So, when is that first flight to Mars?
...imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
-Douglas Adams
It hadn’t occurred to me previously, but… Perhaps the reason there’s so little support for colonization of other planets is that people think a higher power will save them from that catastrophic asteroid.
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Ever since using the late Jef Raskin’s The Humane Environment, I’ve been using the Windows Run menu, my “cb” (read/write clipboard) utility, and a few other scripts to do a sad, modal approximation of the THE command quasimode.
cb | less
cb | wc | less
cb | upper_case | cb
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Well, it looks like Enso is about to replace all that. It’s out, it’s $20, and I just ordered it straight away after watching the demo video. We’ll see soon whether I regret that decision.
Read more...The chain of events this morning:
- Realized I needed to get trash to curb.
- Went to move car so I could roll huge bin out of packed garage.
- Car fails to start, or in fact do anything.
- Recalled I was told by mechanic 2 months ago battery was failing and needed replacing.
- Hooked battery up to trickle charger.
- Heard garbage truck approaching.
- Realized dog had just escaped through door propped open by trickle charger extension cord, and is racing down street toward approaching garbage truck.
- Pulled Diana's car into drive, opened door, called dog.
- Closed car door with dog inside.
- Realized garbage truck is now one house away.
- Dashed down driveway with garbage bin.
- Ignored glaring garbage collector.
- Pushed empty garbage bin back to house.
- Siezed dog from car, pulled back to house.
- Drove Diana's car to work.
I am??
I’ve had a copy sitting on my shelf forever. Guess I really need to get around to reading it.
You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
by Mark Twain
With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black
and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less
it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a hard time
understanding you and an even harder time taking you seriously. Nevertheless, your
adventurous spirit is admirable. You really like straw hats.
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Maybe I’m falling for a ploy to generate links, but… At Dave and Buster’s on Monday night, omahanightlife.com had a couple people going through snapping photos. They asked to take ours (we were practically the only people in there, after all), and we obliged. (Though you can’t even tell I’m in the resulting photo…)
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