Brain Drippings

National Geographic has their top ten photos of 2008 up now. (Thanks to @GuyKawasaki for the link)

So, I found a book I used in High School (in the dark ages before Internet Access) to write things down in.  Snippets and quotes and the occasional thought, poem, what have you.  It was not a random notebook, the things that went into this were at least polished to some extent.
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I’ve posted on this before, and I will keep posting on it.  Samuel Clement Moore did not write “A Visit From St. Nick.”  He never did, and there is not question about it. Read about Don Brown’s research about Major Livingston, the real author of the beloved poem.

Here is the original text of the poem, including the right names for the reindeer.

Thanks to Leo Laporte’s twitter post of http://codeulate.com/?p=22 I found this wonderful function buried in the comments.

function s { 
  if [ $# -gt 0 ]  
  then  
   sudo $@  
  else  
   sudo $(fc -ln | tail -n1)  
  fi  
}

What it does is nothing short of spectacular. Type a command, like say:

 ~ $ portupgrade postfix
The pkgdb must be updated. Please run 'pkgdb -u' as root.

Oh, darn, forgot to sudo it. Oh well.

 ~ $ s
Password:
[Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 431 packages found (-0 +2) .. done]
[package update begins]

That is, if I type a command that requires sudo, I get an error. I could up-arrow, ctrl-a, and type ’sudo ‘ and hit return. Or I could, as the original post said, type ’sudo !!’

–Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

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OK, it seems like every blog, blogger, blogger dog, blogger cousin, and secret blogger alien pal hiding in the basement is posting a list of nifty neato holiday gifts. Bah, Humbug! Nertz to all those lists. Here’s a practical list of what people REALLY need.

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Sit back and read as Roger takes Ben behind the whippin’ shed.
 
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/win_ben_steins_mind.html#more

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