[HN Gopher] A Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird ___________________________________________________________________ A Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird Author : Tomte Score : 17 points Date : 2022-05-31 15:19 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.theverge.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com) | megiddo wrote: | Which bird was it? I can't give enough fucks to wade through 6000 | words for the name of a bird. | smegsicle wrote: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwing | | apparently common in europe, but rare since it was in maine | ASalazarMX wrote: | Ah, I completely understand you, too high of a noise:info | ratio. It was a redwing. | | There's many paragraphs like these that bring nothing. I | couldn't care less of what brand of car he drove or how early | he was used to get up in the morning. | | > Three days later, Hitchcox woke up at 3AM. He picked up Louis | Bevier in his Prius, and they drove up Route 1A toward the | coast, admiring the ascending sun peeking over Acadia National | Park. Bevier observed a thin crescent moon, rising as well, as | they made their way to Steuben". | | Chris greeted the duo at his house at 7AM, pleasant and | slightly begrudging that it was the earliest he'd woken up | during the pandemic. Despite his high spirits, he was nervous | about bothering the locals. So they treaded lightly, so as to | not upset Chris' neighbors before he'd even met them. "We were | three dudes walking around where there's not usually three | dudes walking around," Chris says. | cecilpl2 wrote: | "I don't want to read the whole thing, can someone just tell me | whether Ahab catches the whale or not?" | codeulike wrote: | Thats different though. There are so many pieces of | journalism that start "It was a cloudy April day when Someone | McSomeoneface finished their coffee and walked outside and | had no idea that later that day they would take the first | steps towards revolutionising sock manufacture" and you just | know from the first sentence that its just going to take | fucking ages to tell you anything | cecilpl2 wrote: | That's my point. Those stories are specifically about the | journey not the destination. You don't read long-form | articles to ingest information, you read them for the | flowery prose and turns of phrase and evocative mental | imagery. | herpderperator wrote: | Very cool art and parallax animations between the sections. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-01 23:01 UTC)