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Thank you all!
« on: November 23, 2023, 03:08:29 PM »
Thank you all for your knowledge, wisdom and tolerance!

The word "community" has been utterly hijacked. Malcolm Gladwell invites me to join "the Pushkin community" for just $10/month. This is the one place that feels like an actual online community to me and I thank you all for that!

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2023, 06:41:34 PM »
 :)
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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2023, 09:09:58 AM »
I saw the title and I was nervous for a moment as I thought you were about to retire the keyboard on us.  Glad you are not!

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2023, 03:26:57 PM »

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2023, 09:36:42 PM »
That's quite a trip down Memory lane.

I'm 195lbs. (88kg) at 52 years old now (and still trying to figure things out). 

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2023, 09:49:09 PM »
Other than a post you made in Mods naming forum categories, that's the 1st post is this episode of Th3core. 

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2023, 07:32:32 PM »
thought you were about to retire the keyboard on us.

Certainly not. The Core is a bright spot of moderate and intelligent conversation in a world where everyone seems to be yelling.

Strangely, if I sit down to write a blog post, I run out of steam in a couple hundred words. I set out to write a couple hundred words on the Core and two thousands words later realize I’ve gotten rather carried away. I’m much more intellectually stimulated by the discussion format than I am sitting alone thinking. As long as y’all tolerate my long-winded rants , I’ll keep at it :-)

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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2023, 07:48:21 PM »
>I set out to write a couple hundred words on the Core and two thousands words later realize I’ve gotten rather carried away.

That's the way a lot of things work; the internal pressure and expectation hobbles the flow. 

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2023, 01:34:26 AM »
>> rants

I treasure your rants.  :)

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2023, 07:10:39 AM »
And Keep doing hard things :)
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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2023, 03:29:48 PM »
Like wise Tom. I truly enjoy coming here and talking to you guys whom I consider my good friends all around :)
Thank you!

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Re: Thank you all!
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2023, 05:19:42 PM »
>> I treasure your rants.  :)

Well, you may be the last person on the planet still wearing a Taken For Ranted t-shirt ;-) I don't think even I have any left.

>> hard things

Still plenty of challenge coins though if anyone wants one. Those came long after retiring The Ranter persona... somewhere around 2005 I decided that there was no shortage of ranting on the web. I did come up #1 for "bush is evil" for a couple of years even though that phrase never appeared on my blog, but once things started going poorly in the wars, there was a lot of competition suddenly.