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[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

I still haven’t gone through the pickleball stage of late middle aged white folk yet. Puzzles and then finally bingo are even further out.

We have the gear, just haven’t played yet.

[Copper]

The population of Portsmouth, NH hasn't changed all that much, 4k to 22k

Nantucket 4k to 14k (winter pop, up to 80k in the summer)

[George K]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

We have the gear, just haven’t played yet.

Lemme know how those jigsaw puzzles work out with Stella and Luna. Photos, please.

[kluurs]

[jon-nyc]

I remember when that guy died, maybe 15 years go, and reading his obituary.

Extraordinary bad luck? Or extraordinary good luck? Or some of each?

[jon-nyc]

From a Nate Silver newsletter.

Somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the blip around the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots. But then again I was living in Mexico and the internet wasn’t really part of our lives back then.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

We have the gear, just haven’t played yet.

Lemme know how those jigsaw puzzles work out with Stella and Luna. Photos, please.

Pickleball gear, silly.

Janet has this puzzle mat that rolls up or something. Luna, the supernaturally good cat, never would bother it. Stella, on the other hand, lives to do that which is forbidden.

[George K]

[Copper]

[Mik]

On FB today someone childishly insulted my favorite Italian restaurant. In my pique I looked for how to say asshole in Italian. Lo and behold, I found a cornucopia of Italian swear phrases!

https://talkinitalian.com/italian-curse-words/

[George K]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

On FB today someone childishly insulted my favorite Italian restaurant. In my pique I looked for how to say asshole in Italian. Lo and behold, I found a cornucopia of Italian swear phrases!

https://talkinitalian.com/italian-curse-words/

When I left the U, one of the CRNAs gave me a book on how to swear in almost any language. I found it useful when I started working with more surgeons who were trained overseas.

Bin Sharmuta!

[Mik]

@George-K

[jon-nyc]

This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

[jon-nyc]

Kareem Abdul Jabbar at 16.

It doesn’t say but he looks like he’s already 6’7”.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

Notice there are no or few people?

I remember reading an article about an old photo in Paris. In midday, there was not a person to be seen.

The explanation was that the exposure time on the photograph was so long that when people moved in the street, they essentially disappeared and were not captured on the plate.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

From a Nate Silver newsletter.

Somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the blip around the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots. But then again I was living in Mexico and the internet wasn’t really part of our lives back then.

The OJ case compounded it.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)

While we were in NY for the few days, I was really astonished at thinking about how much of it grew in such an unbelievably short time (just a few decades, really). I spent as much time looking at the older buildings as I did the modern skyscrapers. You could really see where they realized they couldn’t expand horizontally, and started going up…. I even loved the smaller shops and places on 36th where the stores were thin little retail shops with lofts…