#1220: Merry Squirrels
Saturday • December 24th 2022 • 7:52:02 pm • 1KB
Last Christmas I gave the squirrels bags of peanuts, and they just quickly squirreled them away in their tree huts. A lot of them got buried in the ground, though I think those were quickly found. This year I almost fed them by hand, until it all...
#1219: The Marvels Of Potato Programming
Friday • December 23rd 2022 • 11:26:11 pm • 2KB
I have a strange little tradition, where if there is time, I write little programs for holidays. While I haven't come up with any ideas yet, I remembered an interesting programming environment. It is the world of UserScripts, facilitated by the...
#1218: Infinite Dreams; Or, Programming Is Special Because It Has No Limits
Thursday • December 22nd 2022 • 10:22:39 pm • 2KB
Any time you sit down to a new program, you face an infinity before you. Every new lesson you learn, opens an infinite number of new directions. There is even class in programming, you can hang on to patterns from manuals. Patterns established by the...
#1217: The World And Peace
Wednesday • December 21st 2022 • 7:12:29 pm • 10KB
“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our...
#1216: Art Changes Lives
Tuesday • December 20th 2022 • 10:14:05 pm • 2KB
What artists can’t tell you, won’t tell you, is that they traced what they first drew. Tracing helps you study your art, before you sit down to add your heart. What makes an artist is trying hard, until you actually trace, not giving up creates that much...
#1215: No One Can Tell You Which Books To Pick, It Is Tradition
Monday • December 19th 2022 • 11:07:06 pm • 3KB
We can ask, and remind each other, to get at books that help us grow in greatness. There is much to be found in fantasy, but our elder selves will likely regret if we don’t go for the wisdom first. Those are the non fiction books, that talk about life, and...
#1214: The Workout Dancer
Sunday • December 18th 2022 • 8:46:54 pm • 5KB
Yabasa Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (Original Mix - 2006 Version) Satisfaction Imagine Dragons - Believer ( Remixx ) Tones and I: Dance Monkey (US TV Debut) TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY (OFFICIAL VIDEO) TONES AND I - Dance...
#1213: The Theft Of Genius; Or, On The Mind Of Our World
Sunday • December 18th 2022 • 7:14:40 pm • 2KB
Genius, not whim, and ineffective or fake, education, but our collective genius, is the mind of the world. All it requires, is that you stop and think about it. Genius can’t be tested on a test, it can only-really be appreciated. There is nothing to it,...
#1212: Fifteen Strange But True Facts About Animals That You Will Wish You Didn't Know
Saturday • December 17th 2022 • 9:58:29 pm • 2KB
Before we sent a man to the moon, we actually landed and brought back an angry raccoon. Geese prefer to walk when crossing the street, because they hope someone will toss them a sweet treat. Skunks don't know they spray something bad, in their culture,...
#1211: Our World, In Greatness
Friday • December 16th 2022 • 10:54:07 pm • 2KB
We are all one family, what divides us, is education. And the thing that makes education hard, is actually, just poverty. The world’s lack of real education, is perfectly reinforced by poverty. In a lot of ways, poverty prevents education. One of the...
#1210: Swinging Weights; Or On Exercise Music And Lifting
Thursday • December 15th 2022 • 9:53:33 pm • 3KB
Across your entire history, the gym is likely to call to you, twice, or thrice. Honor the opportunity, there is no clearer representation of crossroads. Don’t divide things up, it won’t work. If you think you can just learn to come in every day, then...
#1209: Thinking Outside Windows, Where Developer Experience And Power User Experience Is One And The Same
Wednesday • December 14th 2022 • 11:03:20 pm • 4KB
Preface This is about programming virtual desktops, into websites or behind the main layout of a website. It talks about web technologies, yes, but keep in mind... That any full=screen window of any programming language, can be the beginning of a brand new...
#1208: The Algorithm
Tuesday • December 13th 2022 • 11:12:03 pm • 3KB
We are all aware of the good news, programming makes a person handsome, well mannered, and creative. But, surely, there must also be bad news, and there is. Just two moments ago, already after dark, I’ve noticed some traffic on my way to get dinner. And...
#1207: A Glance At Speculative Thinking; Or, A Thought For Oumuamua
Monday • December 12th 2022 • 9:37:03 pm • 5KB
My favorite example, of speculative thought. Is when Seth Shostak, in his lighthearted way, Explains, and I paraphrase... When building the first radio, it is difficult to hold a soldering iron. When all you have, is tentacles. But speculative thought,...
#1206: The Creative
Sunday • December 11th 2022 • 11:02:41 pm • 2KB
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#1205: My Education Is A Spectacular Disaster
Sunday • December 11th 2022 • 6:22:12 pm • 6KB
And this has nothing to do with the fact, that schools are creepy and fake. Just as soon as the first bully wanted to push me into a puddle, circa third grade, I knew schools were a meat processing plant. Ran by crooks and supported by all the world's...
#1204: High School And Future Generations
Saturday • December 10th 2022 • 11:08:25 pm • 4KB
It is fake enough, because it is ineffective, and a lot of teachers don’t know this, many don’t care, others are driving the fraud, but many teachers don’t know it is fake. There is a way, that you can get to the bottom of fake education. You have to think...
#1203: Programming Bytes; Or, The Terrible Mambas Doth Linger In Pairs
Friday • December 9th 2022 • 10:35:28 pm • 3KB
When I was a baby, one of my most important lessons, or so I thought. Was that Mambas, a kind of a cheerful, and cheerfully deadly snake, always try to get you in pairs. So once you fling one danger noodle away, you have to turn right around and chuck the...
#1202: Endurance And Such
Thursday • December 8th 2022 • 11:15:40 pm • 3KB
Dancers would have a very hard time, if they had to memorize all their motions. Instead, they practice a routine in parts, over and over, and over an over. Until their body memorizes, all the necessary motions. When a dancer endures, they memorize their...
#1201: A Workout Tutorial For The Rest Of Us: Lifting Far
Wednesday • December 7th 2022 • 10:22:19 pm • 3KB
Be careful, lifting something ten times, thrice, may be, probably, is not a real workout. It may be an urban myth, or something made up by gym owners to get people to… get a move on. It certainly makes the place look busy, but a real workout, is about...
#1200: Rise, Do Not Worry That Schools Are Broken
Tuesday • December 6th 2022 • 11:09:38 pm • 4KB
Knowledge is infinitely more important, than any standardized thing we can create. Putting one teacher, in front of multiple students, never worked. Never will, it can’t. It confuses the teacher, even, they think grades can motivate you. While, there are...
#1199: A Strange Way To Fix Education; Or, Teaching With Programming
Monday • December 5th 2022 • 10:46:00 pm • 3KB
Let us suppose for a moment, that all academic teachers are charlatans. Let us grant them, that it is neither their nature, nor nurture that makes it so. They are in fact the victims, of their own fake teachers. It is a loop, fake teachers beget fake...
#1198: How To Enhance Your Design or Programming Portfolio
Sunday • December 4th 2022 • 9:23:01 pm • 2KB
Whether you are learning programming, or looking to show off your design skills… The Web Desktop may just be a good idea, and can only add to your Programming of Design Portfolio. If you are struggling to get some colorful projects into your portfolio,...
#1197: The Wave Maker
Sunday • December 4th 2022 • 4:45:37 pm • 3KB
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