I'm trying to express being shocked in a good way, but all I can find are negative phrases such as:   "It hit me like a ton of bricks." "It hit me like a bucket of ice cold water."   I would like to know if there are some ways to say it in a positive way, as in being shocked in a good way. Thank you so much!  Edit: Pardon me, I should've added context before! I'm translating a sentence in Spanish, in which someone is saying they were shocked (they describe it as being hit suddenly) and very touched (therefore, it's in a positive light).   The answers supplied by Dan and J O S H are exactly what I needed, both "It took my breath away" and "It blew me away" work perfectly.  I'd still like to thank you kindly, all of you! I appreciate your help immensely, having found this forum feels like a blessing. However, I'm not certain as to how to proceed now, do I delete the question? Once more, thank you for all your help!
What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea/thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea/thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea/thought"?
I recall :    It was one that I knew could use a bit more spit and polish, but I didn't have the inclination or energy to edit it myself, so I skipped it.  I wander my way over to  (10K only), and look at the listing...    ...so, when did I approve this again? I skipped the question; that doesn't mean I gave my tacit approval, does it?  Seems like the dashboard needs to agree with the suggested edits view. How to tenderize large squid? My whole life I've been buying small squid (maybe 4-6" long bodies without the head and tentacles), which are very mildly chewy and tender.  All it takes is sautee them in a little OO and they are good to eat, IOW, no additional tenderizing is needed.  Yesterday I got some large squid, about 1 lb each before cleaning, probably 10"+ long without the head, probably 5-6 times as much meat as the little ones I usually get.  I remember trying to cook that before and they came out very tough and with a bit of unpleasant odor.  Is there a way to marinate and tenderize large squid and to somehow neutralize the odor? Let $a_n=\sqrt[n]n-1$. Does $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ converge? Microsoft Excel mangles Diacritics in .csv files? I am programmatically exporting data (using PHP 5.2) into a .csv test file. Example data:   Numéro 1 (note the accented e). The data is utf-8 (no prepended BOM).  When I open this file in MS Excel is displays as NumÃ©ro 1.  I am able to open this in a text editor (UltraEdit) which displays it correctly.  UE reports the character is decimal 233.  How can I export text data in a .csv file so that MS Excel will correctly render it, preferably without forcing the use of the import wizard, or non-default wizard settings? Tags are not showing up on the right side of the screen This is on Stack Overflow. On Meta I'm able to see what the tags are on the right side of the screen. In fact, I think yesterday or some point earlier today I saw tags on the right side of the screen (I can't screenshot or remember correctly).  It's right above the asked and active heading.  I know this is minor but what happened to it? It might be useful for browsing instead of having to look at the bottom of the question post.    Found an image on Google and it shows the tags on the right side of the screen: How can I define a mathematical function as a LaTeX macro? Show that $n$ lines separate the plane into  $\frac{n^2+n+2}{2}$ regions if no two of these lines are parallel and no three pass through a common point.   I know we start with the base case, where, if we call the above equation P(n), P(0), for 0 lines would be 0.  But I really have no idea how to begin the inductive step.  How do we know what k+1 we're supposed to arrive at?  Thanks! By the year 1582 vs in 1582 1.In 1582, scientists pointed out that the calendar was 10 days behind the sun      2.By the year 1582, scientists pointed out that the calendar was 10 days behind the sun.   I wanted to know the difference between "by the year 1582" and "in 1582". I have the following title page in LaTeX: \documentclass{article}  \title{Appendix A: User Manual}  \author{ John Smith\\University XYZ\\Albert Square\\Walford\\NC1 8AE }  \begin{document} \maketitle \end{document}  What is the proper way to add a new page, say, for the contents page and start editing that new page? Is there any way to tell Google to use a particular account for all Google services by default? I typically use 2 Google accounts simultaneously in my browser. So whenever I fire up any Google service like Google Maps or YouTube or Google Search, it uses one of the accounts. 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I have noticed that the confidence interval for predicted values in an linear regression tends to be narrow around the mean of the predictor and fat around the minimum and maximum values of the predictor. This can be seen in plots of these 4 linear regressions:    I initially thought this was because most values of the predictors were concentrated around the mean of the predictor. However, I then noticed that the narrow middle of the confidence interval would occur even if many values of were concentrated around the extremes of the predictor, as in the bottom left linear regression, which lots of values of the predictor are concentrated around the minimum of the predictor.  is anyone able to explain why confidence intervals for the predicted values in an linear regression tend to be narrow in the middle and fat at the extremes? I want to create a standalone python script using QGIS python API (PYQGIS) for education. First I create a model and export that model to python script.  original python script from the export :  ##=name ##raster=raster ##stat=output html outputs_QGISRASTERLAYERSTATISTICS_1=processing.runalg('qgis:rasterlayerstatistics', raster,stat)   Next I read this  and I tried to follow this tutorial to create my script.  Final script :  import sys from qgis.core import QgsApplication from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication app = QApplication([]) QgsApplication.setPrefixPath("/usr", True) QgsApplication.initQgis()  # Prepare processing framework  sys.path.append('/home/username/.qgis2/python') from processing.core.Processing import Processing dem='aster.tif' slope='slope.tif' aspect='aspect.tif' outputs_SAGASLOPEASPECTCURVATURE_1=processing.runalg('saga:slopeaspectcurvature', dem,6,1,1,slope,aspect,None,None,None,None,None,None,None,None,None,None) Processing.initialize()  # Exit applications QgsApplication.exitQgis() QApplication.exit()   If I run this script it works fine without error but I don't take some export like aspect and slope (these can't be found?). Any idea why I can't take exports ?  I use Ubuntu and python 2.7 and QGIS 2.18.1.    i try to this script :  import sys from qgis.core import QgsApplication sys.path.append('/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins') import processing a=processing.alglist() print a processing.alghelp("saga:slopeaspectcurvature")   and i take that print any idea why ?  Algorithm not found   but if i use this module in QGIS work fine. I wanted to find a counter example to show that the completeness of the inner product space is necessary in . Please give an example of a bounded linear functional $T$ on an incomplete inner product space $X$ which do not have any inner product representation i.e. there does not exist any $z$ in $X$ s.t. $T(x)= \langle ,z\rangle$ for all $x$ in $X$. Express solutions of equation $ \tan x= x $ in closed form I know that the equation $$ \tan(x) = x $$ can be solved using numerical methods, but I’m looking for a closed form of the solutions. In my opinion, having only numerical solutions means that we don’t know the problem, and sooner or later, we’ll be able to find a closed-form solution or at least a power-series solution. I’m looking for an explicit form of a sequence $ (x_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{Z}} $ in $ \mathbb{R} $ such that  $ 0 &lt; x_{0} &lt; \dfrac{\pi}{2} $, $ \tan(x_{n}) = x_{n} $ for all $ n \in \mathbb{Z} $, and $ (2 n - 1) \dfrac{\pi}{2} &lt; x_{n} &lt; (2 n + 1) \dfrac{\pi}{2} $ for all $ n \in \mathbb{Z} \setminus \{ 0 \} $.  The existence of such a sequence follows from the continuity of $ x \mapsto \tan(x) - x $ over its domain. Its uniqueness follows from the monotonicity of $ \tan(x) - x $ over the intervals $$ \left( (2 n - 1) \frac{\pi}{2},(2 n + 1) \frac{\pi}{2} \right), \quad n \in \mathbb{Z}. $$