5911 pts · October 12, 2014
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Wooden horse? That sounds like a great story. Come on in and tell me more.
Guy-den is correct. It’s just that before the era of ubiquitous reasonably-fast Internet, it was hard to look stuff like that up. People guessed at a pronunciation and stuck with it.
Did you see the part where Nixon came thisclose to enacting a universal basic income?
#13 John Lennon talks about that in one of his last interviews (Playboy, Jan. 1981 but the interview was in Sep. 1980). He said when they wrote it he thought of it just as a fun upbeat song for the movie. However that was also a pretty miserable time in his life and he later realized how much it was a legitimate call for help. It’s one of my go-to examples that the artist isn’t necessarily the final word on their own work.
Assigning certain foods to certain times of day is arbitrary and I’ll have nothing to do with it.
It’s an established maxim called Sturgeon’s Revelation: 90% of everything is crud.
I’d say that’s intentional. They’re staying at a luxury hotel with other visitors, Bob spending every night at the bar, and Charlotte silently strolling around Tokyo like it was a museum. They’re there but not really, which is why everything is so cliché and they’re so bored. That changes when they get out of the hotel and start interacting with people. (Granted we don’t learn much about those folks & don’t see them again, so this film set in Japan is still very much about the Americans.)
Neil Gaiman said: If someone tells you a book is about something, they’re probably right. If they tell you the book is _only_ about that thing, they are very wrong. “Translation” is about a lot of things, and what you see will depend on your perspective. One person might focus on the lead characters’ lost sense of identity. Another might focus on their disconnection from their spouses. Someone else might see Bob the absentee parent getting another chance with Charlotte.
I recently watched it at 45. I’m starting to identify more with bob. I know I’ve had periods in my life similar to where he was, not really happy but comfortable enough to not want to rock the boat. Over a longer timeline though it becomes a kind of self-neglect.
It helps that they were geographically clustered, such that you and all your neighbors would have the same letters. That also meant you could dial them directly with just the last 4-5 digits. In many cases the central office was named for the town or neighborhood itself, or in more densely populated areas for a nearby landmark. The Plaza Hotel in New York was one such landmark, and their number is still PL9-3000.
#26 More like European settlers naming it, but point taken. Even the “New” is optional. Boston, Cleveland, Dover, Manchester, Richmond, and Springfield are all named for their English counterparts. (If you want to get technical, some Springfields are named for the one in Massachusetts, but ultimately that still comes back to the one in Essex.)
Plus recordkeeping wasn’t that strict even 50 years ago. Look at what Frank Abagnale was able to pull off in real life (fictionalized in “Catch Me If You Can”). Let’s say it was 1970 when they moved to Forks; in those days if a dude rolled up in semi-rural Washington presenting something that looked like a medical degree from Ohio, they’d trust him until they had reason not to.
It’s not a job in itself, or at least it wasn’t when it was my job. If there were carts to wrangle I’d be restocking shelves or cleaning.
If you want to get technical, all of the other blocks fell.
I agree, but “Home Alone” is more obviously so because the parts that don’t involve Harry & Marv are basically “A Christmas Carol.”
See also: the song “Let’s Misbehave” from the movie musical “Pennies from Heaven”, 1981. https://youtu.be/fElXbJjNJQI
Yes, or even more. MCC Law 19.8:19.8 Overthrow or wilful act of fielderIf the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder the runs scored shall be(i) any runs for penalties awarded to either sideand (ii) the allowance for the boundaryand (iii) the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.Depending on how fast & committed the batsmen were, that could be a 5 or 6.
The basics make enough sense, especially if you watch a shorter form like ODI or T20 where you can observe the flow of a whole match. Like other sports, you could really nerd out on the rules if you want.If you’re familiar with baseball, the single most important difference IMO is that the batsmen are not compelled to run. That changes a lot of the flow of the game.
I got to watch a titanium rod being removed from someone’s femur. It was totally above board, but it looked like the most Mr. Bean shit.
