So I stood in the water holding the first loaded boat and fending it off the rocks for forty-five minutes. The view from in the water When we finally set off, we encountered a strong following wind that was threatening to swamp us from behind. As we reached the sand spit at the ...
I think the following rules will cover most cases: i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never ...
Just to show why we could want to use an algorithm that is more than ten times slower, the following graph shows the time needed to compute the first divisor larger than 1000 for the first few primorials. While using the heap version of the ordered algorithm time is close to constant, ...
For example, the following rule will match only a string which will have the same character in the first and last position: patt R("c", 1) * *(1 - R("c")) * R("c") * !1 The first part of the rule R("c", 1) will match any character, and store this in the named re...
athe requirement has been that a person have been deceased for five years before appearing on a stamp. Before that; the rule was 10 years.The exception was for former presidents,who are traditionally remembered on a stamp in the year following their deaths. Now any images of nationally know ...
[This reminds me of a discussion that was had between England’s Sir Thomas More and his daughter’s fiancé, William Roper following a viewing of Robert Bolt’s play A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Speaking about the topic of the Rule of Law, More insisted that man must first break a law ...
For me, it wasn’t even a matter of trying to ingratiate myself or follow some strict dojo rule. I was wiping down the mats to say “Thank you” to the training hall that had absorbed so much of my sweat, tears and even bits of blood (from nose bleeds more than actual wounds in...
These days (as in the days following the 2016 presidential election of the Narcissist in Chief), I find myself thinking about Winston, from Orwell’s novel 1984. In the end “he had won the victory over himself he loved big brother”. I wonder, as Winston must have, Is it best to ...
When one of the girls abandons their well practiced rule and falls in love. Does her decision throw a monkey wrench into the lives of everyone else around her? Or does it open up the possibility for love to capture them all? Add to Goodreads Amazon * B&N Where sensual erotic romance is...
I have an application where I want to auto populate a cell with a drop down from a (column) table when a certain value is chosen in a third cell. This is so...