balding_n_tired

I disagree. It's a lot easier not to go to Nevada than it is to pick up and move someplace where you prefer the voting system.

There is an interesting chapter in _Excellence Without a Soul_ by Harry Lewis, suggesting that garde inflation is less a problem that widely believed. You could look it up.

1. Isn't this a repost?

2. Maybe the plumber didn't feel like chatting while he worked.

I worked with a programmer who was legally blind. He used speech-recognition software plus some sort of display software that blew each character up to about 10" x 6".

Many years ago a neighbor of ours, riding his son's motorcycle at something around walking pace, collided with his daughter's bicycle, and fell off on his head. He died, she got away with a broken arm.

Certainly you can, but I find that bookstores generally don't, and I don't at home--force of habit.

You might want to Google for C.J. Date's essay on the problems with "intelligent keys".

I have written a certain amount of Javascript this year to run on Windows machines. This was because a) I needed the scripts to run on Windows, b) I did not wish to have to install another language (say Python) on the machines, c) I really really did not want to do them in VBScript.

You could change the NFL a great deal by changing the substitution rules, and making players play both ways as they commonly did before about 1960. You'd probably see the linemen come down to about linebacker size, and the skill positions to about defensive back size.

Meanwhile I'm waiting for the obsessive parents of America to read up on the cumulative effects of heading soccer balls.

Elite runners can take enough out of themselves that the recovery is much longer. Recreational runners--well, I used to be able to do two or three every fall. Hell, I knew a guy who would run one a week. He drove race directors crazy, because he expected the gates open and the tee shirt ready when he got to the line in 5:30 or 6:00.

I was a decent recreational runner in my late 20s. But pain tolerance is not "the difference", just "a difference". I do not have the classic marathoner's frame, and at above 60 miles per week, I would start to feel twinges here and there, which likely would've developed into injuries had a continued to train at that level for more than a couple of weeks. Now, 60 miles per week is nothing for a marathoner, about half what the true stars run.

As with any form of highly competitive athletics, the best advice is to choose your parents carefully.

Gee, I'm a 40+ Perl programmer. But Amsterdam is a few time zones away...

"There is one Phillips screwdriver in my house."

How many screws do you strip by not having the right size of Phillips screw driver? How many more can you not engage? Or have you gone really minimal and guaranteed that you have only one size of head on all your screws?

Washn't this posted from the original blog already?

A fellow I know who works for Goodwill remarked on the folks with scanners some time back. My impression was that he thought it an odd way to spend one's time, but was glad to see the books go out the door.

As for the fellow at the library, I can understand how a retiree, able to exchange time for lower prices, might be annoyed.