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Poker Progress
I wrote about becoming a pro poker player a couple weeks ago. I was going to write about something else, but two things sap my motivation: 1. I have wicked bad allergies to something, probably the Cedar-Elm, and can hardly focus on anything for more than 15 to 20 minutes before I start rubbing my…
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Living in a Small RV: Odds and Ends
I’m not cut out for these series. I write a couple posts and then start wanting to write about other stuff, but I’m already locked in. Anyway, this is post three of the Living in a Small RV series, coming live from my RV on the side of the road in Austin, TX. Plumbing There…
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Living in a Small RV: Electricity
This is a continuation of the Living in a Small RV series. It will be a bit boring for anyone who isn’t interested in solar power, but I wanted to write it like this because I had a tough time finding all of this information tied together. There are two classes of devices in an…
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Living in a Small RV: Introduction
When I first bought an RV to live in last year a lot of people thought that it was a phase I would quickly snap out of. Part of me thought the same thing. Would a move from a 2000 square foot condo to a 100 square foot RV be bearable? As it turned out,…
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Thoughts on Saving the Earth
Over the past year or so I’ve become a lot more interested in the environment. Maybe it’s my exposure to the wilderness around the world this year, maybe it’s the few documentaries about it that I’ve seen, or maybe it’s just the fact that it’s become a hot button issue and I’ve been forced to…
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Becoming a Pro Poker Player
For a couple days last week I didn’t work. I woke up, walked to Casa, ate my lunch, sat with my friends until lunch hours ended, and then sat in the empty restaurant, staring out the window. What do I want to do with my life? Not the whole thing, but right now. Conversion Doubler…
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On Set
Tucker Max and I will probably never be friends. We live by a lot of the same principles, but those principles have led us in very different directions. His daily pleasure is getting trashed and being obnoxious. Mine is eating vegan food and riding an electric skateboard. Still, that doesn’t take away from the fact…
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A Typical Day In Austin
I always want to write about a “typical” day here in Austin, but it seems like no day is actually normal enough for me to write about, so it ends up not happening. So, since I have a few minutes in my RV before it’s time to head to late night dinner, I’ll just write…
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Seeing Her Again
Mandeville. I looked at the route that Google Maps gave me to drive my RV back to Austin. The route went right past Mandeville, Louisiana. That’s where Katya lives. I hadn’t seen her in years. We broke up four years ago, and I only saw her once since then, three years ago. She randomly showed…
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If It’s Too Good To Be True…
If there’s one popular cliché that is dangerous to believe, it’s this one. “If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.” Actually, I can even live with that phrase literally. But most people take it to say “If it’s too good to be true then it DEFINITELY is.” That’s dangerous because it programs…
