RLC: Don’t Use These Expressions In My Vicinity Or I Won’t Be Responsible

RLC: Don’t Use These Expressions In My Vicinity Or I Won’t Be Responsible: "5. Luminous or astonishing as descriptions of same. These two have been hobbyhorses of mine for twenty years -- which shows how lame the critics are who still use them. I was delighted to see Joe Queenan strike them down in the NYT a couple of months ago."

gist: 41337 — GitHub

gist: 41337 — GitHub: "lsv() - a variable listing utility for python"

Make Your Own Calvin Mask! | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow

Make Your Own Calvin Mask! | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow: "I didn’t realize until today that the Calvin cut-out mask was also available on the web so that everybody can make their own Unintentionally Terrifying Calvin mask to celebrate John Calvin’s upcoming 500th birthday (July 10, 2009)."

Southern Comfort: Why chili con carne is almost a religion in some parts of the world | Mail Online

Southern Comfort: Why chili con carne is almost a religion in some parts of the world | Mail Online: "There are as many theories as to the dish’s origins as there are variations of ingredients. The only certainty is that chilli con carne is not Mexican. Sure, there are lots of similar beef and chilli stews, birria for example – but this is a North American dish."

Washington Times - STAYING TOGETHER: Resist the urge to trash husbands

Washington Times - STAYING TOGETHER: Resist the urge to trash husbands: "I honestly don't think women spend much time thinking about how they treat their husbands.

Women don't seem to realize that the more you complain about your husband, the more fuel it adds to the fire. In other words, it doesn't make you want to go home and be more loving toward your husband"

What If New York Goes Bust? - The Daily Beast

What If New York Goes Bust? - The Daily Beast: "The Alice in Wonderland absurdity of the current budget debates was nicely illustrated by the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. She was quoted without irony in The New York Times saying, 'We understand there will be cuts. The real question, will there be cuts, not just cuts against growth, but real cuts that will turn back the clock.'"

A Reporter at Large: Atomic John: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

A Reporter at Large: Atomic John: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "In the decades since the Second World War, dozens of historians have attempted to divine the precise mechanics of the Hiroshima bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, and of the bomb that fell three days later on Nagasaki, known as Fat Man. The most prominent is Richard Rhodes, who won a Pulitzer Prize, in 1988, for his dazzling and meticulous book “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” But the most accurate account of the bomb’s inner workings—an unnervingly detailed reconstruction, based on old photographs and documents—has been written by a sixty-one-year-old truck driver from Waukesha, Wisconsin, named John Coster-Mullen, who was once a commercial photographer, and has never received a college degree."

XHeli.com

XHeli.com - #1 Lowest Prices for RC Helicopters: "Welcome to XHeli.com, the internet's #1 online shop specializing in all kinds of radio controlled helicopters for both beginners and experienced hobbyists with the best price and best possible service online. We carry the most plug-n-play ready-to-fly (RTF) radio controlled RC helicopters in the United States."

The Quivering Upper Lip by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2008

The Quivering Upper Lip by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2008: "What, exactly, were the qualities that my mother had so admired? Above all, there was the people’s manner. The British seemed to her self-contained, self-controlled, law-abiding yet tolerant of others no matter how eccentric, and with a deeply ironic view of life that encouraged them to laugh at themselves and to appreciate their own unimportance in the scheme of things. If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the self-confident took care not to humiliate the shy or timid; and even the most accomplished was aware that his achievements were a drop in the ocean of possibility, and might have been much greater if he had tried harder or been more talented."

Recipe - Egg Nog

Recipe - Eggnog
* 4 (6) eggs
* 1/3 cup (1 cup) plus 1 tsp (1 Tbsp) sugar
* 1 tsp vanilla
* 1 tsp ground nutmeg
* 3 oz bourbon or brandy (3/4 cup brandy + 1/3 cup dark rum)
* 1 cup (2 cups) whipping cream
* 2 cups milk

Separate eggs. Beat yolks 2-3 min until light. Add sugar and beat until creamy. Stir in everything but egg whites. Beat egg whites to soft peaks, add sugar, beat to stiff peaks. Stir in egg whites. Bourbon can be reserved. For bodacious rich eggnog, use measures in parentheses.

