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Another Scammer Messed With
I look at it as a civic duty.
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Mojibake
Character transformation. What a concept.
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For Real
God, how I hate being misunderstood.
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A Modest Bucket List
An interesting text conversation with a dear friend, shared with her permission. Friend: Did something on my bucket list that I hope won’t shock you too much. Me: Been trying to call. WHAT DID YOU DO? Expect the worst and it won’t be so bad. Last time you did a bucket list thing,…
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My Voice
I had a fascinating conversation with some old friends recently. I’ve known them for 10 years in the virtual world of Second Life. We hang out a couple times a week, but in all that time I’ve never heard their actual voices. All our communication is via text. Am I alone in this? When I…
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It’s Not That Complicated
I go to work. I come home. I start dinner. I sit on my back porch in my fifteen dollar red plastic Adirondack chair, and put my feet up on my brown plastic thrift shop stool. My dog Quagmire jumps on my lap. Sometimes I ask him to tell me about his day. He’s never…
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Smile Means Chisel in Greek
As someone who majored in a foreign language in college (I wasn’t thinking at all about how I’d pay the bills upon graduation), I have spent a lot of time thinking about the things that get lost in translation. Words are not mathematical equations. The word for something in French does not “equal” the word…