#1704: Muscles Grow In Proportion To Your Endurance
Sunday • March 10th 2024 • 12:04:53 am • 4KB
The perfect workout is the non stop 1980 aerobic dance, with progressively heavier dumbbells. Your body adapts the same way joggers adapt, at first they run out of breath, but after a while rest less and less. Until they eventually run their full route,...
#1703: How To Structure Your Computer Programs And Clearly Communicate Their Internal Architecture
Saturday • March 9th 2024 • 12:41:34 am • 7KB
You have to use some of the highest level abstractions, that are accepted as the norm. And not just in the world of programming, but also in the large world of interacting with computers. The more popular the concept, the clearer the picture. Rather than...
#1702: 236 Days Until Halloween
Friday • March 8th 2024 • 12:15:06 am • 4KB
It was early 1990’s and I was looking for something interesting on TV, we had five and a half channels. Two legitimate and so painfully boring, that if I had to watch them it felt like being at the dentist or even the damn church. And e had three bootleg...
#1701: The Corned Beef House
Thursday • March 7th 2024 • 12:27:11 am • 4KB
I saw that there were bad adults in my high school, so I dropped out, and got scooped up by adult ed. The principal of my new school, acted way to friendly, she knew I was the dropout. I was a busy young man, I didn't have time to make friends, most of us...
#1700: Never Been Bored; Or, A Walk In The Park With My Strange Little Program
Tuesday • March 5th 2024 • 11:34:26 pm • 3KB
I am writing a strange little program, that helps to visualize program structure. It can generate code based on diagrams, host code editors, and even external websites. I wrote 4 versions in recent years, each with a much smaller code base. And I am...
#1699: Bodybuilding Simplified
Monday • March 4th 2024 • 11:33:13 pm • 5KB
There is only one full body exercis, and it is simple, you lift dumbbells to the side, in-front, above, and to your chest. The technical names are Dumbbell Lateral Raise, Standing Dumbbell Curls, and Overhead Shoulder Press, but you don’t have to be...
#1698: How To Become Smarter
Sunday • March 3rd 2024 • 11:31:19 pm • 6KB
While we are all equally capable, some of us make the mistake of going with the flow. This is where we get stuck, our intelligence is overwhelmed, and our minds slowly slow down. The reasons for the slow down are as simple as scary, loneliness, fears,...
#1697: Bodybuilder vs. Jogger
Sunday • March 3rd 2024 • 12:53:46 am • 3KB
A bodybuilder is like a jogger, in that both build on endurance. The one major difference is that a bodybuilder, tries to barely finish the route by adding more weight. A jogger upon completion of their jog, will go home and do the same thing the next day....
#1696: The World Of Programming Knows No Bounds
Friday • March 1st 2024 • 11:45:31 pm • 3KB
I guess my favorite program is the WikiWiki, it uses the concept of modes, here a view and edit mode. In view mode it decorates article text with links, and in edit mode, it shows raw code called WikiText. And one of the most fantastic things about it, is...
#1695: Bodybuilding: Begin With Endurance And Use Your Time Wisely
Thursday • February 29th 2024 • 11:39:04 pm • 3KB
If you do what everyone else is doing, it will take you forever to put on muscle. I suspect, that the huge bodybuilders, have two secrets childhood obesity, and now zero fat. Childhood obesity makes it so, that you begin lifting at 3. You always gain...
#1694: Baby Steps; Or, Adventure And The Quest For Authenticity, Class, Wisdom And Greatness
Thursday • February 29th 2024 • 12:28:18 am • 2KB
A gentle man, or a gentle lady, is middle english for being ennobled by ones deeds. Everyone can be ennobled, so as long as the rise is honest and authentic. Some will choose to stay behind, to prevent others from fracturing the way they did. But it is...
#1693: How To Get Good At Programming; Or; Create Thousands Of Little Programs
Wednesday • February 28th 2024 • 12:03:10 am • 2KB
To get good, you need to start with an easy to read but all capable good language. It needs to do network, command line, server, phone apps and desktop applications. You need full coverage of all the technologies, without too much context switching. And...
