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2026 August Google News is just Forrest Gump’s shrimp boat now elgan.com · comments How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) openrss.org · comments A directory of people who love RSS andrewshell.org · comments Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified nascompares.com · comments July About — Ergo ergo.org Annagh, Corrigeenroe, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, F52YW72 is for sale on Daft.ie…
List of colleges that’ll be at the college fair. Dividing by ones that are worth Liam’s time and not, given what he’s looking for. Worthwhile Boston University Bucknell University Ithaca College Merrimack College Northeastern University Providence College Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers University Syracuse University Trinity College Dublin U.S. Air Force United States…
2026-02-22 Reading 1 (Gavin) The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food,
Sometimes I come across on article that, for one reason or another, sticks. Here are some of them (I’ve got a backlog to add, so short for now) 2022 Jason Cohen | Extreme Questions to trigger new, better ideas 2020 Matt Ruby | The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones Slate | How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing Brookline Apart Wait But Why | The Trump-Biden Debate The…
This is a list of places I like, or liked. Still here The Abbey Boston Athenaeum Brattle Bookshop Brookline Booksmith Brookline Spa Captain Kidd Restaurant Commonwealth Books Coolidge Corner Clubhouse Coolidge Corner Theatre Corrib Pub Emmet’s Frank Pepe’s Fugakyu Ganko Ittetsu Grainne O’Malley’s Halftime Pizza Harborside Hotel, Bar Harbor Harry’s Hollis Country…
Here is a list of topics that can lead to good conversation at most tables. First, things to avoid: Avoid superficial topics. “What makes you smile?” sounds sweet but there’s nothing there, it just invites platitudes and competitive humblebragging. Avoid questions about places. At least at the tables I sit out it’s too easy for people talking about their vacations. If you…
Paddy died in a fire Paddy died in a fire and was burnt pretty badly. So the morgue needed someone to identify the body. His two best friends, Seamus and Sean, were sent for. Seamus went in and the mortician pulled back the sheet. Seamus said “Yup, he’s burnt pretty bad. Roll him over”. So the mortician rolled him over. Seamus looked and said “Nope, it ain’t…
Sinn 556 I https://web.archive.org/web/20140109053700/http://www.pageandcooper.com/sinn-556-i-rubber-strap Nomos Glashutte Tangente https://web.archive.org/web/20140716121425/http://www.nomos-glashuette.com/the-watches/tangente/tangente/ Antea Classic 365 https://web.archive.org/web/20240225094249/https://www.stowa.de/antea-classic-365-handwound-top-grade-leather-strap-black-hand-stitched_1…
https://ma.testnav.com/client/index.html# https://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/testitems.html First passage Read the passage about Tomas and Marisol’s experience going whale watching during a trip to Mexico with their parents. Then answer the questions that follow. Mom and Dad went to the hotel’s front desk to see about planning a whale watching trip. That’s when Tomas and I decided we’d head to the…
This is a list of schools I think are worth looking at, along with some info I pulled from https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ Massachusetts Boston University BU is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs. It is known for its research initiatives and diverse student body. Scorecard Harvard University Harvard is a prestigious…
This page is a working list of what I think is good for my kids to read. By “good” I mean to further these goals: Build the habit and love of reading Strengthen their reading by reading harder and harder works. Acquaint them with the ideas that have shaped our world. The starting point for the list is the Plan of Graded Reading from the Gateway to the Great Books and the 10-year…
In response to The End of Private Libraries. First posted on hn. Head over to r/bookshelfdetective and you’ll see a bunch of folks hyped to share their libraries with the world. Maybe such folk are a dwindling but more vocal crowd. Maybe not. Numbers aside, this line makes me think OP is missing the point: I bought the book because I like having a visual, tangible record of the time this…
first posted on r/books I often visit used bookstores and sometimes the books are marked up—though I try to avoid it since it can be distracting. Still, sometimes I end up with a book with underlined passages. Some of those times there’s an inscription in the first pages suggesting, for example, that someone gave it as a gift in 1951. Of those times, a precious few have underlined the…
This is a copy of things Shannon wrote on Carepages. Intro Hi, my name is Connor. I was born on September 24th 2006 from Shannon and Chris (my Mommy and Daddy). I have a very rare disability known as Marshall Smith Syndrome, I am only the 34th person in the whole world who has been diagnosed with this. I have a trach and a g-j tube. You may call me imperfect, but I am a very special boy!
