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601.
by cafard 2y ago
Who translated the Iliad and Odyssey into (English) hexameters?
602.
by cafard 2y ago
A kid I went to junior high school with said that he put his head through a wall--he was wrestling, and the other guy threw him. I was a bit skeptical, because I then lived in a house with plaster and lath walls, and had not encountered dry
603.
by cafard 2y ago
If you are in Poland it ought to be painfully straightforward to remember the losses it caused.
604.
by cafard 2y ago
Never underestimate the insanity of credentials-obsessed parents. (And maybe teens also.)
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by cafard 2y ago
Well, or Thomas Pynchon. I grew up seeing Al Kaline in the baseball box scores, and much later reflected that I would have rolled my eyes had I seen the name in The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow .
606.
by cafard 2y ago
I found myself wondering whether this was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Littr%C3%A9 .
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by cafard 2y ago
Oh? I was a decent recreational runner in my 20s, qualifying for the Boston Marathon three times between 1981 and 1985. But I could not train farther than about 60 miles a week, for beyond that I could feel injuries coming on.
608.
by cafard 2y ago
I'm sure that it builds character in a kid to send him out to milk the cows at 5 am. But the zoning regulations are against it in most of the neighborhoods that feed the collegs.
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by cafard 2y ago
I don't know how well Sassoon's poetry has worn. But his George Sherston novels-- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Memoirs of an Infantry Officer , and Sherston's Progress --are very readable. [edit: corrected spelling of &qu
610.
by cafard 3y ago
Quite. Do you refuse, on principle, to visit the Frick when in New York City? For that matter do you avoid the Rockefeller Center?
611.
by cafard 3y ago
Hasn't Carrier made heat pumps for many years now? I thought I remembered them from the late 1980s.
612.
by cafard 3y ago
That strikes me as cheating a bit, counting translations. Still, good for Fitzcarraldo.
613.
by cafard 3y ago
The advocates of "whole-language" learning as against "phonics" seem to do a fair job of limiting or undermining literacy. Yet how it benefits them I don't see. And what is the reference of "it" in the las
614.
by cafard 3y ago
No one bought books. If one can believe Edward Dahberg, the first run of Thus Spake Zarathusra sold ten copies, the first run of Stendhal's On Love , seventeen copies. That considered, Thoreau selling just more than 200 of the first
615.
by cafard 3y ago
Thank goodness then that socialists got a jump on building libraries back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
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by cafard 3y ago
As the days get shorter, signs go up in Rock Creek Park saying that people should stay away at night, for hunters will be at work. I don't know how many deer they get every season. Somebody on the neighborhood listserv has advertised c
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by cafard 3y ago
I will say that the credential was a big part of why I studied CS in my 30s. I learned a number of languages along the way. At this point, nearly all the code I write is in JScript, Pl/SQL, Python, and T-SQL. I learned none of these wh
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by cafard 3y ago
I wish, I wish, I wish that Ronald Reagan had taken the role played by Paul Heinreid (he was considered for it). Then it would be conservatives who bore one about Casablanca, and they are less ubiquitous in the press. And if you want to be
619.
by cafard 3y ago
Having run the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler with somebody else's bib (he was a friend of a friend and out of town), and having gone to the Philadelphia Marathon in 1983 to pace a friend, perhaps I'm not the most trustworthy commentato
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by cafard 3y ago
Ethiopia in the 1980s?
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by cafard 3y ago
My family lived from 1969 through 2006 in a house in Colorado with a basement. My stepmother--who grew up in a region with cooler summers--ight have perished of heat exhaustion but for the basement. What anyone in particular had outside our
622.
by cafard 3y ago
Gray and Reuter's Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques is excellent.
623.
by cafard 3y ago
Most of the front yards in my neighborhood are not particularly busy: lawn, plantings, or more commonly both. However, except during the spring and fall you will not see a lot of neighbors without seeking them out. (Exception: the dog walke
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by cafard 3y ago
See also https://hudsonrivervalley.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/cowboys-a...
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by cafard 3y ago
Also, it has been a very long time since I read Lucky Jim , but I don't remember it mentioning Wales or the Welsh. Amis's The Old Devils is set in Wales, and makes a certain amount of sport of both.
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by cafard 3y ago
Hmm. Anthony Burgess seems to have done a creditable job as schoolmaster, in England and in Malaysia. He did finally give up in what I think must now be Indonesia, lying down on the floor of the classroom and not getting up. But his was a m
627.
by cafard 3y ago
Well, it could build a sports facility for Ted Leonsis, and hope that that brings in jobs and dollars. But that didn't make it through the legislature.
628.
by cafard 3y ago
Having mastered the art of the circular firing squad, NPR continues to practice it. Juan Williams may be laughing now. Don't know about the person who fired him, then lost her job in the fallout.
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by cafard 3y ago
For what it's worth, I can remember "lottery tickets as financial planning" jokes from ca. 1985.
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by cafard 3y ago
Well, but what was there before the ski resort? From ca. 1976 I remember an article in the Straight Creek Journal, beefing about what the writer called "candy-ass towns", the archetypes probably being Aspen and Vail.

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