“There’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.”
Morpheus, in The Matrix
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 178)
| Conquer Public Speaking With the Classic Bestseller! | |
|
How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People By Public Speaking |
“There is no stronger method of bringing consistent lucidity to dream than by abiding continuously in lucid presence during the day.”
A quote from the book, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep.
While I’m looking at different online sales, here’s a link to Amazon’s Black Friday deals.
Here’s a link to ThinkGeek’s “Black Friday” deals:
Doctor: Do you know why your triglycerides are high?
Me: The election?
Doctor: No.
Me: David Bowie’s death?
Doctor: No.
Me: *sigh* The cookies?
Doctor: Yes.
If you ever need some good ScalaJ-HTTP examples, see the test files in the project, including this HttpBinTest.scala file. That file currently shows a number of good ScalaJ-HTTP examples, including GET, POST, and redirect examples with Scala.
See that page for a full list of examples, but for my own use, here are a few of them.
I’ll be joining a new yoga class soon, and I was just thinking about what I might say, or not say, to the other students in the class about the things I’ve experienced when practicing yoga very seriously. In an open discussion during a previous yoga class I told other students that I was able to feel various things when we did the “corpse pose” at the end of the session. I didn’t go into great detail, but I did tell them that I could feel my blood flowing in my body, how I could feel “vibration” sensations on my skin, and a few other things.
When I saw this map after the election I didn’t think about politics. I thought, “Wow, in ten years almost all of those truck drivers can be replaced by self-driving vehicles.”
I’m all for reducing congestion on the interstates — the U.S. population has probably doubled since the interstates were built — but that looks like a lot of people who are going to need to learn a new trade.
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
~ Og Mandino
David Price has written a book titled, The Pixar Touch, and on his website he shares 22 tips about storytelling from a former Pixar employee. This image shows the first ten tips.
Sometimes when you’re working with doctors they’ll use the term, “idiopathic.” It turns out that’s just a fancy word for, “We don’t know.” I haven’t looked up the origin of the word, but I remember its meaning by thinking, “Idiot, we’re not telepathic.” (Supernatural fans: substitute “idjit” for “idiot.”)
As an example, there’s an illness named, “Chronic Idiopathic Uticaria.” Chronic means constant, uticaria is a fancy word for hives, so that phrase means, “Some people constantly break out in hives, and we don’t know why.”
I have this problem, but for me it’s no longer idiopathic. I now know if I stick to a diet of a small set of organic foods I won’t get hives, but if I stray from that diet I quickly get itchy, and if I keep eating that way I eventually get hives.
That’s my medical lesson of the day. ;)
“I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”
Rumi
Ever have one of those days where you wake up in a bathtub full of ice in a hotel room with one of your kidneys gone?
“The best feeling is when someone appreciates everything about you that someone else took for granted.”
(I don’t know the original source of this, but I like it.)
“The path I have followed has been dangerous, destabilizing more than calm, excruciating more than pleasant, and hard to integrate (into ‘normal’ everyday life). It has also been profound, amazing, and glorious. Surfing the ragged edges of reality has been easier than slowing the thing down.”
~ A quote from the book, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, by Daniel Ingram.
I don’t have much time to explain this today, but ... if you want to see how to use the sed command on a Mac OS X (macOS) system to search for newline characters in the input pattern and replace them with something else in the replacement pattern, this example might point you in the right direction.
I’ll be driving to Mesa, AZ shortly to see my mom, so I’m working on a map. I did this once before, and as I remember, it is 6+ hours to Santa Fe, and another 10 hours from there to Mesa.
I woke up at 3:21 this morning, looked around, and thought, “Why is the apartment so bright?” Then I turned and saw the pre-Supermoon rising over the Rockies. Please enjoy my fancy iPhone photography skills. :)
| Conquer Public Speaking With the Classic Bestseller! | |
|
|
How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People By Public Speaking |