Upon Seeing Hurricane Irma, I said IRMAHGERD!!!

Pun with hurricane name? CHECK!

Pun with Ermahgerd? CHECK!

Killing two words with one pun? CHECK!

Don’t underestimate this one, folks! It’s not only the strongest hurricane ever measured, it’s one with a female name that causes lots of people to underestimate its power on sexist views about female names, which leads to more average deaths per hurricane! (CNN)

If you had to rename where you currently live, what would you call it?

Renaming something so common as where you live, unless you’ve just moved there for school, work or something, is going to take a little use getting used to the new name.

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What question would you ask if you could get an answer to it?

This should be fun to not only contemplate, but frame to get the exact answer and/or as much in the answer as possible!

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Should We Tax Robots Taking Away Jobs?

Bill Gates said last winter that he thought robots taking away human jobs should be taxed.

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On to Hoffmann Academy Free Piano Lessons

As of today, 3 weeks after taking up James Rhodes’ methods to learn JS Bach’s Prelude in C, BWV 846, I’ve generally gotten it down to play the notes all the way through without mistakes. I’ll need lots more practice to get some feelings, dynamics, and such into it to make it sound better, but I can do that 3 minutes at a time if I wanted to now, having memorized it and being able to play it well enough to have people think it’s beautiful. All credits to Bach, though, cause my playing ain’t doing the music any favours. That’s how good it is! So on with the show!

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