balding_n_tired

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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I disagree. It's a lot easier not to go to Nevada than it is to pick up and move someplace where you prefer the voting system.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
There is an interesting chapter in _Excellence Without a Soul_ by Harry Lewis, suggesting that garde inflation is less a problem that widely believed. You could look it up.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
1. Isn't this a repost? 2. Maybe the plumber didn't feel like chatting while he worked.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I worked with a programmer who was legally blind. He used speech-recognition software plus some sort of display software that blew each character up to about 10" x 6".
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Many years ago a neighbor of ours, riding his son's motorcycle at something around walking pace, collided with his daughter's bicycle, and fell off on his head. He died, she got away with a broken arm.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Certainly you can, but I find that bookstores generally don't, and I don't at home--force of habit.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
You might want to Google for C.J. Date's essay on the problems with "intelligent keys".
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I have written a certain amount of Javascript this year to run on Windows machines. This was because a) I needed the scripts to run on Windows, b) I did not wish to have to install another language (say Python) on the machines, c) I really
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
You could change the NFL a great deal by changing the substitution rules, and making players play both ways as they commonly did before about 1960. You'd probably see the linemen come down to about linebacker size, and the skill positions t
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Elite runners can take enough out of themselves that the recovery is much longer. Recreational runners--well, I used to be able to do two or three every fall. Hell, I knew a guy who would run one a week. He drove race directors crazy, becau
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I was a decent recreational runner in my late 20s. But pain tolerance is not "the difference", just "a difference". I do not have the classic marathoner's frame, and at above 60 miles per week, I would start to feel twinges here and there,
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Gee, I'm a 40+ Perl programmer. But Amsterdam is a few time zones away...
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"There is one Phillips screwdriver in my house." How many screws do you strip by not having the right size of Phillips screw driver? How many more can you not engage? Or have you gone really minimal and guaranteed that you have only one siz
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Washn't this posted from the original blog already?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
A fellow I know who works for Goodwill remarked on the folks with scanners some time back. My impression was that he thought it an odd way to spend one's time, but was glad to see the books go out the door. As for the fellow at the library,
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Because, however popular he may be in Europe, he still has to run in the US.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Just say "strong as a Bull Moose" and run with it, eh?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
American here. There are professors of English in the US who pride themselves on incomprehensibility. And let's not get started on the social scientists...
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
res ipsa loquitur, or does it?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Or maybe the laws aren't enforced. Using hand-held phones behind the wheel is outlawed in DC, but widely practiced. I doubt you can stand on a moderately busy street in Washington for five minutes and not see a driver holding a phone to hi
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"two clicks away"?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I wonder whether the writer might take a hint from Johnson on "Cymbeline", that it is impossible to criticize unresisting imbecility. This is not to say that Ms. Sobon is an imbecile, for obviously she is not. But apparently she finds it ea
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Not enough colors!
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
As I recall the P-80 never saw combat, at least in WW II. I remember it chiefly for killing Richard Bong, the USAAF leading ace.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I have seen drinking lunch and pretty blatant sexual harassment in the work place. (Drunk boss chases female subordinate around the room; bosses sleep with secretaries; computer operator consumes 5 mixed drinks at a company party, then boll
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Given that it's usually my wife or my stepmother, usually I say Yes. I did help with the internet connection on a neighbor's computer about a year ago, but we've known them for years and are on good terms.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Sorry--"dark-tipper"?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Twain commented on the shortening distance between Cairo and New Orleans and suggested that eventually the river would run out of room and have to stick out into the Gulf like a fishing pole.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Years ago I worked with a government techie, a fellow who had written a masters thesis on W.B. Yeats. One day, as we were discussing the dim prospects for the line of proprietary minicomputers we worked with, he said, "Jim, I think we're fa
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The Washington Post should publish a matrix comparing responsibility at the paper with highest degree or certification reached and source of undergraduate degree if any. I may by now have the story wrong, but it seems to me that in the earl

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