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  1. Back home.
  2. Buccaneers, clumps of staples, bookstores, math problems, preventing monitor blindness, and fractals. http://bit.ly/5GUJpq
  3. SQL is dead. Long live SQL. http://bit.ly/5Zkf03
  4. RT @DrAnthony: Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward
  5. "Nature laughs at the difficulties with integration." -- Pierre-Simon de Laplace
  6. @fishcorn Fréchet derivatives?
  7. @omargomez Have you used Inkscape? Do you recommend it?
  8. RT @DrAnthony: 1 in 3 laptops die in first three years http://bit.ly/6Z0Jl9
  9. "There's always free cheese in a mousetrap."
  10. Trying out f.lux. It's kind of nice to have softer light from the monitor at 4 AM. http://www.stereopsis.com/f...
  11. RT @nprscottsimon: Just read up on our national debt. Dreams of living off of our daughters shattered-
  12. “Libraries raised me.” -- Ray Bradbury
  13. “The best thing about R is that it was developed by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that…" -- Bo Cowgill #rstats
  14. @karlprosser A friend of mine said the sound of his roommate reading braille would kept him awake.
  15. "If it weren't for all the politics, I could be an academic." -- @jamesmarcusbach http://bit.ly/917tPr
  16. @CMastication It's just not worth it for me. I use a lot of different applications, so I don't want to master one outlier.
  17. @CMastication Yep. I could never get spell checking or printing to work. I like emacs, but it's seriously in its own world.
  18. @CMastication You can configure emacs around Ctrl-C, but that's only a small part of the Windows/emacs impedance mismatch.
  19. @nbarrowman Yeah, that's frustrating. On the other hand, there aren't as many exceptions as I expected there would be.
  20. RT @SansMouse: Use Control-W to close a document without closing its application.