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  1. A quotation from James Howell

    Words cutt more than swords.

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound

  2. A quotation from James Howell

    Do thou thy best, and leave to God the rest.

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 2nd Century (1659)

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/9711/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #aspire #divinefavor #divinejudgment #effort #endeavor #everyeffort #faith #giveall #God #grace #strive #struggle #try #tryhard #utmost

  3. A quotation from James Howell

    Do thou thy best, and leave to God the rest.

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 2nd Century (1659)

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/9711/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #aspire #divinefavor #divinejudgment #effort #endeavor #everyeffort #faith #giveall #God #grace #strive #struggle #try #tryhard #utmost

  4. A quotation from James Howell

    Look high and fall into a Cow-turd.

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83126/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #attention #broughtlow #caution #cautionarytale #daydream #fall #humiliation #payattention #presumption #watchfulness

  5. A quotation from James Howell

    Look high and fall into a Cow-turd.

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83126/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #attention #broughtlow #caution #cautionarytale #daydream #fall #humiliation #payattention #presumption #watchfulness

  6. CW: Esperanto nitpicking

    … and would thus seem to be quite opposed to #Finvenkismo (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finvenki), an ideological view not all Esperantists subscribe to, but one that is yet rather prevalent in the Esperanto community, so it's a bit unlikely a proverb "against" it would get the broad use one would expect from a "proverb".

    @jameshowell

  7. A quotation from James Howell

    A hungry man [is] an angry man.

    James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12061/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #anger #discontent #dissatisfaction #hunger #resentment #temper

  8. A quotation from James Howell

    A hungry man [is] an angry man.

    James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12061/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #anger #discontent #dissatisfaction #hunger #resentment #temper

  9. A quotation from James Howell

    Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

    James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία], or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings” (1659)

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #competition #conflict #cost #selfdefeating #selfdestruction

  10. A quotation from James Howell

    Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

    James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία], or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings” (1659)

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #competition #conflict #cost #selfdefeating #selfdestruction

  11. Thinking of publishing a paper about #Schemacs at ICFP/SPLASH 2025

    …except there is not much in the way of original research. But I have received a lot of positive feedback about my project from the Scheme and Emacs community. So let me ask the Scheme/Emacs fediverse: if you would be interested in using or contributing to a Scheme-based Emacs that is mostly backward-compatible with #GNUEmacs , what is it about this prospect that is most interesting to you?

    Personally, I live inside of Emacs and program most of my personal workflows in Emacs Lisp, though I feel that Scheme is a more interesting and fun language to use when compared to other #Lisp-family languages. So I would just like to be able to use Scheme as the language in which I program all of my personal workflows. Also I am curious if it is possible to write a large application in #R7RS Scheme such that it runs on many different Scheme implementations.

    So does anyone else agree, or are there other things about a prospective Scheme-based Emacs that interest you that might be worth mentioning to a the audience of the Scheme-related chapters of the ICFP?

    I was talking with William Byrd, who is one of the conference organizers of ICFP/SPLASH this year, and he says the committee could possibly accept anything of interest to the Scheme community, for example experience reports and “position papers” (helping others understand an opinion or philosophy on the topic). And they would judge these papers on different criteria than a paper about novel scientific research.

    Anyone feel free to comment, but I am going to ping a few people in particular who seem to have opinions on this, like @dougmerritt @jameshowell @david_megginson @tusharhero @arialdo @lispwitch @cwebber @dpk and also @PaniczGodek who published on GRASP at this conference last year, if I recall correctly.

    #tech #software #FOSS #FLOSS #SchemeLang #ProgrammingLanguage

  12. Well now this is strange. I could swear none of these books were in my suitcase at the beginning of this trip

    #vacation #usedbooks

  13. Dr. Howell says VISIT THIS BOOKSTORE

    The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah Georgia USA. You can trust me on this kind of thing: this is one of the best used bookstores in the world.

    thebookladybookstore.com/

    #savannah #bookstore #usedbooks

  14. Valentine's Day Blind Date With a Book at the Print Factory, Bellefonte, #Pennsylvania.

    I was born to do this. Always dreamed of having my own used #bookstore, but reluctant to lose a fortune on my own used bookstore.

    Instead I volunteer at this awesome #antiracist, #feminist, and #queer-inclusive organization that supports the artistic and intellectual life of the local community. Also #usedbooks

    printfactorybellefonte.org/

  15. I've given a lot of thought to this question all weekend. And I have decided that I will make one exception, I mean three exceptions, and embrace Kings from Queens

    #nokings #rundmc

  16. @leehall Funny to see a notification that you had followed me on here, only a couple hours after I read your piece in CounterPunch. Always inspired by the creative dredging of our suppressed and falsified history.

    Students laugh at me because I never quit banging on about how we are apes. I think it does sink in for some of them....

    counterpunch.org/2026/03/16/be

    #CounterPunch #primates #apes

  17. For all of her ghastly faults, Constance Garnett's translations of #Tolstoy include comically frequent repetition of the phrase "hateful and loathsome."

    That's it. That's the post. It's already in the public domain, but here I give it to you anyway:

    "Hateful and loathsome."

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanc

  18. Big #Tolstoy fan, just read "The Kreutzer Sonata," and ... blechhh

    Actually my Tolstoy fandom is now thirty-odd years old now, and may have exceeded its shelf-life.

    Could be midlife, could be the current world, could be mood.

    Or it could be that Tolstoy was (in) a super uptight pervert (phase when he wrote it)?

  19. I love #Sourcehut. Sad to see them under coordinated prolonged DDoS attack. Infuriating.

    Reminder to eat your vegetables, back up your data, and mirror your repos to #Codeberg and bare repos on your own cheap VPS somewhere

    But definitely not GitHub booooo BOOOOOO

    status.sr.ht/issues/2026-04-06

  20. POV: daddy slept in, daddy woke up, Stripey kitty was impatiently hungry

    #whatdayisit #feelslike #caturday

  21. POV: daddy slept in, daddy woke up, Stripey kitty was impatiently hungry

    #whatdayisit #feelslike #caturday

  22. POV: daddy slept in, daddy woke up, Stripey kitty was impatiently hungry

    #whatdayisit #feelslike #caturday

  23. POV: daddy slept in, daddy woke up, Stripey kitty was impatiently hungry

    #whatdayisit #feelslike #caturday

  24. POV: daddy slept in, daddy woke up, Stripey kitty was impatiently hungry

    #whatdayisit #feelslike #caturday

  25. Interviewer: About the cape.

    Steve Howe: Cake?

    Interviewer: "Cape."

    Chris Squire: Cor, he's asking about the capes.

    Steve Howe: Oh! "Cape!"

    [awkward silence]

    [another beat of awkward silence]

    Alan White: I never WORE a bloody cape

  26. @shom I used #freesoftware to slice up and merge PDFs from various textbooks to produce reading packets. (#TeXLive's #pdfjam, also recommend @pdfarranger).

    Took the trouble to get them approved by the copyright compliance police in University Libraries. Been distributing them with a clear conscience and a light heart for many years.

    I hope I have students who will remember me the way you remember that teacher of yours.

    github.com/pdfjam/pdfjam