For kid lit, absolutely. Maintain "scholarly editions" for academics and curious adults, and maybe even indicate somewhere on the copyright or title page that the edition people are reading differs from the original, but if a book is both important and problematic, then yeah, there's no reason to take the hurtful, insensitive themes and images in some of them and say, "here, junior, this is what the adults in your life think you need to internalize."
In general, I'm more for retiring dated children's literature than revising it, authorial intent and all, but some of the great touchstones would have more value in revised form than as relics. As a parent, discussions about problematic media eventually become unavoidable if you want to responsibly engage with the world, but I don't want to give a younger kid of bunch of mixed messages.
They do provide examples of literary techniques that most modern stuff doesn't really do, so I can sort of understand using them to demonstrate allegory and metaphor, etc, but at the same time, very few people enjoy reading them and the actual messages that don't really apply today also don't get through anyways.
As an old English major, I agree that the "canon" is probably larger than it needs to be, and educators generally do a piss poor job of accepting that excellent works of literature continue to be written while the length of a school year does not change. I'll stick up for a heavy dose of the classics though. Even more than the techniques, which absolutely are present in modern literature, Shakespeare and Dickens and Melville provide a shared set of norms and expectations and feed into references and provide a vocabulary for conversation and even subconscious engagement with newer works of lit and drama.
In a lot of ways they ARE the historical context of English literature, and to that extent, yes, you should cram some of them into the brains of teenagers. Not so many as we do now, and the point is well taken that newer works can engage more readily, but school is the right time to have people read these works and to discuss why some parts are relevant, and to take a moment to explain why other parts were relevant. I'd love to see a curriculum that includes some "family tree" type stuff for themes and techniques and shows how writers have more- or less-consciously adapted and built on the DNA of previous works. Kind of a "Huck Finn begets Holden Caulfield begets Harry Potter" kind of thing. Nothing could be worse for engagement than a pure chronological lesson plan for the year.
Gross. Once kbin stabilized after those first few days full of Reddit refugees, I stopped going to squabbles, but I made a point of deleting my account today. The dev was oddly secretive and non-collaborative, had a weird cadre of posters extolling his virtues, and his only presence on Reddit was half-baked shit in an entrepreneur subreddit. Now, I have to admit I was expecting a more mainstream enshittification as he tried to monetize, not a full-on (and super quick!) Voat situation.
Our Oreck XL is a bit awkward on carpeted stairs, but doable and its beater brush is not fucking around. As an aside, it's not the best vacuum in the world, but it's reasonably priced, a proven design, and easily repaired.
I assume if the transformer had blown the Californians would have had to work off the charges living in the little town, being hilariously angry for the first act month, only to come around, leave after some emotional misunderstanding, but then return just in time to save the town hall from getting bulldozed.
there are cousins in every corner of North America.
Oh absolutely. I had to do some investigative genealogy to uncover my roots at all, so I'm sort of cheating in that I know where EVERYBODY is, but I have "Newfoundlander" cousins in NB, ON, QC, BC, AB (of course), to say nothing of me from Florida, all the people who relocated to Boston and stayed, and then Washington state, Georgia, North Carolina. The only sad thing is the "why," I reckon.
Awesome! I have ancestors from Newfoundland, and some more distant family and online acquaintances still there, so I try to halfway keep up with things on the Internet.
One should also not underestimate Texas communities’ commitment to their high school interscholastic American football teams.
Imagine all the loyalty and tradition of a local (soccer) football club in Europe, but tied directly into the local government and wrapped up in Texas egos.
$50 million USD is fairly expensive for a suburban school district’s new stadium, but it’s not breaking any records.
Thanks. We were moving, so I took some photos when I disassembled it. That was two houses ago now, and it's currently set up in roughly the same configuration, but a bit lower and with fewer duct runs (planer, Table saw, and "other"). One of the simple PLA blast gates came apart in one of the moves, but for how simple they were they've held up well.
We’re going to get a couple of minutes totality at my house. Anybody know how to pick adequate eclipse glasses or what level of welding goggles is equivalent?
Yes, of course, but not without time and work that may not be worthwhile unless the tree has sentimental value.
There are urban sawmills and DIY sawmills that can plank out the trunk of that tree. Then, you'll need to let it dry and/or get it to kiln. This will take at least months and maybe a couple of years and has wrinkles of its own (wax/paint on the ends and "stickering" between the planks). After that, maybe it comes out really lovely. I don't know the exact species you've got there. It will likely be nicer than the Spruce/Fir/Pine construction lumber from Home Depot, but it's also still kinda likely to look like... well... construction lumber.
In the unlikely event that you desperately want to make something from this tree, and also have no desire to properly process the wood, you certainly can. It's not going to explode or anything, it just might not have a look many find desirable. I've never really known anyone to do greenwood turning with pine, but conceptually I guess it might be possible, if also sticky. Could also do some other bentwood green work, but that has a very specific look to it. Beyond that, you could try something rustic and just let it be when it inevitably warps and cracks. Or you could embed a pinecone or a little sliver of it in some resin, then turn that on a lathe.
Or you could make a great big pile of firewood, LOL.
Our former stray is a bit of a chonk. He had the appetite of a dog that spent all day on the hunt, the metabolism of a dog that didn't always succeed, and the activity level of a dog who hated every minute of all of it. Once we saw the weird round scars hiding in his coat and heard the yelps when picking him up put pressure on the wrong rib, we just decided to let him live his life. After what he clearly went through, living to 12 (or 13 or 14 or however the fuck old he really is) as a pudgy lump is probably heaven on earth. He's still a bit sensitive, but he's trusting and comfortable. If it takes chicken nuggets to get us there, so be it.
Our younger pup was born in a loving foster home, and he is like a smiling brick shithouse bursting with light and joy, so he gets a lot more exercise and play to work off the human food, and yeah, by percent of body weight he probably eats less.
