It's funny how small, trivial things can lead you to make radical changes in the tools you use. As regular readers of this blog know, I collect sayings that I publish every month. I then compile these sayings into a custom fortune file that displays one saying every time I login to my computer or … Continue reading Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt
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Facebook Directs Your Eyes
"What this means is that even more than it is in the advertising business, Facebook is in the surveillance business. Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It’s amazing that people … Continue reading Facebook Directs Your Eyes
Do The Easy Bits First
"As soon as you've done the easy bit, everything around it becomes easier. This is the way we solve the puzzle.This is also the way we fix the world......If I run into a problem I can't solve yet, or I encounter a subject that's too hard for me, I go "Huh, interesting", and save it … Continue reading Do The Easy Bits First
Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee
"I think that what Tucker says much of the time is completely reprehensible and divorced from reality," Lemon said, "but he has a right to be in a space and not be accosted and not be ambushed by anyone."—Don Lemon, CNN anchor, quoted by Sarah Polus, "Don Lemon defends Tucker Carlson amid confrontation video." TheHill.com, … Continue reading Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee
The Power and Perils of Incrementalism
Start small. When starting something new, it makes sense to cut it down into easily manageable chunks, from anywhere to 5 minutes to an hour, that can be completed with relative ease. It doesn't matter whether you are trying to build up your exercise capacity, writing computer code, reading a textbook, learning some new skill, … Continue reading The Power and Perils of Incrementalism
Hal Higdon’s Running Programs
“[Hal Higdon]’s all about the democratization of running,” his daughter, Laura Sandall, said. “He was all about making sure that anyone who wanted to get out and run could have a training program at their fingertips.”At their fingertips, and at the top of Google search results. His free training plans have remained some of the … Continue reading Hal Higdon’s Running Programs
Federal Vacancies & Senate Dysfunction
"Biden is hardly the first incoming president to struggle with filling key positions. Any new administration faces hundreds of openings at the same time it’s grappling with other urgent challenges. Biden’s pace of nominations is faster than Donald Trump’s, slower than Barack Obama’s and about the same as George W. Bush’s — though unlike any … Continue reading Federal Vacancies & Senate Dysfunction
Ahead of the Castration Trend
"According to new research, there may be a surprisingly effective way for men to increase their lifespans — but it requires a pretty severe alteration to the physical body that may not appeal to everybody.An international team led by researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand were able to show that castration of … Continue reading Ahead of the Castration Trend
African Polyandry
"In polyandry, the woman often initiates the relationships, and invites the husbands to join her union. Some pay the bride price, others opt to contribute to her livelihood. She has the power to remove a co-husband if she believes he is destabilising her other relationships.Prof Machoko said love was the main reason the men he … Continue reading African Polyandry
The Social Obscene
"In certain young people today...I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to … Continue reading The Social Obscene
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