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by cafard 2y ago
Most interesting. How about lawn sleeves, or is that only for bishops in the House of Lords? I will add that at widely separated times I have lived in the same neighborhood as two bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United Sta
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by cafard 2y ago
I was once on a camping trip where the lunches consisted of two sandwiches: one slice of white bread, one slice of brown bread, and two slices of green bread. We all returned in good health.
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by cafard 2y ago
I was just using Git Bash to run grep...
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by cafard 2y ago
A friend picked this for our neighborhood book club. Having read it, I told him that he should provide a cheat sheet for less technically inclined readers, covering for example "Thompson hack" and "Turing-complete". He d
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by cafard 2y ago
There are stop-sign cameras in Washington, DC, and there is a lot of complaining about them on the neighborhood listserv now and then.
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by cafard 2y ago
> it means an exceptionally muscular build In what dialect of English?
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by cafard 2y ago
Look at a best-seller list sometime from 1950 or 1920. Authors who were powers in their day are now forgotten.
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by cafard 2y ago
My impression is that his books sold in places where other poetry wasn't, e.g. card stores. But it has been a while since I've seen his poetry anywhere.
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by cafard 2y ago
Initially, "propaganda" referred to the Congregatio de propaganda fide, the congregation for propagating the faith, established in the 17th Century.
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by cafard 2y ago
Let's step back a bit. Brooks mentions the Astors, Rockefellers, and Whitneys. The founder of the Astor fortunes was a butcher's son, and apparently John D. Rockefeller's father was nothing special. To quote Mrs. Archer in T
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by cafard 2y ago
Oddly enough, that sounds like something that Harry Crews said in an article probably in Esquire many years ago--he was dismissing a class of drinks as inferior to whiskey.
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by cafard 2y ago
The French line Normandie burned at its moorings in New York harbor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie
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by cafard 2y ago
Depends on the dogs. There have been a few dogs in my neighborhood that have attacked other dogs, with the dog that came off worse requiring veterinary attention. In one case the dogs were on leash, but each probably outweighed the walker.
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by cafard 2y ago
I get along with most of the many dogs in my neighborhood quite well. But my experience has said that there are owners whose confidence in a dog considerably outruns any basis for it.
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by cafard 2y ago
My father commuted suburb-to-suburb for most of the years I lived at home, say 1958 to 1975. My impression was that this was not unusual then. But I had limited information about what any particular grownup did. Department stores are fewer
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by cafard 2y ago
CACM gave most of an issue to this, the bulk of the responses strongly disagreeing. The dissenters were not, as I recall, people generally in favor of sloppy coding. In Peter Seibel's Coders at Work , the interview of Knuth includes &
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by cafard 2y ago
Forty years ago, one wasn't paying that much for it, directly. The newspapers were supported largely by advertising. But the ads have gone online, and the subscribers pay more for less. (And advertising killed liberal democracy? How? W
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by cafard 2y ago
This gets posted a lot, something like four times in two years. And I don't particularly buy it. It seemed to me to be something to comfort the Harpers readership with.
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by cafard 2y ago
Gee, in the late 1980s I commuted between Washington and Baltimore on electric trains. Very rarely, I took the Camden line, which did run diesel. Since then, I've taken electric trains between Washington and Philadelphia or New York.
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by cafard 2y ago
I thought that only life peers got to vote. Not so?
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by cafard 2y ago
About a month ago, somebody posted a link to an interview with Brian Kernighan. About 6 minutes in, he talks about the difficulty of writing a decent CSV parser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQ7k5sn2-o
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by cafard 2y ago
Really? I see a fair number of small children in my neighborhood, aged from less than a year on up. If we grant that anymore extends back as much as six years, I'd say that quite a few grownups haven't got the message.
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by cafard 2y ago
The student typically spends most of his/her time with students of the same level of ability or interest. For the student who will someday become a college teacher, this general means able and interested students. The teacher spends ti
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by cafard 2y ago
Is that rare? J.F. Powers's Morte d'Urban nearly meets that description.
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by cafard 2y ago
NYRB had the wonderful idea of taking the first and last few chapters of Henry Adams's history of the US 1801-1817, and printing them in a form you can slide into a windbreaker's pocket. Look for The Jeffersonian Transformation .
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by cafard 2y ago
I've had it on my shelves for a while. Maybe next year.
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by cafard 2y ago
Many years ago, I worked for a contractor at a civil agency. Simply to make the email system function, we needed to keep retention at two or three weeks. The only persons for whom email was to be held were political appointees. What I saw w
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by cafard 2y ago
Oh? Gil Scott-Heron got it wrong. The revolution not only will be televised, but the ads will go for very high rates.
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by cafard 2y ago
Have you never heard of a volunteer firefighter starting fires? It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. (And maybe with professional firefighters, I don't know.)
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> only the very top of wealth and power could listen to one of the few symphony orchestras performing Beethoven's compositions. Oh? From The Education of Henry Adams : """ When his companions insisted on passing two

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