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    • Merry Christmas from BOB!
      Early Christmas Presents!
      Holiday fun launches at MarksOtherThings: LottoLogic lottery picks and a Quantum Magic 8 Ball blending real data, quantum randomness, humor, and healthy skepticism for everyone.
    • A burrito smothered in Red Chile
      The Night I Met Alice
      Burned out, hungry, and running on fumes, I met Alice at a fast-food counter. What happened next reminded me what empathy looks like in the wild.
    • A heart being pierced by a pencil.
      If I could stick my pen in my heart…
      A single throwaway comment can cut deeper than six hundred compliments. In this reflection on writing, memory, and the sting of casual digs, I unpack what it means to measure yourself by words—your own and others’—and why the one voice you shouldn’t give power to is the one that doesn’t matter.
    • A man in a black cowboy hat and long hair sits inside a fort made of Amazon boxes, working on a laptop, surrounded by Diet Coke cans, papers, and a cat. A dusty treadmill stands unused in the background.
      The Needle, The Bots and the Lies I Tell Myself
      A milestone worth noting: 100 pounds lost in a year. But what if the real work hasn’t even started yet?
    • A little grey cat, alone on a porch.
      Porch Cat, 5:18 AM
      Blog Entry #2 2025-06-27, Albuquerque, NM USA The Ghost on My Porch Checked the feed…