So whales probably do have conversations with each other, explaining life’s mysteries. Right? No? Okay, fine. But while we’re on the topic of unlikely depictions, check out this artistic rendering of a whale and her calf by Conrad Gesner:
by Conrad Gesner, published in 1560 in "Icones Animalium" and more recently in "Monsters of the Sea" by Richard Ellis. Found on the internets at http://www.strangescience.net/stsea2.htm
Okay, just so you know – this is just a silly drawing, and doesn’t actually represent anything that happens in reality. OBSs don’t look like that. And fin whales probably wouldn’t care if they saw one anyway.
This is what a real OBS looks like:
Or, something that kind of resembles a fin whale. Why are they so hard to draw?
This drawing (and whatever follow-on drawings that may go with it) is for Vera, who loves all animals, large and small. Even big, scary spiders!
It’s been a while, but I’m back to Org-Mode again. This time I’m using it as a convenient and simple way to draft my paper on source levels (exporting to LaTeX). And of course, since it’s been a while, I’m constantly having to look things up that I’m certain I knew before. Like line-wrapping.
To use line wrapping where lines are split on the spaces between words (instead of splitting at the screen width regardless of where you are in a word) is much better on the eyes. To do that, it’s:
cmd-M Visual-Line-Mode
Hey, presto!
And if you don’t want to have to type that in every time, just put the following line in your .emacs file:
(global-visual-line-mode 1) ; 1 for on, 0 for off.
AND… because I love to see what Google Images will kick back, the exact search terms “line wrapping in emacs 23″ gave me this:
To a certain friend of mine (you know who you are): I tried using Bing, but there was nothing nearly this exciting or totally unrelated as this. Sorry. Next time!
