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Eduardo Alvarez
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Eduardo Alvarez
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Man, son,2X immigrant, husband, father
Mid South Katılım Şubat 2013
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@heymiller From Bonfire of the Vanities: An extraordinary quote on fatherhood, just in time for Father’s Day season
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“Bonfire of the Vanities,” by Tom Wolfe
malmesburyman@malmesburyman
I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?
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RadioShack was the last store where being confused felt useful.
You’d walk in for batteries and end up standing in front of tiny drawers full of parts you didn’t understand yet. Resistors. Switches. Speaker wire. Fuses. Project kits. Adapters for problems so specific they sounded made up until somebody behind the counter nodded immediately and disappeared into aisle six.
People remember the batteries.
They forget the feeling.
RadioShack made technology feel close enough to touch. You could buy a soldering iron, a police scanner, a bag of LEDs, a replacement remote part, a weird cable, a battery club card, or one tiny component that somehow brought the whole thing back to life.
Kids built crystal radios. People repaired RC cars. Teens stripped speaker wire in garages.
Some employee who looked like he had worked there since 1987 could translate your terrible explanation into exactly the part you needed. That kind of place teaches a different relationship with the world.
Machines had backs and screws and wires. Things failed for reasons. You could open them. You could make mistakes. You could learn enough to stop being intimidated.
Then the world changed.
Screens replaced screws. Batteries got glued in. Devices got sealed. Parts disappeared. Stores stopped assuming people wanted to understand anything below the surface. People call that convenience. But there’s a reason people remember RadioShack harder than they should. It was one of the last places that made technology feel unfinished.
Like normal people still had permission to participate. Now most of us carry objects more powerful than anything in that store ever sold and most of us would not even know where to begin if one stopped working.
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Stats show that your best work is roughly equally likely to happen at any time during your active lifetime. So just keep at it, until you can't.
Ladytron Fan Account@Lady_FanAccount
"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band. The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September). Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.
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Happy Indianapolis 500 Day to all who celebrate from Dave's Car ID Service! Today we pay homage to Indy's "Junk Formula" Era of 1930-37.
Why celebrate a formula for junk? Let me give you some context. At its inception Indy featured some cars that were pretty much stock. In that first 1911 race, the 5th place finisher was a stripped-down but otherwise complete stock Marmon 32 passenger car that was street-driven to the track. It was in the realm of possibility for a regular upper-middle class Joe with cojones and a dream to participate.
That all changed quickly, especially after WW1. By then it was strictly a rich man's sport, dominated by very exotic and expensive specialized racing machines, primarily Millers and Duesenbergs. Rules demanded smaller and smaller engine displacement. Until 1922 cars were limited to 3 liters (183 cubic inches), then from 1923-25 2 liters (122 ci) and starting in 1926, 1.5 liters (91 ci). The reduction in displacement was to curb speeds in an age where death on the track was common, but also to spark innovation.
Those rules worked almost too well. Geniuses like Harry Miller and the Duesenberg brothers figured out ways to coax ever more power out of ever smaller engines: overhead cams, integrated head-engine block casting, arrays of carburetors, exotic superchargers.
Those cars, to me, are the Sistine Chapel of American car racing. But they were incredibly expensive, and you had to have one if you wanted to be competitive at Indy. This all but closed off the field to anyone who didn't have cubic buttloads of cash.
That was okay for a while. During the Roaring Twenties there were plenty of high-living Gatsbys who wanted to sink some mad money into the exciting glamorous world of big time auto racing.
But then came October 29, 1929.
The Black Tuesday stock market crash wiped out a good number of those Indy-curious Gatsbys, kicking off what would soon become the Great Depression.
Enter Eddie Rickenbacker.
Best known as a World War I fighter ace, Rickenbacker was already famed as a successful racing driver for Duesenberg before the war. In 1927, the war hero had enough financial backing to buy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Less then two years later he was faced with a grim reality: there were probably not going to be enough entries in the 1930 race to fill the 33-car grid. The economy's impact on ticket demand meant that the total prize purse for 1930 would be reduced from $98,000 to $54,000, and the winner's share from $50,000 to $18,000. Which made it even harder to attract entrants, etc. A vicious cycle that threatened to end the Indy 500 for good.
In response, Rickenbacker announced a new set of rules for 1930: displacement up to 6 liters (366 cubic inches) was allowed, supercharging was banned, there would be a return to Indy's mandatory ride-along mechanic rule 1911-22, and the field was expanded from 33 to 38.
