Monthly Archives: June 2017

At the intersection of exercise and nerdiness

Posted on June 21, 2017 by José Iriarte

[CW: exercise, fitness, possibly diet, possibly body image] [Please don’t give me unrequested advice. Talking about exercise, fitness, and body image in a public setting is incredibly vulnerable-making for me, and well-intentioned advice is more likely to prove damaging than … Continue reading →

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Embrace the great YMMV

Posted on June 20, 2017 by José Iriarte

I unfollowed a writer on twitter the other day, in an act of self-preservation. Not a bad guy in any way, but he kept tweeting a sentiment I found artistically damaging. Over the course of several days, he kept tweeting … Continue reading →

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Oh hey, Cuba’s in the news again

Posted on June 17, 2017 by José Iriarte

There’s a certain specific kind of cognitive dissonance I experience every time Cuba’s in the news: when [some] people who share my liberal views lose their ability to do nuance, and start to glorify the Castro regime. (It’s the mirror … Continue reading →

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Giving RENT a second chance

Posted on June 11, 2017 by José Iriarte

I love theatre, and I love musicals. My spouse and I used to perform in our local community theatre troupe, before toxic politics sank it. So gosh, I should really like Rent, right? I like a lot of the songs, … Continue reading →

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Take a swim on the wild side

Posted on June 10, 2017 by José Iriarte

My family and I just spend a week at Madeira Beach, which near as I can tell is halfway between Clearwater and St. Pete Beach. We’ve stayed at the beach before, but for some reason we had a lot more … Continue reading →

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Your AHCA Math Lesson

Posted on June 8, 2017 by José Iriarte

Every year at some point I end up teaching about mean versus median as measures of central tendency. The mean has the advantage of representing all the data points, but that same advantage can be its weakness, of there are … Continue reading →

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What are YOU gonna sing?

Posted on June 7, 2017 by José Iriarte

I’ve blogged before about how much I enjoy karaoke. I’ve been enjoying it more, recently, after a year or two during which I felt my range substantially diminish. I’ve been working on strengthening my voice and it seems to be … Continue reading →

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Pretending to still love them

Posted on June 5, 2017 by José Iriarte

There’s this weird thing about being a selling writer that is obvious in retrospect, but that I totally didn’t see coming. When I write my stories, I feel varying levels of excitement about each one. But on some level, I … Continue reading →

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Giving thanks for 5Calls.org, or, How Donald Trump is making me a better citizen

Posted on June 2, 2017 by José Iriarte

Not too long ago, somebody I followed on Twitter was wondering basically where and how our dystopian novel hero would arise. A decade or so ago it seemed we were getting fed a steady diet of dystopian young adult novels … Continue reading →

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