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Hunger versus comfort: How I lost 45 pounds in three months.

April 5, 2011

This is a short story of how I lost 45 pounds in three months Hunger, for most of us in the U.S. isn’t a real feeling – or at least few of us can readily say we ever really felt hunger. Comfort – or the lack thereof – would be the closest thing to hunger [...]

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Downtown Bakersfield is atrophying: A photo study

July 24, 2010
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Excuse the size of this post. I wanted the pictures to be large. The Kern Photography Association got together for their second annual photo walk this morning. Lots of nice people and lots of nice camera equipment descended on the just-after-dawn downtown section of Bakersfield to make images in the coolest time of the day. [...]

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Juror, you are not selected

June 2, 2010

Slumped in a chair in the corner, a morbidly obese man in his late thirties snored sporadically in between incomprehensible giggles from Katie Lee on the Today show. Between the noises, I couldn’t read. I couldn’t brainstorm. I couldn’t write. Everything was just loud enough to contend for my attention every few seconds. I was at [...]

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I don’t mind riding on the passenger side

May 22, 2010

On our way to the central Calif. coast yesterday, I had a chance to be a passenger. It is so rare that my attention is away from the road ahead and the cars around me. My smartphone’s camera has replaced my point and shoot. I always have it with me, and I can blog from [...]

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This blog post comes to you from my cell phone

May 4, 2010

It isn’t just any phone. It is a smart phone. An HTC Incredible Android OS phone. I just tilt the phone horizontally and a thumb-sized keyboard shows and let’s me type fast enough to make blogging, tweeting and testing easy enough to not call it a chore. This is something amazing because even a short [...]

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