![]() ![]() Until Nebraska, one got the sense that redemption was almost structural to the songs of Bruce Springsteen. Her death was the essential event that defined the emotional life of that entire house. It was just always right over the top of the television. There in the middle of the living room wall. “The one thing I have from that house is the picture of my aunt Virginia. When I asked him about the portrait of his aunt Virginia, he moved forward in his chair. This was the childhood to which Springsteen had returned as the songs for Nebraska spilled forth. Very problematic, and it caused me a lot of trouble. Which seems to a kid like a great thing, but it’s exactly what a kid doesn’t want. WZ: In your book you describe your childhood experience as something like “His Majesty, the Baby.” So she kind of ceded me to my grandparents for the first six years of my life. My mother was for some reason not big about motherhood at the time. Because I was the first child that came along after she died. A lot of trouble for me was caused by that right there. Springsteen: It was a lot of trouble for me. Did this mean trouble for the next generations? WZ: The way your grandparents lived out the loss of their daughter, your aunt, it was like they froze time. Springsteen: Yeah, I believe that’s true. WZ: I heard a term, “trans-generational haunting,” that suggests the trauma from one generation can pass not just to the next generation but even skip over to the generation after that. When Bruce pushed, there was nothing there to push against. It was a twisting of logic that likely seemed beneficent, if only to minds stuck in grief. In some misguided tribute to Virginia’s early and sudden death, Springsteen’s grandparents withheld discipline from their first grandchild, Bruce. Virginia, at age six and out riding her bicycle, was hit and killed by a truck as it pulled out of a gas station on Freehold’s McLean Street. In the living room was the portrait of his aunt Virginia, his father’s sister, an image Springsteen has described on a few occasions. Everything else was pretty much finished.” I lived there when there was only one functional room, the living room. That would have been my only sense that something wasn’t right with who we were and what we were doing. I just remember being embarrassed about it as a child. On the street you could see that it was deteriorating. It was visibly ramshackle, my grandparents’ house. “That was something that embarrassed me as a child. ![]() “I know the house was very dilapidated,” Springsteen told me. It was a period of his childhood that, in his telling, would come to the fore in Nebraska. They would stay there through 1956, but the years spent in that house would remain with Springsteen, a thing to untangle. In other words, product ranked #1 carries a lot more weight than product ranked #6 product ranked #6 carries slightly more weight than product ranked #8.Shortly after the birth of his sister Virginia in 1951, Springsteen’s family moved in with his paternal grandparents. Then the point value of every endorsement is adjusted by a geometric progression with common ratio slightly below 1. Being included in top 3 also carries bonus points. Being ranked #1 carries a lot more points. Currently we use ranking methodology 0.7.2: being included in the expert ranking scores points. Step 4: assign weights to expert endorsements and aggregate opinion.For variations of the same products our team needs to determine whether the products are the same or not (is iPhone 13 64GB and iPhone 13 128GB the same model or not?) Step 4: determine if experts are endorsing the same product.Our team has to manually exclude products that don't match product category. In their creative wisdom, experts often tend to include accessories or alternatives in their ranking. Since robots inevitably mess up, team manually checks the data. Robots try to import the rankings that experts independently publish. Robots determine most respectable sources on the Internet, then the team manually chooses the best ones. ![]()
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