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March 26, 2025 Trying to gather my photos of Iris Along with a huge collection of notes, letters, journals, etc., I have lots of photographs and other images scattered around my office. I want to March 25, 2025 Laugh the next time you hear a MAGAt asking for transparency March 25, 2025 Jimmy Carter's death is not all that important, is it? Trump is our narcissist-in-chief March 25, 2025 Staying on the alert for for prople to blame for our problems March 25, 2025 My father's Doughboy statue I don’t really know why he had it because I don’t think he really served in the military. He told me that he had worked on the Manhattan Project but March 24, 2025 Taking more screenshots to help understand this QA macro I had to iterate the creation process several times, and I don’t remember the exact steps, but this is how it looks now and that should help when I March 7, 2025 Design a personal dump truck Now that I’ve sold Grizzly, my pickup truck, to the kid next door, I’ve been dreaming of another macho vehicle. I mean I swear every other American January 8, 2025 I think Gawd speaks through AI November 5, 2024 Election Day Canvassers - Reminders and Updates After training, get assignment and list from Captain’s Room Get MiniVan help and answer Legal Questions at the Help Desk Zoom NC Election Day January 7, 2024 Vocabulary lesson Y a un tas de mots que je ne comprends pas quand je lis Proust. Je me déspère un peu en pensant que je ne parlerai jamais le français comme un vrai January 4, 2024 Iris and I had an interesting discussion with Google Bard this morning. Dear statistician Bard, off the top of your head, how many male babies born in the US in 1942 are still alive today? I understand your curiosity January 4, 2024 Iris and I had an interesting discussion with Google Bard this morning. Dear statistician Bard, off the top of your head, how many male babies born in the US in 1942 are still alive today? I understand your curiosity December 22, 2023 Discussion on the Pomona College class of 1964 listserv On pp 31-32 of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision barring Trump from appearing on the ballot or being counted as a write-in (PDF), they cite a December 4, 2023 I’m illiterate In the late 60s and early 70s I had a small student office in the Linguistic Department at the University of Texas at Austin. That’s where I wrote December 2, 2023 Elon Musk A friend of mine sent me this link to an article by Albert Burneko, who tried, not entirely successfully, to mock Elon Musk. Musk may be a November 16, 2023 I love photographing the artists at Wildacres October 31, 2023 Eating a Mouse In honor of the great god, Ganesh, who hates mice, I had to eat a mouse so that Ganesh would bless my brother Rich, who will be having surgery in September 21, 2023 It Really is a Fascist Flag (at least to some Americans) Even in elementary school, I found it strange to pledge allegiance to a flag. Being loyal to my country, fine, but a piece of cloth? I’m also old September 19, 2023 I love the New York Times Metropolitan Diary It was published here. It’s rare that jokes and cartoons make me laugh out loud, but this story from The Metropolitan Diary, one of my favorite September 12, 2023 Watching The Ten Commandments in Gafsa, Tunisia, in the sixtes Back in the 60s, the cinema in Gafsa showed The Ten Commandments. About a half dozen of my girl students recruited me to chaperone them. Afterwards, September 7, 2023 I wanna be like these guys when I’m their age! Wait! I am their age! (Of course the videos were made when they were younger and then really well dubbed.) September 2, 2023 The insignificance of photography Found at The New Yorker September 2, 2023 Enough I remember hearing or reading some form of this story long ago. I associated it with John C Bogle, the man who enabled Iris and me to retire in August 19, 2023 photos from our trip to Japan This is our first rough selection of photos from our trip to Japan. There are few comments at this point. We have been kept busy. In fact, I’m August 1, 2023 MoveOn wants to amend the Constitution? Ben & Jerry used their platform to encourage everyone to mark their money with a rubber stamp: This is a terrible idea! Can you just imagine what a July 30, 2023 Google Sheet Number Formatting Google Sheets has fairly good formatting for displaying numbers and dates. But I often use Google Sheets to create data for exporting to TSV files July 29, 2023 Summer Brake A friend of mine (not a native speaker of English) (not that native speakers or even spelling correctors know any better) sent out this message: « July 29, 2023 Romantic technologies and ideologies