johnmckendry.bsky.social
Old hippie, bewildered socialist, math, old music, grows apples. A harmless drudge.
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If you are at the point where you can ask for objective criticism even though you know it's going to hurt, I admire that. I am not anywhere near ready for objective criticism.
One thing I 'm pretty sure is true about Bach is you will always be reaching.
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I am an amateur with some formal training in classical guitar, and I have tried to play some Bach lute suites and I have gotten to the point where I can play all the notes in some sections, but I'm pretty sure nobody sails through Bach. 1/2
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That hurts even at this distance, so I feel some fraction of your pain. That's all I can think of to say.
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To be fair to the reporters, they do quote a handful of people who know how vision works and point out that the claims of hyperspectral vision are half-informed gee-whiz bullshit from a world-class bullshit artist.
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Yup, I heard it here first.
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Thank you. I am quite proud of it and very happy when someone recognizes it.
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Just to be really clear for a minute, no, I do not really think this is a good idea, people who follow me know that but just in case some rando sees this, but omg this is a funny post.
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First sighting of an Aztek: "The mind of man cannot and will never conceive of an uglier car. I have seen the Platonic Ugly Car."
First Cybertruck: "Woh."
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This is how I discovered that I subscribe to the MAGA blocklist. I had forgotten.
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Kacsmaryk is a name we should be familiar with. Northern District of Texas, appointed by Trump and a diehard Trump loyalist of the Christian fundamentalist genus, species zealot. Opinions like this are his job as he understands it. Frequently overturned on appeal.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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I was inclined to just feel very sorry for the guy, but then he kept going. I looked at his account and he is confidently wrong about lots of things, so I guess you build up an immunity to embarrassment or something.
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Good one.
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Could also be a banshee.
I mean, usually they shriek, but it could be a deceptively quiet banshee.
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It's really sad how far it's fallen. Newspapers are not the kind of business whose goal is to maximize profit. People who own newspapers should have some kind of purpose beyond "more for me."
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It really just shouts "This is so cosmically stupid and we all know it, don't blame us" to me. Following orders is what the Army does very well, and I'm sure they did it very well here.
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Boomer here. Doesn't bother me, nope. People are really angry, and that's good.
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I am told that he used it regularly at his rallies, so it is his choice and not some woke 2nd lieutenant who snuck it past the approval process as they were scrambling to put the thing together. In the Trumpverse Fortunate Son is a stirring patriotic American military anthem. Well, sort of, sir...
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Does he know he's on camera? He must know he's being watched, right?
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My favorite part is the tie.
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Nice. The first time I saw these relationships drawn this way I wondered why didn't they show me this in elementary school or junior high. Also the secant and cosecant are the distance from the center along the radius extended to the tangent or cot point, where the extended radius hits x=1 or y=1.
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He is from Maine's Second District, the one that borders Canada. It is mostly pine trees and moose. He was born in Maine, which seems to be the only qualification that Maine voters look for. He was a Susan Collins staffer. Don't bother trying to primary him with a not-from-here out-of-stater.
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I visited his store in NH last year a few months before he closed and it was a barn with the same ambience as the Boston store. He is still in business on-line with regular email notices, but of course it's not the same. That store was a treasure, both places.