Peter Swanson : Maus Culture
"As I survey the new landscape of adult comics—and much as I admire the achievements of Spiegelman, Sacco, and the rest—I nevertheless hope there is still room for comic books about mutant vigilantes."
Geeks R Us : "The file is locked!
Yes it seems that the Finder locking is in a layer lower than the Unix POSIX layer, so not even root can muck with files that are locked. Simply select the file in the Finder, choose Show Info from the File menu, and uncheck 'Locked'. " see also :
man chflagsDan O'Connor : The FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
"are notes that I have made to myself, so that I could re-create what I have done in the event of a catastrophic failure of either the hardware or me. I have made no attempt to explain the 'why' behind the actions, or to take into account all the possible configuration options, as there are other sources available which cover such topics in-depth."
brian d. foy : Creating a Perl Debugger
Beta chapter : The Python Standard Library on file munging
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is spry
| source : web1913 |
Spry \Spry\, a. [Compar. {Sprier} or {Spryer}; superl. {Spriest}
or {Spryest}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. sprygg lively, skittish, and E.
sprag.]
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
[U.S. & Local Eng.]
She is as spry as a cricket. --S. Judd
(Margaret).
If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry. --Emerson.
| source : wn |
spry
adj : moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast";
"as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of
foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the
stairs before we could stop it" [syn: {agile}, {nimble},
{quick}]
| source : gazetteer |
Spry, PA (CDP, FIPS 73528)
Location: 39.91250 N, 76.68753 W
Population (1990): 4271 (1905 housing units)
Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)