New York Times runs just 1000 names of the nearly 100,000 Americans who have already died from COVID-19

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Looking forward to Part 2 of #PPTPlaytime’s production “The Rivals” (live… now!)

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Dogmeat and I may yet win this game.

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Leveling up my skills in #blender3D.

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I just bought Diamond City.

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The Rivals #PPTPlaytime

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On a little afternoon walk with my son.

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Every few years, I Google the name of the kid who saw “The Empire Strikes Back” the night it opened, and blurted out the big spoiler during gym class.

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And you thought your last teleconference was rough!

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It was Mrs. White with the revolver in the ballroom. #winning

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In May, 2000, I was blogging about the ‘I Love You’ virus, hacking URLs, PG Wodehouse, and Pez poetry

In May, 2000, I was blogging about The “I Love You” IRC virus A college that shifted to online applications only A poem about Pez that has lodged this couplet forever in my brain: What art thou, Pez, that must needs be dispensed? T’ be merely wrapped would leave thee so incensed? Hacking the URL…

Jaw-dropping moments of insight and humanity. So funny, so edgy, so affirming! I did not expect #PPTPlaytime “The Boougie Gentleman” to play me like that. Wow! @thepublicpgh

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