Literature and Latte - Scrivener

Literature and Latte - Scrivener: "Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application."

ENANITOS VERDES - TAN SOLO UN INSTANTE LYRICS on SongLyrics.com

ENANITOS VERDES - TAN SOLO UN INSTANTE LYRICS on SongLyrics.com: "Enanitos Verdes
Miscellaneous
Tan Solo Un Instante
Pensaba en los buenos momentos que tuve junto a ti
y cada ma�ana despierto, pero t�no est�s aqu�.

Quisiera saber si al menos, t�me extra�as as�.
Parece que la nostalgia se ha apoderado de m�.

Me dicen que s�lo de ti yo recuerdo lo bueno, lo bueno.
Pero francamente no creo que haya algo mal en t�.

Por qu�cometemos errores? ser�que nos gusta sufrir?
Ser�que nos gusta arriesgarnos y en el riesgo ser feliz.

[ Enanitos Verdes Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
Pudimos hacer tantas cosas... hasta el mundo cambiar
pero no pudimos siquiera cambiar nuestra historia personal.

Me dicen que s�lo de ti yo recuerdo lo bueno, lo bueno.
Pero francamente no creo que haya algo mal en ti.

Quisiera volver en el tiempo tan s�lo un instante y mirarte
Quisiera volver en el tiempo, el tiempo en que fui feliz.

Me dicen que s�lo de ti yo recuerdo lo bueno, lo bueno.
Pero francamente no creo que haya algo mal en ti.

Quisiera volver en el tiempo tan s�lo un instante y mirarte
Quisiera volver en el tiempo, el tiempo en que fui feliz."

Peppino D'Agostino's Minestrone Music Page

Peppino D'Agostino's Minestrone Music Page: "Peppino's guitar techniques cover a variety of styles--contemporary acoustic, classical, open tunings, and percussive techniques. In performance, you are just as likely to see him playing an egg shaker or a maraca with his right hand and getting notes from his guitar with various left handed tricks he's developed over the years. Peppino says, 'With solo guitar, in my opinion, you really can express all that a guitar can express: bass line, midrange--you're a mini orchestra.' When asked to give his music an appropriate label he had this to say: 'Ten years ago, it was called 'New Age'. Ten years from now, who knows? Maybe 'Minestrone Music'.'"

YouTube - Penn Says: A Gift of a Bible

YouTube - Penn Says: A Gift of a Bible: "A guest to the live Penn & Teller show gives a surprisingly wonderful gift to Penn."

� Blog Archive � Building a “boon companion.”

� Blog Archive � Building a “boon companion.”: "While I’m fascinated with the idea of having a chair like Gould’s, I’m not an idiot. $1557 is a massive chunk of change for a simple chair."

Woot : Savage Sounds of the Woot Podcast!

Woot : Savage Sounds of the Woot Podcast!: "Super Bowl, schmuper bowl—we spent most of the weekend combing through our archives looking for forgotten treasures. It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t rewarding, and it wasn’t even very much fun.

But from literally hundreds of recordings, finally we selected a few that might stand up to a second listen.

So, just as we promised last week, here’s a plumber’s dozen of the least-terrible Woot podcasts for your listening pleasure. We’ve also provided album cover art below, in case your fancy newfangled mp3 player supports it."

Disney Celebration

TECH ENTERPRISES INC.: TECH STAIN REMOVER�, FINAL ANSWER� CARPET CLEANER, JEWELER'S SECRET� AND SCOOPICK™

TECH ENTERPRISES INC.: TECH STAIN REMOVER, FINAL ANSWER CARPET CLEANER, JEWELER'S SECRET AND SCOOPICK™: "TECH Enterprises, Inc. has been making the best household cleaners for over 30 years. All TECH products are manufactured to the highest quality standards. Not only do our products do the job but they do the job safely, even around children and pets! Can your stain remover or carpet cleaner do that?

