Seen on Columbia Reddit…
Any belote players in the area who'd like to meet up and play?
Naturally I assumed that a belote was a musical instrument. It’s not. So then I figured it must be a sport. Nope.
It’s a card game.
This struck me as a good example that life is full of reminders that I don’t know everything and that these just might be opportunities to learn something new.
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As a teacher of young children I’ve rarely thrown anything more risky than a bean bag, but this thread on Bluesky made me smile.
Doug Mack: randomly decided to look at the history of people throwing sandwiches and...
Cleveland Press, 1957
“With mustard!”
Mack also writes what he calls an “Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: snackstack.net” so I suppose that airborne edibles are in his wheelhouse.
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I’ve spent the summer falling asleep to the polite, unassuming tones of this fellow on YouTube.
“Hello. Thanks for stopping by.”
An exploration of everything to do with London; from the city's history and transport, to tales of true crime and more…... and every now and then I'll be exploring other parts of the UK too!
No, I don’t listen to the creepy ones before bed. And I can’t explain why I find it so restful. But the two-part series on London’s Quirkiest Railways is oddly comforting. Someone I know has long listened to episodes of The West Wing to get to sleep, so I suspect I’m not the only one to to find that counting sheep takes other forms.
Do I hate the adverts? Yes. Will I pay to get rid of them? Nah. If I had that kind of extra money I’d donate it to Columbia Community Care.
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Yesterday I responded to an NPR story on Facebook and someone immediately lit into me. After my initial discomfort I realized they had misunderstood me. I did my best to rearticulate my point more clearly. You’ll never guess what happened next.
About an hour or so later that person acknowledged they had misunderstood, apologized, and took down their post.
This is such a rare occurrence I thought I’d memorialize it here. Who knows when it will happen again?
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It’s Friday. Do you have any interesting weekend plans? I have not had a single snowball this summer and I’m hoping to rectify that.
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