but as you say, if timely rough enclosure of a building footprint presents itself as a problem, onsite additive construction is almost certainly not the answer

~10 years ago an acquaintance in the technology sector enthused at me about the potential of onsite additive construction and since then when it comes up i am always imagining a side/side film of unloading and setting up the placer vs. the crane swinging in any other prefab modular system

i don't recall if you ever took a North America and reviewed any of Laurie R. King's stuff, but I had in the back of my mind that Rena and the protag in Folly are very much alike, but they would get along

Gave this one a read and enjoyed it, appreciated the nod to template set by Argyle and its role as active history

finally some good news for goldbug Piss Freaks

its tacticool jealousy on the part of the enforcement arms for other limited access infrastructure: the union pacific railroad bulls, southern california edison security, and california highway patrol don't stack against the Turlock Irrigation District

*pausing the video and explaining for the uninitiated* this means in relation to the maiar and the shirefolk he's like aragorn, or if you like, the Mouth of Sauron

*M doughty intonation, tom waits vibe* we're trapped in a room with a man ... he has two podcasts ... he calls himself The Griddler

it feels like having to do the public key registration and web of trust endorsement but instead of your email signature or download integrity, its for whether the cat pics account is a foot-in-the-door follow farm for a MLM influencer or dark politics pivot

So Four is a lost opportunity for Girth Binman, VC to share that creative process with idk his bookish niece, a former war reporter, others with prior service, an amateur historian, someone whose work as editor and transcriber and co-author would reflect their experience of listening and questioning

It feels to me not wrong so much as "feels bad man" because experiential storytelling is a social act and from the multitude of those storytelling occasions our individual and collective memories of events and our roles in those events is created and reinforced.

Four tags the "authenticity" criteria but not by our present norms the "literary" criteria which is an expectation for memoir to have some narrative competency / blarney / yarntelling that's the flipside for being granted a measure of license and freedom as compared to an historian or biographer.

If not, absent strong paratextual claims about how it got written and their editors and friends helping or other evidence, my default assumption is most rando first time have an uncredited ghostwriter

Three is by today's standards widely accepted: more so (for me anyway, generously) if the authorship is explicitly given as
"Girth Binman, VC | with Cynthia Letterpress" and on the back under the precis of the memoirist's life is one for Ms. Letterpress, author Ten Thousand Walks in Wales etc

And even (iirc -- Paul Fussell claim from Great War and Modern Memory?) you get like Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon writing lenghty commentary, about all the details he flubbed.

Two is the apex but even rigorous diarist acting as a autobiographer and resort to best available archival and interview resources will not and cannot wholly represent a perfect truth. Think Robert Graves: explicitly says in foreword he put in all the stuff (ghosts, food, royals) that readers enjoy

My reckon is that when a person (or their publisher) decides to present something as a memoir, you're offering an agreement to your potential readers which outlines how they should read and relate to that text, which structures their critical and emotional reactions. One is the clear breach of that

Freshly made Bavarian pretzels sit on a cooling rack.

Back in the stress-baking saddle.

Next up longform will be Colliding Continents by Mike Searle, which seems like it'll be a good sequel to Lamb's Tibetan obsession

I don't recall he gets into flat-slab subduction; idk if he thinks there's earlier period of flat-slab subduction then it steepened in the timeframe he is most concerned with. The model he asks the reader to consider is paraphrased, the classic image of the Nazca plate descending at at 30d angle

Thanks for the extensive reply and the links! I'll queue em in the reader and see how much I can wrangle with. Drip delamination of the lower lithosphere is a topic he describes as intriguing but underevidenced at the time writing, so it'll be cool to see how that takes off from where he was at

tangentially related i've been reading simon lamb's Devil in the Mountain, on account of natural science memoirs being my favorite genre of literary nonfiction. what's new for understanding the andean orogeny since 2004?

i got a new wellness grift which is not entirely evil, namely i'm going to hawk little bathroom dispensers with screen cleaning wipes for the phone we've been scrolling, alternating with wiping our buttholes

in any case i'm surprised none of the Sliver (1993) panopticontractors have shipped effective tools for handling tasks like that? or do mil-cop-spook types just not talk about it

maybe its the generalized attitude that bikes are toys for athleisure enthusiasts, hippies, and kids. unserious people, unserious assets, etc. or pessimism about recovery and redress of a highly mobile and concealable item?

the essay by tony onodi which D2 links notes at the end maybe BTP is just saying they don't have time because there's show-up cost just getting the tradies and the tools in the truck, so to speak plus due diligence in carefully watching N minutes before and after the event, or some other reason

o__O i guess i'd assumed this is how everyone who has to triage video or even like, unindexed historical text, fiction, etc did it.

Photo of a cuneiform tablet with some dark spots on it.

We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"

Babylonian scholars in later periods, from ~500 BCE onwards, made short commentaries on sections of the, to them, pretty ancient Sa-gig diagnostic manual.

They excerpted words or phrases, explained them, and added meaning to the original text with their interpretations. True ancient word nerdery

that post is included in the general bargaining unit, which seems both inclusive and a great way for the bargaining team to retain institutional knowledge long-term