#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110920506931058339

#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110920022045310291

#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110914939225875084

#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110911029773258293

#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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110908525832449722

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

Weekly fitness update

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

#mjbgettingfit

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110908513377619991

#mjbgettingfit

Am I the only kooky one who *really* loves parts of songs?

Irresistible is a case in point. The home stretch, the last 45 seconds of this song are what do it for me. The voices, the meandering bass, the yay we’re going home tempo. I love it all

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110905263813032914

A rainy evening with the Corrs

You’re irresitible!

https://youtu.be/pM_Q-G_CZ74

#mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110905235750781979

#mjbmusic

All my language learning has ground to a halt. No French or Urdu for quite a while.

So decided to do it even slower. Tiny bits of French daily with a chapter of Assimil’s, New French With Ease. Hopefully, that’ll help me be persistent.

#LanguageLearning #Language #French #Assimil

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110903233113024204

#languagelearning, #language, #french, #assimil

Absolutely!

via https://www.tumblr.com/catchymemes/725757070007238656

#Language #LanguagesAreAlive

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110897099900705967

#language, #LanguagesAreAlive