#2021: Gently Easing Yourself Into Camping And Hiking
Tuesday • January 21st 2025 • 12:15:39 am • 3KB
Hiking And Camping are the ultimate life hack, especially if you add narrated books from the library. But it is a big change from the average daily life, and may seem impossible or scary. But as you get older, you should camp and hike several months a year...
#2020: combineLatest; Or, Please Learn Programming And Build A Visual Programming Language
Sunday • January 19th 2025 • 10:55:23 pm • 5KB
Yes, you can graduate High School, without mastering programming. If you do, you will be forced to work, under the threat of hunger and homelessness. College will not help you, they’ll just take your saving and force you into loans. You need power, in your...
#2019: Programming Frosty Michigan Nights
Sunday • January 19th 2025 • 12:10:26 am • 3KB
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the [dark] streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo...
#2018: Fun Fitness
Saturday • January 18th 2025 • 12:42:48 am • 3KB
Gym is good for when it is too cold, or too rainy, or it just gets dark too early, but it is not the primary way, or a very good one – it is true. I live by a bicycle trail that takes me straight to a pier, one of the great lakes in Michigan, and they have...
#2017: Going Buff
Thursday • January 16th 2025 • 11:53:37 pm • 3KB
It seems that music is at the center of bodybuilding, but it and several other concerns have to be dialed in quite right. And bodybuilding it self appears to be much different, from what everyone is doing. You only need dumbbells, and you need to lift non...
#2016: But Isn’t Camping In The Woods Boring?
Thursday • January 16th 2025 • 1:13:35 am • 5KB
You are supposed to bring a couple of solar chargers, extra batteries, backups, and your narrated book collection, especially adventure books. And then it really does not matter what you do, because, you are traveling all over the world living through...
#2015: Get Fancy
Tuesday • January 14th 2025 • 11:40:01 pm • 3KB
There are a few things you have to do in life, and they are all fun, but you have to start slow and humble. You have to bid farewell to your bullies, so that people can laugh behind you, without you thinking they are laughing at you. You are an emergent...
#2014: Bodybuilding Warning: You Are Lifting Too Heavy, Simply Cutting Off Your Circulation
Monday • January 13th 2025 • 11:47:21 pm • 3KB
The idea of sets and reps, might have come from bodybuilders showing off, on some TV show, they were not working out, they were showing off. They were lifting their maximums a few times, and then needed rest, because they cut off their circulation. The...
#2013: Learn JavaScript, And Don’t Use Frameworks
Sunday • January 12th 2025 • 11:53:12 pm • 5KB
Here is what it sounds like, when a programmer talks about his little inventions. I hope this will add to convince you that programming is pretty cool, and that the long road to the mastery of a language is well worth it. I’ve been trying to optimize, my...
#2012: Six Months A Year; Or, Do Not Forget About Yourself
Sunday • January 12th 2025 • 12:34:09 am • 3KB
Getting used to Hiking and Camping is hard, because work is perfectly crafted to take everything from you. That is especially true, when setting off on great adventures, to achieve great things. Walking one of the great trails to become young and fit again...
#2011: To Get A Fire Going
Saturday • January 11th 2025 • 12:05:09 am • 5KB
The very first thing you are going to lose during camping, is your favorite tool, often your fire starter. It falls out of your pocket, in the morning, in a place you never think to check. Often you never find it again, but having some backup matches is...
#2010: Midnight Hour
Thursday • January 9th 2025 • 10:19:27 pm • 3KB
I once wrote a poem about an owl that tried to peck me, and while it is one of my funniest poems, it is kind of real. I actually return in my memories to that night, because it was beautiful, warm, fragrant, and at first calm. In an about that time, I was...
#2009: Workout Tempo
Thursday • January 9th 2025 • 12:07:44 am • 4KB
Couple of months ago I lifted 20lb almost non stop, five days, thee hours per day, averaging about 35 lifts per minute. That comes to 6,750 lifts per day, I only use dumbbells, cycling between standing dumbbell curls and overhead shoulder press. So when my...
