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Personal account for personal comments, which are solely my responsibility and no one else’s. Argentina-born American, transport infrastructure professional. Started the very empty @evalpavement.bsky.social.
How they thought it would be a good idea to fix crowdsourced information by reversing the impact of multiple eyes on the info (in essence “building a haystack around the needle”) is beyond me.
“Low paid workers in the global south” is such a weird way to focus our attention here (and I’m trying to be polite.) It’s actually the Open Knowledge Association, a nonprofit dedicated to, get this, improve wikipedia… +
This ain’t no party
This ain’t no disco
this ain’t no fooling around
This ain’t no Mudd Club or CBGB
I ain’t got time for that now
A variant of this observation is that there is a set of columnists whose main differentiator from a random noise generator is their level of access to the MP&S (male, pale, and stale) figure
Concurring (fwiw) with your misgivings about the *use of the number.* It’s a suspect metric, like using polls to drive policy. Polls follow (good) policy. Reading follows (good) writing.
That’s how to make better policy and better articles. “Directionality” is backwards.
Polis is the Edward King of Carvilles
dang it wasn’t a broadband technology
I was once invited to speak at a forum 10 miles from the antipode of my birth place. (I used to say 5 but went and checked just now.)
Aprecio el humor de Capusotto y el de Casero.
El genio de Borges y el de Maradona.
La voz de Gardel y la de Mercedes Sosa.
Comment dire… 😂
Loved the enthusiasm until I got to cauliflower and then I re-read and doubted the rest!
from the same day, when I tried to see how it would feel faster
Well, I get this feeling with every Gauguin I see, so welcome to the club
“La cárcel me hizo mejor persona y mejor padre” (Jail made me a better person and a better father) quote from a mag cover
“Jail made me a better person and a better father.”
From Hola! magazine
Spying and voyeurism are really really related.
I tried Atlas Shrugged and did not make it very far.
(sipping some carbonated water) seltzer
I’m thinking corvids
🔥
Removing dust: dedusting
Removing HVAC: deducting
(I am sensitive to jokes about Argentina in this respect but it’s also the price for things that your society allows to happen and that never go away. Cautionary tale.)
The only show set in Buenos Aires was Wonder Woman but not for great reasons.
3. The hall could have been packed and it would have been a concert. What wonderful playing.
2. If you can handle it, what a gift to have a piano master give you their best assessment of how you can get your interpretation to the next level, or what is impeding your playing from “reaching the music”
Went to a piano master class today with the family, a class for pianists who are in the extension program at a university with a music program.
Here are some takeaways:
1. Impressed with the maturity of the students (and their bravery!) to play and be critiqued in public.
* was nil-nil
I don’t know if it’s this particular moment or Ms Ott’s particular rendering of this particular piece, but the f minor Opus 70 No. 2 gets my tie-breaking vote *
Four black-brown ducks with yellow eyes posing on a log in the rain.
New Zealand scaup
Why Nicol believes Fulham defeat should provide 'hope' for Tottenham
The NYT Pitchbot freelancing now
