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Adam Savage on the Internet: “The internet is far from fulfilling its promise to be the compendium of all human knowledge, it’s more like the outline or the index. But where it shines is in giving people all over the planet the ability to find a peer group of enthusiasts with which to share their…
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I’m reading E.B. White’s Writings from The New Yorker, 1927-1976, edited by Rebecca M. Dale. First, I’ll read the introduction by Dale. Rebecca Dale worked on an independent study project at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1988, where she read all of E.B. White’s New Yorker work. This book is a result of collecting many pieces…
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Time to bring in the big guns! They aren’t perfect to start with but from Violet we’re bringing in Meowscarada, Palafin, Shiny Garchomp, and Shiny Incineroar. From ZA, we’re getting my Charizard for a Solar Power wallbreaker; this way I have two charizards each optimized for the different mega stones. I could bring in my…
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After that horrible run of luck, I did indeed take the entire rest of the day off… from Pokemon entirely. I managed to reset my sleep schedule back to normal too, but I was sluggish and didn’t get back to the game until later in the morning today. The good news is, we can’t do…
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John Koenig starts his 2021 book with a Steven Wright quote (the comedian not the knuckleball pitcher) The book is divided into six sections, likely how I will study this book is to give an overview of each facet of the human experience underrepresented by our common vocabulary: Koenig notes that these words he’s coined…
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Jan Lundeen & Jon Wagner on Why They Wrote Deep Space and Sacred Time: “…we were faced with the universal parental problem of how passively we should admit media fantasies into our family’s cultural life.” At family dinners, they’d find themselves disassembling favorite television shows “to see how they ‘work’ both as pleasure-giving entertainment and…
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I’m digging into Culture Crash, the killing of the creative class, by the late Scott Timberg. One of his early points: We are often caught in the shockwave of current events, if we are so unfortunate to be caught in the wake of their aftermath. This is why I’ve made the conscious choice to remain…
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Back to the Singles Game Clearly the doubles environment is getting pretty powerful, and we’re just not competing on the same level yet. Just as I hoped, we’re facing a basic starter team. Can Rotom Wash, Empoleon, and Dragapult steal us a victory here? I’m not even bringing a Mega, this is more of a…
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Aaron Zheng posted some awesome teams for champions. Complete with rental codes, which unfortunately means you have to acquire all the pokemon and pay a bunch of VP to match the sets and training. But I’m getting lots of ideas. https://youtu.be/Du3AZ5dpIv4?si=hSNsp1AKXp6XxpaF Wolfey also built an awesome team around Mega Froslass. This is on my long…
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I needed a nap so I didn’t get back to champions until the late afternoon. I decided to switch things up and use the auto build team feature to see what the game gives me. I do have Floette. But I’ve decided not to use it just yet. The game told me I should use…