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by cafard 3y ago
According to Yeatman and Sellar, that's the only date most of the English know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That
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by cafard 3y ago
My experience as a pizza-delivery guy is about 50 years out of date, but tips were few and small.
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by cafard 3y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Concorde was agreed on in 1962 and had its first test flight in 1969. One usually counts the Baby Boom as starting in 1945. How many 17-year-olds were authorized to sign off on such expensive products in 1962? An
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by cafard 3y ago
Or simply if you have a hard time staying awake after lunch.
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by cafard 3y ago
Fair enough.
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by cafard 3y ago
There have been men who earned PhDs in mathematics during or after NFL careers--quite recently HN had links to an obituary of Frank Ryan, who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL championship, and who taught at Case. More recently, Jo
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by cafard 3y ago
A cousin mentioned that the basketball coach was the highest paid employee at her (private) university. I said that he was also likely to be among the easiest to fire. Even an adjunct is likely to have more chances than a coach who doesn&#x
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by cafard 3y ago
During boot time, one can sip one's coffee, glance at the newspaper, maybe tidy the desktop a little.
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by cafard 3y ago
An uncle who lived in the Kansas City suburbs was careless about parking and did not pay his parking tickets. Then one day he was pulled over by the police. They checked his information and took him to jail. My aunt showed up to pay his tic
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by cafard 3y ago
No, I ran 50 miles to middle school, or rather to a middle school. The 2024 JFK Memorial 50 Mile will finish at the Springfield Middle School in Williamsport, Maryland. I presume that it was the same school back then--I don't think Wil
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by cafard 3y ago
Many years ago, at the end of a fifty mile race, I collected my bag and went to the locker room. When I got in, I guy was leaning against the wall, with the showerhead kind of over his shoulder (this was a junior high school). I undressed v
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by cafard 3y ago
The neighborhood listserv just delivered an invitation to Twelfth Night wassailing at Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park, from 5 to 7 pm. I will not be attending since a) we have guests, b) the forecast is for cold rain, and c) my singing voice
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by cafard 3y ago
The Greek embrace of Alexander the Great and Macedonia is amusing, when one remembers how violently the Greeks of his day resented him, and how barbarous some of them said the Macedonians were.
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by cafard 3y ago
There is an element of whimsy in most of what he lists, and whimsy can easily be boring.
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by cafard 3y ago
Postgres and SQL Server have always had transactions; but unless you frame your DML in BEGIN TRANSACTION/[COMMIT|ROLLBACK], each statement is committed as executed. If you broke in on Oracle, where you must explicitly commit statements
766.
by cafard 3y ago
I saw (on TV) the Browns win their last NFL championship, sixty years ago this year. RIP.
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by cafard 3y ago
That's a lot of miles. In my prime running days, forty miles a week was maintenance mileage, about sixty the most when training for a marathon. I doubt I topped 2500.
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by cafard 3y ago
A neighbor got out of Yugoslavia when things fell apart. Formerly cordial neighbors burned down his family's house (near Sarajevo). He does remember favorably the Tito regime's success in keeping the peace.
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by cafard 3y ago
Not necessarily--a fixer makes problems go away, and it is understood in many cases that this may involve illegalities. But the fixer may simply be expert at negotiating without involving the legal system at all.
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by cafard 3y ago
If you get plantar fasciitis, the fascia will receive a lot of attention. I brought on a good case by my stupidity, and lost six months of running.
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by cafard 3y ago
A German submarine sank the USS Reuben James in late October 1941. The US did not declare war for that incident. In fact Germany declared war on the US after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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by cafard 3y ago
Many years ago, I read some that some executive of General Motors had said that GM was not in business to make cars but to make money. At the time, that seemed acute. Since then, I have wondered whether it was where GM lost its way.
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by cafard 3y ago
This is undoubtedly why e.g. Isaac Newton so carefully avoided schools.
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by cafard 3y ago
I like items 1 and 6. We too often ask, "What did we make last time they came over?"
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by cafard 3y ago
Presumably the stylist had the authority to speak for the salon, and could judge the customers' comfort level.
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by cafard 3y ago
The last time I kept a timesheet that was more than pro-forma, I was a proofreader. I think that I was managing six or six and a half hours during an eight hour day, and I was told that I kept busier than most.
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by cafard 3y ago
Tcl/Tk?
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by cafard 3y ago
The deer population in the US, at least the eastern US, has been increasing since the mid-1930s. Largely this is because farms--where one might hunt--have been replaced by suburbs, which offer shelter and gardens. Because the overpopulation
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by cafard 3y ago
This might have been true during WW II when flat feet and myopia did not exempt men from conscription. It has not, that I know of, been true any time in the last seventy years. I moved to the area forty-five years ago. This was not because
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by cafard 3y ago
Very sweet. It doesn't require twins to make you feel as if you were being towed down the interstate on a skateboard. (The analogy occurred to me many years before a friend lent me Snow Crash .)

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