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"Anyone who has known Algonquin Park will be disappointed when they get to heaven" -- Ralph Bice.

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'WOW! What A Ride!" - Hunter S. Thompson

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” ― Ayn Rand

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Albert Einstein

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.” ― Malcolm X

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ― Mark Twain

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ― Bernard Baruch

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” ― Charles J. Sykes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain

“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.” ― Mae West

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ― Lewis Carroll

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” ― Mark Twain

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” ― Mark Twain

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe,

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ― Mark Twain

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ― Terry Pratchett

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” ― Sylvia Plath

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.” ― Paulo Coelho

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” ― Albert Einstein

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ” ― Stephen Hawking

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” ― Stephen Hawking

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” ― Isaac Newton

“Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.” ― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Resist much. Obey little.” ― Walt Whitman

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”― Socrates

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”― Hunter S. Thompson

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” ― Groucho Marx

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”― Oscar Wilde

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.” ― Neil Gaiman

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”― Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”― Oscar Wilde

“No good deed goes unpunished.”― Oscar Wilde

Everyone believes in something, I believe I'll go canoeing- Henry David Thoreau

Fix the problem not the blame - Japanese Proverb

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well. - Japanese Proverb

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. -Japanese Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese proverb

The nail that stands out will be hammered down. -Japanese proverb

If he works for you, you work for him. - Japanese proveerb

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius

After all is said and done, more is said than done. - proverb

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. - proverb

Act quickly, think slowly. - proverb

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs - proverb

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. - Aristotle

Well begun is half done - Aristotle

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. - Lewis Cass

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.

We are what we celebrate - entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. -- Caskie Stinnett, "Out of the Red"

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

You should make a point of trying every experience once -- except incest and folk-dancing. -- A. Bax, "Farewell My Youth"

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~ St. Francis of Assisi

A man is not complete until he is maried - then he is finished.

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” -George Gordon Byron

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run. - John Barrymore

“One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I could not sit in the audience and watch me” - John Barrymore

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.” - Henry Kissinger

“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good” - John Barrymore

Urgency does not warrant changing methods that work for methods that do not work. - Movie Body of Lies (2008)

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once! -Calvin Coolidge

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. - Ken Blanchard

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

When you come to a fork in the road ... take it -Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by watching -Yogi Berra

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be -Yogi Berra

It's deja vu all over again -Yogi Berra

It ain't over 'til it's over -Yogi Berra

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Dr. Carl Sagan

Anyone can make love in a canoe, it's a Canadian who knows enough to take out the centre thwart. - Philip Chester

Take everyrhing as it comes; the wave passes,, deal with the next one -Tom Thomson, 1877 - 1917

Not all those who wander are lost - j.r.r. tolkien

"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go Canoeing" - Henry David Thoreau

A mans gotta do, what a man's gotta do. -John Steinbeck, in Grapes of Wrath

Our lives… need the relief of where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. — Henry David Thoreau

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz

“Those things you learn without joy you will forget easily.” - old Finnish saying

"May your search through Nature lead you to yourself" -Author Unknown

You can't shake hands with a closed fist -Indira Gandhi

When I was a kid I drew like Michaelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. -Pablo Picasso

I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be -Albert Einstein

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. -Bob Marley

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. -Bob Marley

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. -Buddha

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. -Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. -Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. -Mark Twain

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. -Muhammad Ali

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss

A friend to all is a friend to none. -Aristotle

If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. -Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. -Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -Albert Einstein

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. -Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. -Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -Winston Churchill

Stay hungry, stay foolish. -Steve Jobs

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. -Stephen Hawking

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible. -Stephen Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. -Stephen Hawking

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. -John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.- John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. -John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. -John F. Kennedy

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.- Confucius

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. -Confucius

No legacy is so rich as honesty. -William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. -William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. -William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -William Shakespeare

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. -Anton Chekhov

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. -John C. Maxwell

Don't find fault, find a remedy. -Henry Ford

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. -Peter Drucker

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. -Vince Lombardi

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -Ronald Reagan

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. -Yogi Berra

I never said most of the things I said. -Yogi Berra

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. -Edward Abbey

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” – John Maxwell

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” – John Maxwell

“Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.” – John Maxwell

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” – John Maxwell

“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.” – John Maxwell

“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.” – John Maxwell

"Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition." John C. Maxwell

"If you don't go within, you simply go without." Victor Frankl

"Build bridges instead of dams."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." MLK

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything - Malcom X

People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for. -Anonymous

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. -Albert Einstein

Our lives begin to end th day we become silent about things that matter -Martin Luther King Jr.

Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools -Martin Luther King

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen -Harry S. Truman

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out -John Wooden

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Chruchill

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

Nothing succeeds like excess -Oscar Wilde

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen

"Tell the truth and run." -- Yugoslav proverb

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.-- Mike Romanoff

Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair-- It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz

Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand.

