Everyone Loves Larry

Music I Love: 1973

April 12, 2023

Continuing the Music I Love: the 70’s series, here are some songs from 1973. Being somewhat of a music late-bloomer, these were my first years

Music I Love: 1972

April 11, 2023

Continuing the Music I Love: the 70’s series, here are some songs from 1972. Brandy– Looking Glass (1972) This song is a classic that I think

The Diversity of Indigenous American Languages

April 10, 2023

I was having a conversation today and one of the subjects was the variety in languages among American Indians. And by ‘American’ here, I mean

Music I Love: 1971

April 10, 2023

Continuing the Music I Love: the 70’s series, here are some songs from 1971. Baba O’Riley– The Who (1971) If you listened to the song, you’d

Music I Love: 1970 (and from the 60’s too)

April 9, 2023

I was born in 62, but I don’t really remember too much about music from the 60s. A few 60’s songs that I became aware

Reference Photo

April 8, 2023

So this is my reference photo, taken on April 3, 3rd day of being off Gleevec. The medicine has caused my face to swell, which

Excited Greetings

April 7, 2023

Every Sunday morning I go to a coffee shop called Coffee Code. Picking up a cappuccino on mornings is one of my pleasures, and I’ll

Funny Stories: When I Beat a Chess Prodigy at Chess

April 4, 2023

My nephew, at around 9-10 years old, discovered he was somewhat of a chess prodigy. He started beating everyone in his path, and soon enough,

Funny Stories: The Gift that Keeps On Giving

April 3, 2023

In one of my Dad’s later years, he was in the beginning stages of dementia and also having a hard time getting around. On my

March 2023 Reading

April 2, 2023

1Q84 Haruki Murakami (2010) “Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. If you belong to the majority, you

“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.

EVERYONE LOVES LARRY

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