What did you learn today?

[Juanita]

Today I learned that an old African ritual for a boy's "right to passage" included covering a boy's head with a cloth bag and taking him to a secret place with other boys his age to perform various "tests" so-to-speak.
Very interesting.

[Novacain]

Today I learned that an old African ritual for a boy's "right to passage" included covering a boy's head with a cloth bag and taking him to a secret place with other boys his age to perform various "tests" so-to-speak.
Very interesting.

There are some messed up rituals out there, one I've heard of recently that stands out to me is called "Satere-Mawe Bullet Ant Glove".

[Juanita]

There are some messed up rituals out there, one I've heard of recently that stands out to me is called "Satere-Mawe Bullet Ant Glove".

That sounds painful...

[Juanita]

Sorry for the double post.

Super important life lesson I learned today: Never Ever EVER EVEREVEREVEREVEREVEREVER leave your sketchbook open to a drawing you spent nearly two hours on when your niece (or any little kid) is around. IT WILL BE DESTROYED.
*rolls away*

[diehard67]

I learned that using ssh instead of samba to backup my laptop to my desktop computer is over twice as fast.

[Juanita]

Yikes.
At least my picture can be salvaged. I'm currently erasing the scribbles, then I'm going to transfer it to another page.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I learned that using ssh instead of samba to backup my laptop to my desktop computer is over twice as fast.

Sounds like a fellow Linux user.

[diehard67]

yes I am a linux user

another thing I learned just now actually, using the usermod command to add my user to an other group didn't work as I hoped it would, it replaced the list of groups I was in with the default one for my user and the one I added, lost my sudo powers for a few minutes while i figured out how to fix it, ubuntu's recovery mode gave me a root shell where I could re add the sudo group, then reboot, into the user manager program for kde to add the rest of the groups back, then reboot again and I am back to normal, more or less, lesson learned, read more on how a command works before messing with system level stuff lol

btw: for those who are interested, the command was
usermod -G group username

replace group with a system group and username with my username on the system, not filled in here for security reasons.

oops

[Astro Forever]

I watched a nice documentary about the Schönbrunn Palace today. Beautiful!

[Earthshine]

I learned that there are some people that don't realize that Egypt is in Africa and is NOT in the Middle East. Seriously I had a 30 minute 'debate' about it and had to look up a map and show a table of 13 students where Egypt was, and the geographical borders between Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East to get them to understand.

Some still insisted that Egypt was not an African nation because "Africa is dirty" (they didn't say it, but that's the gist of what they were getting at).

Very frustrating day.