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by cafard 3y ago
Thanks!
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by cafard 3y ago
It had never occurred to me that one could move acorns at all with a leaf blower. Do you have fairly thick grass?
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by cafard 3y ago
DC's rule is more or less honored. Maybe one of ten crews will still use a gas-powered leaf blower.
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by cafard 3y ago
Are they? I thought the 1970s were the peak era of the blow dryer.
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by cafard 3y ago
I worked for several years with a legally blind programmer. He got by with a level of magnification that allowed perhaps three characters on a large screen, and with a screen reader. His preferred language was FoxPro, a language I know noth
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by cafard 3y ago
Because it worked out so well at Altamong?
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by cafard 3y ago
About $180 K, now about $500 K. We bought within a year of the market peak, and it was ten or more years before the prices returned to what they had been. At one point early in those years, my sister-in-law, in for a visit, remarked that a
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by cafard 3y ago
>> a violation of human rights In general, hospitals do want parents to take their offspring home from the nursery after a day or two.
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by cafard 3y ago
The previous generation? My recollection is that our first mortgage 30+ years ago was around 6%, ARM. That is somewhat lower than it is now, but not lower than the last several years. (I will add that we got some money from my mother-in-law
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by cafard 3y ago
Oh? 50 years ago, the Lakewood, Colorado, police were called the "blue blazers" because they dressed with jacket and tie. I never heard they were better thought of locally.
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by cafard 3y ago
No, actually, China did a limited incursion into Vietnam a couple of years after the US left. It didn't work out well for the Chinese.
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by cafard 3y ago
In what world was this legendary?
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by cafard 3y ago
In Washington, DC, there is an organization named Casey Trees, which is dedicated to restoring the tree cover. There are community plantings now and then, and it will kick in $50 toward the cost of any sapling (I assume conditional on type)
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by cafard 3y ago
Fifty or sixty years ago in Denver it was called the "Barnes Dance" after the traffic commissioner who instituted it. My recollection is that only downtown intersections had the necessary signals, but then it has been years since
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by cafard 3y ago
Some years ago, my son took a turn too close, and clipped one of DC's granite curbs, damaging the sidewall of the tire. The first tire shop I called (in Maryland, just over the line) quoted me a price, which when I showed up turned out
886.
by cafard 3y ago
Golly. What does Facetime's AI Rob Gronkowski say about this?
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by cafard 3y ago
Whose politics, or which politics? According to Wikipedia, Trump took 57% of the vote in Lancaster County in 2020.
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by cafard 3y ago
Ordinarily one thinks of rescue as preserving at least the lives of the rescued, and perhaps the vessel, intact. In this case, the submariners were dead before the CIA started the project, and the ship didn't come up in one piece.
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by cafard 3y ago
I don't think I ever read it for school, so it couldn't have been pitched as having anything to do with the Cold War. It struck me as a reductio ad absurdum of tendencies in American society.
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by cafard 3y ago
So we need to consider students as resources? That might be a difficult outlook to market to parents.
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by cafard 3y ago
I'm not sure that we boomers are crazier than anyone else, but there are enough of us that our voices carry. Musical snobbery has a long history, I think. As for rock-and-roll, it was a force, but it was far from the only thing going i
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by cafard 3y ago
During the longest stretch of time that I rented a house, I was one of between four and two young men, most of us broke. The owners of the house were a married couple who lived about a mile away. Were the state to have expropriated them, we
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by cafard 3y ago
They are not suggesting that the job will take just 70 hours; they are saying that they are open to sysadmins who can only work one week and no more.
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by cafard 3y ago
The examination reflects the curriculum, and the preparatory schools taught to the examination. Henry Adams on the Harvard of his day (he entered in 1854): "disappointment apart, Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other
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by cafard 3y ago
About 1970, there was much speculation that Paul McCartney was dead. Offered as evidence were the album cover of Abbey Road, in which Paul walks barefoot, the others shod, and a song that played backwards might include the words "Paul
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by cafard 3y ago
Well, you annoyed me by the loss of time spent looking for verification of its date, given that half of Kipling's life fell in the 19th century. Kipling was a genius, with some notable blind spots, to call them no worse. My summary is
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by cafard 3y ago
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-bbcs-hebrew-boo-boo/
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by cafard 3y ago
There is a stepladder in our garage. The documentation pasted to it has text in English and Spanish, right down to the date: May 20xx/Puede 20xx.
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by cafard 3y ago
On look at Mayhew's London Labor and the London Poor , which you can find at gutenberg.org
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by cafard 3y ago
For fifteen years, I lived in a development with an HOA. It was at least as diverse as where I lived before and since. And the HOA was the least of our problems: cheap and unsound construction was the main one.

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