I was in a grocery store killing time before work (would have been about 11:30 Eastern, 7:30 my time). I walked past the home video section and saw Dan Rather on the TVs. That’s odd, why would he be on this early?
That or they’re trying to exploit a phenomenon known as source amnesia, where readers remember the claim but not where they heard it (and accordingly, how credible it was.)
That comes up in East Slavic languages as well, with the patronymic between the given name and family name. For example the final leader of the Soviet Union was Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the second part indicating that his father’s name was Sergei. Which combination of names you’d address him by depends on how formal the setting is. [Circling back to the original point, Mikhail’s wife went by the married name Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva.]
Kinda. Just Stop Oil (whose shirt he’s wearing) is a UK protest group known for disruptive activities like vandalism and obstructing traffic. You can imagine how that might be a concern at an auto race.
“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” — James 2:14-17
Depends on the medium. The floppy disk drive was typically device 8, hence “,8,1” while a cassette deck was device 1 (so “,1,1”). If we wanted though we could just type “LOAD” because as you might imagine device 1 is the default.
That was before my time, but I do remember KLondike-5 from movies. This WaPo article talks about that, including a frame of The Simpsons where Mr. Plow has a KL5 number. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/07/a-directory-for-klondike-5-the-most-famous-telephone-exchange-in-the-world/ There’s even a (blurry) page from a real phone book showing word prefixes.
For sure. There are somewhere between three and eight parking spots for every car in the US. Parking lots cover about 5% of urban land (and in some places it feels like way more). https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/27/parking-dominates-our-cities-but-do-we-really-see-it Thats one perk I see of truly autonomous cars: everywhere would have valet parking, and the cars could take themselves to a central garage.
Having a separate device with which to rewind to reduce wear on either the VCR or the tapes. (The VCR part was more or less accurate. Rewinding wasn’t any harder on the machine than other functions, but more use means more wear, and early VCRs were expensive to repair or replace.)
One of my early jobs was in a big national bank in the mid-90s, and their written policies stated that you could have *one* drink with lunch.
https://imgur.com/4p8ORgL
Wooden horse? That sounds like a great story. Come on in and tell me more.
Guy-den is correct. It’s just that before the era of ubiquitous reasonably-fast Internet, it was hard to look stuff like that up. People guessed at a pronunciation and stuck with it.
Did you see the part where Nixon came thisclose to enacting a universal basic income?
#13 John Lennon talks about that in one of his last interviews (Playboy, Jan. 1981 but the interview was in Sep. 1980). He said when they wrote it he thought of it just as a fun upbeat song for the movie. However that was also a pretty miserable time in his life and he later realized how much it was a legitimate call for help. It’s one of my go-to examples that the artist isn’t necessarily the final word on their own work.
Assigning certain foods to certain times of day is arbitrary and I’ll have nothing to do with it.
It’s an established maxim called Sturgeon’s Revelation: 90% of everything is crud.
I’d say that’s intentional. They’re staying at a luxury hotel with other visitors, Bob spending every night at the bar, and Charlotte silently strolling around Tokyo like it was a museum. They’re there but not really, which is why everything is so cliché and they’re so bored. That changes when they get out of the hotel and start interacting with people. (Granted we don’t learn much about those folks & don’t see them again, so this film set in Japan is still very much about the Americans.)
Neil Gaiman said: If someone tells you a book is about something, they’re probably right. If they tell you the book is _only_ about that thing, they are very wrong. “Translation” is about a lot of things, and what you see will depend on your perspective. One person might focus on the lead characters’ lost sense of identity. Another might focus on their disconnection from their spouses. Someone else might see Bob the absentee parent getting another chance with Charlotte.
I recently watched it at 45. I’m starting to identify more with bob. I know I’ve had periods in my life similar to where he was, not really happy but comfortable enough to not want to rock the boat. Over a longer timeline though it becomes a kind of self-neglect.
