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There's a subgroup of Asians spanning the Himalayas and east Asia that have blue bottommed babies that is generally believed to denote an ancestry that shares Genghis Khan, iirc. Anyone know whether this group is the same as the one that shares the Denisovan gene?

There's one other thing that I think people living in the Himalayas have, myself included, that helps and that is proportionately humongous lungs. This is probably evolution at work over the course of centuries.

I'll be keen to see the nature of UI and reporting tools that emerge from this exercise.

I currently use TurboCash, which is a Windows-based accounting solution that works well for me, but I am keen to move away from Windows entirely and on that front Ledger is currently top on my list.

Ledger has been on my TBD list for a while. Been meaning to implement a project with it. Now may be a good time.

Descent was one of my favorites, though I didn't have any VR gear to play it on. Never got nauseous playing it, though I did with Castle Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake. Good times.

How about a widely held view so far: Possibly held captive by hijackers or terrorists? Not desirable, but better than certain death indicated by debris (if confirmed).

It would mean no survivors. So sad.

The download I have (from before the closing of Popcorn Time) still works. :)

There is one suggestion I have for those developing the forks further: have an option for downloading through Popcorn Time. For those of us whose connections suck, having Popcorn Time vet the quality of videos with the download option would be a killer feature.

Yeah, when 0 also didn't work, I took another look at it. Turns out I needed to call (add-hook 'server-visit-hook 'my-custom-function) with the call to scroll-bar-mode inside my custom function, because I'm working off an emacsclient. Now I have my choice of -1, 0, nil, etc. Finally sorted out. :)

-1, 1 and t have worked for me in setting most modes except that blasted scroll-bar-mode, which it turns out calls for a 0 - what the heck! Thanks for a super post.

I liked the inclusion of PG Wodehouse - can never get enough of it.

I'd never known of you before this; now I've got you bookmarked. Thanks for that great post.

mpd with ncmpc has brought my music very close to me - just a couple of keystrokes away.

Regarding Winamp, I've always loved it's tagline "Winamp kicks the llama's ass" (or was it butt?).

I never read Starship Troopers (actually, never knew it existed) but always enjoyed it as a fun movie. I know, fun and dumb do overlap at certain points, and maybe that's why I liked it. I like one of the comments here describing it as "Ken and Barbie go to outer space" or something like that - sums it up well for me.

"In fact, I think I'm the noob chorus. And instead of trailblazing a path for you, I've become stuck in the first bramblebush."

You are not alone. :)

I've used it for hobby projects. Really like it.

I will be taking your route but with Clojure scripts. This should be fun.

You make some excellent points, especially the one about banks and molasses. Scraping websites in general is subject to so much arbitrary change you tend to give up after a while.

With reference to the rant about importing data directly into one's accounting software of choice, the random nature of bank data formats is more likely to render it impossible, especially for the application developers who I'd say would be weighed down with maintaining the core application.

I think the best option would be for the core accounting application to have a well defined format for import/export, leaving the work of getting data into that format for another application or project like the ones mentioned in other sub-threads here (simplefin.org looks interesting aready).

I currently use a FOSS (I think) Windows application called TurboCash (turbocash.net) which does a pretty good job, but also requires some working to get bank data in. I'm thinking of trying out ledger-cli, with some hack work on getting bank data in. With my recent drive toward the command line, I'm hoping this may be my accounting Valhalla.

When you do set up the project. please be sure to announce it here. If it is soon enough, an announcement on this sub-thread will also be good for me. I'll keep checking back. :)

More like a collection of footpaths that become more accessible with use.

There are some excellent books by Harry Lorayne that are still available. I got my fix in this department some 30+ years ago in high school. Great stuff.

Thanks. That was inspiring to watch.

I'm 5'10", and unfortunately some of it comes from a long long neck and a fine head. A well known coach once called it wasted height, as it doesn't help any in basketball. Things got a little worse with the fact that my upper body is disproportionately longer than my lower body. Doesn't help your jump any, but at least it gave me some reach - 7'3" with my arms extended.

And so, I needed a vertical leap of 3 feet to grab the ring. The happiest day of my basketballing life was after some weeks of pumping iron (leg weights), I did leap and grab that ring - once. It was such a thrill.

That was way back in college. I wish I'd gone all the way like Brandon did. But hey, I'm only 50 now, and still playing basketball. I'm inspired. I think I'm going to go for it again. ;)

Famous last words.

Using Emacs and Conkeror, with Herbstluftwm.

Conkeror was what tipped everything for me: Having been used to gui apps for a long time, my continued use of gui browsers kept me in some kind of limbo. Learned just enough of Emacs to get things done but never going whole hog in learning its shortcuts mainly because I was still relying on mouse clicks on things like the browser. With Conkeror, those shortcuts work well on both my non-gui emacs setup as well as the browser. It's been a great working environment.

Make that n of 2: I began exercising everyday about 1 1/2 years ago, after over 15 years of zero exercise. Didn't change my diet, nothing besides the exercise which was basically an hour of basketball nearly everyday. Arms, legs, back, stomach, shoulders, neck, hands, fingers and toes are all getting toned, with the occasional muscle bulging a bit, and better yet - dropped 20 points of cholestrol and 10 points of sugar, among other gains. Feeling great too, with a lot of stamina. I'm once again enjoying the pleasure of being able to continue running and playing even while getting winded, instead of feeling like dying after the first 30 yards.

A wonderful post, Dean. Thank you.

Yes, mongo as in Mongoloid (Down's syndrome, not the race) is offensive in mostly English speaking, Caucasian contexts. However, I'd figure MongoDB becoming a well known term would break some of the offensiveness associated with the pejorative use of mongo. At the same time, I don't think anyone keen on MongoDB will be thinking of the pejoratives associated with some part of the name.

The problem this approach has for me is I get startled if someone suddenly appears in front of me. I find ambient noise works best for me, though these days I find distractions from multiple monitors, tablets and phones are increasingly getting lethal.

fasd is z on steroids. Fantastic tool.

I put z and fasd through their paces, and out of the box z works very intuitively. I like it. fasd takes a little more to get used to, but I'm going to put it through a full try out. Let's see if the additional features make it worth the while. In either case, thanks all for a great thread.

I suspect it must have something to do with my set up. My first suspicion was my nvidia drivers (304xx) but I recall not even being able to boot in console mode. I'll give it another shot later but for the moment vagrant's doing a fine job putting it all together.