I made a house of houselessness,
A garden of your going:
And seven trees of seven wounds
You gave me, all unknowing:
I made a feast of golden grief
That you so lordly left me,
I made a bed of all the smiles
Whereof your lip bereft me:
I made a sun of your delay,
Your daily loss, his setting:
I made a wall of all your words
And a lock of your forgetting.

— Rose O’Neill

via Colleen Doran: https://colleendoran.tumblr.com/post/726289653606514688

#Poetry #mjbPoetry

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#poetry, #mjbpoetry

How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!

@dianeduane shares more here:
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/726256976764567552

#Writing #WordPlay

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#writing, #wordplay

I came to understand that long before I read it.
— James Stockdale

#Stoicism #mjbQuotes #CourageUnderFire #JamesStockdale #Reading

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#stoicism, #mjbQuotes, #CourageUnderFire, #JamesStockdale, #reading

Nine sources of advantage:

1. Raw talent/intelligence - Some people are just naturally better and smarter.
2. Hard work - Some people work harder.
3. Differentiation - Seeing the world differently. Doing something different. Reading different books. Interpreting the same information differently.
4. Process / Discipline - Creating a process and following it. Working out every day is a great example.
5. Talent Collector - The ability to hire the best people and get the most out of them.
6. Patience - A lack of patience changes the outcome.
7. Ability to take pain - Are you willing to look like an idiot to get better? How much risk are you willing to take, AND, importantly, can you handle the losses?
8. Temperament - Keeping your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
9. Luck

Most of these are within your control.

— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-20-2023/

#MentalModels #ShaneParrish #FarnamStreet

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#mentalmodels, #ShaneParrish, #FarnamStreet

#TIL: Emphasise any text you select, in #OrgMode using the keyboard

Use Ctrl-c Ctrl-x Ctrl-f and it’ll let you choose your markup.

From #irreal’s latest #Emacs blog post
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11572

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#til, #orgmode, #Irreal, #emacs

Tried configuring a network connected printer on two #Linux machines this past week. One unnamed and the other @linuxmint.

The unnamed machine took nearly a day to configure, with looking up packages and ports and HCL lists and driver packages and what not.

#LinuxMint on the other hand went, “Hello there, you have a printer on the network! Want to print to it? Also that thing’s got a scanner too, want to be able to use it? Done and done!”

Took all of 5 seconds.

Thank you @linuxmint

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#linux, #linuxmint

There are two types of men in the world:
those that love Linda Ronstadt,
and those that never heard of her

— Willie Nelson

https://youtu.be/pmQpYSBkwag?si=YRZQ4pSWPN-7Q3ZD

Silver threads and Golden Needles

#mjbMusic #LindaRonstadt

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#mjbmusic, #lindaronstadt

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

— Jill Thomas Doyle

More word fun here: https://www.tumblr.com/ebookporn/628326548234240000/an-oxford-comma-walks-into-a-bar-where-it

#Language #LanguageLearning #LanguagesAreFun #WordPlay

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#language, #languagelearning, #LanguagesAreFun, #wordplay

Here’s what I read last two weeks

95. The Negotiator, Frederick Forsyth
96. Command Line Interface Guidelines, Eva Parish, Aanand Prasad, Ben Firshman & Carl Tashian
97. Demonbound, Sarah Hawke
98. The Dragon of Highwind, Sarah Hawke
99. Dawnbringer, Sarah Hawke
100. The Rest is History World Cup Spectacular, Episodes 252–286, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
101. Jesus Christ: The History & The Mystery, Episodes 287–289, Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
102. Joan Rivers Confidential, Melissa Rivers & Scott Currie
103. Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor, Sylvia Ann Hewlett
104. Deep Storm, Lincoln Child

The rest of this year’s list is here: https://janusworx.com/reading/#2023

#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading

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#mjbreads, #books, #mjbbooks, #reading, #mjbreading

Weekly fitness update

https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-08-18

#mjbgettingfit

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#mjbgettingfit