) recently posted this meme. He is a conservative, I’d dare even say he is a rabid Trump supporter. That is a claim he would deny (I do not see any evidence of that…

Travis NealMay 14, 2020May 14, 2020 culture, Politics No Comments
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“Reading is an infection, a burrowing into the brain: books contaminate, metaphorically, and even microbiologically.” — Jill Lepore

Travis NealApril 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Articulations, Books No Comments
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Defending the Shutdown

Someone on Facebook just made this argument: You do not sacrifice the livelihoods of millions (billions) to save a minuscule few from the possibility of getting a virus. If we did, we’d be shut down permanently. My response was truncated…

Travis NealApril 7, 2020April 7, 2020 Politics No Comments
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NoK: farrier

a blacksmith “The sun had sunk low in the west and, behind London’s dome of smoke, shone the color of a horseshoe when the farrier beats it out on the anvil.” (Stephenson 2004, 274) This passage is a great demonstration…

Travis NealDecember 10, 2019December 10, 2019 Literature No Comments
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“In the case of an exponential creep-up, like Moore’s Law, the bend in the curve could look like a jump if you took your eye off the ball at the wrong time.” — Neal Stephenson

Travis NealAugust 24, 2019August 24, 2019 Articulations No Comments
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Polysllabic Spree: Stubborn Attachments

Cowen, Tyler. (2018). Stubborn Attachments. I read Cowen’s blog, Marginal Revolution, regularly. Although read is a misnomer. He is too busy writing and publishing for his academic career so most of his entries are curation of economics related stories: other…

Travis NealJanuary 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Books No Comments
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10 Books Making the Move

The most difficult part of moving for me is selecting which books to take with me. I now have libraries in different collections, spread throughout the country. As a practice I try to to take only 10 books (yea yea,…

Travis NealNovember 19, 2018 Books No Comments
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