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Mar 23

Manchester Tourist

Industrial Revolution. — Quick weekend trip to visit a good friend to try and go to the Manchester Derby before catching a train to Liverpool for a Champions League match — football and beer! No masks (immediately after exiting the plane); thick accents; Northern Quarter hostel (bunks); worker bees; opposing team football marching…

Manchester

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Manchester Tourist
Manchester Tourist

Feb 14

Madrid Tourist

Real. — Recently visited for a weekend during a month-long trip through Spain. Everything grandiose, lots of plazas, lots of history, Christmas lights (one night only), amazing olives, poor lighting, world-class art, Islamic influence, lines to leave a museum, touristy, siestas, late dinners, vermouth before meals, snacks with drinks, always eating and…

Madrid

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Madrid Tourist
Madrid Tourist

Aug 25, 2021

Idioms

From the programming world. — Bikeshedding To devote way too much time and energy working on and optimizing trivial issues — that are often hypothetical future problems that don’t exist yet — instead of focusing on what’s actually important right now. The term comes from a story in which a group of engineers, architects, and scientists…

Software Development

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Idioms
Idioms

Jul 20, 2021

New York: 5½ Years (Covid Edition)

We’re not working from home, we’re living at work. — From May 8, 2020 to June 13, 2021. Over a year in real-time, but only half a year spent in New York — the rest was spent eating my way through the South! Covid allowed us to work remotely and experience living in other cities. Living out of a suitcase…

New York

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New York: 5½ Years (Covid Edition)
New York: 5½ Years (Covid Edition)

Jul 9, 2021

Gists VIII

Snippets. Misc Enocide: “Unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.” “Feeling soft and open, I experience a mental quiet I have never known before. I’m able to have one…

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Mar 22, 2021

BGS vs PSA

Gem Mint. — About With the recent resurgence of the card market, this post attempts a narrow empirical comparison between the two largest card grading providers — BGS and PSA. Grading exploded in 1998 and again in 2020. Between 1991 to 1998, PSA graded roughly one million cards. From 1998 they graded at least…

Beckett

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BGS vs PSA
BGS vs PSA

Feb 10, 2021

Puerto Rico Tourist (Covid Christmas Edition)

The island of enchantment. — “It had the unmistakable stamp of the Brooklyn neighborhoods I’ve lived in for many years, though not in the form they take today but as they were five or ten years ago: scrappy but sophisticated, in that sweet transitional spot where it was still possible to feel in on a…

Travel

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Puerto Rico Tourist (Covid Christmas Edition)
Puerto Rico Tourist (Covid Christmas Edition)

Jan 4, 2021

Gists VII

Bites. — Misc Only four presidents have lacked a Christian denominational affiliation, the most recent one in the 1880s. There have been 0 non-religious presidents; one of the 535 members of the current Congress; and about a dozen of all 7,383 state legislators. From 1967 through 2011, California was governed by former movie…

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Gists VII
Gists VII

Jan 2, 2021

Gists VI

Nuggets. — Aging Well TED Talk. 80-year Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the world’s longest studies of adult life. Scientists eventually expanded their research to include the men’s offspring, who now number 1,300. During the intervening decades, the control groups have expanded. Among the original recruits were eventual President JFK and longtime…

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Gists VI
Gists VI

Dec 31, 2020

Gists V

Nibbles. — Misc The term Thomassons was coined by Japanese artist Genpei Akasegawa, and is used to describe any architectural feature that serves no purpose but is still maintained (such as stairs leading nowhere). …

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Gists V
Gists V
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