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Walkable Cities
How would you design the city of the future? I went to the University of Milwaukee. It’s built straight up. The whole campus is about 8 city blocks. There was enough commerce in the area to entertain a host of college kids. I don’t need a whole city to be that tight but it would…
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Getting Dressed
They say you should dress for the job you want. I haven’t found a way to make a million dollars a year without getting out of my pajamas. Of course I’m not making that by getting dressed and going to Walgreens either so the incentive isn’t great. I have a habit tracking app and one…
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Love not Logic
As I’ve mentioned before I am looking for a divinity that I can feel. A divinity that goes beyond mere words. We think about God and inevitably we end up fighting about God. And when words aren’t strong enough weapons it turns to bloodshed. I don’t want to worship a god that is in collusion…
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My Name is Boring
Where did your name come from? Mark – after the Gospel writer Mark Frederick – after King Frederick the Great Crist – someone in Germany farther back than anyone has done my genealogy literally took on the name of Christ (the “h” was dropped after my forefathers immigrated to the Americas)
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Meaningful Life
What motivates you? I want my life to matter. I want my name in the history books. I want to be approved by God if He does that sort of thing. It is desire and vanity really, and suffering comes from both. But I want my life to be meaningful in as many ways as…
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Movies I Like
Favorite movies One of my all time favorite movies is the Rankin Bass cartoon version of The Hobbit. The new Hobbit movies were just gross. I like The Empire Strikes Back before CGI. I have 1989 copies of the Original Trilogy on VHS. At some point I’m going convert them in MP4 so I can…
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Hot Noon
South Central Wisconsin is hot today. Unusually hot. Whether it is just the weather or the dreaded rise in global mean temperature is one that I sometimes contemplate. But it always comes down to how much people can control versus how much we think we can control. The former is always much smaller than the…
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Not Quite Exhausted
Last night at pharmacy was horrific. We had two designated hitters, a tech and a pharmacist and barely kept our head above water. The other DH was supposed to be on the sales floor. The shift lead in charge of that only had one other CSA. She was pissed that four of the the six…
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Believing in Something
There’s an old adage that goes: if you don’t believe in something you will fall for anything. Some people believe Jesus Saves. Some people believe that It Takes a Village. And some people believe in self reliance. They all have merits. But when it comes right down to it I believe in something else. I…
Latter Day Sinner 