People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)
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On another note, also interesting is the frankly crap quality of the scanned text, which one unfortunately presumes is the only copy remaining in existence. Is there any current or near future OCR/ML system which might be capable of transcribing the raw scans with any acceptable level of accuracy? It's a challenging read even for this human!
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Or lucky. That worked for me.
I dunno, I work in a bank and here being semi-openly cynical and greedy is not seen as faux-pas.
Not to mention that part of being a successful person is being able to fake whatever needs to be faked in a given environment if necessary - be it passion, impact or whatever.
Perhaps a similar thing is true for rich versus poor. (And of course, wealth translates to happiness too).
Unfortunately, he was killed by a drunk driver - Rich, listless kid driving an exotic sports car. Tragic loss. It's been a long time, but I still remember him. I could only find one of his columns online since his paper shut down but here it is:
https://www.syracuse.com/kirst/2009/03/greg_lopez_and_the_ro...
Also, I may be wrong, but so far my experience with top-class hotels has had them being just slightly fancier versions of their less esteemed counterparts.
I guess most of the value of the really high quality/more expensive hotels comes from limiting the guests to ones with a larger amount of money/influence and hopefully, higher class.
I would also assume that there are microfilm copies of the Washington Post though perhaps the scan is actually of good quality. The newspapers are intentionally cheaply printed and this was a hundred years ago. It might have just looked like that.
(A hostel is like a hotel, but you rent a dorm bed in a shared room instead of a private room.)
We were both waiting for the overnight train somewhere, and ended up in the same compartment. At the destination, I checked into the hostel, and he checked into the 5-star hotel. He came by the hotel bar later to share stories, and bought everyone a drink.
(This wasn't especially off-the-beaten track, even 10 years ago, but there were simply fewer tourists then.)
I do agree that off-the-beaten-track is better, location really defines the profile of the majority of the travelers you'll meet there, such as the european party trail(Amsterdam-Berlin-Prague-Budapest) where you're more likely to meet people who just want to get wasted(and hit on 'locals' if they are men).
Not to mention the universal adoption of smartphones, cheap data tourist plans, google maps and trip recommendations at your palm, more often than not, if I'm stepping into a hostel common area I'm more likely to see a bunch of zombies glued to their phones before deciding to hit some of the top 5 recommendations on TripAdvisor, it also makes it more difficult to start conversations in a place where that was way more natural just a few years back.
These days I'm only staying in hostels for the monetary value which is still way cheaper than most Hotels or AirBnBs, trying to stay in dorms that have no more than 6 beds, I end being one of those who is just staring at their phones and doesn't really engage with other travelers(I do believe this is the majority of hostel guests these days). I'll get a hotel for the comfort every now and then. I guess living in a backpacker destination made me a bit bitter about backpackers in general.
Mechanical Turk should be able to do it for a pretty nominal cost.
Lot of times it’s just me paraphrasing something in real life that we just witnessed. Really depends how many ipas deep I am LOL. I think the biggest driver is I’m usually so interested in people and what they do from all walks of life. That passion shows.
You make a good point. I thought about transcribing the images when I originally wrote the post, but eventually convinced myself that was something I could get around to later, which of course meant that I never actually got around to it.
Your comment gave me the necessary kick in the butt to actually go back and do that, so thanks! Transcriptions are now provided for all the images. And as long as I was in there, I went ahead and added links to various contemporary terms that might not be clear to the modern reader, pointing to more information on what they mean.
Apparently (I'm told) small town papers still do this.
They do. My grandmother writes them for my hometown newspaper.
These days one would probably demand the very opposite.
Meanwhile, I spent four hours coming into the actual city from there. It's dreadful.
The move is definitely way worse for people actually traveling into Istanbul. The metro expansions to the airport can’t come soon enough, but even on a metro the trip will be pretty long.
