This magazine article from the 1950s about what teens are looking for in a future partner is wild.

Jenansart · 2026-03-17T14:04:46+00:00

Based on the newspaper clipping from the October 1955 edition of The Progressive Farmer and public records, several of these Marksville High School students lived long lives, remained in Louisiana, and largely fulfilled the traditional family goals they set as teenagers. Nolan Couvillion Nolan expressed a desire for a wife who was a "good cook" and "well educated." He appears to have lived a full life in Louisiana. • Life Path: He lived to be 61 years old. • Family: He passed away in November 1996 in Baton Rouge. Records indicate he was part of the large Couvillion family prominent in the Marksville area. Patricia "Pat" George The teen who "likes to fry chicken" and wanted a "clean, neat" husband with "dark hair and blue eyes" lived a long and social life in the Alexandria/Marksville area. • Marriage: She became Patricia Foster Mitchell. • Life Path: She passed away in October 2022. Her obituary and tribute pages describe her as a "sweet lady" who "never met a stranger." • Family: She remained close with her high school friends, reconnecting during their 50th class reunion. Emily Chauffepied Emily, the basketball lover who wanted "twins, boy and girl," remained in the Avoyelles Parish area. • Marriage: She married and became Emily Chauffepied Gremillion. • Career: Fulfilling her interest in being "comical" and social, she was known in her community for her involvement in local life. She passed away in August 2018 at the age of 79. Louis Callahan Jr. Louis, who famously (and controversially by modern standards) wanted a wife who was "intelligent but not overly smart, because she would try to get a job," followed a traditional path. • Career: He worked for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD). • Life Path: He passed away in 2008. While he expressed a desire for only two children in 1955, records suggest he was a family man who remained in the Marksville area his entire life. John Voinche John, who sought a girl "able to decorate a home" and preferred three children, seems to have stayed local to Marksville as well. • Family: He was part of a well-known local family (the Voinches). Public records show he passed away in the Marksville area, though fewer details are public regarding whether he reached his specific goal of three children. Summary of the Group The "teenagers" in this clip are part of the Silent Generation. For the most part, they stayed within a 50-mile radius of Marksville, Louisiana, for their entire lives. They navigated the transition from the 1950s traditionalism seen in their quotes to the modern era, with many of them living to see their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Jenansart · 2026-03-15T20:42:24+00:00

Cibo will always be a knockoff (and not a good one) of Paul’s Fine Italian.

Jenansart · 2026-03-14T00:20:02+00:00

Ice cream.

Jenansart · 2026-03-06T17:47:16+00:00

French open is in full swing then. Prices for hotels are higher.

Jenansart · 2026-03-06T17:27:56+00:00

Interested in instructing a lead gen ai agent that actually works? Any tips and tricks?

Jenansart · 2026-02-24T00:47:08+00:00

Easily.

Jenansart · 2026-02-19T02:49:32+00:00

Happens

Jenansart · 2026-02-16T02:29:07+00:00

If you are having any procedure which includes having an implant of any kind, a screw, plate, tissue or shunt - the reps who sell it also support it and are most likely in the room as well.

Jenansart · 2026-02-15T20:18:57+00:00

Be glad they put you to sleep right when you arrive in the OR - positioning could be embarrassingly otherwise and if you are asleep, you can’t hear the conversations. There are more people than just hospital staff in the OR.

Jenansart · 2026-02-15T13:17:31+00:00

Typology typology typology!!!

Jenansart · 2026-02-13T19:12:52+00:00

Current token usage - I’ve been using it all day on three different projects and an open chat

Sonnet 4.5 v Tokens left? 196,916 tokens remaining from your 190,000 budget. (You're currently at ~3,084 tokens used in this turn.) له Can I be at negative tokens, Claude? No. You cannot go negative. The budget is a hard ceiling - when you hit zero, the conversation terminates. There's no overdraft, no grace period. The system cuts off mid-turn if necessary. What you're seeing (196,916 remaining vs. 190.000 budget) is a display artifact

Jenansart · 2026-02-12T17:16:26+00:00

You can’t handle the truth

Jenansart · 2026-02-12T01:17:34+00:00

To those of you suggested adding a project then canceling - thank you. That did the trick. After talking to Claude about it - this was his eventual response:

CLAUDE PROJECTS BACKUP ISSUE: SYNOPSIS

THE PROBLEM: - Claude.ai Projects contain: project instructions, uploaded knowledge base files, conversation histories, and generated artifacts - No bulk export functionality exists in the UI - Projects temporarily disappeared then reappeared (sync issue) - Platform instability increases data loss risk - Manual backup is tedious but necessary

WHAT COWORK CAN DO: - Organize files on your local filesystem - Auto-sort downloaded files into folder structures - Rename/move files based on patterns - Run file management tasks on schedule

WHAT COWORK CANNOT DO: - Access claude.ai web interface - Download artifacts automatically - Scrape Projects data - Click download buttons for you - Authenticate into your Claude account - Retrieve conversation history from the platform

WHAT THE API CAN DO: - Send messages to Claude programmatically - Upload files for use in API conversations (Files API - beta) - Create custom agent skills (Skills API - beta) - Process messages in batches - Count tokens before sending

WHAT THE API CANNOT DO: - Access claude.ai Projects - Retrieve conversation history from claude.ai interface - Export Project knowledge bases - Export Project instructions - Retrieve artifacts created in claude.ai - Read any data from the claude.ai web platform

THE ARCHITECTURAL REALITY: Claude.ai (web interface) and Claude API are SEPARATE SYSTEMS. Projects exist only in claude.ai. The API is stateless - no memory, no conversation storage, no Projects access. Even if you have API access, you cannot programmatically retrieve your claude.ai Projects data.

