Was Yoda based on this Buddhist master? A post on Lion’s Roar says he was.
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“Do you hear the sound of your heartbeat?”
“No.”
“Do you hear the grasshopper at your feet?”
(Pause)
“Old man, how is it that you hear these things?”
“Young man, how is it that you do not?”
“The light that shines upon me shines upon my neighbor as well. In this way everything is connected to everything else.”
~ Detective Charlie Crews, Life
Back before Mel Gibson went a little crazy he made some good movies, including Conspiracy Theory. At one point in the movie he tries to tell Julia Roberts that he loves her, and starts speaking the lyrics to the Sting song, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” starting with, “I resolved to call you up a thousand times a day...”
“I have no idea who that guy was, but I know that he just reset our karmic destiny.”
Part of a story from the book, Love Everyone.
“Could I have a glass of alcohol?” A favorite quote from the movie, Bridesmaids.
This won’t mean anything to anyone else, but while cleaning stuff off of my phone just now I ran across this photo of a house I once called home.
Here’s a side view of the building I grew up in, in Chicago, Illinois. (Thanks, Google Maps.) I used to throw rubber baseballs and tennis balls against that garage for hours, which is probably one reason my shoulder was screwed up before I left high school.
Mama always told me not to look into the eye’s of the Sun ... sunrise in Virginia Beach, April, 2017.
“From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.”
~ Ram Dass
“I recommend almost dying to everybody. It’s character building. You get a much clearer perspective of what’s important and what isn’t, the preciousness and beauty of life.”
~ Carl Sagan, Astronomer, Philosopher
“A man dies when ...”
The words shown in this image come from this speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
I was a little busy making popcorn and missed most of tonight’s sunset, but I managed to catch this photo right before it disappeared.
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“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
~ Mother Teresa
A post from 2017:
For everyone who is upset by the actions of the current president and other political leaders, I urge you to take action. By “action” I don’t mean posting things on social networks. I mean writing your senators and congressmen. I mean peacefully marching and demonstrating. I mean supporting others who are marching and demonstrating. Every time you think about sharing a post, send a check to the ACLU and other organizations that are fighting against hate, oppression, destruction of the environment, etc. Otherwise, it’s just a lot of people preaching to the choir.
If you think programming now is difficult, VisiCalc was written in assembly language for an Apple II. Here are a few words from this web page that describe this code:
“Each line represents no more than one CPU instruction. The poll_keyboard subroutine call was important. As Bob Frankston describes it: ‘There were no interrupts nor a clock [on the Apple II]. If the user typed a character before the keyboard input buffer was emptied it would be lost ... To avoid [losing characters when the user typed fast during a CPU-intensive operation] I polled the keyboard in the middle of potentially long loops — keyboard checks were strewn throughout the code.”
The code was written at night while dialed into a time-sharing system with only a keyboard and printer.
Idea of the day: I think it might be nice if, when using an operating system like MacOS, background windows could optionally be displayed with a gaussian blur effect. That way I could focus more on the main window I’m working in.
For instance, right now I’m writing part of the Scala Cookbook, and as I’m writing in a foreground window it would be nice if my IDE and Terminal windows would seem like they were further in the background. The gaussian blur idea is the first thing that came to mind, but any effect that made those windows seem like they were further in the background would be nice, i.e., if there was more of a 3D depth effect.
I recently had a problem with VS Code, Scala Metals, SBT, and Bloop, and VS Code said that I needed to manually run “build import.” Problem is, it didn’t tell me how to run build import.
The short story is that if you need to manually run build import in VS Code, you need to execute the “Import build” command through the VS Code command palette. On a Mac you do this by opening the command palette with the [Cmd][Shift][p] keystroke, and then start typing the word “import”. When you see “Import build” appear in the drop-down list, click it, and it will run the build-import/import-build process.
Back on this day (May 30th) in 2012, I turned myself in to the police in Virginia Beach. What happened was that I accidentally ran a red light the day before — and I mean it was really, really red — the day before. I was trying to figure out how to get to a grocery store and I was looking at everything but the traffic light.
I was about to leave town and didn’t want to deal with this after I left Virginia, so I called the police and told them I ran such and such a light at approximately such and such time, and I’d like to pay my fine before I left town. They had cameras on all four corners so I figured I was screwed. The woman I spoke to worked for a little while, then came back on the phone and said I was fine, they had no record of it.