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To the extent that we can attribute Soviet-era achievements to contemporary Russia (I’m not well-versed enough to make that determination), it has to be said that the water resistance design principals in today’s dive watches owe quite a bit to Soviet watch designers in the 1960s
THIS MAN HAS ABANDONED CORPORATE LIFE FOR THE SMOKE
For fifty eight years, my boss in Tokyo believed that beef should be sliced as thin as paper.
In Japan, we cook thin meat for four seconds in boiling broth. That is our way.
Then last month, the YouTube algorithm showed Director Sato a video of a man in Texas smoking a brisket.
It changed his life.
On Monday morning, he called me to his desk. His eyes were bloodshot.
"Have you seen this?" he whispered, turning his monitor toward me. "The American pitmaster does not sleep for sixteen hours. He sits by the fire in the dark. He guards the meat like a castle."
I said, "Sir, it is just a barbecue."
He slammed his hand on the desk.
"This is not cooking," he said. "This is a vigil."
Last Saturday was our annual company picnic by the river in Kanagawa. Normally, we grill thin meat and yakisoba for two hours and go home at 2:00 PM.
I arrived at 9:30 AM to help set up.
Director Sato was already there.
I want to be accurate here: he had been sitting in a folding chair since 10:00 PM on Friday night. He was wearing a towel around his head and staring at a massive black barrel smoker he had imported from Oklahoma.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS ABANDONED CORPORATE LIFE FOR THE SMOKE.
When we tried to help him, he held up a pair of metal tongs and clicked them twice.
"Step back," he said calmly. "The stall has begun. Nobody opens the lid."
Twelve Japanese accountants stood in complete silence around a barrel for four more hours. Nobody dared to eat a single noodle until he gave the signal.
At 1:45 PM, he sliced the meat. It fell apart on the cutting board.
My boss looked at the pink smoke ring, nodded once, and wiped a single tear from his cheek.
He has already submitted an official budget request for a trailer smoker for next fiscal year.
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HOKIES WIN
THE STREAK IS OVER
LUKE REYNOLDS LEGACY DRIVE
DABO LUTHER KING HAS BEEN RELEGATED TO THE SHADOW REALM
6-2
Dialectics be like
这张照片可太艺术了
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SynthIDの透かしが組み込まれており、Google製のAIによる生成画像であると判定されます。
生成AIによる合成画像であることに留意が必要です。
画像をダウンロードしてgeminiにアップロードすることで判定が可能です。 gemini.google.com
Isn’t this effectively just a map of college towns?
🚨👀⛳️ JUST IN — ESPN is reporting that 2-time major Champion, Bryson DeChambeau ‘remains committed and is working diligently behind the scenes to bring LIV 2.0 to fruition.’ @BrysonLegion
As of today, the league is believed to have formally secured 4 player commitments: Richard Bland, Cameron Tringale, Ben Campbell & Brendan Steele. A commitment deadline has been set for this Sunday.
Will you be watching LIV in 2027?
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Perry Mehrling, RIP.
According to the History of Economics Society, Perry Mehrling died "Monday night from injury sustained in a fall several days earlier." He was Professor of International Political Economy at Boston University and, previously, longtime Professor of Economics at Barnard College. He was a highly esteemed historian of economics.
Here is his homepage:
sites.bu.edu/perry/
His last book: "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System"
amzn.to/47RVhJ2
"Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger was deeply interested in history, and his economics brimmed with real people and institutional details. His research at the New York Fed and BIS during the Great Depression, his wartime intelligence work, and his role in administering the Marshall Plan gave him deep insight into how the international financial system really operated. A biography of both the dollar and a man, this book is also the story of the development of ideas about how money works. It throws revealing light on the underlying economic forces and political obstacles shaping our globalized world."
Charles Goodhart: "The discipline of economics is balanced, somewhat unsteadily, between two legs, with the skill of the historian on one side and of the mathematical modeler on the other. In the second half of the 20th century, the tide flowed strongly to elevate the second leg and to diminish the first. In this delightful biography of Charlie Kindleberger, a charming and loveable man, Perry Mehrling shows how Charlie, in his chosen role, as an international monetary economist, fought against that tide, often unsuccessfully. Perry writes so beautifully that one would only need a smattering of economics to enjoy the tale; while if one is interested in the history of economic thought in international monetary economics, then this book is, of course, a must read.'
amzn.to/47RVhJ2
Shot in the dark but do any of you have digital access to Labor History Review from the 1960s? Trying to track down a paper given at the Anglo-American Colloquium in 1968.
“Mayich collapsed towards the end…and he was eventually transported to a local hospital with a body temperature of 107.5…players in the letter say that [water] was withheld, and obvious signs of distress by Mayich were overlooked.”