Originally posted on google docs This is a story about mental health, psychedelics, psychology and the mind. It is a story about the joy of family, the joy of friends, the joy of being in love, and the joy of doing scientific research. It is a story about life, the world, and how amazing they both are. After 18 months of intolerable torture, and after many months of consideration I have decided to…
As I write my boys are 15, 10, and 8. For the oldest graduation is right around the corner and I find myself thinking about what comes next. The decision is ultimately theirs, but I want to be able to provide them with good counsel. Though I went to college 20 years ago and am moderately successful I find myself struggling what to tell them. Sure, if you get into Harvard you’ll probably be…
2Pac Hit Em Up (1996) Nas Ether (2001) Eminem Nail in the Coffin (2002) 50 Cent Back Down (2003) Eminem, Busta, 50 Cent Hail Mary (2003) Jadakiss, Who Shot Ya Freestyle (2010) Pusha-T The Story of Adidon (2018) Eminem Killshot (2018) Kendrick Lamar Euphoria (2024)
I love talking with people. A chance to hear someone’s true thoughts is a chance to learn more about the world and I love it It doesn’t matter if they’re articulate or not, everyone has something to share and few things are more fun than a good chat. With one exception: corporate speak is plain awful. It drowns genuine ideas in a bog of ambiguous words that are low-commitment,…
Co. Dublin Dublin Wicklow mountains Co. Galway Connemara (region) Good region for daytrips Aran Islands Take ferry from Galway City. One of the ferries goes along the cliffs of Moher. Galway Salt Hill Black Rock Beach (near salt hill) Loughrea Pat Loughnane & Sons Butcher shop Co. Kerry Kilarney Kilarney National Park Co. Roscommon Ballinasloe Creagh Cemetery
Main letter High school education in Brookline is about to get worse, unless the School Board steps in. The folks running the high school want to dissolve 9th grade honors English into the standard course, which they’ll rebrand as EN1100 Responding to Literature Humanities. They say this will “expand access to our most rigorous content.” They think that by mixing the stronger…
Here’s a list of movies I want my kids to see before they grow up. Some of them I want them to see for the place they hold in our collective culture, others that whose special place is more peculiar to our family. 1930s (n=2) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) The Wizard of Oz (1939) 1940s (n=4) Pinocchio (1940) Citizen Kane (1941) Dumbo (1941) Bambi (1942) 1950s (n=6) Treasure Island…
In December 2022 I experimented with a letter to my 8th grade son’s english teacher telling her about chatGPT. It was already big news in tech circles but hadn’t taken the world by storm as it has now. 14 months later teachers are still figuring out how to teach kids when in their ears a GPT is whispering “let me write that for you, I’ll get you a good grade to you can go…
Beauty is well-known as Love’s snare. Soft, delicate, lovely features call out from across the room or through a screen. They pull us in. Such beauty was always common, but our age has made it nearly universal. Anyone can change their look and everyone can watch. Once common, now this kind of beauty is cheap. Like electricity it’s still good, it might even be essential, but it’s…
Originally posted on hn in response to Welcome to the ad-free internet. I treasure my attention and so I’ve spent some time to opt out of ads. 5 years ago I couldn’t tell what DNS was, now I’ve got an OPNsense router at home running ZenArmor/Unbound and I can can link to it from my phone over wireguard. Using ublock I’ve made a point to prune the pages I visit, so classes…
About a year ago the folks in charge at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston changed their logo. It used to be this: Now it looks like this: This trend isn’t new, but I can’t give it safe harbor. Erik Spiekermann, a luminary in the world of type, damned the same sin talked in the Johnson and Johnson rebrand: “I’m so fed up with marketing people running projects without acknowledging…
_Originally posted on [hn]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859637) in response to Who runs the best schools? It might be the Defense Department](https://web.archive.org/web/20231010091419/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/schools-pandemic-defense-department.html) I spent Kindergarten to 4th grade on Hanscom A.F.B. near Lexington, MA. I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but it…
Hi guys, I’m checking in with an update on how this experiment is going. It’s been great. My hunch that our weightiest thinkers lurk in our discourse turned out to be right. Newspapers, magazines, blogs, forum posts, and press releases of all stripes make reference—not always profoundly—to what’s come before. I want to make sure I find the best writing, and so I’ve been growing the pile of…
