Buy Nothing January
Some folks choose not to drink in January, others get gym memberships and such as part of their New Year’s resolutions. This year I am suggesting you take part in “Buy Nothing January”, as I’m calling it. What does that mean? Well it really should be called “Acquire Nothing Non-Consumable January”, because obviously we have […]
Learning how to type, two or three times
In the Spring of 2018 I decided I would learn how to properly touch-type. Prior to that I typed using no particular formal technique, some combination of looking at the keys and muscle memory built up by using a computer all my life. Maybe I decided to learn touch-typing to kill time in my senior […]
It’s OK to break your computer
It’s Friday and I’ve been busy all week, so here’s a short note to computer users of every skill level: don’t be afraid to break things. Sometimes you should even try to break things. The point of this is so that you can have a better understanding of how things work by figuring out why […]
“Half caff coffee doesn’t wake me up”
I think the people who say this to me either A) Haven’t tried drinking it without a pre-existing caffeine addiction, or B) Don’t understand the placebo effect. Nine times out of ten, I’d bet on the latter. An 8oz cup of half caff. coffee has caffeine content roughly equivalent to two or three cans of […]