Ask yourself, do I really need to keep all those toxic chemicals around my children and in my house? The answer is NO!! Now - 'IT'S TIME FOR TECH.'"

Eli Bendersky’s website � Blog Archive � Writing a game in Python with Pygame. Part I

Eli Bendersky’s website � Blog Archive � Writing a game in Python with Pygame. Part I: "There are quite a lot of Pygame tutorials on the web, but most of them are basic. Even the Pygame book stays at an introductory level. In order to proceed to a higher level of mastery, I’ve decided to write a tutorial of my own, hoping that it will provide the next logical step for persons wanting to use Pygame."

Nice Translator - The fast, easy to use online translator

Nice Translator - The fast, easy to use online translator: "NiceTranslator is a fast, easy to use online translator designed with simplicity and functionality in mind."

Python Master Classes-In Downtown Chicago

Python Master Classes-In Downtown Chicago: "The future is parallel. This one-of-kind workshop, designed for more experienced Python programmers, provides an in-depth examination of concurrent programming idioms and standard library modules. The aim of this workshop is to go far beyond the information found in the manual and to gain a deeper understanding of how different approaches work, their performance characteristics, limitations, and types of real-world problems for which they are suited."

Ian Bicking: a blog :: lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library

Ian Bicking: a blog :: lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library: "One you have lxml installed, you have a great parser (which happens to be super-fast and that is not a tradeoff). You get a fairly familiar API based on ElementTree, which though a little strange feeling at first, offers a compact and canonical representation of a document tree, compared to more traditional representations."

Daily Routines

Daily Routines: "How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days."

50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 | Noupe

50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 | Noupe: "Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008."

United States Patent: 7463264

United States Patent: 7463264:
"Method and system for distributed serverless file management

A method for serverless data management includes receiving an asset identifier in a first system, receiving data associated with the asset identifier in the first system, determining a resource in a storage network for storage of the asset data, in response to a path algorithm and the asset identifier, wherein the determination is made substantially free of interaction with the storage network, storing the asset data on the resource, creating a link between the asset identifier and the resource in the first system, receiving the asset identifier in a second system, determining the storage resource where the asset data is stored, in response to the path algorithm and the asset identifier, wherein the determination is made substantially free of interaction with the storage network and the first system, and creating a link between the asset identifier and the resource in the second computer system."

ChristmasCarolMusic.org - free Christmas carol sheet music - Coventry Carol

ChristmasCarolMusic.org - free Christmas carol sheet music - Coventry Carol: "SATB voices"

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 New York Times Crossword Puzzle

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 New York Times Crossword Puzzle: "Author: Rob Cook / Will Shortz"

XWord Info — All about the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

XWord Info — All about the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: "XWord Info contains data about NYT puzzles dating back to November, 1993, covering the entire time that Will Shortz has been Puzzle Editor. The links below will be of most interest to constructors and serious solvers but occasional dabblers will be entertained too. Explore around and you'll no doubt see crosswords in a whole new light."

Wal-Mart Way in Disaster Preparedness/Response: Policy Implications

Wal-Mart Way in Disaster Preparedness/Response: Policy Implications: "Is centrally directed emergency response and recovery from a natural disaster the only viable option anymore? This belief “seems to be faulty,” judging from the poor response from the federal government and the comparatively effective response from private retailers after Hurricane Katrina, argues economist Steven Horwitz, Ph.D. “Big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart were extraordinarily successful in providing help to damaged communities in the days, weeks, and months after the storm,” he declared."

r4ph431: Bacon and Cheese Roll

r4ph431: Bacon and Cheese Roll: "Bacon and Cheese Roll"

In Defense of Teasing - NYTimes.com

In Defense of Teasing - NYTimes.com: "Very often, though, we do not want our words to be taken too literally. When we speak in ways that risk offense, for example when we criticize a friend, we may add intentional vagueness or unnecessary circumlocutions. Say a friend proves to be too confrontational at a dinner party. To encourage greater civility, we might resort to indirect hints (“Say, did you read the latest by the Dalai Lama?”) or metaphor (“I guess sometimes you just need to blow off some steam”). These linguistic acts establish a new channel of communication — off-record communication — signaling that what is being said has an alternate meaning."

