My wife makes
AWESOME
lemon curd.
Just wanted to share that with you.
Obfuscation is Easy
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I Contain Multitudes | Futility Closet
OPERAS is the plural of OPERA, which is the plural of OPUS.
...Which is the plural of 'Opu' - a small furry rodent from the hill-country surrounding Kiruna in Sweden.
Be Real For A Reason | Crave Something More
If you are vulnerable, you are respected. If you are transparent, you are admired. In fact, the surest way to encounter closed ears and closed hearts today is to always talk rather than listen; specifically to always talk about someone else.
Freaked out hedgehog / windshield washer nozzle
Yesterday’s frost made my windshield washer nozzle look like a freaked out hedgehog.
I feel another episode of Wallace and Gromit coming on!
Attack of the bunnies
It was like someone had taken a normal guestbook comment, and then decided to take it to the punctuation fairy, who proceeded to sneeze all over it.
Tip: ^ and ! in the shell « Richard WM Jones
So don’t people know about using
^and!in the shell?!? Last week I watched an experienced Linux user carefully hit the ↑ cursor key to get a previous line of history, then ←&→ just to make a simple edit!Here’s my 30 second guide:
!!Repeat the previous command. Example: $ ls bin d Desktop rpmbuild tmp $ !! ls bin d Desktop rpmbuild tmp!-2(etc)Repeat the command 2 previously (so !! = !-1), or for any number previously. This is the most useful I think. ^foo^barReplace foo with bar in the previous command. eg: $ ls -l /etx/httpd/conf.d/local.conf ls: cannot access /etx/httpd/conf.d/local.conf: No such file or directory $ ^etx^etc ls -l /etc/httpd/conf.d/local.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 2009-07-16 14:59 /etc/httpd/conf.d/local.conf!fooRun the most recent command that started foo, eg: $ !ls ls -l /etc/httpd/conf.d/local.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 2009-07-16 14:59 /etc/httpd/conf.d/local.confToday I discovered that these are called event designators.
Nice
How Do You Know When You Have a Bureaucracy? - 22 Words
Whenever people begin to ask, “Does it fit our rules,” rather than, “Does it serve our mission,” then you have a bureaucracy.
Ask Pastor John - Live! Wow - three hours of Q&A with John Piper
This is awesome - John Piper spends three hours answering questions sent in via Twitter. If you've read or heard some of Piper's work, there's some familiar ground here, but lots of new and interesting insights too. If you've not heard him before, then you're going to end up with more questions than you started with - but they're going to be important and worthwhile questions. Here's part 1, part 2 and part 3. Lots more useful resources at Desiring God.
Worst Finder Ever - Scott Adams
But the biggest reason for my seek-and-find failures can be attributed to Transdimensional Materialization Phenomena (TMP). This involves items not being where they belong when I look for them, but tunneling through a wormhole and materializing right where they belong when my wife looks in the same place two minutes later. Apparently this phenomenon is triggered by just the right coupling of exasperation and sarcasm.
via dilbert.com
In our house, we have Object Uncertainty Imperative (OUI). This involves knowing only the historical location of an item, but never its current location. As soon as an item is found, it must surreptitiously crawl to a new hiding place. Most Hidden Possessions of mine are crafty, and know that unrelated paraphernalia makes great camouflage.
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