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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   1. US Army standard for marching is 2.5 miles every hour with a 10 minute break, so a 3 mph pace. So 26 miles in 10 hours is about what a soldier is expected to manage, with pack. Pardon me for not being impressed by a 10-hour marathon, rep
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   From Trollope's _Autobiography_, courtesy of the Gutenberg project: I received my (pounds)100, in advance, with profound delight. It was a positive and most welcome increase to my income, and might probably be regarded as a first real step
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   How web-savvy companies are going to burn some money, make some money, and leave the college world essentially untouched, I suspect.
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   1. Counter-examples, taken from an offspring's acquaintance: a. Student 1 slacks off in high school, finds that his one choice is a middling state school in New England. Once there, he gets to work, makes good 1st semester grades, transfers
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   I though "Nostratic" was the posited ancestor.
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   The NFL has proven very resilient. It absorbed the All-American Conference about 1950, the AFL in the 1960s. The USFL sort of hung on in the 1980s until Donald Trump decided to go head-to-head with a fall schedule.
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   Tcl doesn't.
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   Read through _Untimely Thoughts_ a couple of weeks ago, have been meaning to pick up _The Great Melody_ by C.C. O'Brien.
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   by balding_n_tired 17y ago

   Goodness. He takes money?
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Might I recommend going back to the source on "sprezzatura"? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dst...
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Kenyon? It had a very good reputation at one time.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Umm. Nope.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Ye have sown the wind, Mr. Fish...
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    A shop in DC used to have magnets with such mottos, of which I remember only "dura lex, sed lex"
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    The congestion charge certainly looks like a tax from where I sit (the US).
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    "In order to transform our factory-era schools into a truly student-centric system fit for the 21st-century, the funds should be used to innovate disruptively." In my ideal school the kid who turns in that sentence gets sent back to do a fe
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Agreed on Python. The PythonWin gives you a handy interface and access to the Windows COM world. I don't suggest you stop with Python, but it's a fine place to start, as far as I can see.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Back about 1981 the local reprentative in Playboy's "Girls of the ACC" turned out not be in attendance at UMCP, but to have registered once or twice for classes at University College. I don't recall whether this was even noticed out of town
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Disturbing, but hardly unheard of. Anyone remember the Notre Dame football coach who suddenly resigned when somebody looked closer at this resume? There have been academic administrators in the last couple of years with degrees that didn't
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    A college PE class, called "individual fitness". For someone starting out, I'd recommend looking into a store where they are serious about running shoes: I have in mind ones in the Washington, DC, area--Racquet & Jog, the Adams-Morgan F
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    1. Easy on the alcohol. You can waste great quantities of time that way. 2. Learn at least one foreign language well.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Anecdotal evidence--after a childhood bout of rheumatoid arthritis (or rheumatic fever, perhaps), one or the other knee would hurt all day roughly once a month--a deep and tiring pain. After I took up running in college, this went away. Pos
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    There's a bit about this in _The Book of Laughter and Forgetting_, roughly to the effect that women don't want handsome men, they want men with beautiful consorts.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Generally true but overstated. It seems to consider literature as consisting of serious fiction and of memoir. It omits mention of the huge number of books written to be read as distractions.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    My proposed motto for PHP: putting the "antic" in "semantics". Have a look at the values of max('1', '3', '10') max('1', '3 ', '10') max('1', '3 ', 10) and better still max('antelope', 'wombat', 1, 3, 10) max('antelope', 'wombat', '1', '3',
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    I see that Sandy Koufax is the only pitcher listed who worked before night baseball. It would also be interesting to see where the still skinny Barry Bonds of the 1980s and early 1990s ranked; I suspect still high, but not quite as high.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Saturday's Times had an article on the fiscal troubles of Jefferson County, Alabama. Alabama is rather more disputable ground than much of the US, but its blues don't seem to be of the blue-state sort.
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    1. Is mathematics a sub-department of logic? One might call "distinguo" here. 2. Is it possible that advertising and propaganda are simply not worth the trouble in a society that has little disposable income and where the opinion of the gre
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    There was a novel about this 30+ years ago. _Acapulco Gold_, maybe?
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    by balding_n_tired 17y ago

    Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun. -- W.B. Yeats, poem introducing _Responsibilities_