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I’m Here Because of Lileks
Okay, not just Lileks, but he is probably my favorite of all the guys on the Ricochet podcast, which I’ve been enjoying for several months now. I finally took the bait and became a member.
I’m a former liberal (just want to get that off my chest from the start). I’ve lived in various regions of the U.S., but I’m Midwest born and bred. I earned a bachelor’s in English in 2009 and published a few short stories online. (Currently working in state government, so you know how that whole writing thing turned out.) Among my interests/likes: philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, cycling, Jane Austen novels, knitting, and baking my own granola bars.
What I love about Lileks: During the podcast, he almost always asks the follow-up question I’m asking (but no one can hear).
However, I lately discovered that we differ drastically on the issue of changing our clocks. It’s stupid. I hate it.
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Welcome to the family, Malka!
As for time changes, I don’t care about the time of sunrise and sunset. Just let noon be noon!
Welcome to our little community. Anyone who loves Jane Austen deserves a double welcome.
Thanks. I couldn’t remember.
Are you talking about the Kampfgruppe Pieper Pieper? Oops. I see that that was Peiper.
That’s the hope! I think the overall idea was creating a site I would want to find if I was interested in these things. But the “things” are portals into something else. For example: there are websites about collecting matchbooks, but they’re about . . . matchbook collecting. Which is fine. But what do these ephemeral objects tell us about the past, the graphic styles that have come and gone, the language of old swank restaurants, the boosterism of the 40s, the brands that once dominated the commercial landscape, and so on. All of these objects are portals.
On the other hand, I like to think of it like this: you didn’t know you were interested in this, but hey, now you are.
Back around the start of the lockdowns I considered going around to various businesses and taking photos of the “Temporarily closed because of COVID” signs, see what kind of typography gets used, what sort of messages, that kind of thing. I figure it’d be perfect for…
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this thing is never on tim—
THE JAMES LILEKS MEMBER POST OF THE WEEK!
Yeah, that. Total Lileks bait.
Welcome aboard!
I certainly wouldn’t have joined just on the basis of Peter Robinson and Rob Long.
DST is stupidity on stilts and should have been ash-canned years ago. As for the time zones, they make sense until they don’t. When we moved almost 2 hours south of Louisville, KY a few years ago the infrequent trips to the big City became somewhat confusing due to living in Central Time and going to and from Eastern Time. “OK, we need to get there at 9:30.” “Is that Central Time or Eastern?” And so on. Then one day Mrs. OS solved the whole thing with one astute observation, “It takes 3 hours to get to Louisville and 1 hour to get back.” Genius because it simplifies the calculations. Must be why I married her 53 years ago.
I understand, Mr. Lileks. I have a difficult first name (it’s Hebrew, by the way) and an easy last name. Even when people try to play it safe and just use my last name, they tend to “misgender” me as Mr. Davis. Thank you and all the Ricochet members for such a warm welcome! I love it here already.
“Kite & Key” has a great video about the whole DST nonsense. I recommend it to anyone who might be on the fence about it.
Welcome to Ricochet, Malka. If you think James is good on the podcast, you ought to read some of his books. His “Gallery of Regrettable Foods” is the funniest book I’ve ever read. I’ve said this on Ricochet a few times over the years, it is the only book I have ever read that made me laugh until my face hurt.
Robinson, yes. Long……maybe. Members, definitely.
Tourette’s Syndrome of course!
Could always translate it and go by “Queenie.” 😉
Definitely check out the Bleat. I go every day. The comments section is pretty good, too.
Welcome aboard!
Welcome !
Been a huge Lileks Fan since discovering his “Institute” so long ago when the interwebs were young.
The effects of Gravity on Celery and Elastic (Art Frahm) contribution is worth a review. When I need some ludicrous cheer, I return there.
Welcome to the zoo, Malka!
If you figure out what’s going on around here, please do let us know…
It is weird, isn’t it? Instead of saying everyone roll your hours of operation back an hour, they make everyone — even those who don’t have anything to do with business hours — change all their clocks and wristwatches. It’s crazy stupid. Twice a year, every year. For life.
Its like a vaccine with annual booster.
It could be worse. As best I can recall, Indiana does DST by county.
Thanks for the clarification. Your avatar picture isn’t really big enough to tell. I’m afraid I would have assumed male, too.
I grew up in an Amish community in Ohio. The Amish, of course, don’t do daylight savings time. So we had “government time” and “real time.” Which meant that much of the time, none of us really knew what time it was.
Welcome Malka!
I like to think of it as what would have happened if Robert Benchley had had a blog. It is an endless source of unexpected delights.
Only once a year? Lucky you!
Haha! Certainly unintentional on my part.