Downloading YouTube Videos (August 2021 Update)
«The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.» «1984» by George Orwell I strongly recommend downloading anything you find online that [...]
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«Time is too short for soft porn.» Unknown Looking at my Amazon expenses (did request my data and went through the csv files with R), [...]
View ArticleFrequent Student Problem during the Creative Phase of a Project: Birch Solutions
«Bruno, that’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.» «Don’t worry, there’s plenty of more where that came from.» Gus Cardinale and Bruno I’ve advised a [...]
View ArticleSemi-Auto Bullet Journal
«Booby traps?» «Oh, yes. But I found the clues that will safely take us through, in the Chronicles of St. Anselm.» «But what are they? [...]
View ArticleInteresting Podcast/Vidcast Episodes
«I need to provide for my family.» «But provide what exactly? The understanding that money is the most important thing or the idea that the [...]
View ArticleMind the cable you use for backups
All computers wait at the same speed. Unknown Ah, end of the year, time for backups. The ones you do not touch unless everything else [...]
View ArticleUrsula’s back at censoring
You cannot win a debate by suppressing it. Your opponents will disguise themselves, not disappear. The persecution gives them allure and makes you look weak. [...]
View ArticleBypassing Country Restrictions with Tor
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects,’This you may not read, this you must not see, this [...]
View ArticleInteresting 30 Day Challenge with great links for Graphs/Charts
«You’re never going to improve in life if you keep competing with people who stink. No offense, Gus.» «None taken.» «You got to challenge yourself. [...]
View ArticleNearly Forty years and Two in One Image
«Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.» Dr. Emmet Brown in «Back To The Future» Just imagine Marty McFly from 1985 would have visited [...]
View ArticleRemembering Anniversaries
Montgomery: «It’s my 30th anniversary.» Beckett: «Oh, sir, congratulations.» Castle: «Thirty years of marriage and you don’t know what to buy her?» Montgomery: «If you [...]
View ArticleAR Graffiti and Warchalking
«The kender has a pair of glasses he says are ‹magical glasses of true seeing.› He put them on and he has been able to [...]
View ArticleReading on Twitter (without an Account)
«His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity.» Performance Evaluation Yup, Twitter is a cesspool. I stopped actively using it a [...]
View ArticleDownloading Reddit Videos
Wanna know how you can tell when the truth is being told? Facebook Blocks it, Twitter Deletes it, and YouTube Bans it. Unknown There are [...]
View ArticleHemingway Test
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. Ernst Hemingway I’m currently using rtf files to write postings. Most [...]
View ArticleWas Excel once a creative product?
«Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.» Ronald Coase I hate, hate, hate Excel with the power of an imploding star (given it [...]
View ArticleRecommendation Digital Minimalism (Newport, 2019)
Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that [...]
View ArticleSolitude
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. Donald Barthelme One of the interesting subjects in Newport’s (2019) [...]
View ArticleFinding Books via Google Searches
Old books light new fires. @TheStoicEmperor While Google has its problems, its ability to find information that was put online is impressive. And I don’t [...]
View ArticleDownloading Original Sized Pictures from Blogs and Websites
I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. Katherine Mansfield Occasionally I stumble upon interesting images on websites. And given [...]
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