From her lecture "The gradual making of the making of Americans," found in _Lectures in America_. The book is available at the internet archive: archive.org/details/lect...

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> if you listened with great intensity you could hear it rise and fall and tell all that that there was inside them, not so much by the actual words they said or the thoughts they had but the movement of their thoughts and words endlessly the same and endlessly different.

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Like, I know we've all been thinking that the world is wide open for a rewriting of Vacation from the mom's perspective, all tense and bleak, basically A Woman Under the Influence but on vacation

Gotcha, ok! That makes even more sense -- this differentiation clears up the remaining thing that was bugging me about this morning -- the fact that my "absolute/bottom:0" footer was scrolling up with the rest of the page content... thanks!

Unrelated but related: the misunderstanding I resolved today:

position: absolute positions relative to the nearest positioned ancestor, but if there isn't one, it positions relative to the initial containing block, not the body element, not even the html element.

It's the *viewport.*

It took a few years for Bleach to grow on me, but it became my favorite Nirvana album probably 25-30 years ago, and I still put it on way more than the others. The bass just blasts through the mix, crunching up the whole vibe... so good.

tbh I don't even know for sure if that's true, I live in Chicago, we only have one hill and I haven't been by it in years

I was just ...reading? Looking at? @rmfrt.com 's poetry and I was reminded of some of those old sites -- specifically one I remember seeing that used a lot of superimposed text -- but it was a nice surprise, so, fistbump Remi.

I remember stumbling on some random person's website -- I think their handle was some kind of play on synesthesia -- and I was blown away. It *still* inspires my design and development work, more than 20 years later -- both in how it surprised me, and how I was able to get lost in it.

10/10 You steel yourself and face the truth. You’ve been wasting your time trying to fix a human problem from inside the data. You close Excel with a deep sigh and begin to type:

`vim data_getter.py`

You take a moment to post this on Blue Sky, briefly wondering if you’ll show up on his feed.

9/10 He pulls out a stick of juicy fruit gum and crushes it into his maw, and shares a word of wisdom before returning to his barstool:

“Don’t waste your time figuring out how it happened. Ain’t no fixing it. Go back to the source, get the data before it was broken. Start again.”

8/10 His temper flares. “Yeah I’ve seen ‘this kind of thing’ before! I’ve seen data so riddled with mojibake that there was more question marks than text…” he quiets himself, apparently surprised by his own reaction.

7/10 You sputter out a quick response, a little concerned he’s about to dip into catatonic PTSD. “Y-yeah? You’ve seen this kind of thing before? How did you handle it?”

6/10 “Yeah well I can tell you right now, it started in Excel.”  His expression goes cold and his eyes go dead as they focus on the middle-distance.  In a low growl, he says, “It’s *always* Excel.”

5/10 You expected this, you’ve dealt with data scientists before. “Well that’s exactly the problem,” you hurriedly explain, “a coworker broke this whole dataset and I’m trying to trace the problem back to where it started.”