RIP Fran Allen. IBM Fellow Emerita.
I’m beginning to really dislike Markdown for technical doc. All of our system’s special values begin with *. Unix-style pathnames contain /. I wish I could turn off the highlighting for those characters in tools like iAWriter, Bear, and Ulysses.
History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of men.
Listening to Stephen Fry read Mythos. Very entertaining. 📚
📚 So Far, So Good Ursula K. LeGuin’s final book of poems. Each one a gem. #mbmay
📚If you haven’t read Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. Read it. Read it now. #mbmay
Violet(s). #mbmay
Indigo. #mbmay
Blue. #mbmay
Green. #mbmay
Yellow. #mbmay
Orange #mbmay
Red #mbmay
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The White Queen 💬
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau 💬
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin 💬
I hate edge tiling of windows.
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, ‘What are you?’
– Grace Hopper 💬
💬 Groucho Marx:
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Chaos is a friend of mine – Bob Dylan 💬