Flâneur is a French term popularized in the nineteenth-century for a type of urban male “stroller”, stereotypically of Paris. What a delightful word!
Un Flâneur à Paris
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Flâneur is a French term popularized in the nineteenth-century for a type of urban male “stroller”, stereotypically of Paris. What a delightful word!
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Microblogging v1.3.0 for Pelican released! Posts should now sort as expected. Thanks @ashwinvis. on PyPI #Microblogging #Pelican Plugins #Releases #Python
Summary plugin for Pelican v1.3.0 released! Now keeps internal link indicators
(like {filename}
) from leaking into summaries.
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CommonMark Pelican reader v2.0.1! Should stop complaining about intra-document links (e.g. #target
)
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New level of "business casual" unlocked: the bank teller today was wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap!
I’ve been intrigued by the term métis for some time. At the root, the word is French for “mixed”, as in “mixed race”. About twenty years ago, I was in France and actually overhead the word used “in the wild” in this sense in a conversation on the bus; the reference was to an arab teenager who had a black girlfriend.
In the Canadian context though, the word (especially when capitalized) has acquired a tighter meaning: the families of European trappers and their Indian brides, typically French and Cree respectively, born in the fur trade era, and their decendants.
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The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
— Paul Morphy (?)
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Socks possess the mysterious power, like cats, of vanishing; unlike cats, they don’t get hungry and come back.
— Gwern Branwen, on Socks
I would love to know what the actual blocker to immediate global rollout [of robot cars] is.
In a word, snow.
I can’t help but feel it telling that all of the self-driving car trials take place in sunny places like LA and Phoenix. Snow, as I see it, creates two large obstacles for self-driving cars: the snow can physically obscure the road, and the snow (and ice) will differentially change the road surface friction.
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