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Lotsa Harmonicas!

June 22, 2024June 22, 2024 Allen

Periodically there are local jam sessions featuring harmonica players, aka “Harmonica Parties”. Our friend Arthur has been coordinating these for years. Players of all skill

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Books Writings

Book Notes: Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman

June 16, 2024June 17, 2024 Allen

This little book is another in the series I’ll call “Stolen Moments”–in this case reading the short chapters while reading the streetcar to my local

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Books Learning Writings

Learning to Write Betterer, or Gooder

June 15, 2024June 16, 2024 Allen

Who is this post for? I’ve been studying the following over the past couple of months to help improve my writing. The books aren’t in

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Learning Writings

Puttin’ In The Reps: Be More Creative and Achieve Mastery

June 15, 2024June 16, 2024 Allen

We all know about the importance of repetition in achieving fitness gains, like this person here. But these same principles apply to creative work and

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Fitness Learning

Can ChatGPT (an AI system) design a good fitness routine?

May 29, 2024May 29, 2024 Allen

I’ve been learning how AI systems work (detailed book reviews in the coming weeks!) and I was wondering what kind of workout routine would ChatGPT

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Books Learning Thinking

Improve Your Thinking!

May 23, 2024May 23, 2024 Allen

Logic, or critical thinking, is especially important in this era of a steady stream of information that bombards us every day, and we need help

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Music Visuals

“When I Play a Note, I Mean Business” (guitarist Hubert Sumlin)

May 23, 2024May 23, 2024 Allen

Born In Chicago-The Movie (2020/2023) If you think that blues music is always slow and sad, and mostly an extinct art form–this is the film

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Books Fitness

Book Notes-Outlive-The Science and Art of Longevity (Part 3)

May 17, 2024May 18, 2024 Allen

We will cover this later, but this is a still photo from a Cat/Cow stretch, designed to improve spinal stability. These notes are extracted from

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Books Fitness

Book Notes-Outlive-The Science and Art of Longevity (Part 2)

May 16, 2024May 18, 2024 Allen

Chapter 12-Training 101 In this chapter Dr. Attia gives some high level guidance on how to structure a Training program. He begins by outlining the

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Visuals

More Street Poetry!

May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 Allen

This is a little faded, it was probably painted onto the sidewalk a few weeks ago but I just noticed it today. Find poetrybyboots on

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