Stellar audio portrait of him here, told first-person: https://loveandradio.org/2014/02/the-silver-dollar/
Sonically it’s beautifully produced, but a transcript is in the link as well.
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Sonically it’s beautifully produced, but a transcript is in the link as well.
Perhaps consider selling prints of some of these? Dozens of companies can white-label and turnkey sales and fulfillment from your site (if you’re interested, many of these companies position themselves toward wedding photographers), and I’m sure people would like to support you and your work.
Just called and canceled after 15+ years—shockingly, they were loath to actually provide the unlock code to port my number out. Switched to an MVNO on the same network that’s >50% cheaper.
When I was 19 I attended summer school in Cambridge, and right in Harvard Square there was a window on the top of a building painted “Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe”. Fans will recognize this as the name of their fictional lawyers in the credits. I tailgated someone leaving, took the elevator up and knocked on the door.
A middle-aged woman answered, and I gee-golly’ly asked if this was Car Talk. She—Louie “Cronan the Barbarian”—said “Yes!” and invited me in.
She generously showed me around, apologizing that Tom and Ray weren’t in at the moment—my guess was Ray was at the garage, and Tom was exploring the cafe standards of the greater Boston area. She smiled.
On my way out she asked if I liked ice cream and pointed to a Ben and Jerry’s branded freezer right at the entrance. “They just come by and refill this for free, if you ever want some, you’re always welcome to come by, say hi and grab yourself a pint.”
I went back three times that summer. Never did meet Tom (RIP) or Ray, but sure got some good ice cream, and some welcome comfort as an awkward kid in a big new city for the first time.
I still look forward to their twice/weekly reruns.
The New Yorker, for instance, famously has one of the most intense fact checking operations of any publication. If it’s a matter of your personal politics disagreeing with perceived editorial bias of those, godspeed. But at least the first three you list have a lot more to lose by getting a factual statement wrong than most.
Generally caring, welcoming are people drawn there and unlike, say, a gym, people have nothing but free time to socialize. The best way I’ve found to make meaningful relationships post-college.
> Effectiveness [at preventing infection] remained above 95% regardless of age group, sex, race, or presence of comorbidities. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-1577
It in no way is a “downer”, and is often given semi-offlabel interchangeably with standard SSRIs for depression. Also the article quotes $3/pill but is widely available as generic for < $.10/pill.
If this deeply studied—in humans—and readily accessible drug provides an option for those who seek treatment, wonderful.
Most inspiring instrument I’ve ever played. Reconnected me back to making music.
Gobsmack all around. Mine, that it did better in 10 seconds than I think nearly anyone could have done in 10 hours. Theirs, that they thought I performed a literal miracle.
Life comes at you pretty fast sometimes.
Paradoxically the Catholics do (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin) I’m sure there’s finicky nuance that the current devout could counter with—apparently they recently decided they were just kidding about limbo being a thing—but that was the mindset drilled into me during my formative years.
Tesla built a $600B market cap as of today and spends $0/per car advertising.
Seems like that was $10k/car well invested.