Jenny Slate is famous enough for my wife to recognize her at daycare drop-off but not famous enough for me to recognize her for anything, even after consulting the internet. Oh well, still counts. Tom Izzo has been the head coach of the Michigan State men’s basketball team for as long as I’ve paid attention […]
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The Power Broker had for so long been a white whale, a book I wanted to read, had to read, but was afraid to start. A reader my entire life, I don’t think I had ever read a book longer than 1,000 pages. I know you are supposed to drop books that you don’t enjoy […]
For a report I am working on about Los Angeles’ Executive Directive #1, which created middle-class housing across Los Angeles before NIMBYs curtailed it, I want to see if changes to the ED 1, of which there have been two substantive ones, impact the number of submitted projects or their size. ED 1 version 1 […]
Until recently, Twitter was among the most studied social media platforms in the world. Its accessibility to researchers, coupled with its role in key moments of modern history—from the Arab Spring to the COVID-19 pandemic—made it an indispensable source of data. But in March 2023, the company’s new ownership sharply restricted access to its data, […]
I have just returned from a work trip to China. In preparation, I purchased a new used Android phone and acquired a local SIM as soon as I landed. A main motivator for this configuration was to be able to pay for items. Though I was with a conference and most transportation and meals were […]
Anyone who has considered having a baby or reads general interest publications has certainly come across stories about much babies cost. The answer is usually something like, “Hundreds of thousands of dollars until they are 18”. This answer is nearly useless because no one is going to dive that number by 18 to get an […]
Since, approximately, the Articles of Confederation, Americans love to bemoan government services, especially federal ones. They are slow, inefficient, bloated, blahblahblah. Well, I have had plenty of positive interactions with government, whether that is calling emergency services, non-emergency police, 311, contacting a representative, and so on. So, to remind everyone that government is good, I […]
Max Burkholder is best known, at least in our household, as Max Braverman on Parenthood, the autistic child. We saw him as we were walking on the sidewalk into the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s on a Sunday morning. He was across the street on the Gelson’s sidewalk. The hair is the giveaway. Ed Helms was seen at a […]
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