#1692: What To Look For In A Real Presidential Candidate
Monday • February 26th 2024 • 11:11:26 pm • 3KB
Greatness, Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, a leader must have a complete understanding of out world. For example being tough on crime, is in deed sound, but also indicates a misunderstanding of the human condition. Before being tough we have to...
#1691: Learn Programming, Just In Case
Monday • February 26th 2024 • 12:26:19 am • 5KB
I don’t like conspiracies, but I also don’t trust spoiled brats enough, to dismiss the idea of them making us poor and maybe even uneducated on purpose. Even if you believe that politicians are hard-working, caring and honest, you still need a fallback...
#1690: Visualizing Bodybuilding
Sunday • February 25th 2024 • 12:38:36 am • 4KB
First of all, gym is a boring place. If you need to lose weight, you need to walk the big trails. Appalachian Trail, Or Pacific Crest Trail, or The Continental Divide Trail. Look, our knees were not made, for jogging while being large. Walking, walking on...
#1689: Eddy Currents; Or, Adventure, Health, Wisdom, and Greatness
Friday • February 23rd 2024 • 11:29:58 pm • 2KB
Nobody knows why, but we get help with growing up. So as long as we are allowed to grow up, a certain mechanism will hoist us up. Ancient myth talk about adventures, that a young person must set off on. And that just may be, the same mechanism as I am...
#1688: How Books Change Culture
Thursday • February 22nd 2024 • 11:19:21 pm • 3KB
I had three big encounters with books, but it wasn't until the last one that my culture rose. The first time happened in 8th grade, I was reading Batman by Craig Shaw Gardner. I was ignoring what all the horrible teachers were saying, and I got bored, so I...
#1687: Michigan Bird Report 2024; Or, First Day Of Michigan Spring
Thursday • February 22nd 2024 • 12:19:39 am • 1KB
In Michigan, Spring is a thing, that the birds bring. We don’t wait, for the date. And it was announced to me today, that today is the day. There are many curiosities here, and much of Michigan holds them dear. For example, while all the birds are back...
#1686: Computer Programming Expands Your World
Wednesday • February 21st 2024 • 12:06:03 am • 2KB
Computer programming, is very simple to learn. It is a tool for human being, made by human beings. But it only starts as a language, with which you control computers. When you get used to, thinking with it. It becomes an painters brush, with which you...
#1685: The Transformative Workout; Or, Of Lifting Too Heavy And The Plateau
Tuesday • February 20th 2024 • 1:22:06 am • 4KB
Not everyone wants bigger muscle, and some people come to the gym to get away. This advice is not for mavericks, just for those who want to repair or reshape their body. When you select a heavy wight, that you can only lift 10 or 15 times. You will only...
#1684: First Time At The Gym; Or, Heavy Or Light
Sunday • February 18th 2024 • 11:44:10 pm • 3KB
Gym is like High School, you have to ignore everything and learn on your own. If you do what everyone else is doing, you’ll get what everyone else is getting. If you do it your self, always gradually increasing complexity. They you’ll walk out of gym a...
#1683: Towards Simple Reactive OOP; Or, The Trouble With Programming
Sunday • February 18th 2024 • 12:07:49 am • 3KB
Programming languages do not deliver, as much as one would hope. They can do everything, but never in the simplest of ways. To get one thing done, requires three or more lines. And to automate this, is one of the biggest mistakes in programming. Dynamic...
#1682: Um, Are The Groundhogs Messing With Us?
Friday • February 16th 2024 • 11:53:42 pm • 1KB
Early spring, they foretold, and yet - I am sitting here - and I am really cold. I am now convinced the groundhogs are sus, I think they are making fun of us. We had two days that were nice, that felt like real paradise. And then it started snowing,...
#1681: Speedrunning Bodybuilding
Friday • February 16th 2024 • 12:26:20 am • 2KB
Talk to the gym trainer, ask for advice, explain what you are up to, be kind, but focus on the routine. There are two stages, building up endurance, and then building muscle. Without extended endurance, you won't lift for long enough to put on the muscle. ...