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    • My favorite words

      • Serendipity

        "Serendipity" is just a lovely word, in sound and meaning. It sounds almost made-up, like something a child would name their imag…

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        gobecky answered on 06/04/2009
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    • How VH1 infiltrated my iPod
        • Viva la Vida by Coldplay

        I don't listen to the radio much, and generally dislike the over-produced dreck they play in Grey's Anatomy and House and such. But I w…

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/22/2009
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    • My short-lived shoplifting career

      • When I was 4 or 5 years old, I embarked on a very short-lived (and inadvertent) life of crime. I used a tiny little manual wheelchair back …

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/18/2009
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    • What I crave...

      • I actually tend to lose my appetite when I'm stressed/sad/anxious/generally unbalanced... I do tend to crave water in those times, and wind…

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/17/2009
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    • Reading 'Ishmael' opened my mind

      • My second year of college I was selected as a Ford Apprentice Scholar through a Ford Foundation grant that allows select institutions to pluck …


      • The book that had the greatest impact on me that year - indeed, the book that set me on my current path - was Daniel Quinn's Ishmael. It…

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/16/2009
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    • Dancing alone

      • It may take two to tango, but no one is forcing you to dance. When I speak my truth in a compassionate way, and the person I'm in relati…

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/11/2009
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    • A real-life Penelope Wilhem

      • As fanciful and witty as this sweet little movie is, the broad strokes of Penelope's life (looking and feeling "different," the m…

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/07/2009
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    • My favorite room

      • I love my office. It actually used to be my brother's bedroom, and then a spare room. When I moved home from college my parents did som…

      • gobecky
        gobecky answered on 02/06/2009
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    • Memories of a teenage geek

      • My first exposure to the internet was in '92... I was 12, and some family friends had Prodigy. I remember them showing us how they could ch…

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        gobecky answered on 02/05/2009
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