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The Best of The Week

It's kind of like a Brevity Quest, but with more words … and Hair1! ! !


"Her dark eye flashing like a sun-lit gem,
And her luxuriant hair--’twas like the sweep
Of a swift wing in visions!

-- N. P. Willis


The long and the short of it is that more writeups are wanted:
50 to 500 words on any & all topics hair-related, specifically.


<Tem42> hair style is not noded.
… Nor is dirty blonde
… Nor highlight or highlights, in the hair-do sense.
… Does E2 just not do hair?
HairQuest 2024
… also not noded.

Upon reading that, I offered to run such a quest and Tem42 responded, saying:

"You should run HairQuest 2024, and you should overlap it with BQ24,

I've been running Linux as my only computer OS for probably ten years, and have been very happy overall with the tech and how to use it. Dealing with the community is sometimes a litttle challenging; many people find there are many gatekeepers, many opinions and yes, still many holy wars. One is the title reference, that "it's not 'Linux', it's GNU-Linux!" Frankly I see this as off-putting to many, potentially a barrier to adoption; yes, there can be some toxicity within the communities.

Still alive!! A general update with some emphasis on health

I take my blood pressure and heartrate every morning and record it. i have no intention of recording it here on the regular, but enough people have enquired about it that I felt it would be valuable to show the last four days:

                SYS    DIA      HR
                ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
15/11/24	129	84	71
16/11/24	125	75	89
17/11/24	101	69	88
18/11/24	100	62	101
19/11/24	99	67	97

I'll take

News for Noders

November 1: The IRON NODER CHALLENGE starts today and runs through December 1. It's never too late to sign up, and all writeups get rewards.

November 1: Happy Birthday Zephronias!

November 5: Bonfire Night in the UK.

November 11: Veterans Day in the US.

November 13: Everything2's Birthday.

November 27: Happy Birthday Estelore!

November 28: Thanksgiving in the US.

November 28: HairQuest 2024 begins!

If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.

October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIInd Iron Noder in November!



If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.

September 8: Happy birthday svntax!

September 16: Feliz cumpleaños Ancientsnow!

September 18: Happy birthday Stuart!

September 25: Happy birthday Templeton!

September 26: Stanislav Petrov Day.

September 27: Happy birthday Uberbanana!


If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.


August 1: Brevity Quest 2024 starts today!

August 4: Happy birthday avalyn!

August 6: 広島

August 9: 長崎

August 27: Happy birthday Bitriot!

If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.

July 1: Canada Day.

July 4: America Day.

July 15: Side Quest 2024 ends.

July 25: Happy birthday TanisNikana!

July 26: Happy birthday teleny!


If you have anything to add to this calendar, let Tem42 know.