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by jlc 17y ago
Shouldn't that read, "A Nunified?"
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by jlc 17y ago
I always enjoy this series, but I've never actually built one: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html
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by jlc 17y ago
A related, interesting read is Michael Chabon's intro to the 2005 Best American Short Stories, reprinted in his essay collection _Maps and Legends_. http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Short-Stories-2005/dp/06... http://www.amazon.com/Ma
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by jlc 17y ago
JR by William Gaddis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_R
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by jlc 18y ago
I feel certain that people w/ AS trend away from professions like, say, sales. I feel certain that a large chunk of people w/ AS are knowledge workers for exactly the reasons given in this thread. But it's worth pointing out that AS encom
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by jlc 18y ago
Sorry, I don't have any specific tips. I studied Russian in college and didn't find Cyrillic to be a barrier at all. I just learned the sounds and with a week or two of practice, it seemed natural enough. I've lost much of my Russian (suc
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by jlc 18y ago
What about the hearing impaired? They should squirt water too.
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by jlc 18y ago
Somehow I expected a bigger beard.
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by jlc 18y ago
Or a side effect of cancer treatment . . . .
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by jlc 18y ago
In particular, are hormone imbalances frequently comorbid with, say, pancreatic cancer?
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by jlc 18y ago
I ran into this a while back: http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/53538107/python-dsl-i
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by jlc 18y ago
I don't just read books; I wallow in them. I remember well the acute pain of not knowing how to read and the relief when my mother taught me. I was five, and I just haven't stopped reading since. I'll be 38 in a couple of months. I'm rea
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by jlc 18y ago
Hm. That's an interesting observation, but I respectfully disagree. It comes down again to the quality of the comment. Is it a good humorous comment (e.g., not cliched, satiric, perhaps humorous and insightful, and so on), or is it a ba
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by jlc 18y ago
There are any number of measures of aesthetics, but here's one to get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versification It's about poetry, but all of the devices of poetry, including meter, are useful in prose. This is one of those
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by jlc 18y ago
They do seem to stick, but . . . am I the only one finding it increasingly difficult to remember what the names are and which release they represent. This is true of OS X, too. I use Ubuntu 8.04 and OS X 10.4. I have to stop and think wh
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by jlc 18y ago
Jumpin' Jehosaphat!
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by jlc 18y ago
Novelists (and short story writers) who publish a first book in their twenties are perceived as wunderkinder. It is considered much more usual to begin publishing books in your thirties. I'm basing this on my experience as a keen reader o
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by jlc 18y ago
29 is not a "late bloomer" for a novelist. That's considered somewhat precocious, actually.
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by jlc 18y ago
I used to agree with a lot of what you say. Then I had kids ;-) Actually, I still don't disagree entirely, but you did leave out one very important consideration: schools. In many American urban centers the schools are poor, and housing
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by jlc 18y ago
Sadly, those aren't opposites.