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Things That Are Always Slightly Outdated

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is a little store that arrives by mail until we have a shopping mall where our living room used to be.

Little stores that arrive by mail until we have a shopping mall where our living room used to be.

is the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

is to predict that an event will happen, if it does, by basing calculations on events that have already happened, if they did. (One may forecast and be right, wrong, or neither. It depends.)

To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again; to anticipate the future by guessing at the past; to predict that an event will happen, if it does, by basing calculations on events that have already happened, if they did. (One may forecast and be right, wrong, or neither. It depends.)

is to observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again

is to anticipate the future by guessing at the past.

is just a guess by someone who holds an academic degree.

The difference between a normal guess and a so-called forecast is that the latter requires an academic degree.

is sometimes useful, but the best one to go by on a vacation is your checkbook.

Of all the guidebooks, the best one to go by on a vacation is your checkbook.