Oh agreed – although at least it will help with things like how much land is required for parking lots.
I so wish I could take light rail to work. I’ve got two obstacles: one, I have a “reverse commute” of going from a major centre to the burbs and two, the light rail won’t even exist in the butbs for at least two years.
Still is a composer I run across periodically. I’m always surprised by two things: the thorough quality of what he’s written and the fact that he’s so obscure.
It’s good to get to hear a number of hus works and learn a bit about his life.
He would have been big like Gershwin, if he had been white. But we can’t bemoan prejudices of the past when he’s still largely unknown today.
I love his channel even if he ruined my nostalgia for laserdiscs.
Ruined in what way?
Basically showing me that the quality wasn’t as good as I remember it, and bringing up memories of what a pain in the ass those discs were to handle.
This was a really interesting look at social stratification at Google. I’m sure most of us have seen the stories about the contractor underclass (which is pretty typical at any tech company) but this look at the under-underclass (and linked video) was fascinating.
I’m surprised those aren’t done by razoring the binding, and shoving them into an autofeed scanner – at least for books that aren’t rare.
That would have trouble with the folded maps and the bookmarks. I took their presence [not being unfolded or removed, respectively] as evidence that automated page-flipping was more common than manual.
Book scanning, 70s style:
Even the pages were turned automatically. Somehow there isn’t a video of this on the internet anywhere!
It’s visible in the opening credits.
The last couple of times I’ve visited the library of congress, several people were scanning or photographing old books in toto. And these were things like commercial directories, not books of significant literary value-- so the alienation factor is closer to mechanical turk than it is to bibliophile.
Often it’s a dslr setup on a tripod (either inverted tripod, or tripod with an extra arm).
The historiography of brexit.
Humans, Nietzsche thought, are always looking for meaning in their suffering. Grand narratives identifying economic circumstances or a national identity crisis behind Brexit are a way to give meaning to it. But sometimes, the reason we find ourselves in the present is simply the result of a cascade of unrelated and meaningless events—“just one bloody thing after another.”
Personally, I blame a lot of lousy politicians.
That opening whole scene is a gem between her outfit, the machine, and the music.
OK, I’ll bite.