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World of Warcraft
1/31/2022:Most Sunday afternoons I game with my grandson, eight years old, who lives in Atlanta. For a while now, we have been playing World of Warcraft. We have started dozens of new characters. I do not always know why he decides to start a new one, sometimes several in a session. I am not sure…
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Exercise
1/31/2022:Skiing was fun. Four runs down the short hill. Catching my granddaughter. She is not yet stopping on her own but working it. A high point in the trip was driving there in my truck. This put my granddaughter higher up and she could see more on the trip. She was very excited to be…
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Exercise
1/30/2022:Today my wife and I are going skiing with my son and granddaughter (age 3) here in Vermont. My wife and son are excellent skiers and my granddaughter has been taking lessons and loves to ski. This will be the first time being with her skiing. I have had a double knee replacement and since…
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iNaturalist
1/29/2022: Last year I joined the iNaturalist.org group. It is a joint venture of the California Academy of Sciences and Natural Geographic. As a member, I can observe plants and animals and nature in general and post those observations to the site. Other members do the same. The observations include location, so you can see…
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Big Tech
1/28/2022:I use a Google Pixel 2. I just discovered that security updates are sent out by Google for only three years. The last security update happened in October 2020. I verified this by trying to get an update on my phone. Samsung likewise guarantees updates for only three years, though they have extended the security…
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Tech Fundamentals
1/27/20202:I recently started reading The Knowledge – How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell. It covers similar ground that a book I previously read, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North. I had backed Ryan’s Kickstarter. It is one of my…
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Stoicism
1/26/2022:Yesterday traveling I listened to a Hidden Brain podcast – Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy. The subject was Stoicism. The message was that Stoicism boils down to Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are. Very much a Taoist theme as well.
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Seed Starting
1/25/2022: Recently started my New Kratky Hydroponics Seed Starting System, patterened off Jack Spirko’s YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS42IMyhM1c&t=351s). I have only one of the three shelves going, 30 cells, and so far only one red iceburg lettuce has germinated, but many of my seeds are dated. I figure I am very early in the season (zone…
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Picture Editing
January 24, 2022 My wife asked me to edit a photo of her parents. I opened the file in GIMP 2.10.28 and realized that I know almost nothing about editing photos. I have a ten-year-old book, GIMP 2.6 for Photographers by Klaus Goelker that might be a good place to start.
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Note-taking App
January 23, 2022 My son uses Emacs Org Mode as his note-taking app. He uses Emacs for almost everything. He syncs using Dropbox. He says “Pretty much everything in Emacs is a text buffer, so they are just text files formatted in the correct way. To my mind, a big advantage.” Definitely worth giving Emacs…
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