I’m intrigued by this article “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture because it reminds me of the old July 26, 2023 PITY THE NATION Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And July 15, 2023 Basho’s poem, Even in Kyoto I believe that Haas’s translation is far from literal since the last line simply simply names the cuckoo, but it is far and away the most beautiful June 10, 2023 War in Ukraine - an explanation I’ve finally found the clearest and most convincing explanation of why Russia invaded Ukraine. The first step to understanding is to learn about the May 28, 2023 Timothy Snyder’s History of Ukraine Timothy Snyder is a Yale historian whose lectures on Eastern Europe - especially Ukraine - are not only enlightening, but actually fun. I’ve learned May 21, 2023 Fake Email Senders I’ve been fascinated for a long time by the creative names that people - okay, political campaigns and companies wanting to sell me something - put May 15, 2023 More on language learning In a discussion with my college classmates last year (2022), I wrote: Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 6:22 PM This discussion prompted me to write up my April 29, 2023 Effect and Cause (I wrote this in 2014. I think it’s an attempt at poetry, which explains all the repetition. Unfinished, but I like it.) When I was a little boy, I April 17, 2023 Soros is my Co-Pilot It’s fun making a bumper sticker of my own March 19, 2023 Note à une chère amie J’entends mon cerveau formant la phrase « T’es trop gentille, mon Amie! » afin de te remercier plus fortement que normalement. Mais je m’arrête en March 8, 2023 Arnold Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger’s messages are almost always clear and to the point. This talk on fascism is no exception. I found this thanks to the Daily Kos March 8, 2023 Why Purim upsets me I first heard of Purim while serving in Gafsa, Tunisia, as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in a lycée (high school). Gafsa still had 13 February 11, 2023 I was a Programmer Who Swore Constantly One of the most fundamental unanswered questions that has been bothering mankind during the Anthropocene is whether the use of swearwords in open January 23, 2023 I perceive new things as my nerves slow down I walked into our living room just now holding a check in my right hand to ask my wife if she had an envelope. She said she did and started walking January 3, 2023 B&N’s new president Ted Gioio has an interesting article on substack: What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?. He claims that B&N is doing December 29, 2022 Learning French with the FSI Method In late summer of 1964 I entered Peace Corps training in Carbondale, Illinois. What I want to describe here is the greatest learning experience of December 28, 2022 Release time Xtian education in public school Rummaging through files that I’ve kept since childhood, I came across this certificate that I received in 6th grade of my elementary school in December 28, 2022 The Bastard! He doesn’t exist! I made this note years ago, probably in the 90s, and have kept it taped to my wall ever since. I’m especially tickled by the language, which both December 28, 2022 I used to have so much fun cutting pictures and words out of magazines and newspapers I had this up on my wall in my college dorm, I think. (I don’t see signs of tape or anything….) December 28, 2022 Photoshop brushes drive me crazy! I’ve always been driven crazy by the fact that Ps brushes have TWO circles. I don’t know why. It’s the inner circle that seems to paint You can see December 28, 2022 I warn people about confusing Dropbox behavior I got this question about a post I made on Reddit. u/areyouredditenough, I’m not sure I understand your question. The best I can think to do is to December 1, 2022 2022-01-12 Tunisia’s spicy Harissa gets UNESCO heritage status You can read this story in French or English While in Tunisia, I learned to cook couscous Southern Tunisian style, in other words,the best kind of November 24, 2022 Today is Thanksgiving 2022, aka Turkey Day. One tradition that I always observe is to use canned cranberry sauce on my turkey dinner. Cranberry sauce reminds me of my childhood because that’s November 9, 2022 Proposed Driving Itinerary of the Cathar Region This driving itinerary strikes me as a good place to continue our discussions. It is strongly based on this web page. This map shows most of the October 7, 2022 How you know when your volleyball-playing days are over September 21, 2022 Saeed Jones Driving home from Durham last Tuesday, I turned on my radio and heard the end of a riveting poem that seemed to describe many of my feelings about