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The Dave Brown Journal: August 2013
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Friday, August 9, 2013. Today I learned that my grandfather Earl Brown has died at the age of 94. He managed to avoid ever having a real two-way conversation with me for my entire life. That's just part of the way he was with me, he was a relentlessly practical person and I'm not. We all open up differently to different people, and I know that in some settings and with some people he was far more gregarious. But I think there was a time when Granddad reached out to me. That's the guy," I said. We talked ...
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The Dave Brown Journal: May 2013
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Thursday, May 30, 2013. The World's Most Socially Oblivious Man. Last night I met the World's Most Socially Oblivious Man. I defy you to present anyone who is even a contender against this person. Here is the story. To protect the sensibilities of bosses and girlfriends, I am using pseudonyms for everyone except me. Skeletor showed up last to Brian's place, cornered Brian in the kitchen, and launched into a convoluted story that took about 15 minutes. From the snippets I overheard, it was partly abou...
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The Dave Brown Journal: A Practical Man
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Friday, August 9, 2013. Today I learned that my grandfather Earl Brown has died at the age of 94. He managed to avoid ever having a real two-way conversation with me for my entire life. That's just part of the way he was with me, he was a relentlessly practical person and I'm not. We all open up differently to different people, and I know that in some settings and with some people he was far more gregarious. But I think there was a time when Granddad reached out to me. That's the guy," I said. We talked ...
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The Dave Brown Journal: February 2008
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008. This morning I got an email from one of the religious leaders who spoke at a colloquium I wrote about last week. I opened it with some trepidation, because it was from the one I had disagreed with most emphatically. But I needn’t have worried:. If your answer is none, then our discussion will be very short. If you have some type of criteria, then we can progress from there. Sincerely yours. Ataul LaHaye. I read the attachment Mr. LaHaye refers to. I am probably going...In co...
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The Dave Brown Journal: December 2007
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007. The RCMP and the death of Robert Dziekanski. My cop friend in Penticton sent me this article. First, I must admit that I have not watched the video of Dziekanski's death. I saw Faces of Death in university and once was enough. For another thing, I've found it's best not to write in a state of moral outrage. So I am going only by media reports, and by what I've heard from people who have watched it. A former Vancouver policeman. Also, there is a distinction between force and.
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The Dave Brown Journal: August 2007
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Saturday, August 11, 2007. When I am elected emperor, the following things will be outlawed. No, you do not. So you're lying, at least half the time, and that makes me want to crash into you. So really, what the sign should say is, "Look at me, I have successfully reproduced! Pennies, nickles and dimes. My hatred for them was honed to a sharp, bright, angry blade by this CBC story. But we're still making over $8 million a year in pennies, because people aren't returning them to circulations, they're.
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The Dave Brown Journal: June 2007
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Thursday, June 28, 2007. When I was travelling, I wrote so much and with such joy that I just knew I'd come home and do it forever. Instead, I came home and, in the intervening five years, have written four times. It used to bother me when friends and family asked why I wasn't writing anymore. Now it bothers me that they don't. Second time, I read my dad's. It was actually pretty good, I wonder if he's still writing it. Third time, I found out my girlfriend was cheating on me. So my sample is...But I am ...
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The Dave Brown Journal: July 2007
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Once in a while something funny enough happens in graphics to be funny to people who have nothing to do with it. I went to a factory this morning to put up some vinyl on an office window. It's something you see everywhere if you're looking, it makes the window look as if it's etched, and you can cut it into whatever shape you want. In this case, it's a grid-like pattern designed by my long-time friend, an old ski-club chum turned interior designer. How grateful,' said a small bu...
