How about a book on how to *use* KDE?

I was happily using KDE 3.x.
Then my distro went to KDE 4, and I couldn't make any sense out of it.
I finally gave up and switched to Gnome.

Born on a Blue Day is the autobiography of an autistic man.
It is a good read, and extraordinarily lucid.
(Although I don't know how much help he may have had from his editors.)

He was interviewed on NPR, and he comes across as rational, and thoughtful, and well spoken;
and I don't doubt that he is autistic, but I'm not seeing a crushing disability.
Then the interviewer asks him what places or situations are difficult for him,
and he says the beach, the beach causes him anxiety.
And she asks why, and he says,
"ooohhhh...so many pebbles to be sorted; so many grains of sand that need to be counted..."

I was in a book store the other day, and I look at all the books, and I get pretty much the same feeling:
"ooohhh....so many books that need to be read."
But is isn't anxiety, it is more futility and despair...

From The Onion:

April 13, 2005
DEA Seizes Half-Built Suspension Bridge From Bogotá To Miami
http://www.theonion.com/articles/dea-seizes-halfbuilt-suspension-bridge-from-bogota,9607/

Some say the sun rises in the east; some say in the west.
Probably the truth lies somewhere in-between.

My company runs exchange, so I have to run Outlook.
Search on Outlook is slow and clumsy.
I only use it under duress (i.e. when I absolutely can not find what I am looking for any other way.)
And when I do use it, I only find what I am seeking maybe half the time.

My personal email is in files in directories, and I search it with find/grep.
This is simple, fast, and usually successful.

We got hit with this--or something like it.

Come back from vacation and find a half-dozen credit cards opened in
our name, all with $1K-$2K already charged on them.
They were opened over a period of 48 hours,
across a swath of states over 1K miles from our residence.
Mostly MC/Visa; a few store cards.

One or two banks called our home number, and since we weren't there to confirm, refused to open the account.
The rest all opened the accounts and allowed the first-day charges.

We filed a police report and contested every charge.
There were some forms to fill out and a few phone calls,
but every bank "resolved the dispute in our favor",
they all notified the credit reporting agencies that it was fraud,
and the whole thing just went away over the next few months.

A few of the banks subsequently tried to sell us credit monitoring services
(meant to keep this kind of thing from happening) which I thought was
a bit slimy.

They do something like this in Florida.
They put a sign up on one of the interstates saying "Drug Checkpoint Ahead".
There is no checkpoint, and if there was one, it would probably be unconstitutional.
But they don't need one.
They just pull over everyone who suddenly pulls a U-turn across the median
(which is a genuine traffic violation).

Pages?
I thought about how many reams I've bought for it and multiplied by 500.
(Then I counted the hooves and divided by 4...)

Jump kits (Go bags)
You put 'em by the door for when you have to rock'n'roll.
http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/emerg_kit.htm