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by cafard 2y ago
"Jordan" goes some ways back--there is a woman named Jordan in The Great Gatsby . And it isn't entirely an American phenomenon: the critic Clive James was named Vivian James at birth, but the actress Vivian Leigh more or les
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I once heard or read an interview with him on NPR, saying that he wrote the song at a time when he was working flying helicopters to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. This had the odd effect of reminding me of the distance between Baton Rouge
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by cafard 2y ago
You didn't know any middle class high school kids who took "five-finger discounts"?
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But the book and movie are set in the 1930s, though I guess 1930s through a 1960s sensibility.
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Upvoted for the mention of state lotteries.
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I found the turnover rate of tee shirts surprising. I imagine that my tee shirts get 40 or 45 wears per year, and I very rarely replace them.
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The Republicans mentioned in the article are attorneys general, not lawmakers. I went to the article wondering why legislators or members of Congress would bring lawsuits.
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You stay a healthier old by stimulating your brain with etc. I get a fair bit of exercise and a fair bit of stimulation, but I don't think that anyone would call me young.
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For some years we lived in a rowhouse development about a mile outside the Washington, DC, beltway. It would be difficult to overstate the general shoddiness of the construction, which was from the early 1980s. But with the firewalls, we ra
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Martha Stewart built that empire well before she dabbled in insider trading. Wikipedia says that she sold $230 thousand of ImClone stock. I doubt that paying that back--and to whom?--would have seriously hurt.
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by cafard 2y ago
Back about 1980, I took a flight from the Washington, DC, Metro area to Denver. My recollection is that we took off from BWI, stopped at Dulles, and continued on via Des Moines. But BWI to Dulles is nearer 60 miles, I think.
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At this point, I have 50 years of paid employment. I have generally got along with the people I worked with, but have never considered any as my best friends.
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My employer used Peoplesoft, in the days before Oracle bought it. Of course, you can't set up Peoplesoft on your own, you bring in consultants. When I reviewed my notes from all the pitches, I found that they all had said that we shoul
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by cafard 2y ago
My last trip to the ER was in 2010. Probably because I had good health insurance, they saw me quickly (less than half an hour), cleaned me up, maybe glued a cut, and I was done. This was in the US, just outside Washington, DC.
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(To be read in a grouchy old man's voice.) Come to Baltimore and check out Satyr Hill. It is very easy to leave your legs behind and not realize that until you have four to six miles to go and no energy. (But what do I know? I haven&#x
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I found it interesting, but I think that Weil is trying to yoke together the Greek epics and Christianity, both of which were profoundly important to her, but which really aren't compatible at the level she wants. NYRB brought out a sm
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Or, from another point of view, getting just those engineers most attractive to competitors to quit.
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"Learning Ancient Greek, however, is an immensely challenging endeavor that requires many years of effortful study and practice and it is even more challenging (bordering on impossible) to do on one’s own without a teacher." It is
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I did read one out-and-out crime novel by Azimov. You will not be surprised to learn that the victim was graduate student in chemistry, the murder occurred in a laboratory, and the plot twist turned on something known chiefly to chemists. (
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by cafard 2y ago
I did read one out-and-out crime novel by Asimov. You will not be surprised to learn that the victim was graduate student in chemistry, the murder occurred in a laboratory, and the plot twist turned on something known chiefly to chemists. (
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by cafard 2y ago
At the time of Washington's retirement, the US extended nominally to Mississippi on the west, and a bit north of the Gulf of Mexico on the south. Its practical control did not cover anything like all that territory. So yes, things have
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Clicked to see whether this was Mclean on Michelson. Yep.
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I guess that you could ask a woman, maybe one with long nails.
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Before we married, my wife complained of a co-worker of mine who would say "smile--you oughta smile more" to women, including her and at least one woman who reported to her. So I don't doubt at all that women get a lot of tha
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by cafard 2y ago
Gerald Weinberg in one of his books, either The Secrets of Consulting or Becoming a Technical Leader , wrote of training himself to smile more, since some clients found his normal neutral look intimidating. As for RBF, I always think of
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I was thinking of that. And G.K. Chesterton killed off Father Brown, and had to bring him back.
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Denver has a downtown grid aligned to the SW-NE course of the South Platte, covering I suppose about a square mile, with the rest in a N-S E-W grid.
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Firebombed? With Avro Lancasters? The British Army burned the White House and a few other buildings in Washington, in retaliation, as they said, for the burning of buildings in York (Toronto).
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Good, but it is long. I have read it only in English, though I do have it in German, purchased for about $5 at a charity shop. As for Kraus, somebody put out In These Great Times , a slim collection of essays, about 35 years ago. Much more
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How about The Man Without Qualities for an interesting view of Vienna about then?

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