Live while you are alive
Love Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediment; love is not love which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. Oh, no. It is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark Whose worth’s unknown, …
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“It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realise that one’s safety was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract”. (Astronaut Alan Shepard, quoted on pUPI.com)
Scrap handwriting? A-level and GCSE exams should be typed on computers because prolonged periods of handwriting can be “tiring” for students, a headteacher has said. Keith Metcalfe, the head of the £9,000 per term Malvern College, has called on exam boards to drop compulsory handwritten exams for GCSEs and A-levels in favour of typed papers. …
It’s hard to go anywhere without hearing the name “Alexa”. This is particularly vexing for people whose parents happened to give them the name that Amazon chose as a wake word for its smart home device in 2014. Amazon landed on Alexa because “it was inspired by the Library of Alexandria, and reflects Alexa’s depth …
Glaub, was wahr ist; Lieb, was rar ist; Trink, was klar ist” “Believe what is true; love what is rare; drink what is clear”. My reaction: This could be comfortably folded into a list of Epicurean beliefs.