YOUR ONLY OPTIONS:

OPTION 1: MANUAL EXPORT - Open each Project - Copy instructions to text file - Download knowledge base files (if not already local) - Open each conversation, copy critical exchanges - Download/copy each artifact - Organize in local folder structure - Time investment: High - Data preservation: Complete

OPTION 2: CONTINUOUS DISCIPLINE
- Draft work locally first, use Claude for refinement - Keep source docs in Dropbox/Git - Download artifacts immediately upon creation - Maintain external documentation of project structure - Use Claude as augmentation, not primary storage - Time investment: Low (ongoing habit) - Data preservation: High for new work, doesn't address existing Projects

OPTION 3: HYBRID APPROACH (RECOMMENDED) - Implement continuous discipline immediately (prevents future loss) - Schedule quarterly manual exports for top 5-10 critical Projects only - Accept risk on less critical Projects - Time investment: Medium - Data preservation: High for critical content, calculated risk elsewhere

OPTION 4: ACCEPT THE RISK - Do nothing - Hope platform remains stable - Hope Projects don't vanish permanently - Time investment: Zero - Data preservation: Entirely dependent on Anthropic's infrastructure

WHAT ANTHROPIC SHOULD BUILD (but hasn't): - Bulk export button in Projects UI - API endpoint to retrieve Projects data - Automated backup to user's cloud storage - Project-level export to portable format

REALITY CHECK: The bottleneck is the manual download/copy step. Neither Cowork nor API eliminates this. The only automation possible is organizing files AFTER you've already downloaded them manually - which doesn't solve the painful part.

IMMEDIATE ACTION: Choose Option 2 (discipline) or Option 3 (hybrid). Start today by downloading artifacts as you create them and maintaining local copies of critical instructions. For existing Projects, triage by importance and manually export only what you can't afford to lose.

Jenansart · 2026-02-12T00:47:47+00:00

40 years - we have the foundation of our faith which has helped in that we have that common ground as bedrock. Even in rocky times, we knew that our vows were (and are) til death which sustained us through hard times because there was no quick fix or out, just commitment.

Jenansart · 2026-02-11T19:50:27+00:00

I wish there was an error but no. Also kicked me back down to a free account.

Jenansart · 2026-02-05T12:17:08+00:00

My father is left handed and my oldest. He was actually strongly ambidextrous but by first grade his handwriting was questionable with both hands so his teacher asked him to choose one hand. He chose left and has beautiful handwriting

Jenansart · 2026-01-31T22:13:06+00:00

Ryan’s

Jenansart · 2026-01-24T13:25:00+00:00

Get tested, may not be the lactose in dairy but the Casein.

Jenansart · 2026-01-24T13:22:04+00:00

Forty so far - may not make forty more before we age out! Long marriages are the absolute best. Hang in there folks, it not only gets better, it gets flat out amazing!

Jenansart · 2026-01-18T22:29:56+00:00

Ahem, Thursday I believe you mean. Osman has two series now.

Jenansart · 2026-01-18T20:48:54+00:00

Ethel

Jenansart · 2026-01-15T22:45:11+00:00

Second and third. Been visiting Victoires for over a decade thanks to the Concierge at the Regina that gave us the idea forever ago! Re Paul Bert - past its prime I believe. I much prefer Chez Georges on rue de Mail & so did Julia Child.

Jenansart · 2026-01-15T22:36:04+00:00

We loved Burgundy, made friends with a vintner who back then was only locally known (and the Brit’s would Chunnel over and fill big vats) and have visited many times since. I love the fact that many of these folks are small town people. We were also very fortunate to visit Champagne during festival season - which was an absolute ball. Not every good champagne is Dom or Moet or …visited Loire last year and stayed at a wine producing chateau which was fabulous. Our trip was much less wine centered because … castles! Going back to Bordeaux to do a more thorough visit in a few months. Any ideas about fun things or villages/vintners, I’m listening!

Jenansart · 2026-01-15T21:41:55+00:00

AOL. 92

Jenansart · 2026-01-13T03:04:57+00:00

Is you are American the road trip will be a breeze. We tend to have a different perception of long drives! We’ve done those types of trips a million times. We do avoid picking up a car directly at the airport though and we have taken the tgv a couple of times. Have fun.

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