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by cafard 1y ago
I don't understand this comment.
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by cafard 1y ago
Are we working from your private dictionary, or from the history books? My recollection is that Italian industrialists got along just fine with with Mussolini, and that he did not much tamper with private property.
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Right. Not quite a year ago, when we were in London, there was a massive pro-Palestinian demonstration and Parade around Picadilly. ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/palestine-solidarity-c... ) But no doubt th
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Well, not the New York Times, then.
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Rumored to have had an affair with Anastasia? Is the notion that all Guardian readers are sophisticated enough to smirk and move on?
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Traumatic or dramatic?
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At some point around 2015, I looked around and noticed that the young (< 35) all seemed to know Python, and that only the middle-aged and older (> 45) seemed to know Perl. I decided that future work, where I had an option, would be in
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by cafard 1y ago
Actually, I think that in The Mythical Man-Month Brooks mentioned users depending on nominally undefined, practically consistent behavior, e.g. what was left in some part of a register.
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by cafard 1y ago
When I first had the money to pay for restaurant food ca. 1975, 15% was standard. I think that the Waiter Rant guy considered anything under 20% an insult, about 30 years after that.
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One thinks of the late Tom Lehrer: Your lips were like wine, If you'll pardon the simile; The music was fine If a bit Rudolph Friml-y. (The Wienerschnitzel Waltz)
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by cafard 1y ago
Going on thirty years ago, I had some experience with Peoplesoft. I'm interested to hear that it still uses COBOL, though on the other hand, why shouldn't it?
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At a glance, I seem to have read about two from every three years. (It helps when there are gimmes like Austen, Tolstoy, Waugh.) One that I hadn't thought of in many years is The Man-Eaters of Kumaon . Read in high school or in junior
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by cafard 1y ago
Hobbes talks about this a little in Chapter 36 of Leviathan , mentioning not only Matthias, but a couple of Old Testament instances.
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I would remark that Lou Gehrig was a soccer player in his youth, and supposedly had to be harassed into taking up baseball when in high school.
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When my son was in high school, the whole college application business astonished me--somebody a couple of years ahead of him applied to 18 schools. The formula that I eventually arrived at is that the college application process is a punis
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by cafard 1y ago
The introduction to the NYRB edition of Kaputt says that Malaperte's original draft of the Warsaw section had Hans Frank written up as the hero; obviously that would not have worked for post-war publication. I don't doubt that t
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by cafard 1y ago
A tech writer I worked with many years ago said that once during his adolescence he heard a humming from the exterior wall of his bedroom. This proved to be a beehive between the siding and the installation. He found that a bit creepy.
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by cafard 1y ago
A historical note: Forty years ago, I shared a house with a guy who had recently completed an MA, and hadn't found any work related to it. I always knew when his family had been in town, because the Help Wanted ad section from the Sun
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by cafard 1y ago
That can very much depend on your local independent store. I have had mixed results over the years.
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Is the author using Drury, Michener, and Morris West to beat up on 2023? I haven't read Colleen Hoover, but I have read the others, and they haven't made my must-reread list. Honestly, if one takes the best-seller lists of a few a
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by cafard 1y ago
New York Times and Washington Post.
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by cafard 1y ago
Wow. In the 1970s, one of the Denver or Boulder radio stations used to carry his show, I think on Sunday afternoons. Fifty-five years is a long run.
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by cafard 1y ago
One didn't have to be a citizen to be drafted by the US Selective Service. Russia is more liberal in the matter?
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by cafard 1y ago
There should be a mention of pocket protectors in here somewhere. Am I the only one who discarded the end cap and stained his shirt?
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by cafard 1y ago
Handwriting is meant to be legible. My impressions is that those who can write legibly with a ballpoint pen can write legibly with a fountain pen and vice-versa. I say this as one who took up typing as soon as he could.
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All I can say is that a) I saw The Social Network and thought it dumb, b) I read Zadie Smith's piece on it and thought it pointless.
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The first dictionary that I remember, probably a Webster's Second, had a chart of hobo symbols.
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An old friend had lived in one of the West African countries for a couple of years. She said that the then president used to say that the capital should have a large statue of a mosquito, since mosquito-borne diseases had greatly reduced th
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>> You think the dramatic increase in school violence and shootings on the rise might point to targeted unending psychological stress/trauma being inflicted on children at vulnerable stages of development? Actually, I think that
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https://folklore.org/Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.html?sort=date

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