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I only read the cartoons/profane-Republican interviews.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 11:22 AM
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Maybe not a poem, an SAT question?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 11:22 AM
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It would definitely be published in the Readings section of Harpers.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 12:01 PM
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It's the "Chicago River" just the thing they run backward out of Lake Michigan so the poop goes south instead of just sitting there?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 12:51 PM
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"It's" s/b "Isn't"

My point is, if you kayak in it, why are you surprised about dying?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 1:14 PM
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4. civil engineering accomplishment of the millenium!

Pile driver for the Kinzie bridge,
spanning a sewer wide as a farm.
Forgotten railway tunnel forgotten city bowel
swath of towers with water churning up the elevator shafts

There was a really nice essay about the flood in Granta.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 1:25 PM
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You know who else lived in that millennium.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 1:26 PM
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civil engineering accomplishment of the millenium!

Rendering the entire US east of the Mississippi an island!


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 2:01 PM
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I never thought of it that way before.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 2:02 PM
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It makes it possible to turn the whole west into sandworm habitat while people live safely to the east.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 2:31 PM
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It's even been circumnavigated. One of the bridges over the Chicago River is the determining factor on the maximum size of boat that can take the loop.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 2:37 PM
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The Erie Canal is free to all recreational boaters for 2017 because of its 200th anniversary. But hurry. It closes for the season in October.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 2-17 3:10 PM
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Talking of poetry, intentional or otherwise - what's the best way to search TFA (or TFFP for that matter), particularly on mobile? I recently wanted to find a thread about poetry and all I remember was the OP had a poem about a grasshopper / cricket landing on someone's hand. Google is now so clever that it basically just ignores what I type and guesses, incorrectly, what I want based on its terrifying animated corpus of data about me. Bing and Yahoo are so dumb that they keep coming back with the same idea each time because it's all they've got. All three seemed to stop indexing unfogged around 2012.

Help?


Posted by: Seeds | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 12:29 AM
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2nd 13.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 1:15 AM
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I don't know that there's a good solution these days. It used to be that Yahoo was better for certain things than Google, but if neither of those is working I doubt anything else will do better.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 1:19 AM
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But I'll defer to the people actually running the site, who presumably know more.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 1:20 AM
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Speaking of slacking my manager is a fucking prick who excels at pulling demotivational bullshit and knows how to go to that extra length to really be an asshole. He's French which might have something to do with it but not everything.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 1:58 AM
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13: I find google site search is pretty good. Not perfect but good.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 2:44 AM
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Google site search definitely doesn't index well. More than once it hasn't returned results for things I was eventually able to find manually in the archives.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 3:36 AM
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Perhaps unfogged has reached the age where it's time to hire a full time archivist.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 4:19 AM
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There seem to be some errors in crawling the site. When I find some time, I'll see if there are any configuration changes we can make to get a little better coverage.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 4:48 AM
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20 There are a couple here already.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 4:54 AM
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I'm not too proud to admit that I can't read results in Arabic.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 5:47 AM
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Sometimes when Google site search can't find something Bing can. Same syntax.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 6:56 AM
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I've mirrored to whole site a couple of times and then searched through all that text on my own computer with grep, but I felt bad about all the bandwidth it takes to run/update the mirror.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:26 AM
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Does no one use the word hoohole anymore? Have we no respect for tradition?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:29 AM
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One day, back when the internet was new to most people and public declarations of racism were enough to keep people out of public office in all but a few states, my dad surprised me by using the term "bandwidth" in reference to some radio work he had done back when he was in the navy (in the days before the internet existed in any form and when public declarations of racism were necessary to acquire public office in a majority of states). Anyway, I now remember that the term goes back to radio.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:30 AM
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Can your dad help me with search strategy?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:37 AM
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He died this March.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:39 AM
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Sorry, I didn't know that. Condolences.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:52 AM
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Thanks.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 7:56 AM
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Sorry to hear that, Moby


Posted by: Seeds | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 9:58 AM
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21: Belatedly, thanks.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 3-17 10:03 AM
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