Is Shallowness in the eye of the beholder? @Calnewport #Compare: #TheGunsofWillSonnett #AaronSpellingProductions @abc starring #WalterBrennan

Deep Work (2016) by Cal Newport has me looking at his book as an extended email waiting to be catalogued and recatalogged.

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John Rubens and Cal Newport
December 30, 2018.
Closing out the year. Sober new year?

Sad Times Are Safe Times

John Rubens‏ @raftofwater 30s30 seconds ago

"What are DEMS afraid of?" "Losing votes." #BuildItAnyway #MotherTerese of Calcutta

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#NiagaraFalls by #MoeLarryAndShemp, #The3Stooges

John Rubens‏ @raftofwater now

#LongLiveMY @Twitter account. "Oh yeah! #Selfish Bastard!" "Who's the #selfishbastard?" "#NiagaraFalls!" "Why you!"

New Dress Reveals "Touching" for Evidenciary Purposes

"Don't touch me there." #TheTubesGroup

A Sheath of Fortitude

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Are you bloviating on me?

I wouldn't hear of it.

Would you tweet of it?

Maybe. Blog too...but not probably email.

Myelin?

Myelin sheath too.

Buggers.

Yeah.

They don't care. No one cares.  Is that part of the algorithms?

No, the "metric black hole"*.

Deep Work by Cal Newport at Chapter 2, p. 53

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Cal Newport

What do the Kimmels and Twitter Have In Common with #CalNewport and the emojiqueen?

What's wrong with the #meatball?

"'Albondigas' to you #Guillermo."

@JimmyKimmelLive 🍘#GlobalWarming: Pretend I'm a meatball. "I resemble that remark!"

🍪subtext: [travel and burn gas or eat veggies to defray the effects of global warming on the planet].

Caveat: "[We do not withdraw a food emoji once established]."

"Can the meaning change?"

"Of course."

#BoxingDayQuintatta @ClassicalKUSC #JimSvejda

John Rubens‏ @raftofwater 5s6 seconds ago

Dear @JerryBeller1: I'll let you in on my "secret". If one can #discern appropriately, one can distinguish superstition from false religion from the seed of true religion. #MustardSeedFaith @jack "Don't make me meditate in #Myanmar again." @SpecFicblog @ClassicalKUSC Don't be sad

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@LindseyGrahamSC I think I saw that Ukrainian Scuffler at the Kiev Rally in 2014.

Oh, it's "heated" is it? I guess than somehow includes the #UkrainianParliament scuffle news as normal, everyday #normalcy. "That was then and this is now." @MSNBC & John Rubens on #contemporaneity. #zeitgeist #collective

Guiliani Admits Memory Lapse: Kills Two Birds With One Stone

disclosure: Even though I only practiced law as an active attorney for 7 years, my father was a lawyer and worked in law firms on and off since I was 16. Taking a "side" doesn't have to be emotional, it can be paid for [think #Guiliani]. I don't fault him now. @SteveRubens was

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