The Robin Hood tax was one of the only good things about the state. In fact, most of the things that are actually good about the way the state is run are relics of when we were run by Democrats. Very racist Democrats, yes, but Democrats.
Oooh! Ballet thread!!! My favorite ballet is jewels. I love going but I got spoiled by have my all my initial ballet experiences be nyc ballet. It's just not the same seeing Cincinnati ballet galomph across the stage.
Wait a minute. Isn't it still Thursday?
A danced version choreographed by Loyce Houlton for the Minnesota Dance Theatre in 1978 was prepared in collaboration with Orff himself. --From the Wikipedia
Fuck. I've worked in dance in MN and I didn't know this. No wonder everyone was so into her Nutcracker.
The first time I went to the ballet it was the Bolshoi. In Moscow. Specifically, in the Palace of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. That sort of sets the bar quite high.
I mean, 10 years prior to that, "dance" and "theatre" here had been a couple of smoky burlesque houses on Hennepin Avenue and the Old Log. And TRP I guess.
Also I'm really saddened at the fact that they're going to build LNG plants so close to those wildlife refuges. I have really nice memories of those places. And they're destroying them all in the name of bringing people in a volatile and dying industry to town! A friend of mine here in Trivers City (where my already fine employment prospects will certainly improve as the rich suburbs offer more tax breaks to bring tech companies to town) is from one of those small oil towns between San Antonio and Corpus Christi. He said the town basically lived at the mercy of gas prices. Gas prices are only going to go down.
Maybe the only thing that Texas has done very well at lately is bringing rather diverse sets of industries to the state. But getting into this game of offering ever more tax breaks for companies to move in is only going to put us all into a race to the bottom with other states.
Maybe I should really commit to buying a house in the city before all hell breaks loose in the local real estate market.
I don't, of course, intend to represent myself as a dance maven, just the opposite, in fact. I really feel like my mind is slowing down recently. Sigh.
Just boarded my plane bound for Arrakis. Narnia was sweet. And Alameida honored me by wearing the knuckledusters. Maybe some pix in the Flickr pool when I get back home. Also something pertinent to the OP that I was thinking of submitting as a post. We'll see.
12 And I expect to be duly chastised by nosflow and dq and maybe others when I do post.
Suggested future post titles:
All About Eve
The Lady Eve
All Hallows Eve
It's Romeo and Juliet, not Romeo and St Eve
You could actually submit it directly to me, you know. I can make posts!
Someone's getting happy in data structures class.
"Come out in centre and show us that hash table again."
Meanwhile, 11 weeks in, I'm seriously investigating where I could take class over Easter, as between holidays and running the kids' intensive, Lisa's stood us down for three weeks and that's. no. longer. acceptable.
16 I may just do that. Once I've had a nap and get sorted out.
From wheels down to picking up my checked bag in under 25 minutes on an international flight has got to be some kind of record (certainly a personal one), and in economy class no less. Lucked out with a half empty flight and then my bag was the second to drop onto the conveyor belt. If I played the lottery and they had one here I'd do that.
Speaking of data structures, "Big Data" has officially jumped the shark. I came from a PTA meeting where it was mentioned as something the kids should be learning.
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They won't have time if they keep teaching the kids all the different ways to it, and they'll all be on the test.
Which will change every week to follow the newest internet hotness.
23: You can look forward to the parents getting into fistfights over whether SAS, Stata or R should be required in the elementary school curriculum.
Thus is the Carmina Burana staging I'm holding out for: "A notable exception is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra version which features strobe lights and what appears to be flames engulfing the stage, wings and balconies, pulsing intensely in time to the music."
I think the last Grisey performance is tonight, neb? So bummed to it is sold out but of course thrilled for them. Hope you went and enjoyed it, would love to hear what you thought.
We went to one of the Cypress Quartet's farewell season concerts last weekend at Herbst and the acoustics where pretty awful. I imagine most of the work they did whilst it was closed for 18 bazillion years was seismic, but I think they made the sound *worse*.
A couple of weeks ago I went to the first performance I saw since I've been taking class. (Anne-Teresa van Keersmaker at the Pompidou centre.) That was...interesting. I couldn't help but be astonished at how quickly sequences are over when you're a spectator, compared to how they feel when you're actually dancing them. You need a *lot* of material to fill time.
Completely mystified by 28. Suspect I've missed some previous conversation.
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Oh for fuck's sake. The more I hear about education the more I feel committed to just never having kids. Or homeschooling them or something.
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It is just like a point-headed academic to stifle discussions about tools that those of us common folk outside the Ivory Tower use, like Python.
It was in a list of other stuff that sounded more reasonable.
Our latest outside-of-school learning is going to be about how cats have kittens, because the cat addition came with a bonus three or four in the next two or three weeks. The girls are so excited. They are so totally not keeping a kitten each. But advice other than yes of course each child needs her own cat would be welcome.
Python actually is a pretty reasonable thing for kids to learn. I do worry, though, that with too much structure, kids might be losing the ability to be self-directed. It's one thing to teach a kid Python. It's another thing entirely for the kid to be aware of what Python is and say "yes, I think I'll spend my evenings learning how to do that".
If there's one kitten per child you're stuck with them; you may have wargs.
Just from the first word I thought 33 was going to be a cruel response to 32.
Kids need to learn to spay or neuter their pets and that the numbers in contrast statements must sum to zero.
36: Did you spay and neuter your own pets back on the farm in Nebraska?
The mother can be spayed two weeks after weaning, Mobes, but it's not going to be DIY.
Like I said, we never did. But we didn't have YouTube for tutorials.
Is this the ncaa thread? Because FUCK THE SELECTION COMMITTEE.
Select the fuck committee.
I once had a really weird night in a bar with the guy who would not be shaken from his conviction that Gonzaga was in Montana.
A lot of people confuse Gonzaga and Bozeman.
Usually they aren't so insistent.
Why are you up so early?
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According to 538, 80% of people know it's not in Montana in Washington. On the other hand, only 36% know where Austin Peay is.
I did not know where was Gonzaga is until last year. I thought it was in PA or maybe MD. O, the shame!
I'm up early because flying. Southwest used to have TV at Midway that showed Cartoon Network, but now they have Airport CNN. The world is getting worse.
I did learn about Hulk Hogan's victory over Gawker, so I guess CNN isn't as useless for all news as it is for election news.
Well it's Saturday morning for most of you (and afternoon here but) thought I'd mention here that I had the occasion to mention ajay's brilliant Nixoniad to some old B&T regulars on the twitters dot com.
Is 48 a joke? By the time I wrote that comment, I'd already been sending work emails for an hour.
I don't often work that hard on a Saturday.
My standard work week is 37.5 hours, but now I'm at about 125% effort. If I didn't get four weeks vacation plus sick leave, I'd burn out.
But only some of them have commenting duties.