gordon.earth
Musician, programmer, tree enthusiast, one of those dangerous radical leftists you've been warned about. Fredericton, Canada.
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The fact that I *enjoy* being a crotchety old man does not help.
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One thing I've been wrestling with lately is, while I'm pretty sure the software industry has gone downhill in the last decade or so, I'm in my mid-40's so I'm always wondering if things are really worse or if I'm just getting old.
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And I say this as someone who moved to Toronto and then back to Fredericton. I don't want Fredericton to "become Toronto" either, and that's why I support these sorts of zoning changes.
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A growing city that only allows single-family homes in most neighborhoods ironically ends up feeling more "big city" (in a bad way) while actually having lower population density overall.
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When you don't allow smaller multi-unit buildings in most residential areas, you wind up with giant buildings wherever they're allowed surrounded by an endless sprawl of single-family houses.
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You often hear people say they don't want their city to "become like Toronto" but this same attitude is a big part of what makes Toronto the way it is.
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As a Canadian, my suggestion is that Canada should rename the Gulf of Maine to the new Gulf of Mexico.
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We got interrupted in the middle of a funeral yesterday so they could let us all know they're investigating something but we don't need to worry about it.
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I mean there's no solid line but anyone who's amassed a billion dollars has long ago passed the retire-in-luxury point and then the fund-amazing-charity-work-and-also-retire-in-luxury point and they've chosen to keep amassing more money instead.
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And it's not just the narrowness of the literary influence; I don't think you can make convincing imagined cultures and histories without having a broad and deep knowledge of real cultures and histories.
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I would really like to read more fantasy, but most times I sit down and start reading a novel and within the first few pages it's just obvious to me that the author has only read other fantasy authors.
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Wasn't there a plan to put a traffic circle around where route 8 connects to college hill, with a pedestrian connection to Reading Street Park?