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The Perfect Hotel Room

By alex | Published: 3/18/2013
I‘ve spent enough time in hotel rooms over the last few years that I have a pretty good idea of what the ideal room would be like. My ideal is probably different from many others, but I suspect it isn’t that different. In order of importance: Clean: I mean really clean. I’ve been in too [...]
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Seminar WordPress Stack

By alex | Published: 1/7/2013
In setting up another CommentPress site for teaching this semester, I realized that I’ve evolved a set of plugins I like to use each semester, and it might be helpful to let others know about them. I’ll post later about how I use these. There are lots of other things I would like to try, [...]
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Unresolved this new year

By alex | Published: 1/1/2013
I have learned a lot in 2012. It’s easy to forget things accomplished, and realize how much you didn’t do. I didn’t get in better shape–quite the opposite. I didn’t produce nearly the amount (or quality) of research I might have wanted. I didn’t make a huge sum of money. I wasn’t the best sort [...]
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A Wedding

By alex | Published: 10/11/2012
Last weekend we returned briefly to New York City to attend the wedding of my godfather, Glen, and his partner of nearly two decades, Gino. It was a beautiful ceremony, and a wonderful reception at the Loeb Boathouse. It felt very traditional to me, though in one way, I suppose, it was not traditional. To [...]
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