Dad, was E-5, now CPU architecture and firmware guy; sometimes profane, rarely profound. Support the Fistula Foundation today. Did cancer. #FiredUpReadyToGo
Oct 1, 2022 • 82 tweets • 14 min read
This is a thread about bikes I have owned.
Growing up youngest in a family of four boys and 1 girl, there were two 26 inch beater bikes with coaster brakes and my sister's 24 inch step through.
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My oldest brother taught me to ride a bike, and I remember the first day that I proudly rode to school in 2nd grade.
I wanted to show off, but missed the turn into the school yard and ended up scraping my knuckles on the rusty fence. Hurt like hell.
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Sep 7, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Watching the great Danish TV show, #Borgen, on Netflix.
Parliamentary forms of government have some advantages. But I also remember the downsides, like Italy in the late '70s, when the government was dribbling around like a Harlem Globetrotters basketball.
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Democracy has gone from the direct form, eg, Athens, through various forms of representative democracy to where we are today.
In most parliamentary systems, there is a form of agency outside the political realm, which is tasked with control of forming governments.
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