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Women complain about sex more than men. Their gripes fall into two categories: (1) Not enough and (2) Too much. -- Ann Landers

Women can keep a secret just as well as men, but it takes more of them to do it.

Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. -- W.C. Fields

With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

With a rubber duck, one’s never alone. - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Wilcox's Law: A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.

Wilner's Observation: All conversations with a potato should be conducted in private.

Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. -- Vince Lombardi

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Who does not trust enough will not be trusted. -- Lao Tsu

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser

While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.

Where there's a will, there's a relative.

Fortune sides with him who dares. – Virgil

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. - Sun Tzu

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

A fart is just the ghost of food you've eaten

Silence, after all, is the only way to find out what other people are saying.—Caitlin Hu

Some people know how to use a lot of words without saying much. You should strive instead to use a few words to say a lot.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin

"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator." -Stephen Hawking

"The scientific account is complete. Theology is unnecessary." -Stephen Hawking

Projects to look at some day:

Description	Link
PiTextReader for Impaired Vision	https://www.hackster.io/rgrokett/pitextreader-for-impaired-vision-695331?utm_campaign=new_projects&utm_content=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hackster&utm_term=project_name

Potentially useful links I need to remember somewhere...
Creating good presentations in LibreOffice with graphics
ARES IMS Training

LARC LARCwiki LIGs WikiSyntax Marks IRLP C-E-A Lambert eHAM QRZ HamCalndr npit npitWiki newWiki hamCalendr LOTW GitHub BandCndns Kangaroo	409shop DXtreme Rworld Durham MapleLf TGM Comm's Aurora Singularity
RadioRef		LARC Yahoo Group	London Freq's
RAC callsign lookup	RscAresYahooGrp RacBlog	EMO/ARES exHAMiner mesh	Ottawa ARES
QRZ callsigns, countries	ARRL contest-list	IRLP Status
Anderson PwrPoles	APP - ARES Prep	APP howto's #1 #2 #3	connectors 2
cactus jpoles another	multi-feed 2stage	2 meter folding-dual	3/4inch telescop
packet	tnc-x	reviews	computer headsets
DX: HamAtlas	Callsign Prefixes	loggers: Log4OM N1MM N3FJP	RDF Doppler
	propagation	rig s/w	adv-quest-bank
857 cables 1 2 3 4 5 6	857 FT meter		solarparams
Marks Switches	I2C tutorials: 1 2 3 Pullups	rig control: omni-rig

Ref	Gmaps Time Tzone E'pedia Can411 canoe dict thes A2Zwords rhyme acronym encycl transl cnvert
London	MAP weathr: Lon-EC Lon-WN Algon ECtxt ECsws radar:Ont Det Det2 Mich Pan roadCndns Closurs
Info	WalmtPhoto Flickr timer MLHU picsawb IG Hotmail sholace
Fun	Sudoku cool-sites fbook Call2 Skype games sky LCE Uganda Photos Blog voice: 1 2 cbc knots
FollowUp	emusic scenic-drives time-lapse datasheets ds2 ds3 ds4 ds5 ds6 ds7 AlgAdv Visual'n
Nerdery	Due-gu Due-ov Bobrow Courses: Coursera MIT OpenCulture Top10

