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TheTLDRplace

May 18, 2021

Made the changes I had wanted…. the name (and consequently the URL) is changed to TheTLDRplace.  

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Satire and Utopia

May 17, 2021

I just finished reading Thomas More’s 1516 book- Utopia. The book describes an interaction between More and some others in Antwerp, Belgium, where he meets

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Sir Thomas More

May 11, 2021

Been reading through a brief biography of Sir Thomas More, famous for his book Utopia. He lived from 1478 to 1535 and served under Henry

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Social media thoughts

May 10, 2021

I commonly refer to twitter as an online insane asylum. To be fair, I follow politics on twitter, and political twitter is undoubtedly the worst

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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.