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He seems somewhat fashion aware, but I'm disturbed by the checkered blazers which are *casual* but I don't think he understand this. A checked blazer, or "sports jacket" isn't for day time business meetings.
Feels good to get that off my chest. Don't expect anyone to really care.
We run one at our school!
And I know that people keep bringing me more things to fix because I keep fixing things.
That's how that works.
I am increasingly the person who people brings things to when they want them fixed. I have discovered why such people are acerbic. Why does everyone assume I can "just fix" everything? Why should I fix all of these things when it feels like repair isn't really deeply valued in our culture?
Oh NOW you want me to fix it!
But, I think I should fight the temptation to be cynical and angry, remember that repair serves a deeper need a purpose.
Don the monocle.
At my limit, I added "understanding the repair and operation of tools such a drafting compass" to the educational standards. Thus, it's now a part of the mission to find all the little screws and file the leads to a point.
Another example of this are the compasses at my school. The 9th grade students use compasses and I spend a lot of time fixing the compasses.
"we could just buy a new set"
A new set would cost less than the ostensible hourly rate for my time. But I'm not paid by the hour, and happily everyone agreed that throwing away broken compasses was disgusting. It would set a bad example for the children.
But every year I have to fight over this.
This isn't very rational. The biggest mistake of companies and markets is ever thinking that people were rational at all.
There are things we need, experiences we want that can't go on a list of features.
Repair is a ritual that speaks to deeper needs than a working phone, or the latest camera lens configuration.
To repair electronics, to watch them be repaired is an almost religious experience.
And no matter how much I'm willing to pay it seems this cannot happen.
I want to go to a little grubby shop, cluttered with parts and watch an acerbic guy with a monocle cluck at the crack and then fix as I sit on an old diner stool fixed with layers of duct tape.
I want to watch the subway cars pass on the elevated, and run off to get cash to pay since it's the kind of shop where you get a discount when you pay cash.
I do not want to go to the "genius bar" I do not want to mail it in and probably just get a different phone back.
I want MY phone fixed.
I would like to get my phone screen fixed.
I attach a kind of irrational shame to the sight of a crack phone screen. It makes me feel deeply "unemployed" ... and maybe that's because so often putting up with a crack was what I had to do when times were tough.
But as of late I've been putting up with a crack for a year, and it's not because I can't buy a new phone for once in my life.
I want to get it fixed.
I love how the contrast on this is just on the edge of the visible. It's like a dream... but it still feels very real. I feel like I'm in a kayak and everyone else is still asleep as I paddle around looking for more scraps of wood for the fire.
Never believe that anyone you actually want to win in an election is "up double digits"
It is most prudent to assume that the person you want to win is up by exactly 4 percent. This is not depressing, but you know you can't slack off an expect them to win.
Why? Some people might even lie about a big lead and hope that bad weather and "apathy of the young" throws an election. Diabolical! Don't fall for it.
@dnavinci Cholula is too spicy for him.
The spice must FLOW.
I am becoming the Milton Friedman of hot sauce only.
True, but it takes work to match those faces to identities. This app would make a very robust and consistent data set in a way that other sources would not.
It makes it much easier. Seem silly to be so helpful.
I think he assumes that if I mention something is "racist" I must be angry. MT shows up in my replies like clockwork with that word.
*waits*
"you want to pass laws to restrict speech that used to be considered comedy in the Eddie Murphy SNL years"
When did I say this?
In this context, who would that be? Who are you concerned that I'm mad at?
Who is "they" ?
Of course not.