“No, no, information really does want to be free.
“Just like shoes want to be rich, fences want to be happy, clouds want to be famous, and pencils just want to be loved uncritically.”
— Bill SnyderThis... is wrong tool; never use this.
This was more a challenge than a solution to some need:
#!/bin/bash
while read l && read n <&3 ; do
echo $n "$l"
done 3< <(hexdump -v -e '/4 "%u\n"' < /dev/urandom) |
sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2-
exit 0
And, yes, B5 is now on Amazon Prime, and I just watched “War Without End”.
Get Swoke!
My parents are on a stuff-eliminating binge as part of their move into a new place, resulting in a number of rather surprising packages arriving at my house. Clearly I come by my packrat ways honestly.
This never-used gem turns a 14-inch wok into a tea smoker. The company still exists and still sells woks, but Google suggests that I may be the only one in the world with an honest-to-gosh Swoke Kit.
I’m pretty sure the included wood chips and tea leaves have lost their flavor since 1983, though. 😜
Headline News
“Microsoft saves sinking ship; passengers leap to their deaths.”
3D Cheesecake 3
Once again into the NAS, selecting items of interest from a random subset of the “hc” folder! I’ll fill in more names later, but if you want to play along at home, read this entry in Chrome, right-click, and select “Search Google for Image”.
No, this collection does not include the sleek smiley cutie from the Makudonarudo song, Meu Ninomiya. Shame about that, but her gravure portfolio is rather slim. One of her movies has been subtitled and made available on Amazon Prime Video, though.
Yeah, it's like that...
Plausible headline...
“Russian Spy Snowden Weds Freelance Spy Manning”
