A walk in the neighborhood with my camera 📷. These photos came so different, it’s hard to believe the locations are minutes apart.
Morning thought: can we make stock selling illegal for certain public companies that have their customer’s lives at stake, like, say, Boeing?
Think of it: the average Joe down the street from you who has stocks in the company has more deciding power regarding the airplane that’s going to fly you to your vacation next month than the engineers who built it.
I’m noticing more and more AI-generated (or seems like AI-generated) articles when I search for something.
I read somewhere (I forget where) that Google and Bing are the only web crawlers out there. There are several search engines, but they all rely on recycled results from these two.
Case in point: aftermath.site/the-inter…
Had a “photo itch” when I went to get coffee this weekend. Took the camera with me.
Two pictures 📷 from around Bleeker Street, near Washington Square Park.
Did you know: the percent cookie in org-mode [%] works on headers, not just checkboxes
Also, though, it will not work and remain “confused” if you have any check boxes under the same header or/and inside one of the subtasks. So pick and choose.
solved (see below)
Folks who use macOS reminders - is there any way to display all scheduled reminders in a widget rather than a specific list?
I have a list of quick things, and I have a list of “scheduled” reminders, say, something like watering the plants a week from now. I don’t want to see the 20-something scheduled reminders on that list in the small widget; that defeats the purpose - I just want to see those that are due today (or maybe tomorrow). How do you go about it?
The “list” the widget is viewing is not limited to just one of the lists you create; it can also be the “scheduled” list (automatic) created, and that’s what I needed. to change it, I had to edit the widget, click on the list it was presenting me (in my case it was called “misc”) and change that to “Scheduled”. Seems to have done the trick.
I talked about making some changes to my project workflow in Emacs, and here are some changes I’ve implemented:
("p" "Personal Related")
("pt" "Personal Task" entry
(file "~/Sync/Personal/Projects.org") "* ACTIVE %^{What?} \n*** TODO Probes:\n %^t--%^t \n\n %U:\n %?" :kill-buffer t)
I talked about making some changes to my project workflow in Emacs, and here are some changes I’ve implemented:
The %t^ org-mode expansion tells Emacs to prompt for a date without a time. It calls a calendar in Emacs with the current day marked, which can be adjusted. In my case, you see two of those: the project’s start and the end (double dashes are how org-mode phrases a time range).
So, let’s say I have a new photography project I want to do throughout February. I call this capture template and enter the first day of February, followed by its last day. This will display the project (say, “photography project”) on my agenda every day throughout the month of February.
In the past, each project (which is an active task with sub-tasks marked by “TODO” items) had several of its subtasks scheduled at specific times. This has been my process for years, though it’s not very useful: I almost never get to work on my TODOs exactly at the time of my choosing.
The idea is that instead of having a list of 20 items that I need to do clutter my agenda with times in the day that don’t make sense, I will only have a couple of highlighted projects I know I’m working on. I can then go into each project from the agenda and see what the next action item I need to do there. This would be a TODO keyword without a scheduled timestamp.
Die Hard, 1988 - ★★½
A solid, fun action movie of the era. It's not going to blow your mind away. You know what to expect, you know how it ends, and it's fun this way if you're in the mood for something simple and familiar. But dude, Alan Rickman...! I wish he were still around.
This morning, I woke up at around 5 for some reason (apparently some bad dream?) straight into a brainstorm. When several thoughts hit me like that from different directions, I know from experience that falling back asleep is not an option.
I decided to get up, make pour-over coffee (which I enjoy doing over the weekends), and sit down and write what’s on my mind. Writing in a notebook is slow, and I took even extra time to articulate my thoughts this morning. It was my longest entry so far since I picked up journaling again, and it was an absolute joy. My handwriting is improving too, at least to the point that I can actually recognize what’s on the page in front of me.
Once again, I say: this is a good habit ✍🏻. I’m glad I’m not journaling on a computer. The way my thoughts slowed down and found their way onto the page was not possible to do typing. It’s not just about what I write; a lot has to do with the how, and when I looked back at the journal 📓 with satisfaction, I also got the why.
Prospect, 2018 - ★★½
Prospect is a movie with two elements that should be reviewed separately. Its world-building is rich and intriguing; its story is shallow and lacking.
A lot is going on from the start. The language is rich with alien terms, which made me turn on the subtitles, but I remained just as confused. At some point, I accepted that there was just too much to understand, and the movie wouldn't bother explaining; when I reached that conclusion, I started to enjoy the film more. However, treating the characters the same way doesn't work. I wanted to understand why they ended up where they did and how they got there, and these questions bothered me long after the credits rolled - unanswered.
It felt like I was watching a series, missed the first half of the season, and finished without the finale. There is no clear start and no clear end, just facts. While intriguing, these lay disconnected from each other, uncared for. Too bad. It was a nice visit to a rich, interesting universe.