I had a chance to watch part of the History of the Eagles when my RAV4 broke down and left me stranded in New Mexico, and it was good. If you like The Eagles, you’ll like the documentary.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 96)
This healthy eating thing is still new to me, and I can never remember the name “brussels sprouts,” so I just write “balls” on my grocery list.
~ a note from August 18, 2016
This is a fun response from this Ask Polly Q&A:
“Your in-laws are next-level, off-the-charts batshit.
Every now and then, a group of people assumes the traits and behaviors of sociopaths. Maybe one person in the group completely and permanently lost their doughnuts several decades prior, and slowly, each member of the group learns that playing along with this singular menace is the only way to survive. Eventually, the members of the group are so utterly confused and gaslit by each other that they enforce the will of the group and nod along with bizarre opinions until they can’t even remember what it means to think logically or have free will or behave like other regular human beings on the face of the planet.
Because these people are confused and weak and angry — and because they’re rendered increasingly more confused, weak, and angry by their exposure to each other — they tend to have less and less contact with those outside the group. And when they do encounter someone who’s not in the fold, they recoil and attack. Anyone who questions the group is attacked with words and actions. Anyone who questions the group is bad, and the group is good.”
I don’t know who originally created this image, but I like it. I never really had an emo phase, but I can understand it.
“Originally, nothing. Who made past, present, and future? If you don’t make anything, you will see and hear clearly. Then everything is your original face.”
~ Zen Master Seung Sahn, kwanumzen.org
When asked if he had the proper experience to be President of the United States, Ross Perot said:
“Well, they got a point. I don’t have any experience in running up a $4 trillion debt. I don’t have any experience in gridlock government, where nobody takes responsibility for anything and everybody blames everybody else. I don’t have any experience in creating the worst public school system in the industrialized world, the most violent crime-ridden society in the industrialized world.
But I do have a lot of experience in getting things done. So if we’re at a point in history where we want to stop talking about it and do it, I’ve got a lot of experience in figuring out how to solve problems, making the solutions work and then moving on to the next. I’ve got a lot of experience in not taking 10 years to solve a 10-minute problem. So if it’s time for action, I think I have experience that counts. If there’s more time for gridlock and talk and finger pointing, I’m the wrong man.”
“Your future needs you. Your past doesn’t.”
(I don’t know who originally created this image, but I like it. Kudos.)
“We are the choices that we make.”
~ Wade Kinsella’s grandmother (Hart of Dixie)
This “People don’t want to use your software” quote by @SHL seems pretty smart. And Gumroad does a pretty good job of keeping their software simple.
I was actually thinking a little bit of the opposite yesterday; I thought, “I could care less about Apple hardware, I just like MacOS, or at least I used to love what it used to be.” But in the end I don’t really love the software, I just like that it works how I think an OS should work, and it has a Unix terminal that I keep open all the time.
“Hi, I’m Al.”
“L?”
“Um, no, Al. A-L. As in Alvin.”
“Oh, we thought maybe you meant, EL. E-L. As in, Elvis.”
~ a conversation with two girls from Mississippi many years ago
If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.
~ Richard Feynman
I recently had an infection which caused my heart to race a little bit, so my doctor wanted me to wear a heart monitor for a little while, which led to a scene that was too close to this scene from The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
“I’m that one.” I suspect that anyone who has ever wanted to write a book knows this scene and movie.
Here’s a link to the Denali National Park sled dog puppy cam.
When I first moved to Alaska I had a chance to forget who I was and become who I wanted to be. Nobody knew me, so I didn’t have any baggage, such as being a guy who used to own a small business in Kentucky.
I didn’t think about it much beforehand, but in retrospect I think I wanted to be like Chris Stevens — at least the philosophical part — but as it turned out, sometimes I was Ed, sometimes I was Dr. Fleishman, and many times I was Holling. These days, with hives all over my legs due to an allergic reaction, I feel more like Mike.
Scientists are simply adults who retained and nurtured their native curiosity from childhood.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson