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Friday, January 27, 2012 - Casino del Sol, Tucson AZ

Lamb Shank Stew, January 24, 2012
Lamb Shank Stew, January 24, 2012

I'm off

My dear friend Jane is flying in to Tuscon and we're off with my pot of stew to go see what all the ruckus at Quartzsite AZ is about. Something drags the RV crowd out there this time of year and we're going to check it out.

Night camp

Boondocked - Casino del Sol, 5655 West Valencia Rd, Tucson AZ

Skepticism is Helpful

If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.

The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004

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