mike carey

That's a necessary skill, one that made it possible to write essays in exam conditions. In my university days, course work essays were submitted either hand written or typed from a hand written draft. I can remember editing drafts by cutting up pages of hand-written text and taping them together if I needed to rearrange the order of paragraphs (having rewritten drafts of those paragraphs). All far more tedious than being able to edit, cut and paste on a screen, so I suspect editing in one's head is a skill less valued now, and so, less effort given to acquiring it. So maybe it's not a skill that's atrophied, rather one, like remembering a phone number, less necessary and less common. It's still satisfying to be able to write with minimal backtracking and tweaking. But I will still notice typos, and curse, on re-reading a post here after an emoji has been posted to it.

Gents, @Leopard Bodywork posted an 'Ask Me Anything' thread last year. The moderators have left it as a discrete thread to allow conversations with him to remain separate from conversations about him. He may choose to participate in both threads, but that's up to him.

I didn't ever try to learn speed reading, I see it was a decision well taken.

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No replies generally means no one has any information to offer. Asking again doesn't usually mean people will suddenly have anything more to say.

Gentlemen, please limit your comments to the movie itself and reviews of it, and avoid commenting on the people portrayed in it.

Further to my comment yesterday, and going to the part of the question musing about the correlation of an encounter being followed by mild symptoms, I have often wondered about apparently coincidentally having a cold while travelling. The idea that it might be an immune response to changes in environmental stimuli, the body adjusting to different microorganisms, pollens and the like, sounds plausible. Sort of a spike in immune response resulting in respiratory discomfort as it adapts to a new normal. I can recall similar nasal reactions after working in dusty conditions. Whether it's the body clearing up a minor viral infection or reacting to altered environmental conditions is immaterial, something, if it's minor is worth musing about rather than worrying. It's part of the price of admission to enjoying life.

The somewhat mischievously named 'Heard Island Government' Blue Sky account (named as a totally, like totally serious reference to certain economic policy decisions from nowhere near the actual, real Heard and McDonald Islands) quote posted a comment from elsewhere in the social media universe about the derivation of the word Arctic (it's a reference to bears), and by extension the naming of Antarctica. The reply that won the day? In the comments, someone asked what the Greek would be for Penguins and No Penguins, and someone dutifully provided an answer. Because of course they did.

It's a strange thing, I had always had colds, nothing extreme, but noticeable symptoms progressing over a week or more at least once a year, sometimes more. I don't know when that changed, but I did notice that I had nothing of the sort during Covid. The isolation, mask wearing, the distancing, the limited outside interactions we were allowed, whatever it was, ended up with me having no respiratory infections through the winter of 2020, and still nothing into December, and January 2021 or the times over the next year when we had so many lock downs. Since then I haven't had a severe cold, only minor symptoms that built up a bit and faded (not always quickly). I have no idea what it was. Perhaps the Covid vaccinations, the flu vax I was more careful to get providing wider immunity than they had promised, or simply aging or the virus free years during the pandemic. I hope the hell that the absence of that part of my earlier life continues!

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That makes perfect sense, @PhileasFogg. Aside from the bare financial analysis, there's an intangible value in having a place that you can use in a city (or area) you like to visit. It brings some certainty by being available. Of course, that only works if you can manage the finances comfortably, if it's even close, the accounting reality soon intervenes. I have my old family home, two hours from Canberra, and I like having it to go to for breaks, or just to be there for a while. But I do keep reassessing it from both a practicality and a financial point of view.

The graphic is not funny. What is funny is that half the social media comments were about how wrong it was. Luxembourg has more people than greater London? Malta? Iceland? Really? The coup de grâce was that the other half of the comments were that it should be fewer, not less.

While it's been 43 degrees (Celsius) here in Canberra today, I understand there has been a little snow in parts of North America.

I saw this on social media: Early reviews are in: ‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

Is that the elephant in the room?

Yes, he is, and @Vegas_Millennial made that distinction up-thread. To add to the international travel tangent, as well as the US reporting rules, you should check if any international destination has similar reporting rules. As an example, Australia also has a $10k reporting requirement, and that's just under $US7k. In both cases it's perfectly legal to carry more than the reporting limit, but at least in Australia's case if it's not reported the money may be subject to confiscation.

And only a quick train trip away!

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Well, that settles it!! Lol.

Perhaps he's saying he's a top who dominants people.

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