“The Eternal Flame”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
— Steve Jobs at Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Here’s an amazing video of auroras generated by a geomagnetic storm on September 19th, 2011, as seen from the International Space Station:
More information on spaceweather.com.
For some reason, Apple decided to remove the ability to bounce email messages from the OS X Lion version of Mail.app UI. They did, however, leave the API exposed, and it can be called via AppleScript.
Instructions on how to create an Automator service that can execute the AppleScript (copied here just in case):
1. Open Automator.
2. Create a new service.
3. Configure the service so that it has “no input” in “Mail”
4. Drag “Get Selected Mail Messages” into the workflow
5. Drag “Run Applescript” into the workflow
6. Use the following AppleScript, then save the workflow with a name like “Bounce Message”.
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Mail"
repeat with eachMessage in input
bounce eachMessage
end repeat
end tell
end run
7. In Mail, select the message you would like to bounce. Then from the “Mail” menu, choose “Services”, then click on your new service. The message will bounce.
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Go the F–k to Sleep Audiobook. Be sure to listen to the sample.
Wow, I never thought I’d see this day. The Borders bookstore on Washington Street here in Boston is closing, or has possibly already closed.
While I buy 90% of my books though Amazon, and have for over 13 years, there’s still something special about wandering around a real-world bookstore, browsing book covers to find something that you would not have found via a website. In the past, I would spend hours in Waterstone’s (the greatest bookstore ever) off Newbury Street, but it closed years ago. I have recently been relying upon Borders for my browsing.
To quote the Wikipedia page for Newbury Street:
Once famous for a wealth of bookstores, Boston, like its neighbor Cambridge, has suffered a steady decline in the number and quality of independent booksellers. The beloved 150,000-volume Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop on Newbury Street, one of the last holdouts, closed in 2002. (It did, however, outlast the comparably short-lived Waterstone’s, the British chain whose giant, well-regarded store just off Newbury Street was a source of pressure on the independents. When Waterstone’s closed, a Boston Globe staffer opined that “the Athens of America feels a bit more like Elmira.”) Today, the youthful Trident Booksellers and Café on Newbury Street is amongst a small band of independent bookstores still remaining in Boston.
Sad.
Borders Books at Downtown Crossing is closing | Universal Hub.
I ran the Corporate Challenge here in Boston yesterday. Did fairly well – less than 34 minutes for the 3.5 mile race. Next year I want to get it down under 30 minutes.
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