It helps that they were geographically clustered, such that you and all your neighbors would have the same letters. That also meant you could dial them directly with just the last 4-5 digits. In many cases the central office was named for the town or neighborhood itself, or in more densely populated areas for a nearby landmark. The Plaza Hotel in New York was one such landmark, and their number is still PL9-3000.
#26 More like European settlers naming it, but point taken. Even the “New” is optional. Boston, Cleveland, Dover, Manchester, Richmond, and Springfield are all named for their English counterparts. (If you want to get technical, some Springfields are named for the one in Massachusetts, but ultimately that still comes back to the one in Essex.)
Plus recordkeeping wasn’t that strict even 50 years ago. Look at what Frank Abagnale was able to pull off in real life (fictionalized in “Catch Me If You Can”). Let’s say it was 1970 when they moved to Forks; in those days if a dude rolled up in semi-rural Washington presenting something that looked like a medical degree from Ohio, they’d trust him until they had reason not to.
It’s not a job in itself, or at least it wasn’t when it was my job. If there were carts to wrangle I’d be restocking shelves or cleaning.
If you want to get technical, all of the other blocks fell.
I agree, but “Home Alone” is more obviously so because the parts that don’t involve Harry & Marv are basically “A Christmas Carol.”
See also: the song “Let’s Misbehave” from the movie musical “Pennies from Heaven”, 1981.
https://youtu.be/fElXbJjNJQI
Yes, or even more. MCC Law 19.8:
19.8 Overthrow or wilful act of fielder
If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder the runs scored shall be
(i) any runs for penalties awarded to either side
and (ii) the allowance for the boundary
and (iii) the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
Depending on how fast & committed the batsmen were, that could be a 5 or 6.
The basics make enough sense, especially if you watch a shorter form like ODI or T20 where you can observe the flow of a whole match. Like other sports, you could really nerd out on the rules if you want.
If you’re familiar with baseball, the single most important difference IMO is that the batsmen are not compelled to run. That changes a lot of the flow of the game.
I got to watch a titanium rod being removed from someone’s femur. It was totally above board, but it looked like the most Mr. Bean shit.
I was in a grocery store killing time before work (would have been about 11:30 Eastern, 7:30 my time). I walked past the home video section and saw Dan Rather on the TVs. That’s odd, why would he be on this early?
That or they’re trying to exploit a phenomenon known as source amnesia, where readers remember the claim but not where they heard it (and accordingly, how credible it was.)
That comes up in East Slavic languages as well, with the patronymic between the given name and family name. For example the final leader of the Soviet Union was Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the second part indicating that his father’s name was Sergei. Which combination of names you’d address him by depends on how formal the setting is.
[Circling back to the original point, Mikhail’s wife went by the married name Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva.]
Kinda. Just Stop Oil (whose shirt he’s wearing) is a UK protest group known for disruptive activities like vandalism and obstructing traffic. You can imagine how that might be a concern at an auto race.
“Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” — James 2:14-17
Depends on the medium. The floppy disk drive was typically device 8, hence “,8,1” while a cassette deck was device 1 (so “,1,1”). If we wanted though we could just type “LOAD” because as you might imagine device 1 is the default.
That was before my time, but I do remember KLondike-5 from movies. This WaPo article talks about that, including a frame of The Simpsons where Mr. Plow has a KL5 number. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/07/a-directory-for-klondike-5-the-most-famous-telephone-exchange-in-the-world/ There’s even a (blurry) page from a real phone book showing word prefixes.
For sure. There are somewhere between three and eight parking spots for every car in the US. Parking lots cover about 5% of urban land (and in some places it feels like way more). https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/27/parking-dominates-our-cities-but-do-we-really-see-it Thats one perk I see of truly autonomous cars: everywhere would have valet parking, and the cars could take themselves to a central garage.
Having a separate device with which to rewind to reduce wear on either the VCR or the tapes. (The VCR part was more or less accurate. Rewinding wasn’t any harder on the machine than other functions, but more use means more wear, and early VCRs were expensive to repair or replace.)
One of my early jobs was in a big national bank in the mid-90s, and their written policies stated that you could have *one* drink with lunch.