Activity from Fiasco da Gama

Everybody, eventually, will become Generation X [more]
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Do it the old fashioned way like I do. Every morning at 7.30am, my assistant runs a script which sends every unread blue, green and grey thread to the laser colour printer. He collates them, punches holes in them, and puts them in three folders, one... [more]
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'She's sideways', the captain said, shrugging 'wedged in with containers we're lugging, but we all understand that relief is at hand we'll get off with some vigorous... [more]
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This is one of the most Engineer Mentality articles I've ever read. 'Engineer Mentality' I've come to believe, is always looking at machines, systems, cultures, as problems that are amenable to solutions (if we just applied thinking and process),... [more]
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After Greek we go to Cyrillic, then Hebrew, and then we challenge western readers with kanji. [more]
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henry kissinger lived just long enough to see a socialist take power in chile again. [more]
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Also if he’s behaving like this to you, there’s a good chance he behaves like that with other patients [more]
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Hi, I'm a volunteer with my State's emergency response agency for storms and floods. These are a) incredibly satisfying to watch and b) about as hazardous to life as you can get when it comes to flood water, maybe only exceeded by driving a car into... [more]
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Math is the purest subject This idea was why I was so bad at it. Mathematics was taught to me as a set of rote-memorisable formulae, without context or meaning; and those of us in my classes who were good at memorising—say—the quadratic... [more]
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Gen X was just waiting for all the gerontocrats to die and leave us spaces to be promoted up into, joke’s on us [more]
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This is a great article, but some of it is only partly true: A practical theory of kitchen design didn’t emerge until the 20th century. Until then, kitchens were just random bits of furniture and a stove shoved in attics, basements and poorly... [more]
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This question, when I get it, still makes me twitch a little bit, even though I have a perfectly good answer and can hold an interesting conversation about it if I need to. What makes it unpleasant is how difficult it was to answer while I was... [more]
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DISNEY: ‘I am altering our deal. Pray I do not alter it any further’ [more]
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‘Don’t let them pay you in flattery’ is a solid lesson every young person should receive when they start work [more]
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Just for a moment, I urge those of you who are prison abolitionists, and who maintain a position against those disciplinary institutions of the State which serve a personal and general deterrent function, to hear me out on... [more]
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When he toured Australia, the Canberra Times asked him some interview questions about the then proposed light rail, and urban planning, and he came up with what (as a planner) I think is a timeless line about anxiety over urban change: “It's a... [more]
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this generation’s tulip mania I have been fascinated for a long time about how fundamentally confusing it is to think about any of this stuff, because it's so obvious everyone who disagrees, disagrees about what the basics of reality are. I don't... [more]
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I also know what it feels like to allow a robot into my life and into the fundamental practices of everyday dealing with the world, to let it intermediate the way I engaged with other people, and to be a framework and a prop for daily habits. I too... [more]
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Consider the characteristics of the Royal Family. They're they're to talk about, and for people to tell tall stories about, they're very famous but essentially local symbols (to the UK, and to England more specifically), they straddle the line... [more]
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she said her car would not go in reverse This car and driver shouldn't be on the road, and you should follow it up through your insurance company. [more]
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