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Let’s step back in time for a moment if you will so indulge me. There was a time when I befriended a girl, not necessarily because we had a ton in common, but because we were working in the same place and were one of the few women under 30. Over the course [...]

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Perusing a fairly mundane post on office hijinks earlier today, I followed a much less mundane post that is both hilarious and scary at the same time. Namely, the link is for a product that mea ignoramus believes can only come out of Japan, because, well, that’s the kind of quirky shit that comes out [...]

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Some years ago, I took a couple months of Pekiti Tirsia (PT), which is a system of Escrima generally ignored by even hardcore martial arts enthusiasts. In part, this is because PT, like Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, has a closely regulated advancement system. Unlike Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, however, it lacks a large instructor pool, and is practically non-existent [...]

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I’m not sure if discussing sports on the Mendax site is against some unspoken rule, but I’m going to stick my neck out there and see what happens. I haven’t really cared about sports in a long time. In fact, the last time I really cared about what happened in sports was when [...]

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Despite the fact that the San Francisco bay area is plagued with an infestation of dirty hippies, there are actually a few really great things about it that make me think I could actually live here. Then, as always seems to be the case, the city of San Francisco goes and gets all politically [...]

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