This rule was derided by the high-dollar Miller and Duesenberg teams as the "Junk Formula," because it meant there'd be cars in the field with unsophisticated stock block engines. But that was sort of the point. It gave quasi-regular Joes and backyard mechanics a fighting chance to field a car at Indy, powered by a big modified Buick or Studebaker engine.
It didn't end the dominance of Miller & Duesenberg, who created their own bigass engines under the new rules, and no true "Junk Formula" car ever one. But helped keep Indy alive during 1930-37, amid the darkest days of the Great Depression.
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Extraordinary homily today, Pentecost Sunday, juxtaposing the Tower of Babel confusion with the clarity brought by Holy Spirit
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@maxdaniellawton My beloved Pigment Handbook (Wiley) was $300 in the early 90s and when I received it it is labeled as a “facsimile”
The second edition now goes for >$850
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The greatest harbinger of end times is not plague or war, but the sudden enormous proliferation of Xerox-quality POD editions (unmarked! no warning!) from houses like Penguin.
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@Empty_America @NoahMF What a blessing to have this perspective and more importantly to have your dad alive
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I was able to get my Dad's take (b. 1929) on the difficulty of life in different eras.
30's and 40's were rough and almost no one would actually go back. Illnesses, hard work, cold houses, etc.
50's were easy. Rent was still low, extremely easy to get work, inflation hadn't really started yet. The boom was real, Dad always preferred renting and he noted repeatedly how low the rent was versus income.
By the 70's the "bill became due" and life became harder again, physical comforts only increased but it was competitive again, more like pre-war.
80's was my childhood and it wasn't particularly easy at all to raise a family then, you had inflation, high interest rates, this is the "cheap/anxious parents" period that many over 40's remember as kids.
He seems to find the current year to be OK, rents in a 55+ apartment complex in AZ with good maintenance that takes care of everything and nice facilities.
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Yes, but seriously, but we need a movie about their profoundly messed up (and presumably, therefore, incredibly hot) affair.
The image does get their ages way off though because Heidegger was 35 and she was 18.
I would cast @belpowley (Instagram) as Hannah Arendt and Daniel Brühl as Heidegger: danielbruehl.com.
Ryan Haecker@RyanHaecker
A new romantic comedy by Wes Anderson
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@RogerSeheult Doctors and healthcare professionals are not very available(5 minute visits) and expensive leaving a vacuum
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Who Are America’s Health and Wellness Influencers?
"Half of U.S. adults under 50 say they get health and wellness information from social media influencers or podcasts. About 4 in 10 of these influencers describe themselves as health care professionals; coaches and entrepreneurs are almost as common"
(I don't consider myself a social media influencer. Many social media influencers have ambitions to be wealthy and famous. My aspiration is to spread as much truthful information about health through whatever medium I have available. Sometimes it's through YouTube to an individual and sometimes it's my patient sitting in front of me.)
pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026…
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The annual Pentecost tradition (today!) at Rome's Pantheon is a moment of extraordinary beauty.
It occurs every year on the seventh Sunday after Easter. At noon, after the Holy Mass, thousands of rose petals are dropped through the oculus of the mighty dome.
As the petals fall, a choir sings "Veni Sancte Spiritus," known as the Golden Sequence, a masterpiece of sacred Latin poetry.
This is to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Virgin Mary and the Apostles.
The rose petal ritual likely dates back to 607 AD when the pagan temple became a Christian church.
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A new romantic comedy by Wes Anderson
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I was so psyched for like 10 seconds.
Ryan Haecker@RyanHaecker
A new romantic comedy by Wes Anderson
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@CartonCalderon Ayudo a mitigar la fiebre amarilla (quitando agua estancada), lo que permitió terminar el canal de Panamá.
Mi abuela lo conoció
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Un español, ningún iberoamericano (yo pondría a Carlos Finlay, cubano -no castrista- padre de la epidemiología).
WAM AI@wam_ai_tech
Greatest Minds In Human History.
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"The explanation Maryland gave for the spike is that the first estimate was just to secure federal emergency relief funding."
Wait what.
James Hohmann@jameshohmann
Americans are numb to infrastructure dysfunction washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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Real-time video of Starship from Starlink
Everyday Astronaut@Erdayastronaut
This photo from Flight 12 goes soooo hard!!!!!
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My wife discovered this years ago.
Night Sky Today@NightSkyToday
🚨JUST IN: Physicists discover a quantum effect where choices made in the present seem to alter events in the past.
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