Some time ago I switched up how I ordered the books on my bookshelf. I like it a lot and want to tell you about it. I sort the books by when they the author wrote them. My thought, was that by seeing all the books laid out in time a quick glance can tell you something. Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, often mentioned in the same breath, are separated by World…
I noticed some time ago that though the classics aren’t a core part of public discourse today they still show up more than you might think. So i’ve made it a point to scan a bunch of periodicals and make note not of where influential writers of the past are invoked. Here’s the newsletter. I think its neat to see how folks of all poltiical bents reference old ideas to express how…
Published in 1924. I don’t agree with all of this, but its neat that it was a thing that got published at the time. This morality code by Win. J. Hutchlns was awarded the Donor’s prize of $5,000 in the National Morality Codes Competition, 1916, for the best Children’s Code of Morals, the judges being Professor George Trumbull Ladd, of Yale University; Justice Mahlon Pitiney of…
I love books and I’ve read a lot of them. I don’t know exactly when, but at some point I saw just how interconnected the best books are. Not only do they cover similar themes and patterns, but many of them outright name other works and real life people. Read enough and this web thickens from a whispy, ethereal feeling to a solid reality. When we speak of people as well-read what…
In the last month I’ve talked with nearly twenty people whom I hadn’t seen in months or years. Three of them I hadn’t spoke with since Obama was re-elected. Twice we spoke through a screen or phone, but mostly we met in the cafes, pubs, parks, and libraries scattered around the Charles river. Though twice we were in a larger group, mostly we spoke in private, one-on-one affairs.…
I gave some prompts to GitHub Copilot and it wrote requirements for a new device. The prompts are in plain text and Copilot’s output looks like this. The device must be: …must have a battery life of at least 24 hours …must be able to connect to a smartphone …must be able to connect to a computer …must be able to connect to a network …must be able to connect…
originally posted in the ex-verily slack The hardship that these layoffs bring on is real. For some its hyper real. That it has happened before and will happen again is scarce comfort for the folks hit the hardest. Yet, maybe there’s something good right over the horizon. Once upon a time my network was a medley of people doing all types of neat things in all sorts of firms. There was an…
Parts of Speech adjective “a yellow flower” adverb “eat slowly” agreement “dogs bark vs. a dog barks”; the subject and verb agree in these examples article “a yellow flower” auxiliary verb “I was running” comparative “the red building is taller than the other” compound noun “toothpaste and bus stop” are compound…
The Boston Athenaeum has discussion groups on different topics. They recently redid their website and appear to have scrubbed the past books from the site. Philosophy 2021-2022 What’s It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life Julian Baggini Hitler’s Philosophers Yvonnne Sherratt Lost In Thought Zena Hitz The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths…
I never studied philosophy in college, but as real-life started I found it useful. I say this to make plain that my goal in reading philosophy books is to live a better life. My motivations are to live a better life but I don’t read many modern titles. I’m sure there are some gems out there, but most of the titles that come across my path feel derivative. Most of the titles come my way…
Latin/Old/New Credo in unum Deum, We believe in one God, Patrem omnipotentem, the Father, the Almighty, factorem caeli et terrae, maker of heaven and earth, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. of all that is seen and unseen. of all things visible and invisible. Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum, We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Filium Dei unigenitum, the only Son of God, et ex Patre natum ante…
My kin and I got together for a Christmas party this weekend. I drove my wife, kids, dog, and mother-in-law out to a woodsy town on the south shore. We unloaded the gifts, and burrowed in for a cozy evening. As we caught up on each other’s lives the saucy smell of tomato sauce slowly filled the room. Before we sat to eat the hostess stood up to give a prayer.
