Hit and Miss
I publish a small weekly newsletter titled Hit and Miss. In it, I write about whatever I’ve been reading each week, usually with some tilt toward the interaction of technology and society. Check out the archive below—if it interests you, please consider subscribing.
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#467: Vampires and the administrative state
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#466: A sea of shimmering metal
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#465: Links of links, quotes of quotes
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#464: Government nerdy, HVAC and construction economics, and the two Ursulas
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#463: Mid-summer chill
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#462: Good advice in trying times
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#461: But have you considered resting
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#460: Mid-year grab bag
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#459: Back of the head perspective, redux
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#458: “We needed it”
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#457: Feeling the weight
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#456: End of May, who’s to say
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#455: What a lovely community
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#454: A man, his trumpet, and you won’t guess what else
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#453: Three moments and some links
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#452: Savour, to a point
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#451: Fourteen hours of daylight
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#450: Blistered hands
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#449: Variations on themes
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#448: The primary stuff of history
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#447: Snow, spring, let’s goooo
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#441: Back on the ice
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#440: Non-consuming consumption
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#439: Not away, but aside
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#438: Movers are worth it
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#437: Let’s learn some cool things
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#436: Advertising done right
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#435: Decently good cheer
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#434: I didn’t forget about you
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#433: “Call it whatever you want!”
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#432: Some poems
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#431: Lawful but awful (state edition)
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#430: In Santa’s workshop, I’m the elf
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#429: Bluster, bluster, let this not be lacklustre
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#428: Lucas is writing a talk
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#427: Let the record show snow
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#426: Whither the weird web?
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#425: This is now a music review newsletter
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#424: These links are cool / webby / reflective
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#423: Woodward and Bernstein could never
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#422: Is this… October?
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#421: See ya, September
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#420: Welcome fall
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#419: Eight years of bits and bobs
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#418: Whither the warmth
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#417: Cottage time
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#416: August 2025, pt. 4
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#415: August 2025, pt. 3
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#414: Material intelligence
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#413: August 2025, pt. 1
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#412: Cake math
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#411: Cicadas calling
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#410: Communing with good souls
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#409: Back to… normal? (back to links)
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#408: Deeply grateful
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#407: Comfort in community
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#406: Fairalysis paralysis
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#405: Life as good as a cat’s
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#404: Not found (ha, as if!)
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#403: (🚲 > 👟) < 🍕
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#402: May your week smell like beautiful flowers
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#401: Got energy, got mood, got links
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#400: Newsletter anniversaries are for living fully
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#399: New ways to understand New Ways to Bus
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#398: “Prompt Builders”
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#397: National interest
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#396: Having opinions!! (also government machinery, uncertainty, and modular housing)
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#395: Facing backward has its charms
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#394: Bring on the SPRING
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#393: Oh, for a greenhouse house
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#392: Reading, public service reform, diagetic theme songs
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#391: Burning, 18F, and change
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#390: Try carpolling
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#389: Shovelling the snowbanks
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#388: Hair of the dog
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#387: “Brace for impact”
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#386: Paying attention
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#385: Government innovation with TREES
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#384: Mercurial January
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#383: “Finish”
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#382: Some books from 2024
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#381: No tinsel for you!
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#380: “Song for a Winter’s Night”
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#379: Doing hard things, together
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#378: Deferred maintenance
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#377: Hard week, good weekend—snow’s coming
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#376: November media diet
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#375: Disappointed, but not surprised
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#374: Highs bring lows (but more highs incoming!)
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#373: Friendship’s sunshine
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#372: Categorized (try) todo lists
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#371: Humanity and turkey
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#370: Walking LeBreton
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#369: Walking, even after a while
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#368: A place to think
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#367: Maintenance, houses, and stuff
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#366: Gloom and the antidote to worry
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#365: Nearly fall vacation reading
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#364: SQL, community, and cool stuff
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#363: Links on anarchism, social media, and other joys
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#362: Usable (legible!) for computers
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#361: Fuzzy conversation feelings
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#360: Cutting back to grow more
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#359: Time outside, time well spent
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#358: An hour writing this newsletter
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#357: Eat your vegetables!
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#356: Human-sized places
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#355: Mostly complete
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#354: Sharing in abundance
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#353: Outdoor meals and Home Depot hauls
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#352: Facing west
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#351: Running back from Italy
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#350: Eat, sleep, rest, repeat
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#349: Digital reading lessgoooo
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#348: “Frozen in an uncomfortable slouch”
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#347: Grab bag
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#346: Clean the tabs, share the links
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#345: Books abound
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#344: Endless Saturdays
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#343: First quarter updates
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#342: The usual moves
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#341: Continuing themes
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#340: Blackbirds are back
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#339: Sure, winter, see ya later
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#338: How it goes these days
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#337: Love and friendship (and data and government)
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#336: Wouldn’t it be nice
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#335: Discomfort is (partially) the point
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#334: Byeeee, January!
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#333: Sick, again
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#332: Wintry neighbours
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#331: Benchin’, cattin’, linkin’
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#330: So, we made it
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#329: Another year’s books
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#328: omg me too
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#327: Hoorah for “blank time”
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#326: Bring on the winter of (inter)dependence
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#325: Independent living depends on a healthy land
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#324: Responding to change (links on)
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#323: Change for thee, but not for me?
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#322: Maintenance before a busy week
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#321: Finishing things
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#320: Home (anew)
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#319: Old standbys
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#318: Port season
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#317: Old favourites in a time of change
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#316: Home from Japan
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#315: Untitled pt. 2
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#314: Untitled pt. 1
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#313: Break?
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#312: Enjoy those cool evenings
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#311: “Low risk”
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#310: Feelin’ eh
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#309: Good summer
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#308: Full of fulfillment
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#307: The internet is good, actually?
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#306: Cheers for “Grandparent hobbies”
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#305: Extra extra extra!
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#304: Midyear goals
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#303: See other
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#302: Better conversations
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#301: Full of food, family, and love
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#300: Living the principles
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#299: Issues elsewhere, issues here
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#298: Manure breach heat agreement
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#297: Free time
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#296: From weary of dreary to cheery
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#295: (not) Ottawa things
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#294: Explaining the inscrutable
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#293: Spring regrowth
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#292: Four weeks in Portugal, Belgium, America, and Canada
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#291: Tired, so tired
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#290: Mockingbird
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#289: No news
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#288: Honoured
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#287: Good company
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#286: Cosy up
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#285: Links on data, exploitation, and hunkering down
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#284: Holding on
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#283: Existing in melancholy
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#282: Snowy brain
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#281: Links on recordkeeping and more
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#280: Living by the clock, by the light
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#279: More rest
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#278: 2022 to 2023
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#277: 2022 reads
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#276: Passing the baton
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#275: Assurance
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#274: See also
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#273: Transcripting
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#272: Extremely online
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#271: Promises to self
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#270: Constitutional unconstitutionalism
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#269: Crises abound
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#268: Convo dump
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#267: Serious links™ on work
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#266: Public delivery
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#265: Calls continue
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#264: Work, birds, tech, munipoli
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#263: Technicalities
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#262: Five years!? A thank you
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#261: Holding pattern
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#260: Learning in crisis
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#259: Just the links
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#258: A shout to the wind
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#257: Hot brain links
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#256: Malleable words
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#255: Welcome to the party, pal
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#254: Slow links
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#253: Systems
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#252: Broken social scene—wait, I mean, contract
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#251: Internalized stress
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#250: Decommissioned
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#249: Half caff
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#248: Financialized nesting dolls
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#247: Busy rest
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#246: Climate unpredictability
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#245: L’aride follie del viver mio
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#244: Sunny springtime links
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#243: Anniversary treat
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#242: Forces for good
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#241: Abundant, virtuous futures
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#240: April again
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#239: Spring (tab) cleaning
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#238: Links on ambition, resilient building, and more
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#237: Doing our parts
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#236: Seeking beautiful moments
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#235: Chase the sun (redux)
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#234: War in real-time, in all its ugliness
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#233: Goodbye (?) to the occupiers
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#232: Savouring silence
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#231: Acoustic assaults
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#230: Occupied
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#229: Playing for team public
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#228: Where have the snow days gone
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#227: Melancholy and drama, but peace
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#226: Digging roots
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#225: A few books feed us well
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#224: Staring down the barrel, at least the memes are good
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#223: Fragments
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#222: What we lose
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#221: Outrunning the food coma
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#220: Stories within stories
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#219: Silent commemoration
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#218: One week down
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#217: Surviving November
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#216: Registering intent
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#215: Leaves pass to soil
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#214: A brief rom-com review
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#213: Truer histories
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#212: Star Trek days
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#211: Paths (not) taken
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#210: Little reading
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#209: September, you’re finally here
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#208: Reading and movies
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#207: August free fall
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#206: Democratic event(s)
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#205: Let’s get nerdy
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#204: Cool sunsets
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#203: Parables
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#202: Boredom, boiling frogs, and miscellany
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#201: Summer dreaming
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#200: “You give me life”
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#199: Loading
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#198: Cooking, staying hungry
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#197: Responding to violence
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#196: Doors Open (online)
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#195: 215 children
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#194: What’s on the mind
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#193: Lilacs
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#192: The world is cool
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#191: Anniversaries
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#190: To what grounds us
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#189: Furious, heartbroken—but not surprised
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#188: Daydream believer
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#187: Sunshine escape
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#186: Rainy day people
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#185: Spring—change, or not
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#184: On we go
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#183: Reporting thoughtfully
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#182: Keeping it light
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#181: Close to home
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#180: Another day older, closer to the grave
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#179: Chase the sun
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#178: Coding by any other name
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#177: Gettin’ sauced
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#176: Working (again)
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#175: This week in anti-democracy…
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#174: Zoom zoom
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#173: Revisiting
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#172: Five books for the year
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#171: Ugh, algorithms
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#170: PolySeSouvient
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#169: Waiting
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#168: Adventuring
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#167: For the love of knowledge
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#166: Trivial links
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#165: Blowing hot air
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#164: Argh
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#163: On Mi’kmaw waters
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#162: A sense of perspective
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#161: Leafing through
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#160: Books at hand
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#159: COVID crime
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#158: Rainy morning adventures
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#157: Maintenance, care, attention
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#156: Week in review
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#155: TV time and world-building
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#154: Remembering (how) to relax
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#153: Roads
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#152: Rain day thoughts
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#151: Some links
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#150: Virtual community
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#149: Snapshots of the week
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#148: Halfway through 2020
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#147: One link to listen
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#146: Heat, work, history
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#145: Who’s watching?