Apple Computer: The (Very) Early Years - Computer Shopper

Apple Computer: The (Very) Early Years - Computer Shopper: "Stan Veit, Editor in Chief Emeritus of Computer Shopper, was the Editor in Chief of Computer Shopper magazine from 1983 to 1988, and Editor in Chief/Publisher from 1988 to 1990. Well before that, he was intimately connected to the personal computer revolution, a pioneer in the computer retail business who dealt with many of the industry's movers and shakers (as well as many now-forgotten luminaries). Here, in the first in a series, he relates his experiences with two Steves, founders of a certain well-known computer behemoth..."

Our Vision for Generation 4 Modular Data Centers - One way of Getting it just right . . . � LooseBolts

Our Vision for Generation 4 Modular Data Centers - One way of Getting it just right . . . - LooseBolts: "Our “Gen 4” modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in our Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility. So what do we mean by modular? Think of it like “building blocks”, where the data center will be composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers."

Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper

Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper: "Philosophical writing is different from the writing you'll be asked to do in other courses. Most of the strategies described below will also serve you well when writing for other courses, but don't automatically assume that they all will. Nor should you assume that every writing guideline you've been given by other teachers is important when you're writing a philosophy paper. Some of those guidelines are routinely violated in good philosophical prose (e.g., see the guidelines on grammar, below)."

Internet Archive: Details: Hygiene for the worker

Internet Archive: Details: Hygiene for the worker:

"Hygiene for the worker ([c1912])
Author: Tolman, William Howe, 1861-; Guthrie, Adelaide Wood
Subject: Hygiene; Occupations -- Diseases and hygiene
Publisher: New York, American book company"

Play Auditorium

Play Auditorium: "Auditorium is about the process of discovery and play. There are no right or wrong answers; there are many ways to solve every puzzle. To get started, fill up the first audio level. We hope you enjoy the demo of Auditorium."

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / The Film-makers of Mars by Geoff Ryman

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / The Film-makers of Mars by Geoff Ryman: "Eight reels of a film about Santa Claus from 1909. Filmed in Lapland. And forty reels of a film it says was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1911?"

Oracle JOB cheatsheet

begin
dbms_scheduler.create_job(
job_name => 'DEMO_JOB_SCHEDULE'
,job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
,job_action => 'begin insert into jobtest(ztime) values(systimestamp); end; '
,start_date => trunc(sysdate, 'CC')
,repeat_interval => 'FREQ=MINUTELY'
,enabled => TRUE
,comments => 'Demo for job schedule.');
end;

begin
DBMS_SCHEDULER.DROP_JOB('DEMO_JOB_SCHEDULE');
end;

-- show all jobs

select *
from dba_scheduler_jobs
where owner='MHTEST';


-- job history

select log_date
, job_name
, status
from dba_scheduler_job_log
where owner='MHTEST';

-- running jobs

select job_name
, session_id
, running_instance
, elapsed_time
, cpu_used
from dba_scheduler_running_jobs

Skytopia: World's most unanswered music questions

Skytopia: World's most unanswered music questions: "Over time, I have gathered together many questions about the fundamental nature of music, and decided to create and maintain this page to bring light to them. Answers to some of them may already exist in books and papers, although I suspect that most of them have yet to be answered properly. In fact some of the questions may not have been asked at all!"

The Shakespeare Chronicles

The Shakespeare Chronicles: "When spineless literature professor Stanley Quandary starts having peculiar dreams, his life turns in a bold new direction. The dreams harbor an academic discovery that will rock Western civilization: the truth about who wrote Shakespeare. Duke University law professor James Boyle portrays the centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate in all its wacky complexity in his debut work of fiction, The Shakespeare Chronicles"