24 Hours at the Golden Apple (November 2000) https://www.thisamericanlife.org/172/24-hours-at-the-golden-...
Nowadays I feel like real journalism is a very small fraction of the journalism field in general and I feel like most news/media outlets (paper, tv, blogs) are just copy pasting stories from others in a bad manner as well, changing them up to feel a bit more "wow this thing happened", and you end up with a story that has nothing to do with the original.
We do live in the ERA of over-information and lazy journalism. A news outlet in most cases doesn't need to go out of their way to find the story and the cases that happens is very limited nowadays. The media will just display anything that comes their way on steroids to make it interesting... and thats why I don't watch the news :)
On the other hand I am pretty certain there are still Hotels in Europe where the strong and powerful pass through on a daily basis, and there are up and coming smart hotels which have a lobby that I've personally seen the next tech idea being discussed from its ground.
If you’re ever in Germany or the Netherlands I’d be happy to show you how my partner (a journalist for a national broadcaster) and her coworkers go about it.
It’s the opposite of lazy, copy & paste. It’s hard working, diligent, critical etc.
If you just take a casual glance through a few tens of articles, everything will look like a carbon copy.
I'm not sure a personal attack like this is appropriate. Your anecdote is no more valuable a data point than parents. My own (anecdote) mirrors OP - front page stories from major American publications like the WaPo and NYT often show downright shoddy research techniques - a lack of corroboration, a failure to consider all the relevant data, and a generally obsession with narrative writing rather than covering all the relevant facts. If you want to argue that journalism is strong in your country, you might start by giving an example of a typical publication from your country.
If you go back to 1500s english it also becomes pretty much incomprehensible.
Is your native language impossible to read if you go back to only 1900? I find it difficult to believe that it could change that much, but it would be interesting.
It would definitively be readable to a modern reader, but the differences can in some texts be sufficient to require a lot more conscious effort where English from that era seems to 'just' seem a bit odd and overly formal.
I do think it also depends a great deal if you know any related languages. E.g if you understand German and Danish, older Norwegian makes sense - I remember when it clicked for me that the best way of improving my German grammar was to when in doubt think about how older more formal Norwegian forms would be. I read a lot of adventure novels from the early 1900's, so I was familiar with that.
But I know class mates who were totally unfamiliar with Norwegian literature from that era who while they'd certainly understand it would found it more of an effort.
(I'm learning Danish: if in doubt about grammar, I think "how would Shakespeare say it?").
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Allegiance_(Sweden)
E.g. in that text, I understood everything except "städse" and "huld" without having to look it up. You could do a Norwegian translation pretty much word for word with the same sentence structure.
But a lot of people used to modern Scandinavian languages at least, and I get the impression the same is true for modern English readers, do have problems dealing sentences with lots of interjections and/or where you need to metaphorically push lots of context onto the stack before it all ties up at the end. I recall coming across that already at school - since I read a lot of older books I was used to it, but most of my class mates were not. And it's reflected in my writing even today, 30+ years later, to the point where I need to consciously avoid just nesting clauses all over the place.
Generally speaking, you can go back to the 1600s or so--Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, etc. Much before that you're starting to get back into Middle English (e.g. Chaucer), which is distinctly different from modern English. (Around 1500 is considered the transition point but it took a while for the transition to be substantially complete.)
> I don’t know as there is much in what we are doing to interest the public, except the price of the article, and, as I said before, that will remain unchanged.
Basically "I make crackers. Why are you talking to me?"
More like before FDR's massive expansion of the federal government. Today, it's hard to believe how unimportant the federal government was in most areas of peoples lives.
it also works
https://www.loc.gov/item/96503316/ mentions The Arlington as a location in Washington D.C., published between 1882 and 1900.
http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2010/08/opulent-arlington...
I was born in DC more than 70 years after said hotel was demolished, however, I can recognize by the way they write that "The Arlington" (always appearing with an article) is presumably a place in the District. No one would presume that kind of social crowd to be in Virginia, especially the further you go back in time.
Googling around I found a claim that it was on the current site of the Veterans Affairs offices, which would put it on Vermont Ave NW near I St.