Sunday, December 31, 2023

Notes

2007 – 2023

Andrew Klavan:  A Strange Habit of Mind (2022)
One of those long biblical beards men grow when their heads can no longer contain their self-regard and it simply flows out of their chins all the way down to their sternums.
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23 June 2023

Gold & Pearl Coffee Shop, Butuan City

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Philippine knife:
Bolo knife
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Naming idea for Philippine Youtube channel (or other internet presence):
Balikbayan Strategies
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Family estrangement
Make estrangement, ghosting, or expulsion irrevocable.
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From Unforgotten:
filth – FILTH – Failed in London, try Hong Kong
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Discontinued (look for sale):
Benchmade Saddle Mountain Hunter 15007-2
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By temperament he was a loner, if only because, although never wholly content in the solitary state, he was almost invariably even more miserable in the company of others.
Colin Dexter, The Riddle of the Third Mile (1983)
(Inspector Morse Series)
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23 March 2018

Tequila/Scotch

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29 August 2017

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Movie to see:
Come Sunday
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Show hidden files in Apple Mac Finder:
SHIFT + CMD + .
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Movies to see again:
A Year in Provence (with John Thaw)
Scandal (Profumo)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
To Hell and Back
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Possible time tracking app:
Harvest
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Scanner software to try:
ExactScan Pro
Available in the Mac App Store
Also:  ExactScan.com
Works with Canon DR-225, but not HP150
No Metadata entry

Other scanner software:  VueScan
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Fenix FD20 (Flashlight)
Uses two AA batteries
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Bob, son of Battle, last of the Gray Dogs of Kenmuir.
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Client recommended travel company:  Tauck
(Similar to Road Scholar)
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6 Point – Queen Size
8 Point – King Size
Other wool companies:
Pendleton
Woolrich
Faribault
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Canary Mail
(Encrypted email client)
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Best wine for pizza:
Red Zinfandel (very dry)
Read somewhere, I think the WSJ – Seems good advice.
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The Parting Glass

Of all the money that e'er I had
I spent it in good company
And all the harm I've ever done
Alas it was to none but me
And all I've done for want of wit
To mem'ry now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be to you all

So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate’er befall,
And gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had
They're sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had
They'd wish me one more day to stay

But since it fell unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all

A man may drink and not be drunk
A man may fight and not be slain
A man may court a pretty girl
And perhaps be welcomed back again
But since it has so ought to be
By a time to rise and a time to fall
Come fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all
Good night and joy be with you all
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Interesting Mac Apps:
Hazel
Alfred
Interesting, but for me, not useful
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Lake Santeetlah (Western North Carolina)
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Zicam or Zink Cold Therapy
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Central Serous Retinopathy
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SanDisk Extreme Pro USB3.1
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Tonic water with Splenda/Sucralose
No Saccharin
No Aspartame:  NutraSweet or Equal
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Chris Reeve
Sebenza 21 Small
Nyala (Fixed blade)
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Equus Leather
Lloyd Coat Wallet
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Virtue Signaling
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Arkel
The Shopper Urban Pannier
(Rear Pannier)
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Freedom from Religion and Government (Foundation)
The Godless Conservative
Self-Reliance (Institute, Foundation)
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Encryption:
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Semiprime = Prime1 x Prime2
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30 July 2009

The experience of moving online actually bears quite a few similarities to becoming a New Yorker.  Disorienting and seemingly endless, the Internet conversation moves at lightning speed and according to unstated social rules that can bewilder outsiders.  Also, like New Yorkers, residents of the Internet do not suffer fools, or mince words in belittling them.
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5 June 2009


It is not the strongest among us who survive.  Nor is it the most intelligent.  It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.
Beautiful Lies

If you don't know how to look at her, her hidden alleys and minuscule precious little side streets, her aura of mischief, her throbbing nightlife, you might find yourself intimidated by New York City, even repulsed by her odors and sounds, you might even turn away from her because she's too brash, too haughty.  But it would be your loss.
Black Out
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21 May 2009

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, John Steele Gordon on Why Government Can't Run a Business:
Consider a thought experiment.  There is a national widget crisis and Sen. Wiley Snoot is chairman of the Senate Widget Committee.  There are two technologies that are possible solutions to the problem, with Technology A widely thought to be the more promising of the two.  But the company that has been developing Technology B is headquartered in Sen. Snoot's state and employs 40,000 workers there.  Which technology is Sen. Snoot going to use his vast legislative influence to push?
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There are two ways of spreading light.  To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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New Alarm Systems
Canary
Scout
Piper
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28 February 2008









Question from a novel I am reading:
Is being on time a virtue...or, a neurosis?
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Mistakes frequently found on websites
Viewer-friendly sites should avoid the following:
 -  Required registration/Log ins
 -  Too quick automatic refresh on long pages
 -  Visual busyness
 -  Paragraphs of all caps
 -  Anything that moves (movement should be viewer initiated)
 -  Sound (again, sound should be viewer initiated)
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Cool paper
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Can't Go Wrong wine to take to a dinner party?
Kendall-Jackson (any variety)
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Been watching the old Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes television series.  A friend bought the set and lent them to me.
Note to self:  Try out pray continue at first convenience.
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Married adulterers must be stoned, not shot.  Got it?
Apostasy?  Here.
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