Safe travels to you. I actually saw Jeff Daniels perform a number of years ago. He was helping to promote his son’s band. I really liked the guy at that point, but since then he has opened his mouth politically and spoiled everything for me.
He was good in his role as Joshua Chamberlain in "Gettysburg" and actually looked similar to him. I think that ca 20 minutes depicting the defence of Little Roundtop is one of the best pieces of cinematography I have seen. "Let's see how professors fight!"
Your former co-worker is not wrong. Since about 1983, you have always done anything & everything to avoid work….you didn’t get the nickname “Fun Dan” because you were a workaholic 😉
Synchronicity. Was with C. san last weekend, helping her buy a 2021 M1 Mac Laptop — to replace her aging 2013 model ... and was told her old model now has a market price of ¥900? Hell, the 1 terabyte SSD storage should be worth more than that.
"Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve."
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition (p. 276). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Another great post from the Land of the Raising Sun. Saving travels to Hawai'i nei. I'll save all future shakas for our meeting in person. Not need honi ihu because couple of haoles doing it is just fake and gay: https://hoomanaspamaui.com/honi-the-traditional-hawaiian-greeting/
Safe travels to you. I actually saw Jeff Daniels perform a number of years ago. He was helping to promote his son’s band. I really liked the guy at that point, but since then he has opened his mouth politically and spoiled everything for me.
He was good in his role as Joshua Chamberlain in "Gettysburg" and actually looked similar to him. I think that ca 20 minutes depicting the defence of Little Roundtop is one of the best pieces of cinematography I have seen. "Let's see how professors fight!"
Your former co-worker is not wrong. Since about 1983, you have always done anything & everything to avoid work….you didn’t get the nickname “Fun Dan” because you were a workaholic 😉
A 2013 Mac?
Congrats on your son's Seijin-shiki!
Synchronicity. Was with C. san last weekend, helping her buy a 2021 M1 Mac Laptop — to replace her aging 2013 model ... and was told her old model now has a market price of ¥900? Hell, the 1 terabyte SSD storage should be worth more than that.
Cheers!
p.s.
This is dark, but has the ring of truth ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfsKD7kUJtY ... an updated version of this ...
"Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve."
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition (p. 276). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Another great post from the Land of the Raising Sun. Saving travels to Hawai'i nei. I'll save all future shakas for our meeting in person. Not need honi ihu because couple of haoles doing it is just fake and gay: https://hoomanaspamaui.com/honi-the-traditional-hawaiian-greeting/