August 27, 2022 Why history moves in cycles Hard times make strong people, strong people make good times, and good times make weak people - Xabier Ormaetxea, a dark-haired August 11, 2022 Shopping lists Our daughter knows how hard I’ve searched for a good checklist for tasks like shopping, etc. Today she sent me this image, found on Twitter: I May 6, 2022 Frédéric Bruly Bouabré « L’alphabet de l’ouest africain » MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, has an exhibit of the work of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Côte d’Ivoire, 1923–2014. Born in 1923 in Zéprégühé in April 3, 2022 American Anti-Government sentiment Rather than writing much here, I want to refer you to this perceptive article by Ezra Klein. Klein’s two concluding paragraphs should be enough to April 2, 2022 Proof that the Earth’s Climate is Not Changing As everyone knows, we Republicans don’t believe facts. So I was very happy when I found this beautiful visualization of monthly global temperature April 2, 2022 Our Poor Kitchen We saw the water running out and immediately started mopping up the water with all our house’s towels: Washing machines drain their water March 16, 2022 The NY Times has a Telegram channel If you’re woke like me, you’ve probably read a lot about the Telegram messaging app. I downloaded it some time ago and then forgot about it until March 16, 2022 Amazon loses my smile When Amazon first introduced its Smile feature, I would start each shopping session by changing the URL from www.amazon.com to smile.amazon.com and March 16, 2022 History versus the UNC Press fire of 1990 If future historians are well designed and supplied with sufficient training data, including facial recognition data, they might catch the error in February 18, 2022 J’ai pensé à ce passage du livre « La septième fonction du langage » de Laurent Binet Pour aucune raison particulière, je me suis souvenu hier d’un scene qui ma fait rigoler: À l’université de Vincennes, pour accéder aux salles de February 13, 2022 Sufism in Tunisia I’ve found Christian Science Monitor stories to be paywalled at times, but I was able to read the entirety of these two stories. In Tunis, artisans February 2, 2022 Remembering Mark Grandy Mark Grandy I grew up on Walnut Street in Berkeley, about a block and a half up a hill from the flatlands where Live Oak Park was located. February 1, 2022 2022-02-01 OLLI Bottleneck Dear Howard, I’ve been thinking about how difficult it is, certainly for me, to obtain and organize resources for my OLLI courses. For people like January 23, 2022 Comparing Gafsa and Chapel Hill Gafsa is only about 100 miles south of Chapel Hill! Chapel Hill, NC: 35.9132,-79.055844 Gafsa, Tunisia: 34.43114,8.775656 The north-south distance January 12, 2022 Se oriente, rapaz En lisant À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, on croise un passage où le narrateur décrit le clocher de l’église de Saint-Hilaire dans December 25, 2021 Feeling nostalgic because of a COVID test We had to take at-home COVID tests yesterday before going to the home of some very dear friends for an Xmas Eve get-together. This first image shows December 18, 2021 Fun misunderstandings I like this one because it kind of makes sense. maybe… November 21, 2021 Our Living Contradiction The November 14, 2021 issue of the New York Times Magazine contains an article by Jake Silverstein entitled A Nation of Argument. (If you follow the November 20, 2021 Genetic Geneology The November 22, 2021 Issue of The New Yorker has an article entitled How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer by Raffi Khatchadourian. In the November 8, 2021 PANCHO LÓPEZ In the summer between my junior and senior years in high school (I think), the father of my best friend, Mark (“Gruesome”) Grandy, found us jobs October 21, 2021 Burying Google Fiber on Bartram Drive This is the tool used to punch holes in the earth for the orange conduit that will hold our Google Fiber. It’s kind of like an autonomous September 24, 2021 In a setback for Apple, the European Union seeks a common charger for all phones Today’s New York Times reports The European Union unveiled plans on Thursday to make USB-C connectors the standard charging port for all July 12, 2021 Thinking that we think independently Posted by a friend on Facebook: It’s interesting that the poster calls this a “random thought” when this is all over social media and even MSM July 12, 2021 Learning from an old brain As my brain slows down with age, I am able for some reason to notice its actions better than before. For example, I turn right at the top of our July 12, 2021 Don’t thump this Bible This is a Concealed Carry Semi Hard Shell Bible Gun