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Chester County, Gentility, and Distinction
I’m reading Pierre Bourdieu‘s Distinction for two reasons: First, because look at that cover, come on. Continental philosophy books like to PRETEND they’re not all about the cover, but they lie, that cover is a FLEX. (The other all-time champion) Second, because Chester County is where big money from Philadelphia has always gone. Of course,…
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Testing, testing
Going out to the barn, figuratively, pulling the tarp off this blog, and seeing it if still works.
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Uneducated guesses about the current state of algorithmic labor management systems
Things I suspect are true, but don’t know yet: Possible next steps are to go splash around in the work that the Oxford Internet Institute is doing with gig economy work. Also to look up LaborPro training and see if I can find out the tools a shift manager uses when putting together their shifts…
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Anna Thomas’ Grand Tour
The picture above is of one of the two small leather bound volumes that comprise my great-grandmother’s Grand Tour travel diary. She sailed from New York in July of 1900, three weeks after her 25th birthday. She was accompanied as far as Paris by her sister Pattie, then 31, and after that by her brother…
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New Respect for Traditional Media
Yesterday, I attended a township meeting about what conditions should be put on Toll Brothers in order to permit them to develop Crebilly Farm. It was, in the words of one township planner “the most important meeting in Township history”, which is just about as dramatic as these things get! I’ve been working on my Facebook…
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Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap (an exercise)
So: Gerrymandering. Everyone agrees that it’s a problem (“just look at that twisty district!”), but it’s hard to agree on a solution. In particular, I’m learning, it’s tough to define a threshold for gerrymandering in a way that’s useful for a court, judge, or other impartial referee to use. Getting that impartial referee is super-hard. Giving…
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Pussy Hats and Gandhi Caps
What were all the white caps at the 1963 March on Washington? THOSE WERE PUSSY HATS!
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Flying Fast, Low, and Crappy
Flying my kitbashed Anycopter at the Ockehocking Preserve.
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The Best Kept Secret at the YMCA
At 6:30 AM this morning, I headed over to the Airport Road YMCA to do something I’ve been wanting to for years: I had an official YMCA Fitness Assessment scheduled with trainer Kathy Renard. I’m going to skip right to it: a YMCA Fitness Assessment is a wonderful thing, and you should totally do it.…
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Mad Quakers and History Monks
In the days of daft adventurers, of fortune-seeking world-travelers and empire-founders — of “mad dogs and Englishmen” — one of the daftest was actually not English, but American. From Chester County. In fact, a Quaker born and raised just a couple of miles from my house in West Chester. To this day, he’s the only…
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