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Just spent a good chunk of time curating my notes, and I couldn’t be happier. Totally slipped loose from reality there for a while, in a world of my devising.
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Drafts and Vision Pro
As for any more native experience, it’s probably not something coming in the short term. It’s hard to justify investing in the device and the time to build the native experience, when, per Apple’s analytics, you are one of a very few who use Drafts on a
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Getting Started with Worldbuilding
This was something I kicked around a little bit last year, but I quickly found myself floundering, overwhelmed by all the ideas I had but no idea on how to proceed. This time I followed a Reddit thread, and found some good resources: * Reddit thread * Welcome Note * Getting Started * Organizational
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Let’s All Work On Our Issues
I was originally going to pass on Veilguard because I wasn’t that interested in the franchise, but holiday boredom plus a holiday sale led to me giving it a try. Once I got into it, I remembered that I really liked Anthem. Wandering through these levels really reminded me
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David Foster Wallace on being yourself
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
The catchphrase Good stuff, Maynard! Comes from a series of TV commercials for Malt-O-Meal hot cereal that aired during the early 1980s and featured a little boy and his imaginary friend Maynard. Some folks still use this phrase today when enthusing about tasty food or suggesting that something has positive
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The Guard Rails
“And how does an Obliger meet an inner expectation? By creating outer accountability. Once Obligers realize that outer accountability is the crucial missing element, the solution is very straightforward and easy to supply.” I noted a while ago that I only seem to get things done when I have a
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I just mistyped it as "yourube" and then never wanted a website to exist more
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Methylphenidate - Wikipedia
The name “Ritalin” derives from Marguerite “Rita” Panizzon, the wife of Leandro Panizzon, who first synthesized the drug in 1944. Rita was the first person to take methylphenidate, and described its effects to her husband. Methylphenidate - Wikipedia
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Ashur (god) - Wikipedia
In the Old Assyrian period, the kings never assumed the title of king, instead referring to themselves as the governor (iššiak) or city ruler (rubā’um), reserving the title of king instead for Ashur.[9] Pongratz-Leisten notes that similar cases could be found in Pre-Sargonic Lagash, where the kings of
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Sunset in Jerusalem
Many scholars believe that the name of Shalim is preserved in the name of the city Jerusalem. The god Shalim may have been associated with dusk and the evening star in the etymological senses of a “completion” of the day, “sunset” and “peace”. Also preserved in Shalom and Salam, meaning
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The Davenport Conspiracy
This hypothesis served two vital functions for the incoming settlers. Firstly, it fulfilled their desire for an ancestry in the United States, “a desire … [for] a great epical history in this newly adopted homeland” (Sabloff 1973: Vll, Hinsley 1996:184). This would be used to justify their colonization, as it