Case For Medium To Small Guns sold on ebay.com. Notice that the pistol in the photo is cocked July 2, 2021 Hurricane Elsa Our evil stepmother spelled her name “Else”, but this makes me feel uncomfortable anyway. Hurricane Elsa is coming our way July 1, 2021 OSS sabotage manual from 1944 Rebecca Hill posted a Homeland Security Digital Library article on Facebook. OSS/CIA sabatoge instructions Organizations and Conferences June 27, 2021 Home — Finding Place in Poetry SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, July 18th, 3:00-4:00 pm Use this link to join the Zoom poetry reading, Featured Readers: Mark Smith-Soto, Iris Tillman, Fred May 13, 2021 The Great 2021 Gasoline Shortage – As I recall, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers used to say Beer will get you through times of no gasoline better than gasoline will get you May 6, 2021 A Monument to the Union Victory A good friend of mine asks on Facebook: Why aren’t there Union victory monuments or monuments to abolitionists? This question reminded me of the April 19, 2021 You say “Naomi”, I say “Naomi”… From Bloomberg Business Week Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp My wife and I April 18, 2021 Self-Ignorance By Adam Zagajewski Translated by Clare Cavanagh Found in NY Times Magazine I don’t believe we humans have any special form of self-knowledge or April 18, 2021 Think about the reflection in a person’s eyes I found this image on Facebook but I couldn’t find its source. The photo is interesting for several reasons. Notice the reflections in Helen April 13, 2021 Abraham Piper, Exvangelical Today’s NY Times had an article on Abraham Piper entitled Pastor’s Son Left Faith, Becoming an Evangelical Critic for a New Flock on TikTok. It was April 6, 2021 The Georgia Voter Suppression Law When I first read about Georgia’s new voting law, it sounded as if some parts of it were okay. For example, Republicans say that Sunday voting is March 24, 2021 COVID-19 vaccines and older so-called conservatives I can’t understand how older people can refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Younger people have not lived through the amazing vaccines March 23, 2021 Post Vaccination Haircut Me with 14-month-long hair Plus Big Mike Equals this March 21, 2021 My Highly Unexpected Heterosexual Pandemic Zoom Wedding Laurie Penny The singled-out quotations are mine. We were in the middle of promising to grow old together when the sound cut out. The officiant’s March 21, 2021 Passover and the Power of Jewish Continuity Telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt allows Jews to share a spiritual experience across time and space by Gerson, Mark. Wall Street Journal March 14, 2021 The Dirtiest Story in the Decameron When I was living in Gafsa, back in 1964-66 on my first tour in Tunisia, I got a copy of Boccaccio’s Decameron. I got it because my French knowledge March 14, 2021 Cross tattoos on faces of North African women I remember being surprised to see women with crosses tattooed on their faces when I was in the Peace Corps in Tunisia. I came to realize that North March 7, 2021 George Hussein Entenman Why is my Facebook name George Hussein Entenman? In my case, I was outraged when Rush Limbaugh (may he be burning in Hell) constantly repeated March 6, 2021 I can’t believe how funny Andy Borowitz is borowitz-report He manages to be consistently funny. Easter Bunny New QAnon Theory Predicts Trump Will March 5, 2021 I left a comment on PoliticsNC I commented on a guest article on PoliticsNC: Tom, your buddy Rick Henderson is indeed a Libertarian. Libertarians are those people who talk freedom March 4, 2021 How is it possible to steal Bitcoin? I posted the following question to Facebook a couple of days ago: I hope this isn’t a stupid question, but how do people steal Bitcoin or other March 3, 2021 We need another Sputnik Quotes from Politics & Ideas: How to Step Up the Tech Fight Against China - WSJ 2021-03-03. I found the article through my public library March 3, 2021 Still trying to understand the word “intersectionality” The introduction to the MIT Press book Data Feminism tries to define intersectionality. The book discusses … We both strongly believe that data can March 3, 2021 Useful Delusions by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler (review) This is inspired by a book review in the WSJ 2021-03-03 by Matthew Hutson. I found it through my public library February 27, 2021 Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College What I gather from this NY Times article: Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a February 23, 2021 Should models look at the camera? An article appeared in the 2021-02-23 edition of