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Gyp-tarts

February 9, 2023

My breakfast usually consists of coffee and some sort of pastry. On good days, I go to a coffee shop and get a cappuccino and

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January 2023 Reading

January 31, 2023

Il Gattopardo– Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1956) This book has taken me a long time to read. I started a week before Christmas. When a

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More on My Nephew

January 30, 2023

I was over at mom’s on Friday and my little grand-nephew Jeremiah was there. He started off again with a lie. This time he told

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Math for Artists

January 23, 2023

It’s the dumbest thing, but I need to find an example of a long algorithm. I’m making a video for work that mentions a “sophisticated

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Kids and Lies

January 22, 2023

So, I was over at my mom’s this morning as usual on Saturdays. My little great-nephew, Jeremiah, came out. Jeremiah is 5, and one of

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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.