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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Using Org-Mode For Disqus Comments

The Disqus commenting system is used on 2/5 blogs out there today. So I was pretty happy to discover today that Disqus allows tags within comments. The cool thing is that for Org-Mode users to post rich Disqus comments it probably just means doing an Export to HTML as HTML buffer and pasting the results into the comment box.

Ease Is Your Natural Emotional State

Is courageous exhausting? Is kindness exhausting? Is creativity exhausting?

Ease is your natural state. You were born with it. You were sent to Earth with it. However you got here, it is your right and privilege.

Exhaustion is an alarm blaring out to you as you drift away from your natural state.

It is never too late to hear it and do something about it immediately.

The Half-Life Of Feelings

Half-life is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half its initial value.

Imagine taking a banana and cutting it in half. And in half again. And in half again and so on until you are left with invisible to you banana molecules. That is when the banana is “gone”. How long does it take for our feelings to be gone?

Are they real? Are they physical? How long should we keep them around? If we stop looking at them do they disappear? Do we carry them on a pedestal or inside of a garbage bag?

For some of us the half-life of bad feelings is so long that they never seem to go away. For others the half-life is non-existent. The bad feelings come but don’t stay very long. For some of us same goes for good feelings.

What is the nature of those feelings?

For Whom Do We Cry When We Leave Our Teachers?

Our teachers who we love deeply in our hearts aren’t there for us to put them in our pocket and carry around forever. But there is something that stays with us. They gave us everything and expected nothing. They shared something infinite with us that wasn’t even theirs to share, yet they shared it. How do you thank them for that? You can’t. But you can do something thankful about it. That is where your conscience steps in with that answer you seek.

Can Run Emacs But Can't Compile Org-Mode After Upgrading ImageMagick With Solution

Today on my box I upgraded ImageMagick and now I can’t compile Org-Mode but I can run Emacs. Here is what I did to make Org-Mode build again on my box.

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How Come I Don't Pray Before Every Bite?

Today I prepare a snack: biscuits with strawberry jam and whipped. They were great however they don’t go with chai. Before I ate I didn’t say a prayer. After I ate I wondered “Why don’t I say a prayer before every snack, too? They are all pretty special. Life is special it is amazing and astounding.” Well, thank goodness for the food that helps make it either heaven or hell.

Inviting Non Programmers To Emacs: (A) Super Text Editor

When my friends look at my computer screen I want to invite them to use Emacs. But the name “Emacs”, like Honda or Maserati tells them nothing. Honda and Maserati have advertising everywhere though! So I set a frame title that tells them something about this program! Well, they probably have to like text editors already. And if they do, then they might be interested in a Super text editor.

BTW: I am totally serious about this. I want to invite my friends to use this. Programmers or not, Emacs is still Free Software and that matters for everyone. And I find Emacs to be super. It is super. You and I know that it’s power comes from Lisp and buffers but “Super Text Editor” also works for me.

(setq frame-title-format '("" "%b - Super Text Editor "))

Super Text Editor Screenshot