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AlfredoLlaquet said:
The brain is weird. In the beginning of time, I worked on MsDOS. Then Windows came, but our software still run in DOS. To make a DOS terminal under Windows "full screen" (text mode, in reality), you pressed Alt+Enter. One hundred years later, in my Plasma DE on FreeBSD, my shortcut to maximize a Window is Super+F, but many times my brain thinks Alt+Enter and then corrects itself to Super+F.
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Muscle memory is a powerful thing, and muscle memory in the hands for computer use is no exception.

That is one reason why 30 years of Emacs use and customization can make you very effective. Same for vi I assume.

The Unix commandline as well. I cringe when I see people do clickibunti to move a few files around when I would have finished 3 times over already.
 
Maturin doesn't write posts, she (in her profile it says "desperate housewife," so I suppose "she" is the proper term) writes short stories. You all can find the proof attached. I rest my case, your honor.

Edit: If Maturin is a he or a they or a Martian, the case remains the same.
 

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AlfredoLlaquet said:
Maturin doesn't write posts, she (in her profile it says "desperate housewife," so I suppose "she" is the proper term) writes short stories. You all can find the proof attached. I rest my case, your honor.

Edit: If Maturin is a he or a they or a Martian, the case remains the same.
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Oh, I have burned quite a few taste buds with coffee in the States. But that theory is wrong - if they made the coffee so hot that people wouldn't drink it fast enough to get more free coffee, then Starbucks would serve coffee not as hot so people would drink it all up fast and buy some more cups of coffee. But that's not the case. Starbucks coffee burned my tongue every time. (Also Starbucks tea) (Also Starbucks hot water).
 
It's weird... I don't see the admins leaving comments. Normally they leave the occasional comment here and there. Maybe my perception is wrong and it's not always the case, or not so much on a Saturday; or maybe today is some kind of additional holiday in Europe that I'm not aware of despite living in Europe. I say this because I think most admins are European, but I could be wrong again. Being wrong is part of the human experience.
 
So, about beer... I don't like beer; never have. But there's American beer, German beer, Mexican beer, Spanish beer, Dutch beer... Here in Spain it's common (in summer) to drink beer with "lemonade" (it's more like Fanta lemon, not what Americans call lemonade). There's even at least one mass-produced drink that is that mix already prepared (this appeared "recently").
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
So, about beer... I don't like beer; never have. But there's American beer, German beer, Mexican beer, Spanish beer, Dutch beer... Here in Spain it's common (in summer) to drink beer with "lemonade" (it's more like Fanta lemon, not what Americans call lemonade). There's even at least one mass-produced drink that is that mix already prepared (this appeared "recently").
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Try Belgian trappist. Those monks knew how to do it only.
 
I just posted on another thread my cursor of choice and the post was expeditiously deleted. I guess I inadvertently broke a forum rule. It would be nice to know which one I broke if only not to do it again. My current feeling is of great dread because I don't like this kinds of situations.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I just posted on another thread my cursor of choice and the post was expeditiously deleted. I guess I inadvertently broke a forum rule. It would be nice to know which one I broke if only not to do it again. My current feeling is of great dread because I don't like this kinds of situations.
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You are an idiot. You posted in the howto section, you moron.

I apologize.
 
I've gotten myself involved in some things that have me coming home with a bit of stress. At the same time, I had a number of bottles of liquors in my cabinet given to me by someone who realized they are a borderline alcoholic. The only liquor I keep in the house is what I use for cooking as if I have to cook anymore (and I haven't for three years now). To get rid of those that I don't use for cooking--such as tequila--I started looking for recipes for drinks I'd heard of and were interesting.

What I've found is that I like the stress relief the drinks were giving me. It got to the point where I missed having a late afternoon drink to calm me down. Then I started feeling I needed the drink every day. And that is how I discovered why some people become alcoholics! And that is when I gave away the rest of the bottles to my neighbors.
 
I wonder what makes a superuser poweruser a superuser poweruser. Do they all have a keyboard with very few keys? Do they all spend their lives tinkering with config files yet never learn to code?

Edit: This is humorous.
 
CShell said:
I've never owned those :). You will probably be driving "around me" soon !
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This is the way...:-)

Interestingly there's an english version of this. When we get particuarly muddy fields that normal farm tractors can't cope with, some farmers use things like this

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In Spain exists a bunch of kind of coffee: Cafè del tiempo (cafè del tèmps), cortado (tayàt), bon bon (with condensed milk) bon bon del tiempo, carajillo (with cognac or other liquors) and, of course, espresso. I usually take cafè bon bon, usually when I come back (in Italy) from vacancy, for a small period I buy condensed milk for coffee
 
Spain, like any place in the present, I suppose, is big and diverse. I had never heard about "café del tiempo" in my whole life. Let's do our research... Ah! It's how they call in Valencia to what we Catalans simply call "iced coffee," or, more literally, "coffee with ice" (café con hielo), which is an espresso plus a little glass with a large ice cube and you (the client) pour the espresso into the other glass with the ice cube to chill it and drink it. You need to wait a little until it's cold. Many people stir the resulting beverage while waiting.
 
covacat said:
I don't know about American coffee but here is one about American beer.

What's the relation between having sex in a boat and American beer ?
Both are fscking close to water ...
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That statement has SOME truth to it. It's true for Coors, Miller, and Budweiser.

But the US also has a lot of really good breweries which make very fine beers. Some cities (like Portland, OR) have a beer culture that leaves European cities in the dust. Or do you know any city in Europe that has 50 separate breweries in town?
 
I think I'm quitting coffee. I was already questioning my present intake of coffee, as the first post of this thread proves. Anyway, the final straw has been that I'm quite certain that it's having bad effects on my skin (I've heard it's a "toxin," after all) in the form of pimples and whatnot, which I don't like because I obsess over them. Ergo, bye bye coffee.
 
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