July 2008
63 posts
Heading For The Exit Lane →
“We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless...”
– Philip Roth
“It gets late early out there.”
– Yogi Berra
June 2008
12 posts
“Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being...”
– Secret of the ‘lost’ Amazon tribe that wasn’t | World news | The Observer
“THE DEGREE OF EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR-POWER”
– Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter Nine
Irish monasticism
The Irish for monastery is “mainistir” but it was common to name monasteries in Ireland “deserts” (disert, dysert, dysart, disart, desert), since they wanted to emulate the desert fathers of Syria and, especially, Egypt.
There is much more to say on this topic.
“There have been numerous reports of strange sightings within the area of the...”
– Dyatlov Pass Accident entry on Wikipedia
“Hey, Europe, You Want to Get Barack Obama Elected? Then Shut Up.”
– New York Magazine
“It is not for the weak, the fainthearted, or the seriously pregnant.”
– The Sheeps Head Way - Stone Cairns
Making MS Word suck less →
Change Default for “Show Markup” Box Problem When Word opens up a document, the default setting for the “Show Markup Box” is “Final Showing Markup”, which means you always start in a view which shows you all of the tracked changes. We want the default to be “Final.” Solution Tools > Options > Security Tab > deselect “Make hidden markup...
“Their FAQ is titled “God hates FAQs”
– Some rapture thing via Bruce Schneier
Fast Food Capital of America?
I think that the Inland Empire, and especially San Bernardino, may be the fast food capital of America.
The first McDonald’s was in San Bernardino, as was the ancestor of Taco Bell, Bell’s Hamburgers. A friend of Bell’s, Neal Baker, founded Baker’s Drive-Thru, a local chain with three dozen restaurants. And there are many other similar small fast food chains in the area.
