Denial is a powerful medicine. Maybe your friend is in denial and you don’t like it. Maybe you wanna have a straight talk with them to snap them out of it.
Don’t. Don’t.
When you walk away you just left them with two problems instead of one.
Author: grant
On Writing Well
William Zinsser’s On Writing Well.
On story telling well? He does it.
On training well? He does it.
Do yourself a favor and buy a new copy because it is maddening to see foreign notes scribbled fervently throughout its pages. How are these people tarnishing this sacred soil of your and Zinsser’s intersection? Horribly is how.
Your first read through will leave you dying for the second time that you read it.
Surprisingly the book is appropriate for computers programmer of any flavor.
Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life
Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life shows you the writing life through the eyes of the contributing authors. It is like sitting with great writers for lunch. Lots of them.
Snoopy shares the most. You never knew Snoopy like this when you were a kid.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
From Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft:
Tell the truth.
King tells the truth. With ease and wit.
Part biography. Part lecture. All sharing.
About Magic Squares
In recreational mathematics, a magic square is a square grid (equal number of rows and columns) filled with distinct numbers such that the numbers in each row, and in each column, as well as the numbers in the main and secondary diagonals, all add up to the same value, called the magic constant.
You gotta see this fun!
Accepting Your Limitations
I accept my limitations and I forgive myself for them
Why Do Keyboards Matter?
Via:
Wada (creator of the Happy Hacking Keyboard): because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces.
The HHKB shirt says: 「馬の鞍」- saddle of a horse.
The Conc Must Rest 2016
The Conc is ready for hibernation. Seven and a half gallons of STA-BIL treated gasoline fill the tank. Battery tender attached.
50 Years of APL
Via LinkedIn APL Group via Dyalog via Jsoftware:
APL’s birthday was fifty years ago:
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SAVED 1966-11-27 15.53.59 (GMT-7)
Happy belated birthday APL.
The First Twenty Four Hours of Recovery
Did you know you can use the first 24 hours after a traumatic or disturbing event to mitigate its long term effects on your mind and body? Here’s how to begin.