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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?
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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.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@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.
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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!
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@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!
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!
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar at 16.
It doesn’t say but he looks like he’s already 6’7”.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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…
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@jon-nyc @George-K @LuFins-Dad
I love old photographs like that. I have this romantic notion of walking the streets of a town back then, but I am sure that the reality would be that the streets were dirty, dusty, stinky smelly, etc.
(As an aside, a movie I liked by Woody Allen was called Midnight in Paris,
"It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different (and in an earlier time) from theirs would be much better."
Link to video
