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Douglas K
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software mechanic

decades of mumbling at dkretzmann.blogspot.com
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a heronry, full of birds with strong loud opinions fully expressed..
dead trees standing in a lake, dozens of blue heron nests atop the trees imagine a grimdark soundtrack of groans, squarks, grumbles and general complaint from the herons
July 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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latest research is unequivocal - more money means more happiness, everywhere and at all times, in the modern world.
Sadly..

www.nber.org/papers/w18992

phys.org/news/2023-03...
graph of life satisfaction and income, showing monotonically increasing satisfaction with increasing income
July 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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canoeing, always worth it..
view from the back of a canoe, still morning water and snowcapped peaks in the far distance
June 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Karasu bridge from 2nd century or so, now

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hpt...
ruins of a Roman bridge over a tributary of the Euphrates, the Karasu bridge
June 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I am sorry..
Judith Butler on mourning,
When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we are undergoing something temporary, that mourning will be over and some restoration of prior order will be achieved. But maybe when we undergo what we do, something about who we are revealed, something that delineates the ties we have to others, that shows us that these ties constitute what we are, ties or bonds that compose us. It is not as if an “I” exists independently over here and then simply loses a “you” over there, especially if the attachment to “you” is part of what composes who “I” am. If I lose you, under these conditions, then I not only mourn the loss, but I become inscrutable to myself. Who “am” I, without you? When we lose some of these ties by which we are constituted, we do not know who we are or what to do. On one level, I think I have lost “you” only to discover that “I” have gone missing as well.
June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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walked past this house in Boulder, I think a flower wizard lives there..
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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this is basically my goal every year.. walking a lot in the summer, and fall, and..
cascade of a mountain creek in fall, boulders, yellow aspen and evergreens
April 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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some time ago,
two children in red folding chairs, sitting halfway up a red sandstone cliff, reading Calvin and Hobbes
March 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Private equity executing a perfect reverse Midas, as usual. everything PE touches turns to shit.
terminator robot labelled 'private equity' stalking through a room where a small terrified person labelled 'everything' is hiding
March 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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to be fair, it's not Swest throwing it all away, it's their management at the PE firm.
terminator robot labelled 'private equity' stalking a terrified young person hiding under a desk labelled 'everything'
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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good choice.. here's our green Sienna adventuremobile..
green Toyota Sienna with a green canoe, parked in a brown dirt campsite lot, green mountain in the background
February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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up on the Continental Divide, hard to tell but I am in fact having a wonderful time..

a small beautiful brook trout caught later that day, returned with thanks
elderly gentleman plodding along the Continental Divide trail near Jones Pass, having a wonderful time, in the subalpine tundra with mountain ranges in the background brook trout, orange belly, fins bright orange trimmed with black and white, body dark green spotted with red and yellow background river rocks and a split cane fly rod
February 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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my gutter cleaning company got PE'd, now I get weekly emails, we found a problem in your gutters please call ! send money ! etc.
February 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Bully's avatar reminds me, I have always identified with Ferdinand the Bull..
whenever I need a name for testing things in data, I use Ferdinand Bull..

ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/...
cover of book The Story of Ferdinand, a bull smelling a flower
February 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Cozumel ocean side, turtle track..
turtle tracks on beach sand
February 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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a socially acceptable way for me to collect glitter and tinsel and shiny feathers ;-)
Gray Ghost trout streamer fly, orange silk wrapped in tinsel body, golden pheasant under and overwing, peacock strands underwing, gray hackle wing, jungle cock eye over shoulder of silver pheasant body feather
February 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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+1 swam across Iceland when we visited, it was fabulous, a pool everywhere..
This apparently was the first Olympic-size pool in Iceland, swam there too..
the first Olympic-size pool built in Iceland at Hveragerdi - Laugarskard, blue pool between green banks in a valley below a mountain ridge
February 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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a saltwater flat, green water over sand below blue sky and scattered white cloud
January 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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carve it on our gravestones..
screenshot of text from Prof. Paul Krugman, on leaving the NYT : "it became clear to me that the management I was dealing with didn’t understand the difference between having an opinion and having an informed, factually sourced opinion."
January 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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my office, looming horribly over the Holy Ghost Church..
don't often go to the office, when I do it's on the morning/evening train..
skyscraper at 1999 Broadway Denver, looming over a church in the yellow light of evening against a darkening blue sky
January 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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the weiner castle..
nameplate for Heiner Castle
January 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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January 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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three of them in one bad picture, fabulous little beasts..
a trout stream with snowy banks, 3 birds ouzels (dippers) disposed around the scene
January 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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a congeries of Western Grebes and coots on a reservoir below the wall
January 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM