I’ve been entertaining a recurring thought about my arrivals in Brazil. Each time I return, just a tiny sip instantly triggers the immense pleasure found in the unmistakable taste …
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A few words on programming yourself
Over breakfast I skimmed most of the book Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain, by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb. It explores the functioning of our brain, hearing, vision …
At a bunker
I always enjoyed taking meals in a basement. You could also call it a bunker. It need not be a glorified bunker either. It need not be a Bavarian beer …
Toastmasters from physical to virtual
I had to transition from my Toastmasters club in presence of impending travels. How was I to proceed with public speaking development, which I had adapted like a healthy sport …
Jazz tastes
My taste buds for jazz listening have become considerably spoiled. A classic bop composition no longer excites me in the way it used to. Too many chords. Too much rhythmic …
On the great purge, house plants, and enduring creatures.
Around the year 2009, I found myself aggressively simplifying, eliminating and organizing - mostly the first two, since upon the simplifying and the eliminating, there was little left to organize. I …
A few stoic ideas from an ancient text
Simple ideas have survived the test of time. Or have they? In my on-and-off attempts to read Marcus Aurelius, I’ve encountered much allusion to Stoicism, the same guiding principles …
On marginal value of books
I see several reasons for wanting to read a book.
- To learn new material.
- To be inspired.
- To be entertained by the content.
- To enjoy fantastically written prose.
The more …
An enhanced, but compact shell-command processor
Not long ago I devised an enhanced command processor in shell script, and called it exec-cmd. It might be the shortest (60-70 line) most-handy utility I had written, although shell …
How to practice improvised speeches for lazy folk, part 2
I created a routine to invoke the all-inclusive topic generator/speech recorder/logger, per the previous post using an exec-cmd command.
The routine requires
How to leverage a multi-language OS environment
If you’re a multi-language fanatic like myself, you want the ease of switching between languages in a variety of contexts. These include typing, spell-checking and interfacing with applications in …
How to practice improvised speeches for lazy folk, part 1
In Toastmasters, we dedicate part of each meeting to Table Topics, an improvised question and answer portion related to a specific theme. A Table Topic master asks a volunteer one …
Quick, but killer exercise circuits with aid of technology
I only exercise at home or outdoors. Sometimes, I postpone my exercise until close to the evening time-frame, right before a timely event or commitment (of importance to me), leaving …
Plus one minus two rule
I don’t recall where I drew inspiration for this rule, if any source in particular, or if I derived it on my own. However, in solidifying the mentality for …
Shades of modern and old English
I recently finished reading Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, featuring some of the most beautiful English-language prose I’ve encountered. In fact, the last such experience may have …
Speculative execution in Computer Architecture
In Computer Architecture, speculative execution is one of a multitude of strategies processors have employed for decades to maximize computational throughput (speed). Specifically, SE is an Instruction Level Parallelism technique …
More Inspiring Technologies
Three years ago I had written an article on the three most inspiring technologies in my routine. The personal impact of those three items still by far prevails over any …
How daily journaling alleviates hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
I haven’t maintained a consistent journaling practice for some time. And I regret this state of affairs. 10 minutes daily can result in an effective and informative chronicle of …
Single-tasking workflow in Linux with DWM
In a series of Linux-related articles recently, I have provided a number of strategies to eliminate distractions and superfluous features in your workflow. The strategies largely rely on ultra-minimalist command-line …
Slide presentations in seconds from plain text
Creating slide presentations not in minutes, but seconds, from a few lines of plain text with Sent.
Cell phones and travelling
As one among the cell-phone-averse elements of society, my reasons are fairly standard. Not wishing to elaborate on a fairly saturated issue, I will briefly mention, they directly concern cognitive …
Achieving an action-oriented workflow in Linux
How an action-oriented workflow stimulates more focused attention than an interaction-based workflow.
jrnl, from plain CLI journaling to time reporting
What I love about simple CLI Linux utilities is that one, many are old, well-documented and extremely light weight, two, they are modular and can easily interact with other CLIs …
Interesting clubs to attend or start
I want to put forth my best effort in avoiding the usage of the letter ‘k’ for this post. The letter detached from the laptop typing peripheral surface a year …
My experience with W3M, a console-based web browser
W3M an entirely console-based web browser I mentioned briefly in a previous post, despite a series of limitations in the context of a full web browsing experience, can play just …
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