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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

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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

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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

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dave

“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.