To be fair, it's the only GPS watch I've used for running, but in the past I've used a) my car odometer, which obviously has accuracy issues, particularly when you get to tenths of miles or less, and b) my phone GPS, which works OK but it sucks to carry and my apps would always glitch halfway through a run. The Garmin solves all these problems and is at least consistent run over run. And I generally run 100+ miles per month, so I spend a lot of time with it and it's important to me that it's accurate.

My last Garmin from several years ago was like half an inch tall off my wrist lol. It was like a brick.

I think mine is pretty accurate. I don't have anything else to compare it to, but I'd say it's at least consistent with its readings over time.

I only used it for like the first month as I didn't want to wear my watch to bed every night. My takeaway was that it read a lot of downtime as sleeping that wasn't actually sleeping. I wake up at 4 a.m. or so all the time, for example, and just lay in bed scrolling my phone till 6 a.m. or so. But that time was tracked by the watch as REM/deep sleep, which was just inaccurate. The distance/GPS though is great, and that's my main use for running.

I have an old Garmin (can't remember the number, but it's the $200 model) and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. I use the steps and heart rate constantly, and it's great for viewing texts while driving just to see who they're from without getting my phone out. And as a runner obviously there are huge benefits to the GPS. Highly recommend pulling the trigger if you're thinking about getting one but haven't, as I was for literally years lol.

From the article:

"The aquarium’s 'Seafood Watch' program 'red-listed' Maine lobster last year, urging buyers to avoid the product for the fishery’s supposed role in the deaths of endangered North Atlantic Right Whales.

"The MLA says there is no evidence showing any right whale has been harmed or killed by entanglement in Maine lobstering gear in more than 18 years, and highlighted the preventative measures they’ve taken."

Probably only print a few hundred, if that. Most poetry printed today is from small presses anyway. If a major publisher prints poetry they're usually old classics in the public domain or really well-known poets like Sylvia Plath or the Beats, etc.

No, that's the number for major publishers

Yeah even bestselling poets only sell a few hundred copies of their books, if that.

I do, but I'm a poet and have an undergraduate degree in poetry. Most poetry bought is probably bought by other poets lol.

Bukowski might have been close, but he's not terribly female-friendly lol

Lol nice catch

I think it was a little bit of both

I've been 150 pages from the end of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy for like a month now and can't bring myself to finish.

> wrote more letters in his life than most people ever dream possible

Writing letters back then was essentially like writing online comments. I'd bet the average person writes way more "correspondence" today than in the 1920s if you count messages online and texts, etc.

Some letters are better than others. The final collection of Charles Bukowski's letters is fantastic.

I used to feel bad for not liking T.S. Eliot more but as I've gotten older I don't feel so bad any more. He's often impenetrable just for the sake of being impenetrable. I can't pronounce half the languages he adds to his work for no reason, and it's not pleasant having to check end notes five times in four lines.

I LOVE "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Preludes" and poems like "Journey of the Magi," but so much of his work is overtly complex for the sake of being complex. You shouldn't have to have as many pages explaining the work as you have pages of actual work.

My only exposure to this book was the mentions in the movie "High Fidelity." I keep meaning to check it out.

One of my favorite short stories of all time is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez.

> because obviously class sizes are limited

Most community college are cancelling classes these days due to low enrollment. They might seat 20, for example, and have 14 in one and only three in another. So they cancel the second section and just move those students into the first if they can. Other times they'll cancel classes altogether.

When I teach adjunct it's about $2,500 for a semester to teach a full load (at least nine students). For every student less than that you get a pay cut, so most adjuncts won't teach for less than a full load. My class this coming spring only has five students, but I said I'd teach it anyway and it's only like $1,400 for approximately 16 weeks of work.

Also, at this point it's not like he HAS to write anything. He could just retire and live his wealthy lifestyle in ease till he dies at this point. The only incentive to write is for himself.

> it's not difficult

Sure, it's easy! That's why there are millions of writers out there as successful as George R.R. Martin, right?

If a fraction of the fans who complain about Martin had been writing on their own these past eight years we'd have a lot more to read.

Eh, different writers have different processes. Seems like I've read interviews with Rowling where she's said she had the whole story in her head almost from the very start.

Because he went from creating something entirely new to now having to write a story that someone else already told to all his fans. As a writer I can tell you that gets tricky.

> The first movie came out before the fifth book did

To be fair though, by the time the fifth book came out she was probably well into the writing of the last one. It takes forever for publishers to go to print, usually more than a year after the book is finished.

It's gotta be hard to continue when the story was already "finished" by someone else.