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mostly made of ice cream
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spending your career pursuing knowledge for its own sake is a deal with the devil: the upside is you get to study whatever you want however you want. the downside is that so does your equally tenured but totally wrong-headed neighbor--and the world, almost by definition, doesn't care either way
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(2/2) He asked if I wanted to see, and of course I said yeah. So he pulled up a text with a picture from Guy—a shlubby 40 something Israeli dude—doing a mock risqué photoshoot with the new book. So now when I reread the stories and come across that name I get a good laugh out of it
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(1/2) True Etgar Kerry book-signing story. I asked him why he named so many side characters Guy. He said they’re all named after his best friend. And then he laughed and said Guy actually offered to help promote his book by doing a revealing photoshoot.
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also fun to walk around!
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*hastily scribbles a name down in an old, worn, moleskin notebook*
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glad i was able to change your life
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despite internet appearances, my choice of ice cream on this trip is mostly being driven by convenience (it's a 12 minute walk)
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they were the "cool" kids
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i consulted with my wife who grew up in Lexington and i'm sorry to break the news to you that those weren't the cool kids
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ice cream tour continues below, b/c arethusa is good enough to deserve its own thread
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agree to disagree to agree to disagree
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your heart's in ice cream with cookies and wafers and other fancy and tasteless decorations.
it's okay. you don't have to be ashamed. the heart wants what the heart wants.
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no!
i appreciate your charity (not really i don't), but your heart's not in it
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but i'm not prepared to give up yet. we'll just have to find something else to fight about
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hmm. i wasn't prepared for this.
it really takes the wind out of my troll sails if you just grant my premise
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i'm not questioning your freedom to play with your food, just your taste
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if you feel a need to put a macaron on your ice cream there's a problem with either the ice cream or the user
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what
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abomination
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thanks, i've put it on the list!
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@ gelateria gentile on the upper west side
always a pleasure to catch up with @chrisgorgo.bsky.social
8/10 gelato, 10/10 company
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but it isn't green. it has pistachios. it should be green
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what are those bits in there? some kind of pistachio? where's the sickly green food dye?
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that one was all Claude
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ok but if i'd known there was going to be voting, i would have made up better names!
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thanks for the tips!
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took a few days off to resensitize, and here we are
this is the sampler at SkyIce in Park Slope, Brooklyn
bottom to top: mango, white miso almonds, black sesame seaweed, thai coconut, & ube mascarpone.
all delicious, 9/10. (the rest of the meal, including mango sticky rice, was also very good)
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no ice cream today because i had a large serving of galaktoboureko for lunch, and even i have _some_ shame
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!!
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i guess, but most of philly feels just as safe as any other major us city (which is maybe not saying much). they should hire whoever does the pr for austin
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see and that one wasn't even on my radar
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visited longwood gardens and morris arboretum a few days apart, and they were both incredible (longwood might be the best gardens i've ever been to), and i gather there are like 3 or 4 other world class gardens in the area
they're big gardens, philly, there's room. you can tell people
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anyway, that was yesterday. today i finally broke the streak.
i mean, i had ice cream for a fifth day in a row. but i wasn't in philadelphia.
this is a small serving of honey and cashew caramel ice creams from owowcow creamery in lambertville, NJ
lovely town, pretty good ice cream, 8/10
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i did not, in fact, start cutting back "tomorrow". tomorrow turned into day 4 in a row of philly ice cream
this is gelato from gran caffe l'aquila, though purchased at alice pizza
cannolo and sour cherry flavors
7/10, it was merely delicious
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didn't work out, sadly (went to Morris Arboretum instead, and from there onto NJ). guess we'll just have to come back!
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ah, already past DC, but next time—thanks for the tip!
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good deal! i'll swing by san diego soon as i'm back on the west coast!
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July!
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it's too bad there's no tech company out there with the opportunity and technical capacity to bring human friends together
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still in philly. 3 ice creams in 3 days; i should probably start cutting back a bit. but not today. tomorrow would be better.
this is a double scoop of (1) lemon curd with blueberry basil swirl and (2) malted milk toffee crunch, courtesy of Milk Jawn.
it was good. 8/10, would come back.
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i think you're reading a descriptive observation as a prescription of some kind? i said nothing about how one should treat recent events. i think it's just a (remarkable!) fact that we live in an extremely chaotic universe, and it's easy to forget this. i have no idea what one *should* do with that