> (Or maybe there's a better term for that bit of "personalization" that dangled like a tassel from all the cool, urban Japanese flip-phones.)
I believe the Japanese call it a "strap", transliterated directly.
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I believe the Japanese call it a "strap", transliterated directly.
And this is where Hare is meant to be used, is it not?
There are definitely more than five firms that would pay reasonably well for an ex-Googler with a "whole career" and a PhD, yes. The barrier to entry is too high for the rest of us.
It's amazing how far the loathing of the Oxford Comma goes. Some people would rather have frigid clothes than one little piece of punctuation.
But she wouldn't be; she'd be the "lady of the land".
The Pittman-Robertson tax raises nearly a billion dollars a year for conservation and wildlife management.
Part of the issue is that, yes, hot air rises, so a lot more moisture will find its way to the roof than to the walls.
Part of the issue is that roofs are (traditionally) sealed much more thoroughly than walls (because rain falls on roofs), so the moisture has a harder time getting out. The ventilation channels provide an egress for the moisture below the sealed roof surface.
A big part of the issue, at least in many climates, is snowfall. If it's cold outside and warm inside the house, any snow accumulated on the roof is melted from beneath and not from above. As the slush and water try to run down the roof under the unmelted snow, ice dams can form that prevent effective drainage; water pools and leaks down through the roof. A ventilation channel under the roof surface keeps the surface at or near outdoor temperatures, so the heat of the house doesn't melt the snow from beneath.
I see it as a narrowing of a three-tier culture. It used to be that we shared a cultural "core" (shows, bands, books, etc. that /everybody/ knew) and beyond that there were cultures shared by large portions of us and beyond that niche subcultures shared by small groups of us. Recently, it seems to me that the core has been eroded (there's not much that /everybody/ knows any more), the larger cultures have been over-commercialized (Disney Drivel), and the smaller subcultures are starved for exposure. Despite what many of these "platforms" recite about "discovery", a person nowadays has to really search to find a bona-fide niche, a real, independent cultural community.
The strong argument is in favor of not living life as though we were amid a crisis, locked down and paranoid.