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Thu Jul 14 07:56:38 EDT 2016 Slept from around eleven to seven. Mostly sunny. High of eighty-eight. Learned that feet and inches should be straight quote marks, not curly. http://savevsdragon.blogspot.com/2016/07/typographic-pet-peeve-3-inch-marks-and.html http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52529/straight-quotes http://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html Technically, the marks for feet and inches are _prime marks_ rather than straight quotes: "Typogr­phy purists would point out that proper foot and inch marks have a slight north­east-to-south­west slope to them. HTML purists would further point out that these characters have their own e­cape codes (&prime; and &Prime;). True, and you are we­come to seek them out." http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210290/how-to-write-doubleprime-in-latex http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87134/what-is-the-advantage-of-using-f-prime-instead-of-f So, in LaTeX, $f'$ and $f''$. Goals: Work: - Building security meeting Done. Spent sometime crawling under desks, pulling network cable. Twenty minute walk at lunch. Saw a seagull, and heard a cicada. Partly sunny, hot, nice breeze. Home: Breakfast: coffee with half-and-half, mixed greens, carrots, yogurt with berries Lunch: a few nuts, iced chai tea Dinner:

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