Jesus H Christ

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Jesus H Christ

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Dad had just the one go-to curse, and when he used it you knew he was serious and gave him a wide berth

Migration of this website from Drupal 9 to Drupal 10

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Today I declare this website upgraded from Drupal 9 to Drupal 10.  In most ways the upgrade went smouthy, and certainly was easier than previous major version upgrades.

Still, the Theme was using isn't available in Drupal 10, so i had to choose and configure a new theme. That was harder than it should be IMHO.

Harder was getting Quotes to work as I'd like. Formatting was tRicky.

My impression is that the Drupal community has moved much more to large, enterprise sites rather than the smaller sites lIke mine. Frankly, i would go with WordPress if i were starting out today, I'm even tempted to make a static archive of the current  site and starting over with WordPress. 

But for now, this is where I am.

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Mondays are for waves cvining

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles.

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in Electrons & Ether Waves : being the twenty-third Robert Boyle lecture, on 11th May 1921, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. 11.

I thought there was another one cvining

Jenny Halsey: You are a good man.

Nick Morton: You don't know that.

Jenny Halsey: Yes, I do. There's good man inside of you fighting to come out. You saved my *life*. You gave me the only parachute without thinking.

Nick Morton: [taken aback] I thought there was another one.

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Whence 'Free Will'?

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Sapolsky's new book, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, re-Kindled (so to speak) conversation with a friend (I'm looking at you, Gary) on Free Will. I'm often misunderstood on the subject I'll say again: it's not so much that i reject the idea of Free Will as I utterly don't understand where it comes from.

Of course I concede it feels lIke I'm free to choose vanilla vs chocolate, I'm just confused about how that choice is actually made. So, here I'll try to elaborate what i see as the core problem.

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Banjo

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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Penis and a brain cvining

God gives us a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time 

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Sweat

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Horses sweat. Men perspire. Women glow.


Lol, when I said something about a sweaty summer day.  I was glowing thru my t-shirt.

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Said to his daughter one sweaty summer day when she was "glowing" through her t-shirt 

Camus and chess cvining

I remembered how Albert Camus talks about the concept of resistance. The idea is that if you see that you cannot win, do everything in your power to resist. And that memory gave me the determination I needed.