E.T. call ~home

After many years of unix systems administration, it is a pure pleasure to discover the trick
as simple as displaying the user home directory with ~username.

Examples:

$ echo ~adm
/var/adm
$ echo ~listen
/usr/net/nls
$ echo ~wisnios
/home/wisnios


digression

command+shift+L rise a google search window with the results of the selected-piece-of-text query.
Piękne. It's beautiful.