“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
~ Carl Jung
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 3)
This is another in a series of articles I call “Conversations with robots.” In this article I did into the style of meditation taught by one of my favorite Zen, Zazen, and meditation teachers, Katsuki Sekida.
This Ram Dass definition of the word “namaste” is really wonderful:
I honor the place in you
Where the entire universe resides.
I honor the place in you
Of love, of light, of truth, of peace.I honor the place in you
Where if you are in that place in you and
I am in that place in me,
There is only one of us.
This namaste definition comes from the excellent Ram Dass book, Polishing the Mirror.
Namaste. :)
GraphQL FAQ: What are the benefits of GraphQL, and how does it compare to competing technologies?
This is another blog post in my series of “Conversations with robots.” In this post we look at GraphQL, and the pros and cons of how it compares to REST and gRPC.
May, 2024: Here’s a summary of my current free online Scala and functional programming training courses:
- Introduction to Scala 3 video course
- Introduction to Functional Programming video course
- Advanced Scala 3 video course
- Advanced Functional Programming video course
If you’re interested in 100% Free online Scala and FP video training courses, I hope these online video courses are helpful.
From the movie Insomnia, this is a great quote from an Alaskan resident to a visitor:
“There are two kinds of people who live in Alaska: the ones who are born here and the ones who come here to escape something else. I wasn’t born here.”
A nice thing about most hotels in Santa Fe, New Mexico is that they treat water like you’re living on the Space Station. They have signs like, “You may have noticed that there’s not a lot of water around here. Please don’t waste it!”
At restaurants they usually only give you water if you ask for it, and I remember one time a waitress asked if I was really going to drink it or just look at it. :)
One thing I learned from my dad: The harder you try to control other people, the more they resent it and pull away from you. You gotta let other people be who they are.
“The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
~ An old Zen poem from Li Bo (Li Po, Li Bai)
I know that a lot of people devalue products when they’re free or inexpensive, and I know this sounds corny, but I always hope that somewhere out there in the world there’s a programmer/developer that works hard, but for one reason or another can’t quite grok Scala and/or functional programming, but then they find one of my books, and the light bulb goes on over their head. And then they start writing better code, and they’re happier with their work, other people are happier with their work, and they make a little more money than they might have made otherwise.
With that in mind, I’ve lowered the price of my Kindle books to just $2.99 (USD) for the 2024 holiday season. Here’s Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way, and here’s Learn Scala 3 The Fast Way.
Also, please note that the PDF versions of these books are FREE.
Enjoy, and I hope they help. :)
I use my favorite images as screensavers, and this “hoodie” image of Luke Skywalker from Star Wars Movie #7 is a recent favorite. I found an image online, then worked with it in Gimp to get a decent effect. This Luke Skywalker sketch shows another approach you can take with Gimp.
This is a small image of a painting I bought a few years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico, called “Starry Night Over Santa Fe.”
As a brief note today, I have said to my doctors multiple times, “My kidneys itch.” If you have experienced the same feeling, a solution I have found for this problem is to take these AZO Cranberry Urinary Tract Health tablets.
As I’ve written here several times before, I’ve been treated for kidney stones three times so far, and kidney stones keep coming back, and this is a simple product that gets rid of the “itchy kidney” feeling. (Sometimes it also helps to help with the “pain of stones in the kidneys” feeling.)
Personally, I have allergic reactions to the AZO Urinary Pain Relief Maximum Strength product, so I can’t take that much if at all, but I can take the cranberry product every day without an issues.
From this article at psypost.org:
“In a recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition, researchers at Northwestern University showed that a smartphone app using sensory cues can significantly increase the frequency of lucid dreams—dreams in which a person is aware they are dreaming while still asleep. This study marks the first attempt to apply a lucid-dreaming method called Targeted Lucidity Reactivation outside of a lab environment, demonstrating that even a simple at-home approach can help users experience more lucid dreams.”
I’m sitting here working this morning when I start to hear that familiar scratching, crawling sound outside. In a few moments, the squirrel’s head appears from the right side of the window. He’s hanging sideways, three stories off the ground, and looking in, about twelve inches from my face. It’s cold outside so I had the window closed, but I slide it open.
“Dude, Cheerios,” he says.
“Oh shoot, I forgot,” I say.
By the time I walk to the kitchen, get the box of Cheerios, and open the door to the deck, he’s already there, waiting.
(October 12, 2014 #99PercentTrueStory)
This photo looks like a sunset to me, but it’s from a sunrise in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
I just heard about the book Live to Forgive this morning. The introduction on Amazon says it all: “In Live to Forgive, former ESPN producer Jason Romano walks readers through his personal journey of forgiving his alcoholic father. Through sharing his own story, Romano invites readers to enter into their own messy journeys of forgiveness-to fully feel their pain, evaluate their pain, transform their pain, and ultimately forgive those who caused their pain. The only route to freedom and peace is forgiveness.”
This blog post is part of a new series of blog posts I call “Conversations With Robots.” I choose a topic and then begin talking to my robot/A.I. friends about it. Today’s discussion starts with, “Do you know what Shinzen Young did to get through his Shinto training? I just saw that he mentions Deity Yoga as part of his training.”
This blog post is part of a new series of blog posts I call “Conversations With Robots.” I choose a topic and then begin talking to my robot/A.I. friends about it. Today’s discussion starts with, “What is Deity Yoga”?