“The true price of something is to be considered by dividing its cost over the hours you’ll use it.” seen at WireCutter
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In April I made a cake topper for my brother-in-law’s birthday party while my wife made the cake. Here is the step by step on how I did it: It starts with making a wire armature; I made this one out of a clothes hanger. Luckily this is all the armature that the worm required; […]
If you are a fan of the horizontal lines dividing the subs in Visual Basic, you can turn them on for C# by going to Tools>Options>Text Editor>C#>Advanced and selecting ‘Show procedure line separators.’
“To the King’s favor quite restored again, Reynard sets forth with all that lordly train, Upon his pious journey to be shriven,— Much the same road that Lawyers go to Heaven;—” —from Reynard the Fox
Elsa and I were discussing portmanteaus the other night (the word, not the trunk). Hangry is one of my favorites. But I think this may be one of the finest: Trumpertantrum. I assumed one of the media outlets had coined the phrase, but it turns out to be attributed directly to Ted Cruz (or, perhaps, […]
“…some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They’ve never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as […]
“Valerius Maximus wrote that he [Aeschylus] was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed […]