Pretty high on the RPF, actually! Especially in the early days, a lot of film, prop, and design industry professionals would congregate there and exchange information or big shop folklore. It was a pretty cool place (not saying it hasn't continued to be one, but I haven't been a regular in probably 20 years).
Separate from the forestry philosophy in the headlines article, Japan also famously made a decision in the 1960s that resulted in monoculturing the country into seasonal allergies for the timber industry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_fever_in_Japan
> Musicians could automate all the instruments with incredible accuracy since a long time. But they never do that. For some reason, they still want a person behind the piano / guitar / drums.
This actually happened on a recent hit, too -- Dua Lipa's Break My Heart. They originally had a drum machine, but then brought in Chad Smith to actually play the drums for it.
Edit: I'm not claiming this was new or unusual, just providing a recent example.
I do this; I also wear the Apple Watch on the inside of my right wrist instead of the outside, since that makes it FAR more usable for train fare gates and Apple Pay in general.
Whenever people ask about the two watches (and it has been EXTREMELY rare), I just point out how convenient it is.
It syncs all elements of all of my activities across all platforms (Windows, OS X, Android, iOS) that I use. My main issue with it is that I can't download the stuff I uploaded, so it's not really good as a storage/backup solution, but that's fairly minor.
I do, regularly. I read books on my phone on the go, then pick it up at a computer (and I do this across multiple computers) when I'm at a computer, and vice-versa.
I was really interested after this comment if only because Calibre really is an iTunes for ebooks:
1. It has updates ALL THE TIME
2. It has a billion features and I only need one (moving books to/from the device)
Unfortunately, after looking over the feature list and realizing that it's for Linux, I realized that this is more of a replacement for Books on OS X -- a local ebook reader.
> I spent quite a bit of time setting up my Django app to serve VueJS (replacing the built-in Jinja templates). Once ready, it became a powerful application with ORM, middleware and all other Django goodies coupled with modern JS framework on the frontend.
Have you thought about writing this up? I'd be interested in reading how you went about it.
Replying to myself, after a bit of research, it seems like "wearing crinoline" is actually a marker for being more concerned with fashion (e.g. hoop skirts). Perhaps a modern day equivalent would be saying that someone looks down on people who "wear lumberjack shirts with their hair high and tight" (e.g. hipsters).
> In the course of his long career, Sam Clemens lost as many friends as he made. He did not suffer fools or rivals gladly, especially if they wore crinoline.
Is "if they wore crinoline" an oblique way of saying "if they were women," or is it a turn of phrase meaning something else? I ask because I don't feel like many would understand (perhaps I'm wrong, given the forum?) the significance of "crinoline," a material that, as far as I know, is no longer in regular use...
I would lean toward it meaning "if they were women," but the lists after that phrase are generally men, with only two women.
If you're going off the use of emdashes and endashes, I've been using them for over 25 years.