Tag: Nonbark
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Taft = tech
Noticing yet again that Pres Taft loved and understood technology. He also loved Ohio, which at that time was a major center of new tech. Ohio had more auto companies than Michigan, and Ohio birthed the aircraft industry. Here he’s congratulating the winners of a gas mileage competition: And here he’s sending off a Chalmers…
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Nonbark?
Just noticed that tomorrow is President Day. In previous years online ads were full of President Day Sales, which have nothing to do with presidents. Any old excuse for a sale. This year I haven’t seen any. Given the basic fact that all media and corporations are pure D, you’d think they would have canceled…
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Why less demand?
Continuing to ramble on newspapers… Noticed this 1917 edition of the Ayer newspaper atlas. It represents early Oklahoma better than the editions found in American Radio Library. We believe that modern social media gives every group a chance to write and communicate. Partly true, at least for fashionable groups, but NOT NEW. In 1917 every…
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Odd nonbark
After wasting a fair amount of time in both Medium and Reddit, I’ve gradually non-noticed the complete absence of courseware from both tech and economic subjects. I had already non-noticed the lack in a more practical form when trying to get useful info in programmer hangouts like Stackoverflow. Medium is especially full of IPO-type announcements…
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Worth reading
Crux publishes Benedict’s short summation of faith and grace. He wrote it in 2006, soon after he was appointed, at a “late hour in his life”, and then lasted 16 years longer. Wasn’t so late after all! Nevertheless, it’s a perfect short letter from a man of grace and gratitude and SCIENCE. The sciencey part:…
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