our WSJ with the title, Should Models in Ads Look Directly at The Camera? Research Has an Answer: A February 21, 2021 Ps brush doesn’t paint to edge of its outline I make a hard, round brush with 100% flow, etc., but when I press the mouse button to use the brush, the color circle is inside the thin circle, so February 17, 2021 President Trump wasn’t that bad I received this from my Canadian Cousin, Harry, who got it from his “friend Marty Cutler in Toronto (who gets more letters published in the Globe February 13, 2021 I’d been thinking recently … …about this story. I don’t remember why I was thinking about it, but it had come up several times and I wondered if I could find the quotation February 11, 2021 Lou-Anna Ralite I found two photos by Lou-Anna Ralite that interest me at Fisheye Magazine. There are more on her own website. I became interested in photos of February 9, 2021 Rescripting Facts This article finally gave me a word to describe why it’s so hard, at least for me, to argue about politics with smart people who I disagree with: February 9, 2021 Letter to a friend living in a different world A friend sent me this note and attached video: I listened to the whole thing. Humphrey exclaims, “Biden says, ‘Every American gets the vaccine’”!! February 7, 2021 I find myself defending the Super Bowl Letter to a Brazilian Friend I understand your reluctance to watch the Super Bowl, but, much to my surprise, I find myself wanting to tell you why February 6, 2021 Urban Tunisian Children I wrote the following comment to Michael Kaplan’s FB photos of Gafsa children. These children are beautiful and often very sweet to deal with. On February 5, 2021 I take a jab at “jab” My friend Rob Anderson posted this on Facebook yesterday. This link might work better. I proudly out myself as the person who tried to help Rob by January 31, 2021 Africa Berbers move into Africa Here is the second paragraph for you to read more easily: In other words, the red arrow along the Tunisian coast is January 29, 2021 Alfred-Stieglitz-and-the-Making-of-Modern-Photography FRAMES Magazine (my emphasis) Most readers have at least a passing familiarity with Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), the early twentieth-century January 25, 2021 CJ Suitt source. Emphasis is mine. January 22, 2021 05:45 AM, ‘In the Aftermath’ of COVID-19 Chapel Hill Poet Laureate CJ Suitt talks about his inspiration January 24, 2021 My motto: « Besta é tu se você não viver nesse mundo. » besta-e-tu My motto: « Besta é tu se você não viver nesse mundo. »It comes from a songMy friends discuss the translation« Besta é January 21, 2021 Janet Yellen WHO’S YELLEN NOW? You can read more about this here January 16, 2021 marked-image-server.md The directory /Users/ge/Dropbox/Apps/Blot/Posts/2021/01/16 contains the following files, among others: ./marked-image-server.md January 16, 2021 obelix January 16, 2021 Blot locations test I would say that Marked 2 doesn’t read underscores, as in *_assets* correctly. journal_entry: January 11, 2021 The Solid Project This article about Tim Berners-Lee in the NY Times got me to look at Solid again. I have heavily redacted it. Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in January 11, 2021 Mapping Posts to their Assets I have written /Users/ge/Dropbox/markdown/blot.im/blot-asset-locator.rb, a cute little Ruby script to map a Blot post to its corresponding assets January 10, 2021 Pauline Harmange I learned about her from the NY Times. She has made waves because of her book Moi les hommes, je les déteste. Pauline Harmange also has a blog. January 9, 2021 Scary what3words location Is this creepy, or what? https://what3words.com/outlived.rezoning.overpriced January 9, 2021 Twisted brilliance: Patricia Highsmith at 100 There has always been something fundamentally difficult about Patricia Highsmith. And not difficult in January 5, 2021 Vim Creep This is for my geeky friends, the only kind who will understand. Your browser does not support the audio element. I found this here. I’ll long January 4, 2021 For conservatives, a time for choosing Excerpts, with my emphasis from this source Sedition n. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority. Yesterday, the December 27, 2020 Lee Smith was a Go-Go dancer I found this in a Woolf Society PDF. A Factoid Regarding Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture: Discovering the 1960s Virginia Woolfs Rock Band Lee December 27, 2020 How Xmas Was Tamed The following article from today’s WSJ sounds plausible to me. (Sorry for sending such a long article, but it’s behind a paywall.) I couldn’t help December 23, 2020 Hierchical tabs An interesting discussion in Outliner Software… I don’t recall seeing any images here, so I’ll try to describe what I see in Bear’s “hierarchy”: I December 21, 2020 I replied to a FB post by Becca link Becca links to this article by Rawan Abdelbaki so I want to learn something useful from it. I didn’t. I had trouble with the parts I could December 19, 2020 Welcome to my web site Hello! I bet this is it. I’m guessing that blot is written by David Merfield davidmerfield Truck December 19, 2020 The world is a couple of drinks behind Mads Mikkelsen comes up with a surprising quotation from Humphrey Bogart Your browser does not support the audio element November 22, 2020 GOP Slogans (not posted to FB because it isn’t quite right) I’ve been reading analyses saying that progressive politicians did not fare as well as hoped in the 2020 election in part because of the language November 12, 2020 2020-11-12 Progressive Dems of OC zoom meeting These are notes that I made during a Zoom meeting. Saying that Cal Cunningham was a weak candidate seems to assume that we could have found a November 2, 2020 Jamie Harrison’s creative email I donated to the campaign of Jamie Harrison, hoping that he could rid us of Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina. Harrison raised a record November 1, 2020 How I accidentally voted for a Republican and spoiled my Absentee ballot I got my Orange County, NC, absentee ballot in the mail and diligently filled all the little ovals. Then I asked my wife to witness by signing the October 23, 2020 Rob Anderson sends photos from near Calhoon Hall, UT Austin Where Robert E Lee statue used to be I went into Calhoon almost every weekday for almost 8 years and don’t even remember the statue. I still October 13, 2020 2020-10-13 Bad Political Thinking medical insurance is not the same as medical service capitalism is not one thing corporations are not small businesses capitalism’s inventiveness is September 20, 2020 Why I’m taking Mark Hall’s OLLI class on prisons I grew up in Berkeley, CA, in the 40s and 50s. This was the cold war, the time of air raid drills, polio, HUAC and ever-present danger in spite of September 16, 2020 Nouns are theories; verbs are facts When Socrates asks what is courage (n), he doesn’t answer with nouns, but with verbs (facts and actions), asking if such and such an action defines September 12, 2020 O Nosso Senhor do Bonfim worked for me! A miracle: O Senhor do Bonfim worked for me! Yesterday, when Ginette tied the ribbon around my wrist, my wish was to still be alive when the ribbon September 6, 2020 The Pledge of Allegiance I posted this comment on FB Sept 2, 2020: I went to elementary school in the early 50s. Every Monday, all the students would gather in the yard (or August 25, 2020 EVIL GENIUSES: YABIHTR (Yet Another Book I Have To Read) On the cover of today’s New York Times Book Review is a review of EVIL GENIUSES: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History By Kurt Andersen that has August 20, 2020 Is Astérix racist? From: Rebecca Hill redbecca@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:33:14 -0400 Message-ID August 15, 2020 Why I try not to download attachments Every time you run a program on a computing device (desktop computer, cellphone, etc.), it has a chance to infect it with a computer virus. This is August 10, 2020 Why we need emojis and smilies August 10, 2020 Sherman’s March to the Memes Note to Walter, David and Rob I subscribe to a FB page named “General Sherman’s March to the Memes”, which is full of posts, both good and evil, but July 23, 2020 2020-07-23 It’s hard to teach ‘simple’ subjects Inspired by Tales from documentation: Write for your clueless users As a graduate student I taught courses in intro to linguistics and beginning July 23, 2020 2020-07-23 Thomas Chatterton Williams source On July 7th, Harper’s Magazine published what it called “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” which quickly became part of the conversation July 4, 2020 2020-07-04 FEMA Flood Risk status: DRAFT author: ge todays_date: 2020-07-04 title: FEMA Flood Risk file_name: 2020-07-04-fema-flood-risk.md — An organization called the First May 22, 2020 2020-05-22 Sitting in the Sun Sitting in the Sun No electronics Sure that I’ll reach a conclusion this time May 7, 2020 2020-05-07 More words from Jim Kellogh Eleanor walks. She walked on loop by Mystery House which is set back from street less than the normal 1941 style suburbia plan [ our modern , normal May 6, 2020 You’re lucky if you’re not born in an English-speaking family Because you have to learn English and will be bilingual. Unlike native English speakers May 2, 2020 Tara Reade Katie Halper interviews Tara Reade 4:39 1993 - sexual harrassment complaint