deduce Shaw active Prod	cmd: ping lb-x1-shaw-prod.cisco.com\|find "Reply" prod1=128.107.0.117, prod2= 128.107.34.172
deduce Cox active Prod	cmd: ping lb01-cox-prod-int.cisco.com\|find "Reply" prod1=128.107.2.131, Prod2= 128.107.33.110
quick reference cards	big collection cheetsheets more how-tos RPMs HeadFirst Sanebox CiscoSymbols Ascii
vi editor	http://www.gnulamp.com/vi.html
awk	brief examples examples2 thorough thorough2 compiler 1liners more1liners sheet g.n.awk in-bash nixCraft
bash	advanced gnu-new gnu-old practical tricks quicky scripting bash-strings for loops timeouts
grep	grep egrep fgrep newstuff reg-exp moregex
HTTP Error codes	wiki detailed
linux tricks	LinDocPrj 1 2 overview all-man-pages Wine TCP-IP ebooks find sed dream-distro courses tcpdump man sysadmin tools bastion-hosts emails clients p'shops web-hosting monitoring mon-2 xbmc iptables perf: iostat pidstat mpstat sar kSar vmstat tools1
unix hints	portable win-umbuntu linux laptop
web editing	html tidy gimp tweaks photoshop clones more image editors css CSS Cheatsheet columns htmlkit Inkscape linux-tools colorblender file-hosters webtools mortools web-txt-editors google-webtools css3 photoHosts cssTemplates
C language	primer tutorial
Database	PostgreSQL
JSON	format FFaddon
Networking	TCPstateDiagram another netmon
multi file text replace	perl -i -pe 's/windows/linux/;' test* find . -name '.txt' -print \| xargs perl -pi -e's/Windows/Linux/ig' .txt find -type f -name '*.txt' -print0 \| xargs --null perl -pi -e 's/Windows/Linux/'
find biggest files	ls -lSh\|head
find biggest subdirect.	du -kx \| egrep -v "\./.+/" \| sort -n
pre-fix common typos	alias ls-l="ls -l ";alias ll="ls -l"
extract fields	awk '{print $2 " " $5}' in.txt > out.txt
extract columns	cut -c 8-15 file1 > file2
text replace in file	sed "s/word1/word2/g" file1 >file2
del whitespace lines	sed '/^\s*$/d' tst.htm > tst2.htm
find and execute	find . -name '.gz' \| xargs gunzip -vt find ".gz" -exec gunzip -vt "{}" +
time 10dig Jan23	`gawk '{print strftime("%b%d %H:%M:%S)",$1)" "substr($0,12,999)}'`
time 10dig 01/23	`gawk '{print strftime("%m/%d %H:%M:%S ",$1)" "substr($0,12,999)}' alias tim="gawk '{print strftime(\"%m/%d %H:%M:%S \",\$1)\" \"substr(\$0,12,999)}'"`
time 10dig 23	`gawk '{print strftime("%d %H:%M:%S ",$1)" "substr($0,12,999)}'`
time 10dig 090123	`gawk '{print strftime("%y%m%d %H:%M:%S ",$1)" "substr($0,12,999)}'`
time 10.3 squid	`as above, change 12 near end to 17`
show a single time	echo 1295985424 \|awk '{print strftime("%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S ",$1)}'
find mac addrs	`grep -oE'([0-9a-fA-F]{2}:){5}\[0-9a-fA-F\]{2}'` `filename` `grep -oE'[0-9a-fA-F]{4}.[0-9a-fA-F]{4}.[0-9a-fA-F]{4}'` `filename`
AMR Reg Queue size	echo `curl -s -d "TEST1" http://localhost:8010/?TEST`
AMR -last 10 reg'ns	date; PGPASSWORD=tvGCDB psql -h localhost -d gcdb -U adminGCDB -c \ "SELECT mac, ip, controllerid, nodeid, plantid, utime,btime FROM settop_clients ORDER BY utime DESC LIMIT 10";
All AMR q's, from CAMR	cat /etc/hosts \| egrep 'vip\|VIP' \| grep -v "ads" \| awk '{print $2}'\| while read VIP; do echo "$VIP `curl -s -d TEST1 $VIP:8010 \| grep -aEo [0-9]*`"; done
query specific MAC	env PGPASSWORD=tvGCDB psql -h localhost -d gcdb -U adminGCDB -c \ "SELECT mac, ip, controllerid, plantid, utime FROM settop_clients WHERE mac='00:11:22:33:44:55'";
query specific IP	env PGPASSWORD=tvGCDB psql -h localhost -d gcdb -U adminGCDB -c \ "SELECT mac, ip, controllerid, plantid, utime FROM settop_clients WHERE ip='10.10.10.10";
Counts STBs in GCDB	env PGPASSWORD=tvGCDB psql -h localhost -d gcdb -U adminGCDB -c \ "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM settop_clients";
list stbs over x days	PGPASSWORD=tvGCDB psql -h localhost -d gcdb -U adminGCDB -c \ "SELECT mac, ip, utime FROM settop_clients where utime<'2011-03-5 14:29:36' order by utime desc limit 5"
count stbs over x days	PGPASSWORD=tvGCDB psql -h localhost -d gcdb -U adminGCDB -c \ "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM settop_clients where utime<'2011-03-5 14:29:36'";
scanning csv files	awk -F, '{print $1, "," $6}'
interface thruput	while [ 1 ] ; do echo -n `date\|awk '{print $4}'`;ifconfig eth0\|grep bytes\|awk '{print " "$2" "$6}'; sleep 5; done
Grace	unix/win 2d & 3d graphing program
SciLAb	An open source MatLab alternative
Octave	an open source MatLab alternative
robotics	design video steppers 2 3 4 links batteries gaits quad'peds Rbotshop CanRbotix DIIGIIT
PIC Stuff	proj parts proj-list references elec.calculators elec. datasheets Ramsey nerdkits piclasr 409shop dealx cn-res
Windows stuff	better builtions mashups handy-progs speedups speed2 remotedesktop IBM Symphony ISOs virus free-apps file-cvrt AdminPswd AP2 AP3 PCproc
Browsers	FF-addons more
Math nerdery	dividing room rent