@Kit Ridiculous barf day continues: I almost had to put a sentence on my form saying that the form populates records and assigns and tracks things. The emails rewriting this sentence flew like mad until finally, some voice of reason chimed in and pointed out that forms don't do things, people do. I feel bad for the form. It was granted agency for a brief moment.
In Greek mythology, the Pierian Spring of Macedonia was sacred to the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a line in Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" (1709).
Pieria, where the sacred spring was situated, was a region of ancient Macedonia, also the location of Mount Olympus, and believed to be the home and the seat of worship of Orpheus and the Muses, the deities of the arts and sciences. The spring is believed to be a fountain of knowledge that inspires whoever drinks from it.
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An early reference to the Pierian sp...
I've been searching Google for an image, but no one so far appears to have mocked up a "Pierian Spring Soda" can. The time is ripe for someone with no life and a copy of Photoshop.
Harthacnut ("tough-knot"; ) (c.1018 to 8 June 1042) was King of Denmark from 1035 to 1042 and King of England from 1040 to 1042.
He was the son of King Cnut the Great, who ruled Denmark, Norway, and England, and Emma of Normandy. When Cnut died in 1035, Harthacnut struggled to retain his father's possessions. Magnus I took of control of Norway, but Harthacnut succeeded as King of Denmark, and became King of England in 1040 after the death of his half-brother Harold Harefoot.
Harthacnut died suddenly in 1042, and was succeeded by Magnus in Denmark and Edward the Confessor in England. ...
Lojban (pronounced ) is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic, succeeding the project of Loglan. The name "Lojban" is a combination of loj and ban, which are short forms of logji (logic) and bangu (language), respectively.
Development of the language began in 1987 by The Logical Language Group (LLG), who intended to realize Loglan's purposes as well as further complement the language by making it more usable, and freely available (as indicated by its official full English name "Lojban: a realization of Loglan"). After a long initial period of de...
Oooh, might have to dabble once I get myself settled!
Re the shortcut thingy: I wasn't aware, but a browser is one of the few applications where I don't much use shortcuts. I supposed I can trust SE, though.
Definitely, and particularly in a place like this, where considerable time is spent processing similar actions - finding out about them and using them seems worth it. I just don't bother, in general, for web sites.
SO and EL&U seem to have been pretty darn quiet today, unless it's my own irrational perception?
probably a little late on this, didn't pay attention to dates and all, but I will say in my opinion and again just my opinion I think it is closed-minded, when you think of how you use close as in close the door, close the box, I closed my mind I mean it wouldn't make sense to me to say you are ...
Daemon has an interesting usage in computing. From my local dictionary:
a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required
Does anyone know where this came from? I assume its relation to the word demon is notab...
@Reg: Right, that looks fine. I struggled a bit with keeping my Bolides in (fun but foolish). I have also added more action cards and a healing building:
@Kit I think it depends on one's texting dialect how bad it is, too. I have great difficulty reading "r u 4 rl" but I mostly text with people who have smartphones, so my conversations tend to be full of autocompleted, sometimes misspelled words and missing all those in-between bits like "the" and "my."