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#144: What to say
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#143: A difficult week
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#142: To your taste
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#141: New shelves
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#140: In memoriam
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#139: Beautiful words
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#138: Wordy cookbooks
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#137: Day off reading
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#136: Parliament carries on
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#135: Personal websites
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#134: Do nothing struggles
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#133: Sims
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#132: Now so fast, history so slow
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#131: Finding focus
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#130: 2x3 links (misc, archives) and a phrase
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#129: Spring, feelings, readings
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#128: Family time
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#127: Collected links
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#126: Mining my messages
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#125: Facilitating access
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#124: Snow slow
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#123: Retreat to the wholesome
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#122: Archives and walking and links
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#121: Engage!
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#120: This year’s books
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#119: Top shelf (think books, not booze)
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#118: Thirty years later
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#117: Principles of parliamentary practice
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#116: Web links
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#115: P-p-p-policy!! (Or, what Lucas does at work)
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#114: A parliamentary (precinct) tour
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#113: Stories beyond the data
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#112: Public service
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#111: Functions of a living situation
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#110: The sites I visit
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#109: The slump
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#108: Models for decision and action
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#107: A drop-in space
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#106: Bookmark finds
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#105: Travelling in place
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#104: Through the eyes of another
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#103: Structure
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#102: A geography of intentional sound
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#101: Happy days
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#100: Living principles
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#99: Levels of critical digital work
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#98: Questions for learning
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#97: Digital government and civic tech
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#96: Opera
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#95: Let’s take a walk
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#94: Words and links
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#93: Accessible public spaces
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#92: A working carrying capacity
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#91: Doors Open
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#90: Walking toward a social summer
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#89: Three blobs of words
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#88: Grounding history
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#87: A day off
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#86: Look up
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#85: Valuing openness
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#84: Thinking frames
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#83: Boomer empowerment
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#82: Making time for music, for silence
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#81: A family day
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#80: Communicating depth
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#79: The signs
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#78: I, you, we (maybe?)
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#77: Words I avoid
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#76: The 80s and links
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#75: Standing in place
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#74: When you want to get out and read
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#73: The wholesome social network
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#72: Libraries, physical and digital, visible and invisible
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#71: Rockeuses, and leaders as facilitators
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#70: What we remember, and why
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#69: Returning home and time’s triptych
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#68: Reading (and writing) heals
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#67: Speeches from the throne, thinking tools
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#66: Scattered
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#65: Working and rest
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#64: No choice
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#63: Competing priorities at Laurel Creek Conservation Area
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#62: Blogroll
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#61: Thinky thinky
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#60: Thinking geographically
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#59: Three pairs of links
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#58: Digital history and digital humanities
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#57: Thanksgiving break
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#56: Dropping in
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#55: Communities of care
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#54: Repeated experiences
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#53: Writing in books, a personal history
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#52: A year in (review)
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#51: Learning and escaping through simulation
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#50: We shape the land
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#49: Learning languages, loving words
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#48: Cool recipes for a hot day
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#47: Turn to the local
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#46: Heat
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#45: Humbly human
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#44: Working (remotely)
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#43: Centennial
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#42: Creative constraints
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#41: Historically minded
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#40: A quantified, incentivized life
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#39: Here I go again!
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#38: Pacifism
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#37: Working (together)
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#36: Science fair!!
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#35: Working
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#34: Portable pasta party kit
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#33: Keep going
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#32: Season 2, episode 22
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#31: Regularly local
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#30: M*A*S*H
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#29: On the environment
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#28: Robots!
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#27: Editing
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#26: Presenting work
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#25: The importance of internet access
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#24: Ode to the road
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#23: Some links
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#22: Life is long
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#21: Complex, connected problems
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#20: Profiles and interviews
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#19: Thinking about time
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#18: “Feed”
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#17: Constant questions
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#16: Three welcome books
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#15: Small victories
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#14: Our faves are problematic
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#13: The Seven Year Itch
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#12: Bye Bye Birdie
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#11: What’s a personal bio good for?
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#10: Research reading
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#9: Modern monopolies
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#8: Civic tech
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#7: A revealing week
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#6: Veritable listening
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#5: Newsletter recommendations
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#4: Loving libraries
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#3: Conversational contributions
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#2: Questioning labels
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#1: Earthworming