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by cafard 2y ago
I intermittently keep a diary, mostly of travel and of recent reading. There are no or few personal reflections in it. About 20 years ago I kept a more personal journal for a while. About 10 years ago, I shredded it.
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by cafard 2y ago
A friend once picked up a tiny contract from Uncle Sam, requiring some changes to a Perl script that stashed values as "this/that/thenext" in one column of an Oracle table. She had not previously dealt with Perl, so I ex
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by cafard 2y ago
An MD of my acquaintance said that what parents imagine to be a sugar rush is actually the effect of caffeine in coffee. I had always heard that sugar is if anything soporific.
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by cafard 2y ago
I have known people in Washington, DC, who lived with a quarter mile of a hiker/biker path in Rock Creek Park, and would drive ~7 miles to Fletcher's Boathouse (or 10 to Carderock) to run on the C&O Canal towpath. I confess th
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by cafard 2y ago
Sicily? Rome? Angkor Wat?
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by cafard 2y ago
Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Maryland_train_collision
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by cafard 2y ago
Odd that nobody cites Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock": The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine; ( https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/rape-lo
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by cafard 2y ago
Elite athletes making millions have agents.
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by cafard 2y ago
Try a drive in Pennsylvania.
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by cafard 2y ago
It seems to me that used SPEED in a complicated program + macro + dunno what to inspect system and error logs on AOS/VS. The full-screen editor was SED, which I remember as being a bit less odd than vi, but maybe because I encountered
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by cafard 2y ago
Well, I guess you could see which hegemon Japan and Philippines feel more comfortable with
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by cafard 2y ago
Warfare with modern weapons in a city leaves that city pretty thoroughly ruined: Warsaw, Berlin, Cologne, Hue, Mariupol come to mind. There were a lot of appalling facts, but where does one fit in the Red Army sitting across the river and w
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by cafard 2y ago
Interesting question. A sometime co-worker does, and a sometime neighbor. On the whole, I figure that my family gets enough of my opinions in conversation.
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by cafard 2y ago
Just to make the next developer hate me even more...
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by cafard 2y ago
"Whenever I hear a boomer raving about how back in their day, you’d stay at a job for your entire life and earn a gold watch and a pension and the respect of your ancestors, ..." Back in the boomer's day? You're talking
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by cafard 2y ago
An experiment: walk into a diner in mid-winter and ask for a BLT.
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by cafard 2y ago
flaccid label?
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by cafard 2y ago
Many of the boomers were taught to sing a song about the Erie Canal in elementary school. How many of us retained any information about, who knows?
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by cafard 2y ago
> He's only been in America a few years so as soon as he speaks the entire bar knows he's Russian. Because Americans are so good at distinguishing Slavic languages by ear in a noisy room? I live near a Russian Orthodox church.
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by cafard 2y ago
Some years ago I declined an iPod offered me for answering survey questions, since accepting it was against organization policy. At a recent AWS Summit, I picked up a pair of socks from a company with a name that was homonym of an acquainta
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by cafard 2y ago
Years ago, somebody had as his Usenet .sig line "perl is margarine, awk is butter" (unless the order was reversed). Whatever Perl's many faults, I used awk a good deal less after I discovered Perl.
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by cafard 2y ago
I think of a passage in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence : """ The idea of doing away with this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dressmakers and newspaper reporters who stood outside fighting to get nea
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by cafard 2y ago
And what was TJ's attitude when New England cut up rough about the embargo?
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by cafard 2y ago
Long ago I worked on a government contract at a civil agency, which ran WordPerfect Office on DG minis. The main contractor won a contract with another division in that agency, setting up a slightly spiffier version. Somebody at the COTR&#x
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by cafard 2y ago
Only the newspapers, reporting on neighborhood shoot-outs.
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by cafard 2y ago
The summer of 1987 was like that. I was commuting between Washington and Baltimore, the trains were delayed, and Amtrak had priority over the commuter trains. I got home on the late side quite a few times.
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by cafard 2y ago
I hardly have the time to read the books I want to read. My second cup of coffee on Sunday morning is about the time I'm willing to give to reading about books somebody else wants me to read (or not), and for that the NYTBR is ok. Anth
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by cafard 2y ago
I look into the NYT book review most Sundays, though I almost never read the fiction reviews. If the best seller lists are doctored to uphold some standard, I can't imagine what those standards are.
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by cafard 2y ago
I suggest a look at Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance , https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2081
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by cafard 2y ago
This occurred in a prosperous suburb of Philadelphia. I doubt the district is low on the unparented. Poorly parented would require a definition and more information.

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