Tremble before my mighty godlike intellect, puny humans…. Atlastatlastatlastatlastatlast … After a week and a half of anxiety-producing study, cramming, and practice tests, I took the GRE General test this morning and received the above preliminary verbal and quantitative scores. (The final scores arrive in a few weeks.) My brain is still throbbing from the …
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Rules for Computer Use
Mike Shea’s latest essay in another in the trend of many of us who are sticking our heads up out of our neatly organized gopher holes to ask, “What was the point again?” I prefer Copernic Desktop myself, but I really liked his very simple rules for computer use. I especially liked this one: Don’t …
Stephen Colbert Commencement Address
Stephen Colbert’s 2006 Commencement Address at Knox CollegeIn addition to very good advice I learned in my improv class earlier this year, he adds this: I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I …
Links 2006-05-30
Core Dump“At first glance, technical writing and Disney don’t seem to have much of a connection, but their rides are complex machines, and they do need manuals. Here’s the Standard Operating Procedures for Pirates of the Caribbean from 1975. The page has links to scanned images of the manual.” Four Types in ZhurnalWiki“Someone once told …
In Our TIme – Faeries
From Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time newsletter on the Mythology of Faeries: Two of the things we missed out this morning might be of interest to you. The first is related from the 13th century chronicle of Gerald of Wales. Gerald of Wales was travelling around Wales preaching the Crusades, and while he did so …
Links 2006-05-27
Tricks of the Trade: Dishwasher Microsoft W3rd. Gangsta version of Microsoft Word Spelling poems.“Poems showing the absurdities of English spelling.” One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers
Preach it, sister
First Draft – If You Are Looking For A Way To Be Against Gay Marriage: “Because while I love freedom and equality and the rule of law, you know what else I love? Pissing off the sanctimonious. That’s the ice cream sundae of my world.” [via flutterby, from whom I also stole the title of …
Don’t believe in God? To hell with ye
Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their …
‘Shorthand’ tips for handwritten notes – 43 Folders Board
A fantastic collection of shorthand codes for handwritten notes. Although my primary notetaking style is NoteScript, I’m using a lot of tips from this thread as well.
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