Biden was “very handsy with a lot of people” Didn’t talk with her. It May 2, 2020 DM from Martha Carmichael I think it was in response to this FB post that Martha DM’d me with this: I am tired of the one-sidedness of Me too. I was, from day one. But if you May 1, 2020 Self as Property This month’s free book from U Chicago Press: Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today, by Ilana Gershon I love April 8, 2020 2020-04-08 Siloing 2020-04-08-siloing It’s happened in at least two domains: food and communication. Food. It’s become so difficult to have people over for dinner April 6, 2020 2020-04-06 Burke Uzzle 2020-04-06-burke-uzzle Just watched F11 and Be There on UNC-TV. It was terrific and beautiful. I recorded some notes as I watched it. Your browser April 4, 2020 2020-04-04 Phil and Jane 2020-04-04-email-to-Jane-and-Phil George! We are in hiding too! I’ve been harboring anxiety over being at the ACC tournament and flying but today I March 25, 2020 Why Nonvoters choose to opt out (2020-03-25) 2020-03-25-why-nonvoters-choose-to-opt-out On the Media has a fascinating interview with Eitan Hersh, associate professor of political science at March 21, 2020 My reply to James 2020-03-21-reply-to-James-Anderson James Anderson send out an email to several of us. (2020-03-21) This does not contain James’ whole post: I have March 5, 2020 Heather Cox Richardson on the Democratic nominating process 2020-03-05-Heather-Cox-Richardson source There is a lot of news about both the novel coronavirus and politics tonight, but I’m going to let it rest February 23, 2020 Barry Saunders I went to Denise Allen’s exhibit this afternoon at the Carrboro Century Center, where Ms Allen gave a wonderful talk about her life and work. In the February 23, 2020 2020-02-2 Hate the sin, not the sinner 2020-02-23-Billionaires Wikipedia says there were 621 American billionaires in 2019. I took a quick look through the list to see if they’re all as February 17, 2020 2020-02-17 Bernie Sanders in Durham 2020-02-17-bernie-sanders Michael Galinsky posted a video of a Sanders rally in Durham. It was reposted on FB. I was very moved and impressed by February 13, 2020 2020-02-13 Ultra Processed Foods 2020-02-13-ultra-processed-foods Just finished a very interesting article on “Ultra processed foods” February 7, 2020 2020-02-07 Mike Bloomberg 2020-02-07-mike-bloomberg When you see what I’m writing below, you may start yelling “Ok, Boomer!” Problem is that I’m too old to be a boomer! If February 6, 2020 NYT-Buttigieg-SDEs February 6, 2020 2020-02-06 Fake news at Truthdig? I made a FB post on this article, How Corporate Media Make Pete Buttigieg Look Like He’s Winning. I’m having trouble understanding this. Could you February 4, 2020 Imposter Syndrome I just read this article on Imposter Syndrome and am pretty sure that it helps explain a lot of my feelings and behavior: My first new Saab, which January 9, 2020 2020-01-09 Real Men Do Not Rent Clothes 2020-01-09-real-men-do-not-rent-clothes Jan. 8, 2020 source There’s only one problem as the growing clothing rental market inches toward offering January 5, 2020 2020-01-05 Can You Be a Photographer with a Bad Memory? 2020-01-05-can-you-be-a-photographer-with-a-bad-memory So many photographers explain what they are doing by referencing other photographers, often January 5, 2020 2020-01-05 Art Talk and Questions 2020-01-05-art-talk-and-questions In my Coursera course on modern art I found this: Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, Department of Architecture & January 5, 2020 Famous Photographers in History Joseph Nicéphore Niépce — in 1825 he created what is generally considered the worlds first photograph. So he should rank as #1 on any list because June 5, 2017 The End of Identity Liberalism Source June 5, 2017 Single-Image HDR — Ask Tim Grey [Source](http://asktimgrey.com/2017/06/05/single-image-hdr/ “Permalink to Single-Image HDR — Ask Tim Grey Today’s Question: I’ve got a single image June 4, 2017 Learn Datalog Today! Source Learn Datalog Today is an interactive tutorial designed to teach you the Datomic dialect of Datalog. Datalog is a declarative database query June 4, 2017 Brando Skyhorse, Snap #807 - Born Identity - Snap Judgment Source What’s in a name? Special thanks to Brando Skyhorse. Check out Brando’s memoir, “Take this Man”, and his award winning novel, “The Madonnas June 3, 2017 Stacey L. Kirby Source Stacey’s Vimeo videos Running on Cargo (25,920 views) Filed under [Stacey L. Kirby][4], [performance art][5], [book art][6], [installation June 3, 2017 The Wonderful Hippie Era Has Gone Source We’ve had such a wonderful life - the Hippie era. 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