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> TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh

That's the Mad Magazine Knuth speaking: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...

So, better than Caillou?

I have to imagine that Tolkien would have been delighted to discuss how to translate LoTR.

Here's at least one of the tools for achieving synchronization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope

Very cool. I loved Velvia...

> It seems we traded color for quality sometime mid-Century.

As well as convenience for quality. 35mm -> 126 -> 110 -> Kodak Disc

It's usually processing in something other than the native chemistry (e.g., E6 in C41)

https://thedarkroom.com/cross-processing-film/

What's the migration path? Clean install?

I once worked in the US for a Japanese company that had their manuals "translated" into English and then sent on for polishing. Like the parent, it would be mostly "a bunch of phrases that were grammatically correct, but didn't really convey much meaning" . I couldn't spend more than an hour a day on that kind of thing; more than that and it would start to make sense.

Unfortunately not available in the US.

They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man.

Once again, Douglas Adams was ahead of his time:

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

My wife was affected by this. When she applied for the $100 credit, she was told it could take up to three weeks to get the credit form.

Wasn't that AWS Quantum Ledger, which is closing down at the end of July?

I had a great time at VCF East 2024 looking at South American clones and talking to these guys: https://arjorge1987.substack.com/p/mi-experiencia-en-fotos-d...

It's kind of disconcerting to see the "black establishment" (aldermen, churches, etc.) on board with this. Do they really think this is a good idea? Is it that they received enough donations to make them think so?

If you're going to sneer in public at those you consider below you, you should do it correctly.

'trailpark' should be 'trailerpark' or maybe 'trailer-park'

And just how expensive is a bubble sextant?

These people must read a lot of Dan Brown books:

I am Damon Green, a leading literary agent...

> several great places in Portland

R.I.P CoffeePeople

> I think the concept of a ubiquitous language is excellent. Everyone should standardize on a common set of vocabulary. We even took it so far as to have a dictionary of our business domain terms. It's so obvious in hindsight that it seems completely foolish to do anything else.

I started doing this after working on ANSI/ISO standards. It feels like a hassle until there's an 'ah-ha' moment where (e.g.) everyone realizes that what Group A called 'foo' was what Group B thought was a reference to a 'foo', and not the thing itself.

The 'Magazine' sample is quite relevant for the audience.

That seems like a reasonable heuristic for books from the mid-70s on, but before that they were usually really good books.

Most people I know who were once called 'handicapped' did not like being called 'disabled'

Portland has a history of impressive wooden buildings:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/world-largest-log-cabin-por...

There's a HeathKit one up on Ebay now: 'Heathkit TC-3 Tube Tester'

There's that ever-so short moment between "Man, this wood is hard!" and "Oh, crap"

Be on the lookout for Esopus Spitzenburg (maybe only in the US). It's a really tasty apple.

Bought some Gold Rush apples for the first time yesterday (South Mountain, PA) and really liked them - crunchy, tart, and spicy.

Went through this with my son, whom the recruiter recognized as very well suited for a particular specialty. But the lying and the whole rigamarole about being diagnosed once in because "everybody knows what's going on" made him lose any interest.