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I blocked off the entire afternoon to renew my driver’s license today, assuming it would take hours. Last time I was able to renew online, but this time I had to come in person. Still, they have this online system where they send you your time slot. After I registered, I got a text saying to […]

The fair and industrious Trudy clears the dining room table, making room for her computer and the stack of paperwork necessary for the annual ritual of doing the taxes. “Honey?” she asks. I am sitting in the other room reading about vector space direct sums and thinking about cosets, because I’ve never been happy with […]

1. A Moon/Venus False Start The thinest possible slice of moon was hanging in the western sky next to the brightly shimmering light of Venus. Both were shrouded in a foggy mist, and the black sky of night was glowing with globular halos around both… Wait. You don’t want to hear about this. This is […]