Wisdom I Pondered This Week
- “The test of beauty is not that it is perfect, but that it always attracts.” — Alice Wellington Rollins, Aphorisms (1897)
- “No matter how much preparation we do, in the real tests of our lives, we’ll be in unfamiliar terrain.” — Josh Waitzkin
- “Life can be the scariest and most beautiful thing simultaneously.” — Maxime Lagace
- “The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.” — Les Brown
- “It doesn’t matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.” — Ralph Marston
Things I Learned This Week
- A murder board (aka “scrub-down”), is a committee of questioners set up to critically review a proposal and/or help someone prepare for a difficult oral examination.
- Curly/Smart/Typographer’s Quotes have different opening and closing quote characters. ↔ Straight Quotes do not have opening or closing versions, just a single character used on both sides.
- A blacksmith is a skilled craftsman who shapes and forges metal, typically iron or steel, by heating it until it’s malleable and then hammering it on an anvil to create items such as horseshoes.
- Internet Acronyms: (1) FTFY = Fix That For You (2) IANAD/IANAL/IANAP = I Am Not A Doctor/Lawyer/Professional (3) CMV = Change My View (4) YSK = You Should Know (5) YMMV = Your Mileage Might Vary (6) ITT = In This Thread (7) DM; HS = Doesn’t Matter; Had Sex (8) MOFO = Motherfucker
- The “carrot and stick (紅蘿蔔與棍子)” technique is a method of inducing good, desired behavior through a combination of rewards and punishments.
