What is the real outline of the hours and actions one pursues?
There may be a purpose you believe you follow, or maybe you just respond to the stimulii provided?
Or maybe, for you (for us all?), there is another guide pointing out what you are really following.
An underlying or looming, indistinct shape. A tiny figure...or maybe titanic but remote...
One may ask again and again: what is it? Ask again...and again...and again
What follow, if anything does? A deepening silence, confusion, frustration?
Maybe, if one is persistent, and lucky -- some small reward.
So one tries to discern critical 'why's and 'what's? Why bother at all?
Examine the brushstrokes up close, the painting is lost at that point.
If you actions are your self-portrait ... are you satisfied?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A new food deity has arisen
Paris. Beef bourguignon at Auberge de la Reine Blanche. Fantastic. 'nuff said
Random text found last week...
FOLLOW to relieve responsibility
OBEY so you don't have to think
CONSUME without restraint
COMPETE so you feel successful
KILL those different than yourself
DESTROY what you don't understand
MORALITY you need to be told what's right and wrong
GOD because no one else really cares about you
MONEY to keep government in total control
MATERIALISM so you forget what's really important
IGNORANCE is bliss
2005 Abadia Crianza
Our first Spanish red wine, from Raimat. We enjoyed this blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Tempranillo grapes. Fruity with a long finish. Like a beaujolais...but not. Different and very nice wine.
Recommended. Angelique loved and would likely say case-worthy. Not me. Worth a few bottles though ;)
Lance
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2006 La Vigilia Ripasso Valpolicella
Very good value Ripasso from TerreDomimi. Big, round and flavourful -- great with a strongly flavoured meal. As good as ripassos we've had at twice the price. Will probably mature very nicely.
Caseworthy.
Around $18 at LCBO
Lance
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2006 Vinsobres
From Perrin & Fils.
Nice Cotes de Rhones, reminded me of some of my very first, similar wines in 1989. Solid, sipping wine. We had with St.Morgon cheese and bread. Great combo. Recommended. Around $16 at LCBO.
Lance
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Removing lots of hyperlinks in Excel 2007
Question: How do you remove many hyperlinks from an Excel spreadsheet at once, say after pasting in a a large HTML table?
Answer: Use a handy-dandy Excel 2007 macro to delete the hyperlink addresses in your Excel sheet.
Open your Excel spreadsheet that you wish to remove the hyperlinks from. Go to your Developer Tab in the top ribbon (you may need to enable the Developer tab). Find and click the “Macros” button the Developer ribbon.
In the “Macro Name” box, enter “RemoveHyperlinks” and then select the “Create” option button. You’ll be taken to the Macro editor.
Paste following code into the editor:
Sub RemoveHyperlinks()
'Remove all hyperlinks from the active sheet
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Delete
End Sub
It needs to look exactly like the example above. No extra text.
Next, close the editor window by selecting "Close and Return to Microsoft Excel" under the File menu.
Now, go to the sheet that contains the hyperlinks that you wish to delete. Select the cell(s) you want to update.
On the Developer ribbon, select the Macros button again.
In the Macros popup dialogue, highlight the macro called "RemoveHyperlinks" and click on the Run button.
Voila!.Your hyperlinks should be deleted.
This is the updated version (for Excel 2007), of this fine tip: http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/macros/delete_hl.php
Kudos to the original author..