WTF-Beta

30 years ago today, l asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend and the most gorgeous woman l know to marry me.

All three said no.

Re the Sagrada Familia, Orwell totally blasts it in Homage to Catalonia. He calls it ‘one of the most hideous buildings in the world’ and said ‘the anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance’. I don’t agree but find it funny that he took a break from narrating his time in the civil war to go on a big diatribe about this building.

Yeah a bunch in Barcelona including the Sagrada Família.

I’ll be in Barcelona twice this fall (2 separate conferences). Probably will see some again.

Matt Yglesias putt it well - his only qualification is a demonstrated willingness to engage in abuses of power.

Not a fan of the building. The statue of him and Michelle looks fine from that angle, I saw a closeup of the face with a caption that said he looked like Ron Howard and I couldn't help but laugh.

Still I could imagine visiting next time I have time to kill in Chicago.

His wife just shared this in Facebook. She shared it to his feed so the idea was to let his friends know, so I’m reposting it here.

She has the same haircut 67 years later and it looks great in both pictures.

I get it. They didn’t have visas either and they needed loans to pay for someone to help them cross the border.

It wouldn’t make sense that they needed loans just to get there because it’s no more expensive to fly to the US than it is to Madrid. But they can enter Madrid as tourists without a visa whereas to get to the US without a visa they have to go to Mexico and pay to be smuggled across the land border.

Loans? Or visa?

I hear that story a lot from South Americans and it usually visa driven.

I tried to use it once for otc stuff they sell (can’t even remember what it was) and their website simply wouldn’t let me proceed without a prescription.

@Mik said:

Pandora's box was opened from 2015 on.

What happened in 2015?

Another tidbit to show how content free the report was...

Ramesh Ponuru in the Washington Post pointed out that the word “inflation” shows up 18 times in the report.

But each time talking about how the cost of ad spend and other campaign expenses have gone up. Not once talking about the affordability issues that played such a big role in voter dissatisfaction.

Happy Birthday!

More Europeans die in heat waves than Americans die of gun violence.

We need a new Marshall plan. This time armed with air conditioners instead of export credits.

Just finished listening to this:

I really enjoyed it. Hearing about how he grew up poor in the projects and made it to Harvard than HLS and then how he stumbled into Goldman through the back door was interesting. And his inside take on the great financial crisis was interesting and brought back a lot of my own memories.

@ShiroKuro said:

Yikes! That’s something to keep an eye out for!

Yeah. I’ll start waiting for the receipt, which I always decline.

Happy Birthday!

@ShiroKuro said:

What I really want is to meet people locally who play, hopefully being connected to the art shop will help.

We’ve lived in this town for almost three years now, so we’d like to start making more connections beyond work!

The NY piano party group started by people blasting a message out on PW asking who is in the NY area that would be interested in getting together.

Maybe you could try that?

You already have Dewey and Mik within a two hour drive and me and Ax who often get on airplanes for piano parties…

That’s fantastic. And awesome that they can afford a space in the mall.

Do you ever have piano parties? Or is it just you playing at a gathering?