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the weather this weekend rocked. more sun. longer daylight. i can't wait.

is the pope relevant? i mean outside of italy.

my gf is having her eyebrows done. she made an appointment on line. i looked at all the things they wax, pull or otherwise groom. i found the following funny. i've never seen an add for bikini wax. i guess i assumed it was listed as bikini wax and the rest was implied or the specifics were brought up at time of. anyway the service...
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mmmm... coffee. i really dig the ritual of it. i never want it in the morning. but the evening -that's another story. it smells so good. there are all these rituals around tea, but they seem passive. it's the accoutrements and the waiting -seeping, etc. coffee, at least lattes, espressos and the ilk are more mechanical. it's a gear head dream. you grind the beans,...
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a bore is someone who deprives us of our solitude without providing companionship.

----Ortega y Gasset

NYC is the only city that I've felt is like a person -a breathing living entity -like the Gaia theory of the earth but for a city. I have a relationship with it just like one of my friends. Sure the city's a little expensive relative to other places, apartments are small, and a lot of its character is changing now with chain stores moving...
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I've always wondered what makes some people become blown away by someone's beauty and others not. Beauty is not universal. It's a consensus. Statistical averages that suggest a direction. Facial symmetry has something to do with it , as well as, the ratios of the various facial features. (Leaving body types out completely for now.)

For me it's brunette hair. Dark skin has also caused...
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i have this undisciplined thought that what it means to be human can be explained by a linear algebra equation (even though life is likely non-linear). This equation goes something like this: HUMAN = a(f1) + b(f2) + ... a(n)(f(n)). where (f(n)) is some element that contributes to making us human and a(n) is a coefficient for mixing that (f(n)) into HUMAN. The coefficients explain...
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