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Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. I’m not opposed to driving all the way to Anacortes to find a good meal.

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. Want to read one of the least appealing things I’ve ever seen about bagels?

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. Old Salt Fish & Bagels’ second location in Ballard snuck on me a few weeks ago, and when I tried to catch them before Christmas I was too late.

My relationship is probably not like most of the abusive relationships you talk about. My husband is really, really nice. We split things somewhat equally. He’s gentle and good with the kids. He apologizes when he’s wrong, listens to my feelings, provides me with love and support. Except when I make him mad. And then it’s like a switch gets flipped. Every few months, he becomes really verbally abusive, and he’s slapped me a couple times.

For reasons I can’t entirely explain, I love the CBS show Survivor. I’m somewhere between a fan and a super-fan. (Super-fans have knowledge that I can’t begin to compete with, but I do watch every episode. And I read after-show interviews. And I occasionally text with some former contestants to discuss strategy. And, okay, I listen to some Survivor podcasts. Look, nobody’s perfect.) Last night was the season finale, and it was awesome.

Welcome to our weekend conversation! Many of you have likely already heard the news: Gettysburg Review announced this past week that Gettysburg College would cease the magazine’s publication. On the magazine’s site, Editor Mark Drew posted, After thirty-five years of editorial and publishing excellence, the president of Gettysburg College has decided to end the Gettysburg Review. Lauren [Hohle] and I are understandably devastated. We have been offered a rationale for this decision, but it’s frankly one that neither Lauren nor I understand or accept.

Really, please, OMG, stop Pet peeve time. I’ve had to teach SQL to non-technical people multiple times over the years and everyone who’s ever tried to learn SQL and failed talk about how “joins are hard and scary”. If you were to search online for explanations of SQL joins, yeah, it looks insane. Look at this, just LOOK at it! What really gets me is that the whole mixing of JOINs and Set Theory doesn’t even make sense.

I am neither a Barbie truther nor a Barbie hater. Back when the movie came out, I saw it neither as a sinister woke manifesto nor as a masterwork of crypto-conservative subversion, for the simple reason that I just thought it was kind of a mess. I enjoyed myself; I laughed; there were even some genuinely touching moments. The scene where Barbie is hurt to learn that her 1960s brand of empowerment has long passed its best-by date was poignant in a very telling way.

If you remember the awesome movie Labyrinth by Jim Henson, you’ll probably remember three things from the movie: A young Jennifer Connelly led the movie as a curious adventurer David Bowie starred as a creepy crystal ball-holding madman The weird double-headed guards with the life or death, truth or lie puzzle It turns out, the simple but somehow complicated riddle that many children didn’t stop to think about for longer than 5 minutes was a variation of an old logic puzzle called Knights and Knaves.