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The meaning of the Latin term “_pace_”, sometimes used by scholars, was finally made clear to me when George Starbuck translated it “with a fig for the fatuous fulminations of”.
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Naked woman standing in the median of Rt. 50. The police have the matter in hand. #FallsChurch is becoming a real city!
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Most American thing I’ve seen today: a woman wearing a niqab-style veil and a cowboy hat. #fashion
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The TV over my shoulder was showing the steeplechase event at #Paris2024. My niece, visiting from Versailles, casually remarked, “we were sitting by that pond last week eating McDonalds.”
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I propagated this #houseplant from a pot my sister left behind. Just found out it was originally planted by my grandfather. It’s almost 50 years old.
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@KimberlyHirsh I’m not sure what I’d think if I encountered Glinda the Good Witch at the reference desk, but children are more resilient than I am.
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@delong Because nobody likes Vance.
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@danielpunkass Over on Mastodon, Heidi Li Feldman set up an ActBlue to try to persuade Harris to establish a presence in the Fediverse. The original goal was $1,000. It’s currently at $155,000 and still climbing.
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I purchased the new expanded edition of “The Letters of J.R.R. #Tolkien” from the Apple Book Store, which now suggests “You might like The Fellowship of the Ring”. Maybe; I’ll give it a try.
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There’s an old adage that a comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny. The funniest thing I ever heard #BobNewhart say was, “Is this one of the guys at the office?” RIP
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Just got junk mail advertising oceanfront property in North Carolina. I opened it, just to see if they had the honesty to name themselves “Greater Fool Realty”. Nope. #climate
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@hollyhoneychurch That looks as hot as today feels.
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It’s been so dry this summer that when I go fishing, I use bottled water as bait. #drought
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@artkavanagh It's funny to think of something Noah Smith writes as "priceless". If there weren't any prices, he wouldn't have much to say.
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The cucumber vines are completely indifferent about which way they grow, but the birds are unanimous that the cucumber trellis is the best thing ever. 🌱 #gardening
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I have been to the grocery store three times today. My pioneer ancestors are shaking their heads, sadly.
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@jean I am. No problems with speed, but I can't use it for banking anymore because the OS isn't compatible with their latest "upgrade".
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The forecast says 50% chance of rain. I watered the garden. Neighbor cleaned up the swimming pool. Think that will be enough to make it happen? #gardening 🌱
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Winthrop Mackworth Praed, most precocious and most prolific of the poets of society, began his literary career as a schoolboy, and for twenty years flooded the periodical literature of his day with songs and satires, ballads and legends innumerable, all of which are forgotten. #sicTransitGloriaMundi
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For the 19th-century journal “Notes and Queries”, does anyone know where to find a mapping from volume/page to issue number? 📚
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First rainfall since June 5th. I’ll take it. #gardening 🌱
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This is what Gerhilde looks like to me now. www.youtube.com/watch #Valkyries
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A poem where alternate lines are missing a foot, like “I sit beside the fire and think/Of all that I have seen” is called “brachycatalectic”. I was going to call it “iambic triskaihemimeter”. 😀 #TIL #poetry
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Apropos of nothing: Sky Harbor in Phoenix, AZ is the best airport name.
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If cherries didn’t have stones, I would probably eat them at a rate inconsistent with good health.
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@artkavanagh I should have asked the mechanics to look at it while they had it up on the lift.
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Morning commute. Podcast. Got car back from shop yesterday. Sounds of trickling water. 😱 Pause podcast. Trickling stops. 😅
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@danielpunkass Or, to abuse the metaphor, without a firm footing in the past, what will the movers and shakers have to shake?
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@danielpunkass Word Nerd
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@mandaris You know it! Four hours later when the clouds came in, they came in fast.
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@artkavanagh I like the way these guys did it. The work is there by itself, but if you want a scholarly intrusion you just have to click. www.oegrammar.ca/texts/voy...
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@danielpunkass Encouragement is all they need.
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@jabel It does sound like a folk tradition!
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@artkavanagh I just tried to say rhythm as a one-syllable word and did not succeed.
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@artkavanagh Even David Byrne only managed 2.5x.
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@miguelmanalo A friend sells things the moment he stops using them. When I mentioned that I can’t do that because I’d immediately need it again, he said, “then I just go to Craigslist and buy it again. I’m storing my stuff in the Cloud!”
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@jean Which would immediately turn into a photo run, if it were me.
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@delong A lot of that holds up really well. I wish the universities had stepped up the way you described. When the Supreme Court put xénophobes in charge of the government in 2001, they started a demographic collapse that’s probably going to kill higher education as we knew it.
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@jean We have a sign at the town limits that says how to get to the Elks lodge. Looks like you all should put one up, too.
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@artkavanagh It was reverted immediately by management. Mission accomplished - he overlooked the analysis I wrote in Bayesian terms instead of frequentist. 😈
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@danielpunkass “Head start” was a nice touch.
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@artkavanagh Fair point.
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@artkavanagh Hear, hear!
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@KimberlyHirsh It will be easiest for me to address those in reverse order. 😀
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@richnewman 👏🏻👏🏻