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by ncarroll 7y ago
In Germany, I find that this is one of the (many) beauties of shopping at the farmer's market. If I need 3 carrots and 2 onions and 6 potatoes, that is very easy at the Samstagsmarkt. Buying sausages or meat from the butcher or the m
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by ncarroll 7y ago
Don't be sad on my account. I actually like them very much. They are funny and persistent. I watched one yesterday try to outsmart a crow for a piece of cheese. That she even tried was pretty courageous. We have an obviously-paire
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by ncarroll 7y ago
Would that turret will work for pigeons landing on my balcony? Or better yet, to protect my air space by squirting them on a fly by? That'd be some sweet fun. :-)
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by ncarroll 8y ago
Can't recommend Foundation for Emails highly enough for rendering html. I found it super easy to use (Moustache templates) and very flexible for managing multiple versions (translations) of a newsletter. The assignment I had was to wr
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by ncarroll 8y ago
I really enjoy using are.na ( https://www.are.na/about ) for collecting images and random bits of text into spaces where I can view them together. It's a small, creative community and definitely not of the repost, repos
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by ncarroll 8y ago
Yes, I was surprised in my forties to notice that (for me) this is strangely important. In my calendar I keep "deathdays" as "//persons_name" and when I do, I am thinking of the "//" as &qu
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by ncarroll 8y ago
> Anyone ambitious who lives to be old or even _old_ endures the inevitable loss of ambition’s fulfillment. I needed the whole sentence to parse that phrase. Here is what I understood: Ambitious persons who live to be old will struggle
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by ncarroll 10y ago
As I understand it, the electronic ones are not recommended for pressure canning because you can't be absolutely, positively sure they reach a certain pressure. Best stick with your old-school model for pressure canning.
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by ncarroll 10y ago
Are both artists. He who can shut down his head when it gets in the way, is an artist. He who can produce astonishing things without the use of his hands is also an Artist - of a very special kind. As far as I can tell, Heart is at the h
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by ncarroll 10y ago
I'm sorry you understood me to be having fun with - when I was making fun of. When I was a kid (yes, I'm one of the old ones...) the abbreviation for number was "nr" - plural, "nrs" and lynch, if one intended
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by ncarroll 10y ago
I have often had the urge to hang numbers. They are problems looking for a place to happen. Letters, on the other hand, are always ready for a chat. ;-)
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by ncarroll 10y ago
The best advice I ever got about journalling was something to the effect of removing the fear-block by not journalling about anything I wouldn't say in person. It was enough to get me started. By getting started like that I learned t
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by ncarroll 10y ago
Not at all. Just because you don't cry, doesn't mean you don't feel. Does it? I think what they are talking about is a certain bodily way of expressing a strong emotion. I too am "built too close to the water" as
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by ncarroll 10y ago
We listen to RadioParadise(.com). It's "new music" and "old music" that pretty much dances all over the Time and Styles matrix. The DJ, Bill Goldsmith has a real talent for delight and his eclectic choices make me
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by ncarroll 10y ago
That looks useful. If you can help cut down on the task-switching pain involved in setup and moving from one project to another, I know I would be grateful - and more productive. I'll try it when the Linux version comes out. Thanks
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by ncarroll 11y ago
My dad was a traveling salesman (self-employed) and he was away a lot during the week, but only in the Winter. He was always home on weekends. That's when Mom "slept in" (I suspect, with a good book and a cup of coffee). A
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by ncarroll 11y ago
Having a dog always counts. I once read (somewhere?) a story about a woman who had many dogs over her lifetime. She felt that dogs give us pieces of their hearts every day but of course, when they leave us, they take great chunks of ours.
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by ncarroll 11y ago
Now, that's what I call a good start to a Saturday morning: Jacket2 + Chekhov thinking. Very inspiring.
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400 Years Shakespeare – First Folio Tours US(folger.edu)
2 points by ncarroll 11y ago|1 comments
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by ncarroll 11y ago
Brainpickings is the only newsletter that I really, really do read every, every week. It comes on Sunday - the perfect day to kick back and read and think and stare out the window. Maria Popova always, always has (often several) something(
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by ncarroll 12y ago
Yep. "If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." If I had a dollar for every time I heard my mother say that I could pay someone to listen to me complain.
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by ncarroll 12y ago
I always thought the hackable angle on cooking is patterns. A whole lot of stuff that you might cook for everyday eating is, in fact, a pattern and once you know that, you can riff off whatever is in your fridge. Take soup, for instance.
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by ncarroll 12y ago
I hadn't heard of this project before. Thanks for the link and the heads up.
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by ncarroll 12y ago
> Marriage is agreeing to let another person have first dibs over wooing the new person you change into, and vice versa. Well said. And then, divorce happens when one or the other lets their option drop.
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MOOC Participation Data from University of Edinburgh(moocs.is.ed.ac.uk)
1 points by ncarroll 13y ago|0 comments
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by ncarroll 13y ago
Oh. I haven't thought of emotioneric in the longest time. Thanks for the smile.
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by ncarroll 13y ago
I wonder what the probability of a 60 year old man getting his lovely partner pregnant might be? That looks like a reason for spreading risk to me.
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by ncarroll 13y ago
FB has great face recognition software and multiple tagged photos of pretty much everyone who has an FB account. Show 20 photos (or 42 or however many you need to get the chances of a lucky guess small enough) and let me - click on me. Gi
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by ncarroll 13y ago
I must have missed something. I didn't read what patio11 wrote to suggest that he thought paying with cash (or it's equivalent) would be a bad decision. It seems to me like your friend made a sane and responsible choice when she
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by ncarroll 13y ago
I just used <blink> in a blog post last week. For my purpose it served as a visual pointer to the past. I'll be sorry to lose it too.

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