2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get …

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100th Follower!

I want to welcome and thank my 100th WordPress follower, Alberto Monnar, who started following my blog today. His website/blog can be found at http://albertomonnar.wordpress.com/. He's from Miami, of Cuban descent, and is a young musician. He's got an interesting bio at http://albertomonnar.wordpress.com/biography-2/. For the life of me, I have no idea what possessed him …

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On a Lack of Book Reviews

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you'll notice I publish a lot of book reviews. Frankly, these are Goodreads reviews I cross post to my blog, but I get a lot of traffic here when I publish book reviews. So you might have noticed I haven't written any in awhile. I wanted to …

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Versatile Blogger Award

I woke up this morning to find that I had been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. Yep, there is such a thing. My blog buddy Dan Harris did this, so thank you Dan! I wasn't sure what to think of it at first. A come on? A scam? Did they want my bank account …

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Arbitrary Diary Excerpt

As I've blogged about lately, I found 16 old diaries of mine, dating from 1984-1992. I've been slowly reading through them. I thought I'd open the one I'm reading to just any page and type out what I wrote for that day. Bear in mind, I was not overly deep as a 20 year old. …

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