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Yes, this! Disgusting practices by Mr. Dillan.

John Updike - Rabbit Run I read this on my trip. Given how burnt out and listless I was feeling before I left, it seemed appropriate. Some random thoughts: Updike is a smarter man that I will ever be. He wrote this book when he was 28 and was able to change the tone of American literature. I don't know why, but being in the presence of a genius like this makes me feel like shit. Part of what makes a great writer is a great eye and keen powers of observation. Updike's skill in first seeing, then making the connections in written words that the mind makes when in deep examination is as mesmerizing as his beautiful prose. As if I, or anyone needed a reminder, Rabbit is a lesson of how we all need to be more considerate of others. When we act only at the whim of what we feel, we can cause great, lasting pain. Rabbit, Run reads like a reaction to the superficiality and repression of more animal instincts so inherent and central to mid-20th century modernism. Updike takes a deeper look and is unafraid and comfortable with bringing to light our baser, animistic desires that modernism is able to so effectively hide away. In this way, despite my love of modernism, Updike feels closer to "the truth." 5/5. I was blown away. Updike is a rightfully a literary giant and I look forward to reading the next book in the Rabbit series.

HAHAHA! Greg on a bull!

I am having waaaay to much fun watching Boston lose. Get em, bulls!

https://twitter.com/bballbreakdown/status/854192699838046212 Get your money's worth, coach!

I've been using the Sennheiser Trinity (600/650/800S) with the two ECP amps Doug made for me, the DSHA-3 (work) and DSHA-4 (home).

What in the heck are you talking about, man? The hobby has come quite a ways since the RS1 first came on the scene. http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/GradoRS1.pdf Nuff said.

RS-1? Come on, man! If the Utopia had fit me better, I'd still own it. The Utopia is a master of technicalities, though its not going to please people who like warmer/darker sounding headphones. The soundstage is also quite small. Other than that, they are magnificent.

Happy birthday, Muad'Dib!

The same basically applies to me, just on a smaller scale as I am a tax bracket or two below you. I'm glad its been working for you so far. And yeah Grahame, I agree that AMEX seems to be losing touch. Losing Costco was one very public outward sign of what seems to be internal malaise.

Signed up for a new credit card today because this NYT article (along with other research) convinced me that the Amazon Chase card I've been using for 99% of my spending is not the right one for my shit-head, yuppie millennial lifestyle. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/business/american-express-chase-sapphire-reserve.html?ref=business I am an idiot, but given my travel and restaurant spending the the rewards should more than make up for the annual fee. I've always used a credit card as a cash substitute and I have always paid my cards in full each month. This is 100% about optimizing reward benefits given my spending habits.

I'm psyched as hell to watch the beard-man and the wild-man go at it. That is going to be one heck of a fun 1st round series. Once we get to the 2nd round things should really heat up.

Rogue One and Force Awakens have set the bar so fucking low that this one has to be good, right?

Awesome! I'll be rooting for the Jazz too, but the Clips are going to be a tough out with CP3 and Blake healthy. LA Live/Staples is a damn nice place to see a game.

https://cleaningtheglass.com/why-are-these-games-different-from-all-other-games/ On why the NBA playoffs are so much fun: "[There are] three important ways that the playoffs are different from the regular season: they are more intense, they are more strategic, and they are more exhausting."

We have chosen.... poorly.

Gotta love the culture-wars!

Reading through some of Richard Rhodes' (phenomenal) books on the development of the Atomic Bomb and Hydrogen Bomb taught me that Nuclear Power and Nuclear Power Plants are tremendously complicated issues that are woefully misunderstood by the general public. I can understand the fervor of the anti-nuclear movement as well as fervor of the pro nuclear side. The Fukushima disaster, unlikely as it was, seems to have ended the prospects of new nuclear power plant construction in the 1st world. Sucks for Toshiba, but that is the way the cookie crumbles. -- Good thing we have Rick Perry in charge of the Department of Energy. A man who didn't even know what the DoE did.

His Chapelle show skits with Rick James and Prince were all-timers! "I'm Rick James, Bitch! Fuck Yo Couch!" RIP

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

New MacBook instead? I have the touch-bar model and, while it certainly has some quirks, it is a fantastic machine. If you don't need workstation class hardware the MBPs are awfully nice to use. I use mine attached to an external monitor/keyboard/mouse like so:

Pooooooooooooooooooochinki!

POOOOOOOOCHINKI!

On my way to go hear Michael Lewis speak at the Marin Civic Center. I think I've read about half his books so yeah, big fan!