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One may live and learn, and be hang’d and forget all.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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Little difference twixt a feast and a belly-ful.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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@jameshowell When I started this, I wasn't quite sure anyone else would ever be interested in something so niche ... Anyway, I made the repo visible, in case others want to poke around in the repo.
https://codeberg.org/schue/org-canvas
It is quite astonishing, how the power of babel and the Org-mode export engine just translate to Canvas pages. I really hope I can make some strides to map Org to Canvas to include modules, assignments and quizzes, etc. in a logical way.
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Ha! I'll be riding my bike past there in July! #ragbrai
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Ha! I'll be riding my bike past there in July! #ragbrai
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Ha! I'll be riding my bike past there in July! #ragbrai
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Ha! I'll be riding my bike past there in July! #ragbrai
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Ha! I'll be riding my bike past there in July! #ragbrai
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If the Sky fall we shall have Larks.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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When Adam delv’d and Eve span,
Who was then a Gentleman?James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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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)
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Too much money makes one madd.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/115028024955832856
Pro tip: put in a little time, every six or twelve months, for curating your email filters. The return on #ADHD investment is wildly disproportionate to the effort.
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@jameshowell @bbatsov
Why can't we have good (better) defaults?
Cc: @cwebber
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He that gropes in the dark, finds that which he would not.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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@jameshowell Thank you! It was weird thinking back to that. Do you remember the XFree86 server that was built to run in low memory situations? Was it called Xtiny or something? #xwindows #xfree86
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/115028024955832856
First week of classes, highest volume of email biannually, no big deal, thanks to #emacs and #mu4e
Don't hate me because I am efficient
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Necessity never made good bargain.
James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 3rd Century (1659)More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/16348/
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@jameshowell @blogdiva @ramsey @SrRochardBunson @sabogato
Once you grok that our modern culture, society, and values are a collection of semi-arid Mediterranean desert myths, #EverythingIsARemix starts to make sense.
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@jameshowell @ericsfraga @mstempl @sacha
I used to know #LaTeX quite well, and used #AucTeX in #emacs to write my LaTeX. I've realized that since I started using #OrgMode to write documents, my needed knowledge of LaTeX has dropped about 90%!
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@jameshowell @blogdiva @ramsey @SrRochardBunson @sabogato
Millenarian eschatologists gonna #ImmanentizeTheEschaton
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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/
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