- not now
- Stay on target
- STOP!
- Just keep doing the thing.
- Whatever. You’ll get it next time .
- What exactly are you saving this for?
- I've decided not to let it bother me.
- Remember your toolbox.
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/ say-to-yourself.md
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Pay attention, and you'll learn when to say one of these.
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merlinmann
/ Mike Schuriverse.md
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November 28, 2024 19:41
A Unified Field Theory of the Mike Schuriverse
merlinmann
/ flintstones.md
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August 23, 2024 00:31
Every day, somebody's born who's never seen "The Flintstones."
Cincinnati's independent UHF channel 19 (WXIX, get it?) used to have a "1 O'Clock Movie" that ran for two hours every weekday afternoon. They were mostly old black and white films that, even with all the commercials, often ran shy of the 120-minute block allotted.
When they had to fill the extra time, they'd run a "Questions to the Station Manager" segment, where viewer letters were read and the manager responded on-air. Why'd you stop running Ultraman? (Too violent). Why'd you stop showing pro wrestling? (Too violent). How come you show so many commercials? (Well. We're a business and stuff).
Anyhow. One time a viewer expressed her frustration that WXIX was still showing reruns of The Flintstones, a dumb kid's cartoon that hadn't even been on the air in almost a decade ferchrissakes.
The manager calmly explained that, in addition to lots of kids enjoying the show, you have to keep in mind that, believe it or not, that show is stil
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By invoking a quick phrase, Siri captures a sentence or two of dictated text and adds it to a bucket where I can then do something with it later. Critically, it should also automatically capture the location where the note was made as well as the date and time of the note.
I'm new to riding a 70 lb. ebike on which balance can be tricky and the 20mph+ speeds mean I really prefer to keep both hands on the handlebars and ready to hit the brakes. I don't even like using one hand to adjust a mirror or signal a turn—let alone trying to fiddle with a device like my Apple Watch or iPhone.
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/ flintstones.md
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February 1, 2024 17:06
Cincinnati's independent UHF channel 19 (WXIX, get it?) used to have a "1 O'Clock Movie" that ran for two hours every weekday afternoon. They were mostly old black and white films that, even with all the commercials, often ran shy of the 120-minute block allotted.
When they had to fill the extra time, they'd run a "Questions to the Station Manager" segment, where viewer letters were read and the manager responded on-air. Why'd you stop running Ultraman? (Too violent). Why'd you stop showing pro wrestling? (Too violent). How come you show so many commercials? (Well. We're a business and stuff).
Anyhow. One time a viewer expressed her frustration that WXIX was still showing reruns of The Flintstones, a dumb kid's cartoon that hadn't even been on the air in almost a decade ferchrissakes.
The manager calmly explained that, in addition to lots of kids enjoying the show, you have to keep in mind that, believe it or not, that show is still
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July 25, 2024 05:54
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/ Temporary failure in name resolution.log
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November 29, 2023 03:08
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| myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ cd /usr/sbin/ | |
| myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u time.nist.gov | |
| Exiting, name server cannot be used: Temporary failure in name resolution (-3)28 Nov 18:58:43 ntpdate[12680]: name server cannot be used: Temporary failure in name resolution (-3) | |
| myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ nc -z -v nist.gov 80 | |
| -sh: nc: command not found | |
| myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ wget nist.gov | |
| --2023-11-28 19:00:43-- http://nist.gov/ | |
| Resolving nist.gov... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. | |
| wget: unable to resolve host address 'nist.gov' | |
| myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ |
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