Where Are The Wise Men?

I had a co-worker peek over my shoulder the other day and said, “Are you connected to a Unix machine?”“No, that’s just Cygwin.” And I explained to him what Cygwin was.He laughed.  “Most people want Unix to be more like Windows. You want Windows to be more like Unix.”If course I do!  My perfect world [...]

Madeline L’Engle, who I consider one of the best children’s authors of all-time, passed away on Thursday. NY Times Article is here

I read A Wrinkle In Time in elementary school and loved it. A complex story of high imagination. Later, in my adult life, I purchased all the books in the Wrinkle [...]

I had to mail a package at the post office today.  That isn’t a huge deal — there is a postal center about two blocks from work.  But I’ve never been there, but only heard about it.I heard they were rude.  Yes, I know, the thought of U.S. Postal Workers as being rude isn’t that [...]

Here are some random thoughts that I have been thinking about blogging but haven’t gotten to it. So you have to put up with one-liners.

In case you didn’t know, Creighton took away Anne Lamott’s invitation to speak long after she accepted it. Richard Dooling had a great editorial in the Omaha paper about [...]

I’ve just discovered on of the neatest shell tricks I’ve seen since Ctrl-r. If you are in zsh and hit Alt-. (or ESC-., if you have a misconfigured terminal like I do) then the last argument from the last command will appear on the command line.This may seem like no big deal, but it [...]

It’s Labor Day again, and so we had another trip to LifeLight. Technically, it’s still going on as write this, but due to the heat in Sioux Falls and the long list of things to do at home, the Hostetler’s left in the late afternoon. But we still had a good time. [...]