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Writing

Happy Tutor fangirl

I am becoming such a fan of Happy Tutor. In particular, today’s (and yesterday’s) posting on Writing of Injustice grabbed my attention and my thoughts. It takes a rare talent to put forth such thoughtful prose wrapped, but not obscured, in a cloak of humor.

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Just Shelley

Mellow out, or burn out

No matter how strongly you feel on a subject, at a certain point you either mellow out, or burn out. Moth to a flame. We circle our inner passions, beating at the fire with our wings, driving in air to make the flames leap higher. At some point, if we continue this feeding of the […]

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Just Shelley

Gatekeepers

I wrote this on the 6th of March. Not sure why I didn’t post it then. One of those things. However, I looked at it again today and decided that today was a good day to post it. Leaving the parking garage for my lunch appointment on Tuesday, I found the exit blocked, yet again, […]

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Diversity Just Shelley People

Stand and Fight

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received a BS in computer science, the first one within a specific sub-discipline (programming languages and compiler design) that was issued at the college I attended. I also received a BA in psychology — emphasis on industrial psychology. I took courses for both disciplines at the same time, usually […]

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Just Shelley

Cold day in San Francisco

It must a cold day in San Francisco tonight as I have a case of the shakes and can’t seem to warm up. Of course, cold in San Francisco is all relative — it’s probably a brisk 50F here tonight. Maybe that cold feeling is from looking at a web site, Explore North with information about driving […]