“I used to think when someone cheated on me that I was flawed ... I’ve now come to see that when someone mistreats you it has almost nothing to do with you. Other people’s behavior is about them.”
~ Kirsten Davies, in this TinyBuddha.com post
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 73)
Waitin’, watchin’ the clock
It’s four o’clock
It’s got to stop
Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech
As he opens the door, she rolls over
Pretends to sleep as he looks her over
She lies and says she’s in love with him
Can’t find a better man
She dreams in colour
She dreams in red
Can’t find a better man
Talkin’ to herself
There’s no one else who needs to know
She tells herself
Memories back when she was bold and strong
And waiting for the world to come along
Swears she knew it
Now she swears he’s gone
~ some lyrics from Better Man, by Pearl Jam
A black dog on the couch in the bar of the Latitude 62, Talkeetna, Alaska.
The Guardian has a good story whose title tells you what you need to know: A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it.
I had never heard of the term “catfishing” until I saw it used in some show on Netflix the other day.
An “I Voted” sticker in the Koyukon-Athabaskan (native Alaskan) language. (I don’t know the original source of this image.)
“Bad news, it’s curiosity.” (A cat cartoon I just saw on Pinterest.)
This is a summer view of the rivers in Talkeetna, Alaska from the railway bridge. The town of Talkeetna is to the left in this view, as is the Talkeetna beach area. The bridge is over the Talkeetna River, and the much larger Susitna River is crossing from right to left in front of me.
“We are naturally driven by self-interest; it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and cooperative, taking others’ interests into account.”
~ the Dalai Lama
Keep right ... if you can. Deep snow on the drive to Seward, Alaska, March, 2010.
A little “refactoring” humor, from this Twitter page. (I have a few “Area 51” classes of my own going on right now, so I can appreciate this.)
This is a nice example of a black and white marble diagram. I found it on this RxJava documentation page. In a related note, RxMarbles.com is a fun website. If it’s not obvious how they work, this rxwiki.wikidot.com page provides a formal description of how marble diagrams are drawn.
These times are so uncertain
There’s a yearning undefined
People filled with rage
We all need a little tenderness
How can love survive in such a graceless age?
~ Don Henley, The Heart of the Matter
I’ve been interested in “Imposter Syndrome” since I first heard about it. I’ve thought about it as being a lack of confidence, and that’s illustrated in this graphic by Jay Elmore, which I found on this Twitter page.
Meanwhile in Fairbanks, Alaska, it’s -26 degrees this morning with a heat index that’s also at -26. There will be lots of sunshine today, with a high of -6. The Sun rises at 8:04am, and sets at 6:03pm. This image is from the Fairbanks, Alaska Arctic Cam, a product of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper.
The solitude of hiking in Alaska. This photo was taken in the Kenai Peninsula, near Seward.
This is a photo of a day tour boat in Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska
Once upon a time I came across same killer whales (orcas) in Alaska, off the coast of Seward.
I’m not sure what the proper term is for this effect, but there is (was) a glacier on the other side of this mountain in Seward, Alaska, and the resulting “cloud” came pouring in over the mountaintop one day when I was there.
The sign pretty much says it all: Cheap beer, lousy food. This sign is from a restaurant in Seward, Alaska.
