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by cafard 3y ago
My earliest memories are of Parma, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. We were within three blocks of a grocery store, a bakery, a library, school, a five-and-dime. Even in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, a block west of Lakewood, one
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by cafard 3y ago
I see kids out throwing frisbees, baseballs, and footballs in my neighborhood, shooting hoops where an alley meets the street. I see them skateboarding as well. On Saturday, my wife and I saw a girl of five or six ride her bike along Beach
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by cafard 3y ago
They lack the variety and self-expression of early Levittown?
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Hmm. I can think of a couple of Dawn Powell's novels that are better than A Time to Be Born . And is The Crying of Lot 49 better than V ?
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by cafard 3y ago
I guess I should read it. I just dropped off at the post office a copy of the Library of America's collection of Portis, a birthday present for a sibling. So far, I've only read Norwood .
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by cafard 3y ago
A number of people attempted to achieve speed records on beaches, and not all survived. And this wasn't Ocean City, Maryland, in a modern July. The local authorities would have had something to say if anyone, even a millionaire (when a
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by cafard 3y ago
Not downvoting, but perhaps those who did shared my thought "safety for whom thing?"
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by cafard 3y ago
Yep. I schlepped pizza 50+ years ago, as an employee, and with the employer's vehicle.
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There used to be a brutalist Christian Science church about three blocks from the White House. Despite preservationist complaints and perhaps lawsuits, it came down some years ago, to be replaced with a glass box office building that houses
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If you are going from Washington, DC, to New York City, it is very convenient.
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by cafard 3y ago
Not lately. Back about 2010, I inherited an ASP application written in VB.Net. I could not have maintained it for the dozen years I did without the debugger built into Visual Studio. And long ago the Microfocus "animator" saved ou
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by cafard 3y ago
Pursuit of perfection or purchase of the spiffy? The snark level distinctly dropped off when she discussed the actual driving.
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by cafard 3y ago
Intermittently and imperfectly democratic (or at least republican) cities such as Venice, Florence, Milan, and Rome managed to build impressive works. The English monarchs would have loved to be absolute, but didn't ever quite manage i
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by cafard 3y ago
Aren't there secular groups lobbying against gambling? I am afraid that governments lost the moral high ground a long time ago, when they started up lotteries (commonly with worse odds than the old numbers game).
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Somebody in Maryland with a tattoo-removal business said that the ratio of the cost of tattoos to the cost of their removal was roughly that of the cost of a marriage license to the cost of a divorce.
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Weird for Reason?
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by cafard 3y ago
A man I know bought a house that way something around forty years ago. Originally there were five or seven owners. By the time I met him, only three of the owners lived there: him, his wife (who may not have been one of the originals), and
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There have been summers in the US when "almost always on time" was a real stretch.
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The mall? These days I almost never see a mall. And in age when everybody carries a cell phone, how important is a clock?
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I recommend Richard Gabriel's essay "The End of History and the Last Programming Language", which you can find at https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf . The point that stuck with me is
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The Star Spangled Banner is a strain for most of the population.
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If you read to the end, you will find that weeded books were in fact donated.
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Part of the motivation might have been that he set up WEB for Pascal, which does enforce an order of declarations. Once he started working more with C, perhaps there was less reason; but he found that he enjoyed working in that manner. I ha
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by cafard 3y ago
Last I heard, it was around $100 here. But I can't imagine that it's enforced. If you walk three blocks downtown without seeing a drive using a phone, you aren't looking.
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by cafard 3y ago
The burial detail needs to do a more thorough job. The vetoed ceasefire was in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and on NPR. I didn't hear anything about Adiivka on NPR--we don't listen to it that much, but it absolutely
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by cafard 3y ago
There is or was a midwestern brewer called Wiedeman or maybe Wiedemann. But no doubt they were more discriminating drinkers at Harvard than we were out in the sticks.
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by cafard 3y ago
Inside SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Programming is somewhat thicker. In fact, it is about the size of Programming Perl and Modern Perl together--though I must add that Programming Perl lost its front cover a while ago.
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Should its own rulings be as binding? Plessy v. Ferguson was decided in 1896.
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A good deal of my work involves moving data in and out of databases. For the three Ps--Perl, PHP, Python--it is trivial to set up the libraries for the commonly used databases, after one can move on to work. Is that the case for Common Lisp
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by cafard 3y ago
If you have an open weekend in the late summer, you can make your own ketchup. We did this a couple of summers just over twenty years ago. Then we bought an old house, and there were no open weekends.

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