Lately I’ve been memorizing bits of writing. Nothing too wild; only a few poems from Robert Frost and some paragraphs from Thoreau and Emerson. I’ve gained much more than I would have guessed. It started off by accident. I grabbed a book of Frost’s verses at one of the Boston Public Library’s book sales. I’d been wanting to have a copy of The Road Not Taken–the…
OpenAI released a research version of their new tool, chatGPT. It’s built to be conversational, so you can ask it to do things, see the result, then ask it to make changes. Because it’s so much easier to use than what’s come before, the internet is abuzz with equal parts excitement and moral panic. Since these sort of things light up the tech world before diffusing into the real…
We awoke this morning to the see that the day the deeply gray kind well known to New Englanders this time of year. A day where the sky is stuffed with thick clouds that stretch far past the horizon, sifting the warmth from every sunbeam. As I took Evey for her morning walk, I saw the trees—a breath ago bursting with color—stabbing lifelessly into the still sky. Hardly less dull in the…
Background: How I encourage my children to read Building a strong reading habit is a top priority and so I do what I can to encourage the habit. Books coat our home, the kids know screens are for after reading, and I talk with the the kids about the books they’ve read. As it stands, my sons—13, 9, and 6 years old—love reading. They come by their books differently. Mr. 6’s…
In 2021 I see fewer ads than ever. I also see fewer assaults on my attention than at any point since the mid-2000s. How can that be true? Ad platforms have never been so dominant, nor their technology so sophisticated. Be it push notifications, ‘watch this next’ prompts, or the irresistable urge to check your feed, a daily swamping of electronic messaging is the common ordeal of life…
File Test Operators Testing files in scripts is easy and straight forward. This is where shell scripting starts to show its glory! In Bash you can do file testing for permissions, size, date, filetype or existence. Flag Description -e File exists -a File exists (identical to -e but is deprecated and outdated) -f File is a regular file (not a directory or device file) -s file is not zero size -d…
My expectations of quality on LinkedIn feed are lower than they’ve ever been, but I logged in today and was struck at how inane and self-serving the posts all are. The worst part is, I know most of these people personally. They are real people with real ideas. They have nuanced thoughts about businesses, organizations, and life in general. Yet when it comes time to post things on LinkedIn…
Happiness is the supreme good in life. Everything we do is for its sake. Yet pinning down a satisfying definition of happiness is hard. Aristotle, the Stoics, Spinoza, Emerson and countless others have grappled with happiness, as has the self-help book industry which releases works on the topic at an incredible speed. For myself, I have found some such works to be profoundly influential, yet…
TODO: Gnocchi sooup Kale Soup Thanksgiving stuffing Scallops Greek Salad Bread Grandma’s Meatballs Ingredients Meatballs Ground beef (1lb) Onion, diced (1/2) Parsely (Palm-full) Egg (1) Bread (2 slices) Breadcrumbs Salt (to taste) Black Pepper (to taste) Parmesan cheese Mexican blend cheese Sauce Onion (1) Garlic Gloves (4-5) Tomato Sauce (28oz) Tomato paste (12oz) Crushed tomatoes (28oz)…
## Table of wood properties These were taken from the excel file Testing the strength of different wood species. There you can also find details on the testing methods. Species ρ (g/cm3) Relative Hardness Breaking Force Disp @50kg Am. Chestnut 0.53 107 129 3.6 Ash, white 0.71 205 201 2.1 Ash, white 0.69 209 220 2.3 Basswood 0.37 56 88 3.5 Beech 0.76 195 184 2.2 Beech 0.68 188 201 2.
How to Read a Book See /books/how-to-read-a-book/ Questions to ask while reading From Economist course on business writing Here are some questions to ask when you read something: Where did the writer start and finish? Why? Can you see a structure? Was material organised chronologically, thematically, geographically or in some other way? Is there an executive summary and, if so, did it set you up…