No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
This story sounds familiar…
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01.1.12 
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Check available entropy in Linux
Racker Hacker has a great tip on how to check the available system entropy on a Linux system:
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
This command can be a helpful diagnostic tool if you have a bit of cryptographic code that is blocking for longer than you think it should.
The Mountain
The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.
12.28.11 chief
Recover a dropped stash in Git
There’s a great thread over on Stack Overflow about how to recover a dropped stash in Git. Here’s a handy little bash script for doing exactly that:
#!/bin/bash
HASHES=`git fsck --no-reflog | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}'`
for HASH in $HASHES; do
clear
echo $HASH
echo
git show $HASH
done
After you have the SHA hash of the stash in question, you can apply it easily with:
git stash apply <SHA>
I have to say, as someone who is not Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God-willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country – or maybe forty-four in a row. But, that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.
Jon Stewart
Louis C.K.
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the Unites States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
Carl Sagan
10.9.11 chief
How to Become an Early Riser
This guy Steve Pavlina wrote an interesting pair of articles about sleep patterns and productivity. Basically, he’s a big advocate of waking up early in the morning to an alarm, and then only going to bed when your body tells you to.
