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#720
May 02, 2024, 08:00:50 PM
I just found out that a former colleague attended a Puddles Pity Party concert.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.

aside

#721
May 03, 2024, 11:02:05 AM
If you post a sign saying "Do not post signs on this door" on a door...

apl68

#722
May 03, 2024, 12:20:01 PM
Quote from: aside on May 03, 2024, 11:02:05 AMIf you post a sign saying "Do not post signs on this door" on a door...

Saw a sign like that on a door on the campus where I was a grad student.  People respected it by not posting other signs.  It on the second floor, on what amounted to a fire escape landing, so there wasn't much reason why anybody would want to post signs there in the first place.  After a couple of years, the stairs and landing where taken away, and you just had this door up there, with a sign about not posting notices on it.  Later the door and sign were painted over.  You could still see the outline of the sign.  Wonder how many people are aware today that it was ever there?
For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far greater and eternal weight of glory.  We look not at the things we can see, but at those we can't.  For the things we can see are temporary, but those we can't see are eternal.

apl68

#723
August 01, 2024, 07:28:49 AM
A yard I walk by regularly has a large tree stump right beside the sidewalk.  Lately they've made repeated efforts to burn the stump.  As of this morning, the blackened stump had been hollowed out inside, with weird, arch-like gaps in the sides.  It looked like a model of somebody's idea of a Tolkien villain's dark tower headquarters.
For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far greater and eternal weight of glory.  We look not at the things we can see, but at those we can't.  For the things we can see are temporary, but those we can't see are eternal.

sinenomine

#724
September 04, 2024, 04:20:07 AM
As I got ready for the first day of class today and pulled out the book bag I use for teaching, I realized that I bought it in the early 1990's. I still looks great; I'm amazed at its durability.
"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks...."

apl68

#725
September 04, 2024, 06:20:21 AM
Quote from: sinenomine on September 04, 2024, 04:20:07 AMAs I got ready for the first day of class today and pulled out the book bag I use for teaching, I realized that I bought it in the early 1990's. I still looks great; I'm amazed at its durability.

They just don't make things now like they did back in the Twentieth Century....
For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far greater and eternal weight of glory.  We look not at the things we can see, but at those we can't.  For the things we can see are temporary, but those we can't see are eternal.

Langue_doc

#726
September 05, 2024, 05:18:51 AM
Who would have thought that salted ducks were worth their weight in gold as far as bribing is concerned?
QuoteN.Y. Official Charged With Taking Money, Travel and Poultry to Aid China

QuoteIn July 2021, six Nanjing-style salted ducks, prepared by a Chinese consulate official's private chef, were delivered to the parents of an aide to New York's then governor, Andrew M. Cuomo. About four months later, another six ducks arrived at their home. Another four months later, there were more salted ducks. Eight months after that: still more salted ducks.

Prosecutors say that the poultry shipments, described in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday, were just a small part of a yearslong series of payoffs to the aide, Linda Sun, in exchange for actions that benefited the People's Republic of China and its Communist Party. The 65-page indictment also described travel benefits, event tickets and the promotion of a close friend's freight business with a headquarters in Queens.

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