#2008: A Simple, Integrated Focus Workout; And, How To Correctly Configure Your Interval Timer
Tuesday • January 7th 2025 • 10:11:46 pm • 4KB
Unfortunately, for most the gym experience starts and ends, with the Sets and Reps myth, where they only get some result. They get muscles and burn some fat once, as they move from couch to the gym, and immediately plateau. Because lifting heavy means,...
#2007: JavaScript Is Cute And Flexible
Monday • January 6th 2025 • 11:23:11 pm • 2KB
I came to JavaScript from many languages, ASP, Perl, PHP, ActionScript, VisualBasic and Java to name a few. It was still a slow web-browser language when I started learning it, and I used Perl/PHP on the server. So, I was using two programming languages,...
#2006: Perfectly Genius; Or, Don’t Let School Make You Feel Dumb
Sunday • January 5th 2025 • 11:02:09 pm • 6KB
Real education is self directed, properly paced, and curiosity driven, you are never interrupted, judged, threatened, ridiculed or bullied. Standardized education, is a bureaucratic, political fantasy, sustained not by success, but by everyone making money...
#2005: The Three Letters About Learning
Saturday • January 4th 2025 • 11:36:34 pm • 9KB
The First Letter In the halls of your high school, amidst the clamor of grades and the shadows of expectation, you find yourself entangled in the web of shallow memorization and the theater of pretended learning. It is to this plight that I turn my words,...
#2004: Don't Let School Ruin Your Life
Friday • January 3rd 2025 • 10:11:46 pm • 5KB
You have to be careful, the adults in their fear, stress, overwork and uneducaion, are unwell. As the new generation, you have to rise above the old. You learn only the good things, and you leave the bad in the past. Allow me to explain, what careful...
#2003: Earth Beneath Your Feet; A Message To All People
Thursday • January 2nd 2025 • 10:40:07 pm • 4KB
I greet you, all my relatives, whether you walk in the shadows of ancient mountains, beside flowing rivers, or within the cities built by hands of the modern world. Listen closely, for my words come not only from the earth and the wind, but from the heart...
#2002: Don't Lift Heavy, A Proper Workout Is Non-Stop: Instructions On How To Do It Right
Wednesday • January 1st 2025 • 11:48:38 pm • 3KB
Allow me to describe to you how to do it right, as if we were at the gym. First I would ask you to build up your endurance, by power walking with dumbbells every day. Once you shook off all the cob webs, and got in to the mood of drinking water and warming...
#2001: Neat New Year Resolutions
Tuesday • December 31st 2024 • 10:26:10 pm • 4KB
On January 1st, as you gag everyone with, “Nice to see you again, I haven't seen you since last year.” Consider the following New Year resolutions, to make 2025 the year you never forget. First of all, become a bodybuilder, it is extremely easy when you...
#2000: Learning Programming, Yas, But Programming Is Also Learning
Monday • December 30th 2024 • 10:55:31 pm • 3KB
You just need to get your foot in the door, download something to get started. Electron Fiddle is nice, is you want it all, and p5.js is great if you like video tutorials. Both of these starting points are very rich, if you need a tinier start then Node...
#1999: Grow Up Fast, Grow Up Now: Programming, Philosophy & Adventure
Sunday • December 29th 2024 • 11:19:25 pm • 4KB
The Great Human Culture is a melange of wisdom, class and ideas, of all the great beings that came before you. They mean to deliver your intellectual inheritance, the common culture, is often just side-loaded and will have you loop around. You are meant...
#1998: JavaScript Wild!
Saturday • December 28th 2024 • 11:07:54 pm • 3KB
I have been looking at a new way to learn JavaScript, by asking AI about really complicated things rewritten in simple JavaScript. Sometimes, the AI, gets snarky with me, and goes “Here’s your ‘’’database’’’…”. But, I think that comes from database...