balding_n_tired

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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
A point I didn't see: it's probably a lot easier to get funding to come to the US to study engineering.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Probably it was more common in the days of the peacetime drive (1953-1965?) but various NFL players had been in the Rangers (Grabowski) or had been jet jockeys (Max McGee). Rocky Bleier was not in an elite formation, but did have to recover
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Back when a food company was coming out with cake mixes, it discovered that cooks felt bad about just adding water & stirring. They redid the recipe so that it was necessary to add an egg, and everyone was happier.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The NY Times seems to munging my back button today. How exactly do you get a stress fracture of your pubic bone?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
If you are excellent typist, perhaps. Otherwise, they were a pain.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Beautiful surroundings are a fine thing. But I've seen some good schooling done in pretty ugly buildings. In general I suspect the American propensity for applying capital solutions to labor-intensive problems.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Tenure is not unlike the jury system: an excellent political safeguard that has grave administrative drawbacks.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
If you think you dislike it now, wait till you're in your 50s and reading a version for the fourth time. It does not improve on acquaintance.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
A fellow I was in grad school with said that he regularly took his gun to high school, so that he could go hunting afterwards. He said that the principal would check up with kids--say Dave, you brought your rifle today?--but casually. He we
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Hmmm, early in _The Charterhouse of Parma_ one Count Prina is murdered by thugs armed with umbrellas. Perhaps the Atlanta area cops read Stendhal?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Well, shoot, with enough ice cubes we can reverse global warming.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
what isn't scaring millions of Americans? But having said that, I know a couple of folks who've fought through infestations in the last few years in Washington, DC.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
given that he left France out, one assumes this is a case of a missing I.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
My bad.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
One minor tip, not needed for a few months yet: make sure that the socket inserts are difficult to remove. A number of companies made plastic plugs one can insert into wall sockets to keep babies from exploring them. Unfortunately, at least
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Really boustrephedon? Line 3 appears to lead off with "kai" and line 6 with "kata"
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The NY Times is two papers in one dress: a serious newspaper reporting a range of news including political, financial, and basic local stuff; an odd consumerist provider of fluff and distraction. The second paper (Sunday/Thursday Styles, mu
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
On a second if still distracted reading, I gather that the point is that the baby boomers are narcissists who have reproduced themselves. Well, it's shorter than Tom Wolfe's "The Me Generation."
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Next up: The White Pages: Silent Menace
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
A similar piece by James Wolcott was posted to HN last year or so. I do have the urge to see what people are reading around me (usually on public transportation) and find that aging eyes have done more to impede me than e-readers. Maybe if
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Fantastic.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Federal workers are also in a niche where it is hard to beat down wages. You can't send their jobs overseas as you could with steel workers or call center workers. You can't usually hire illegal immigrants (or non-citizens generally) as you
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"Is it dangerous to draw a correlation between high divorce rates and the lack of interest that people have in their partners lives?" Perhaps not, but "in their lives" need not mean "in every aspect of their lives". I think it's great for a
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"The book's title refers to the fact that only 30% of students enrolled in liberal-arts colleges graduate in four years. Roughly 60% take at least six years to get their degrees. That may be fine with many schools, whose administrators see
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Not enough bold type and all caps.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
For an example of neighborhood fun, see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10bigcity.html?_r...
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"The gesticulations and facial expressions with which an American will supplement his English are as distinctively American as those of a Frenchman are distinctively French. One can tell the nationality of a stranger by his gestures as r
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Fairly large stretches of the Washington, DC, suburbs have no or few sidewalks once you are off main streets. I have read the explanation that the developers wanted to give the original buyers, 55 or 60 years ago, the feeling that they were
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"In my 13 years of taking walks in the United States, I could remember only ever seeing one native-born American taking a walk." Where in the world does this man take walks? Down the median of I-5? I have a hard time coming up with a reason
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Kind of fish in a barrel stuff, but the markmanship is fine at that range.

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