Tuesday, January 10, 2023

New House Rules for Farm Bill

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 Under the new House rules, each bill must have a single subject. I'm wondering how they'll describe the farm bill.
Sunday, January 08, 2023

Chevalier--I Remember It Well

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 The snowstorm of February 11, 1983 , that is.  My fiance and I had a meeting with a priest to arrange for our wedding later in the year.  W...
Thursday, January 05, 2023

Loft Living and Office Conversions?

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 Some discussion in media about conversions of office towers into residential space.  Back in the day, 1960s or so, converting warehouse lof...
Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Covered With Night

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 The book, Covered With Night,   is quite good.  The author uses the murder of an Indian by one or two white settlers in colonial Pennsylvan...
Monday, January 02, 2023

Republican Priorities--Ag?

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 One priority, according to the new chair of House Ag, is  "Along with that, he says the committee is learning from the disaster paymen...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

The Joys (sic) of Manual Labor

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 Ever since I left the farm, my experience of manual labor has been mostly at my discretion.  That's key.  Even when it isn't, as wh...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

A Test for "Vertical Farming"

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 Starting to see articles on problems that "vertical farming" enterprises are encountering.  Basically it's energy costs, whi...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

What Robots Learn From Us

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Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution wrote somethin g, a mere sentence, which impressed me, impressed me so much I misremembered it as "w...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Merry Christmas

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 Hope you get more than you deserve, as the theology of this day goes. 
Friday, December 23, 2022

Professor Evaluations

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 I follow a fair number of professors on Twitter, mostly historians. I occasionally see tweets complaining about the student evaluations the...