Top 10 Most Viewed in 2022 Why Ergo? Forecasting a Cryptocurrency's Price Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: Summary Installing LineageOS on a Samsung Device The Asshole Filter Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux A Quick Introduction to … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2022 Year in Review
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Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
You may have noticed that I have been posting to cafebedouin less lately. It is partially because I have been more involved in using Twitter. Why? One thing I like about Twitter is that it is a larger, socially constructed version of the kind of thoughts that we have moment to moment. Reading the timeline … Continue reading Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2021 Why Ergo?Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: SummaryInstalling LineageOS on a Samsung Device (updated in December 2020)Forecasting a Cryptocurrency PriceSeedvault: Encrypted Backup for AndroidBook Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton WilsonMutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrcA Quick Introduction to StumpWMThe Asshole Filter Posts That Deserve More Visibility … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
cafebedouin.org: 2020 Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2021
In 2020, I posted 418 entries with a total of 58,670 words (most of which are quotes of someone else). There were +8750 views by +6,400 visitors to cafebedouin.org. Most of the views are concentrated either on the main page or the most popular posts, these had 100 views or more: Don’t Shoot the Dog … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2020 Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2021
Alain’s Propos
""Years later he recalled how he wrote the propos: each evening, he would sit down before two sheets of paper, knowing before he started that the last line would be written at the bottom of the second page., and that within the confines of those two pages he would write a piece which, if he … Continue reading Alain’s Propos
Cracker Country
I met someone recently. And during the course of conversation, we discovered we grew up around the same area. The conversation went along these lines: Stranger: I'm from X.Me: Oh, really? I grew up near there.Stranger: Where are you from?Me: The Y/Z area.Stranger: Don't take this the wrong way, but we used to call that, … Continue reading Cracker Country
OpenBSD’s Guide to Netiquette
The OpenBSD's mailing list page netiquette section is excellent. It is a distillation of how to communicate online, i.e.: Plain text, 72 characters per line [or simplest formatting available]Do your homework before writingInclude a useful subject line [or headline]Trim your signatureStay on topicInclude important informationRespect differences in opinion and philosophy Using only plain text is … Continue reading OpenBSD’s Guide to Netiquette
Semi-Auto Cut-Up: Another Offering (KJV)
Eat the congregation, together,smite them afraid, blast vessels.O ye dead life, mercy, semblanceof a kind, a measure of shadow.But, they had no prophet, neighborsand friends, children of fate, troubledthe Others, remember them not, no-name,wilderness sacrifices, sore consumed.Desolation came and passed, Death,bare the enemy, dead, desolate,good and great together into the land,begat headstones, seeds unto the … Continue reading Semi-Auto Cut-Up: Another Offering (KJV)
Lessons Learned from the Hemingway Editor
As an exercise, I tried rewriting an essay I wrote for this blog, Ergot on Rye, in the Hemingway editor. I learned that my writing in too academic. It is too hard to read. Expressions need to be simpler. I need to use fewer qualifiers. The Hemingway editor helps me break down some of those … Continue reading Lessons Learned from the Hemingway Editor
Robin Sloan & Writing With The Machine
I am just so compelled by the notion of a text editor that possesses a deep, nuanced model of… what? Everything ever written by you? By your favorite authors? Your nemesis? All staff writers at the New Yorker, present and past? Everyone on the internet? It’s provocative any way you slice it.I should say clearly: … Continue reading Robin Sloan & Writing With The Machine
Amazon & The Cultural Landscape of Books
The small print publisher 404 Ink's discussion of their finances, particularly the portion on the cost to small press publishers to have their books sold via Amazon, is a bit of an eye-opener. On some level, I was aware that the discounts that Amazon is able to offer on books had to be squeezed from … Continue reading Amazon & The Cultural Landscape of Books
The Spirit of Good Will
I was reading How to Think by Alan Jacobs, and he makes this really insightful comment: "Genuine community is open to questioning from people of good will." He makes a distinction between cliques and in-groups, where conforming to certain ideas are the condition for acceptance, and genuine community, where the communities are open to dialogue … Continue reading The Spirit of Good Will
The House Democrats’ “Rebuke” of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a Fraud For Many Reasons
It is, for instance, beyond dispute that what Omar is saying is true given that the very first bill passed by the U.S. Senate this year was one that allowed punishment for American citizens who boycott Israel, while U.S. citizens in 26 states are formally punished for boycotting this foreign nation, as we reported last month … Continue reading The House Democrats’ “Rebuke” of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a Fraud For Many Reasons
The 5:1 Relationship Ratio
The post today on The Attachment Theory of Relationships reminded me of a good piece of advice I'd read in John Gottman's The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, described in short in this article on The Gottman Institute website: "The difference between happy and unhappy couples is the balance between positive and negative interactions … Continue reading The 5:1 Relationship Ratio
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