Turmoil
There is a lot of turmoil at work right now. An attorney and a law clerk were let go, and then our accountant. I was going
There is a lot of turmoil at work right now. An attorney and a law clerk were let go, and then our accountant. I was going
Listening to some podcasts featuring a trauma psychologist named Sadia Khan, and she mentioned that one of the main things women ought to be looking
So back on April 24, I decided I was going to lose weight. My ideal weight is about 150, and I hadn’t weighed that little
Going to Rome this year has me interested in getting a better grip on Italian history. Since my heritage on my mom’s side is Sicilian,
I was contacted by a friend the other day who is really going through a tough time right now. I won’t go into any details,
Interesting conversation about the developments in AI here: The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Should we press pause on AI? on Apple Podcasts Some of
Reading through Luke in my Bible time and I’m noticing a theme jumping out at me. Luke 13 Fig tree that doesn’t produce fruit- give it
This is the political compass test. The description below is from the website. “Please note that this isn’t a survey, and these aren’t questions. They’re
195 BC. Rome. A motion was brought by the pleb tribunes to repeal the Lex Oppia. The Lex Oppia, brought by Gaius Oppius during the
Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy (1874) I know, you want to say “maddening” rather than “madding”, but that’s not the title. Madding means frenzied. The
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.