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How Do You Feel About The Decision?

Sometimes things that are good for you don’t feel very good or fun.

Sometimes things that feel very good and fun aren’t good for you.

Feelings aren’t always the best guide for decision making.

How To Choose Betwen APL And J

Where is the better place to start APL or J?

Raw notes follow.

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Somatic Experiencing Therapy

From Wikipedia:

Somatic experiencing is a form of alternative therapy aimed at relieving the
symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and
physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on the client's perceived
body sensations (or somatic experiences). It was created by trauma therapist
Peter A. Levine.

Have You Told Somebody About Their Strengths Lately?

Have you told somebody about all of their great strengths and virtues lately?

The Power of Prana in Kali Yuga

For what we all can and may do, here and now, for us and everyone around us The Power of Prana in Kali Yuga is a right place to start.

Yet Another Ag Hydra

(defhydra help/hydra/ag (:color blue
                                :hint nil)
  "
`ag', The Silver Searcher:
  Present in window:
    Search in folder:
      _j_ limit search by file type _k_ search in everything
    Search in project:
      _l_ limit search by file type _;_ search in everything
  Present in dired:
    Search in folder:
      _u_ limit search by file type _i_ search in everything
    Search in project:
      _o_ limit search by file type _p_ search in everything
  Other:
    _n_ close every other buffer _m_ close every buffer _q_ quit
"
  ("u" ag-dired-regexp)
  ("i" ag-dired)
  ("o" ag-project-dired-regexp)
  ("p" ag-project-dired)
  ("j" ag-files)
  ("k" ag)
  ("l" ag-project-files)
  (";" ag-project)
  ("n" ag-kill-other-buffers)
  ("m" ag-kill-buffers)
  ("q" nil))

Org-Mode Documents Can Generate PDFs Which Include Any Data Including Themselves

This Org-Mode document

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{attachfile}
Jon this is an Org-Mode file which generated a PDF which contains itself.
@@latex:\attachfile{orginorg.org}@@

Generates this pdf that contains itself. Open it with Adobe Acrobat (or some other tool that can handle embedded files).

You can include any data you want inside a PDF using attachfile and it is easy to extract that data.

It is a toy example but you can script everything to work with embedded data in PDF.

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Consider C-s Or M-s For Key Bindings Because There Is A Lot Of Space In There

As key-binding name-spaces start to run out due to the massive expansion of packages out there today consider the C-s and the M-s name-spaces. Clicking around on my keyboard they don’t seem to be used much if at all. There is probably a reason for that and I’m going to ignore it because I want more name-space free for key-bindings.

Just Because I Believe It Doesn't Mean It's True Or Good To Do

Just because I believe it doesn’t mean it’s true. The more I test this out the more I am surprised. Now my state of surprise proves nothing. Sometimes I love getting surprised for example when someone secretly made me a chocolate cake. But when my car battery unexpectedly died and I’m late for an important appointment then I get mad about it. Well either way I was surprised but I believed that one surprise was good and one surprise was bad.

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