fighting the lack of good ideas
Any time someone who does not understand the practical outworkings of a given topic tries to “teach” it, you end up with a “presentation” – mostly in the form of propositional statements (dogs are mammals; barges are boats), or key-value pairs (in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue; Caracas is the capital of Venezuela). Propositional…
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A few years ago I reposted 35 questions from Inc magazine in 5 parts. Today I ran across another list of great questions to ask yourself via Chris Williamson:
What we have now is a completely neurotic population obsessed with security and safety and crime and drugs and cleanliness and hygiene and germs… there’s another thing… germs. Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections –…
Thanks, Archive.org! God Rest Ye Copland Programmers (to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”) God rest ye Copland programmers, It’s finally Christmas Day. You’ve all worked 20-hour shifts Beginning back in May. No wonder after such neglect Your spouses moved away. The last real meal you had Was late last year– That’s what…
From the late, great John Pinnete (to the tune of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”) Somewhere over the buffet: Food piled high. There’s a meal I must get to, Stop me and you will die. Somewhere over the buffet: Watch me fly. Eating up all of the profits, Making the owner cry. Someday I’ll have my…
an oldy, but a goody An annotated thermometer (degrees Fahrenheit) +50 New York tenants turn on the heat Minnesotans plant gardens +40 Californians shiver uncontrollably Minnesotans sunbathe +35 Italian cars don’t start +32 Distilled water freezes +30 You can see your breath You plan a vacation in Florida Politicians begin to worry about the homeless…
A Python nugget from Programming Your Home (review) I wanted to share from p97: import smtplib def send_email(subject, message) recipient = ‘your_email_recipient@domain.tld’ gmail_sender = ‘your_gmail_account@gmail.com’ gmail_password = ‘your_gmail_password’ #use tls gmail_smtp = smtplib.SMTP(‘smtp.gmail.com’, 587) gmail_smtp.ehlo() gmail_smtp.starttls() gmail_smtp.ehlo() #login gmail_smtp.login(gmail_send, gmail_password) #message formatting mail_header = ‘To: ‘ + recipient + ‘\n’ + ‘From: ‘ + gmail_sender…