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Music Weekend (2 of 13)

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Preface to all posts: in an effort to get me out of a lifelong rut of avoiding humans and events at all costs, some friends are having me spend the weekend at a musical event. I’m driving very extensively and will be largely offline, so I’m putting up some Very Best of Slope posts in my absence. See you Monday morning!

Ex Squeeze Me

I had an interesting little experience the other day which reminded me of a post I wrote a decade ago.

Here in my beloved home of Palo Alto, we’ve got a shopping center that has been around for decades called Town & Country. I had to run an errand down there, so I had to make a quick decision whether to take the Tesla or just pile all my dogs into my other (not-as-nice) car. The dogs were eager for a drive, so I decided to slum it and take the non-Tesla instead.

I arrived at the shopping center, parked, ran my errand, and got back to my car. I put it in reverse and started backing out.

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Music Weekend (1 of 13)

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Preface to all posts: in an effort to get me out of a lifelong rut of avoiding humans and events at all costs, some friends are having me spend the weekend at a musical event. I’m driving very extensively and will be largely offline, so I’m putting up some Very Best of Slope posts in my absence. See you Monday morning!

The Effect of Asset Inflation on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

A bicycle ride gave me some clarity, and I wanted to share those thoughts with you now. And the clarity wasn’t a total accident. I was going to run an errand on my bike, and I told myself as I got on, “I’m going to think about asset inflation on this ride.” In this absurdly controlled market, one has to strive to create decent content, so I decided to put my mind to work.

So I took off. I love my neighborhood. I took a few moments of video on my bike to show how pleasant it is. Just block after block of this:

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T-Bone Steak

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A woman crashed into me at full speed on Friday at 12:12 in the afternoon just two blocks from my home. She lives in this neighborhood and seems like a perfectly nice person. Married. Three grown children. Nice house. Nice car. But…………perhaps distracted at the wrong moment. I’m not sure yet, although when I get my car back, I’m eager to see if one of its cameras recorded the incident. This is what the interior of my car looked like shortly after I was t-boned.

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Pillar of Salt

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Allow me to introduce you to a neighbor of mine: Mr. Robert Wenzlau, who lives in the quite posh neighborhood of Crescent Park in my fair city of Palo Alto, California. Bob is a pillar of the community. He is a husband, a father, and a grandfather. He is 67 years old, but he is not retired. He is still the CEO and Founder of Terradex, an environmental services company he started, which aligns with decades of work he has performed to use science to help the environment. Here is Bob receiving one of his many awards and recognitions.

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Listen to the Music

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This topic seems appropriate, considering how much music I listened to in the car during our multi-day eclipse journey. (We played a bespoke list of songs having to do with the sun, the moon, and eclipses; I know, sad, right?) We spent a lot of time in Austin, which is actually WAY weirder than Palo Alto ever was, and we visited one of the bigger vinyl record shops in town, which to me felt like the old days of hanging out at Tower Records. It’s heartening to see that old-fashioned vinyl albums are having a renaissance.

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