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by cafard 2y ago
The late writer Harry Crews wrote in a memoir about reading Sears catalogs with great interest in his childhood, not just for the goods but for the models: people with good teeth, no scars, in general having the look of having been raised (
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by cafard 2y ago
Good for you!
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by cafard 2y ago
Anybody remember Malcolm Baldridge, Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration? He died when his horse fell on him during a calf-roping contest.
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by cafard 2y ago
> gen Z and millennials are more likely to buy a book based on a bookseller’s recommendation – in person, in a bookshop – than older age groups The older generations--I speak as a boomer--may have more settled opinions (or if you will, p
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by cafard 2y ago
If you look at Samuel Eliot Morison's writings about Columbus, you will see that a lot of people made a lot of claims about Columbus's origins. You will also find that a lot of people had their reservations about his treatment of
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by cafard 2y ago
For some years I lived in a group house in a close-in suburb of Washington, DC. Some roommates were horrible, for a while I was a horrible roommate. But somehow I got by nine years.
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by cafard 2y ago
Back in the minicomputer days, we encouraged customers to defrag now and then. I spend one long night at a customer's in Utica, New York, defragging a 25 MB disk. The whole doctrine of defragging seemed to lose popularity somewhere in
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I was once on a tour of St. Albans, a very expensive private school in Washington, and Mein Kampf was the first book I noticed on the shelves. I have to suppose that the school has confidence that any boys who read it will not be indoctri
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by cafard 2y ago
James Gavin made it from private soldier to Lieutenant General from 1924 to 1958. John Vessey enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard in 1939, and became Chief of Staff of the US Army in 1982.
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Indeed. Next thing somebody will be making a fuss about Isaac Newton.
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by cafard 2y ago
I hadn't seen the name Jim Melton in quite some time. I read one of his books, probably Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide something like thirty years ago. (If that was the book, Alan Simon was the co-author, I see.)
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by cafard 2y ago
The lists are curious--did you think of Bergson or Russell as men of letters?--and I think that only scholars will have read more than a couple of the laureates from any given decade. I was interested to see that Mommsen received it. [Edit:
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by cafard 2y ago
I did not say that deconstruction was pollution. I do think that many of a generation of American scholars found it hard to write or think other than in terms worked out in Paris between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s. I used the word &q
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Given the long and deplorable influence of German on American scholarly prose, this inspires only Schadenfreude. I'm not singling out the Germans, mind you. I smirk also when the French complain of American modes of thought polluting t
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by cafard 2y ago
Sheed and Ward, sorry.
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by cafard 2y ago
Very cool. Also good to see someone else still writing Perl.
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Wilfred Sheed had an interesting essay on Stafford, collected in Essays in Disguise . Stafford had been his father's secretary at the publishing house Sheed and Word. Sheed senior judged that what ate Lowell was that Stafford became f
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by cafard 2y ago
Thank you.
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by cafard 2y ago
What about the Garand M-1?
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by cafard 2y ago
See also https://duckrabbitbrewery.com/beer/ , in particular Duck-Rabbit Ludwig Vienna Lager. And it is my recollection that the artist Jasper Johns did a duck-rabbit or two.
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by cafard 2y ago
I can work from home two days a week, and generally work from home one. I do have a private office at work, and a short commute.
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by cafard 2y ago
In the 1960s, Republic Steel used literal lockouts--the person working on the machine locked it, and had the only key.
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by cafard 2y ago
>> what do people use now? Well, sometimes Perl DBI. But the young seem to learn Python about the time they get their drivers' licenses, and some unfortunate among them will inherit my code, so these days I use more psycopg or cx
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by cafard 2y ago
The Falcon was a good car. I commuted to high school one year in a Falcon station wagon (used), and got about 20 mpg.
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by cafard 2y ago
Given your username, I will mention the fascination of visitors with the squirrels in Washington. I know that they used to interest me when we visited my grandmother in Arlington. We had some in northern Ohio, but a) there was less tree cov
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by cafard 2y ago
As somebody remarked at the time, this might have been more plausible if the wall hadn't been that separating Guantanamo Bay from the rest of Cuba.
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by cafard 2y ago
When I was a child, it seemed to me that I often heard of one or another great aunt having her gall bladder removed. A college friend had his out by 30, but other than that I haven't heard that much of it.
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by cafard 2y ago
My peak running days ended almost forty years ago--something about a real job, family responsibilities etc. My recollection is that during races I would reach a point about two-thirds of the way along, wonder what had got into me to sign up
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by cafard 2y ago
Marriage? What time do you have in mind by "at that time"?
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by cafard 2y ago
Political one or ego one?

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