2015-10-21 (Wednesday)
Tweets
Final image of 'Building Cars Live': two menchildren jump in a car and drive off, with a woman running after them shouting "WAIT! WAIT!"
@0898CHEATHCO Yeah, plenty of room for improvement. And no idea why it needs to be live, other than "concept".
I'm enjoying 'Building Cars Live' but if I'd had a drink every time they've said "literally" I would now be literally unconscious.
@whoisdanw EVERYTHING’S JUST FINE!
2015: An embarrassment of private online spaces in which to share one’s crises with overlapping groups of friends. Which is right this time…
@jtauber I was just about to ask, thanks :) I’ll take pics of the book later.
@jtauber (There are also a couple of missing accents from one or both Tweets, which I couldn’t work out how to make.)
@jtauber I don’t know; the Latham & Mathew edition that’s from is pretty accurate and pedantic. But I know no Greek, so I can’t tell.
@jtauber Here’s the footnote for the earlier quote: books.google.co.uk/books?id=a_ABU…
@jtauber @samuelpepys used a slightly different (but, I think, also inaccurate) version a while back: twitter.com/samuelpepys/st…
The more fool am I, and must labour against it for shame, especially I that used to preach Epictetus’s rule: τὰ ἐφ ἡμῖν κἰ τἀ οὐχ ἐφ ἡμῖν.
Turns out there’s a thing called a “search engine” that is good at helping answer such questions. apple.stackexchange.com/q/209635/63608
@Carfolio I haven’t changed my bash setup recently. And it doesn’t appear in the current prompt, only once I press Return.
What is this little [ that’s recently appeared at the start of my in-the-past command prompts and why?
@alicebartlett If you’d squeezed those into a single tweet you’d have saved a lot of bandwidth.