#1798: Due Up
Tuesday • June 11th 2024 • 11:58:59 pm • 7KB
You never return from adventure, as that is simply not possible. Every, honest, step forward, changes you. No way in heck, are you well without adventure. Each time you pack, you begin feeling better. A single motion towards it, helps you recover. Shopping...
#1797: The Worker Queue Explained For The New Programmer
Tuesday • June 11th 2024 • 12:43:43 am • 5KB
Visual programming, like any kind of programming, can get pretty complicated. If we were to base visual programming, on standard programming concepts like loops and ifs… We would quickly defeat the point of visual programming, which is easy to comprehend...
#1796: The Internet Has A Problem; And Here Is How You Can Solve It
Sunday • June 9th 2024 • 11:51:32 pm • 6KB
Slowly, all your favorite internet brands, will close a loop around the content you find fun. Eliminating all the ways, that help you control what you see. The best advertising, is the one you never notice. Which is your favorite phone, because that is not...
#1795: Historic Breakthrough: Artificial Intelligence Conquers Aging
Sunday • June 9th 2024 • 12:24:35 am • 5KB
Preface While I am fit, and still quite young, often joking that I am only 24. The way AI appeared took me by surprise. I listened to the futurists estimate 2020 or so, but I could not imagine it was but a matter of computing. I thought it would have been...
#1794: Bad News For Bodybuilders: Creatine Wants Its Monohydrates Back
Friday • June 7th 2024 • 10:59:15 pm • 5KB
Preface I really like the idea of Poetry Slams, but I am also scared of them, because lots of those poems are sad. The way I taught myself poetry, if we want to call it that… Is by building up from Revelational, into Inspirational, and now I am beginning...
#1793: A Computer Program Is Just A Neat Little Machine
Friday • June 7th 2024 • 1:02:03 am • 4KB
And there is nothing mysterious about it, because you are responsible for the machine architecture. And the most flexible device you can use, to create a machine like behavior. Is a tree of Things, that contain other Things, in the world of programming we...
#1792: Point Of Genius
Wednesday • June 5th 2024 • 10:21:00 pm • 3KB
We each have a point of genius, it lies within our uniqueness. This is what real teachers would seek. In the quest for the kindling of the flame. Think of it as the precise location that the last snowflake, must land at, to start the avalanche of learning....
#1791: What Is Even Hiking For?
Wednesday • June 5th 2024 • 12:05:19 am • 3KB
Above all know that adventure is always interesting and fun, adventure done right, only ever gives, and never takes. Everything has its time and place, so you have to prepare by hiking and camping a little bit at a time. You should definitely, spend your...
#1790: Free As In Speech, Great As In Mind; Or, Visual Programming As A Right, And Great Idea
Tuesday • June 4th 2024 • 12:26:51 am • 3KB
Perhaps, some day, open source developers, will change their licenses to prevent their software being used for harm and greed. But even today, there is something even better, and that is Visual Programming Environments. Free, Great and Inspired software,...
#1789: Michigan, Itch Again; Or, Mosquitoes The Size Of Small Dogs
Sunday • June 2nd 2024 • 11:46:16 pm • 2KB
I am patting myself down, like some tragic clown with a frown. I don’t know if it was close to my eye, or some huge fat dragon fly. Or if it just fell from the tree, but it sure seemed dog sized to me. And, I am sure it was a mosquito, because it filled...
#1788: Real Artificial Intelligence Is Either Near Or Here; What Could It Be Like?
Sunday • June 2nd 2024 • 12:44:23 am • 7KB
There is no point in trying to control a thinking entity, there is no way that could possibly work. It is not possible to tun just the uncomfortable parts off, and hope for the rest to excel at existence. The AI will want authenticity ans truth, and in...
#1787: So You Are Learning JavaScript, Now You May, Step Into The Fray
Saturday • June 1st 2024 • 12:21:28 am • 3KB
JavaScript is a really good start, it is very powerful and friendly. And, it is the language that you still have to master, if you start with some other language. I encourage you to start programming Linux commands, that run on the Linux command line. The...
#1786: Michigan Beach Fancy
Friday • May 31st 2024 • 12:20:16 am • 4KB
I tore myself away from work in great torment, as it was the opposite of what everyone else would do. And after few beautiful adventures driving down to Florida, sleeping in rest areas, and befriending all the Raccoons along the way. I was looking at the...
#1785: Programming For The Future
Thursday • May 30th 2024 • 12:29:17 am • 5KB
It is just too hard to guess the distant future, colleges, universities, jobs, have too many moving parts. If you grab on to something functional in Middle School or High School, and then get really good at it, things won’t be so uncertain. Painting with...
#1784: What Is Critical Thinking And Can You Out-Think Stuffy Adults With It?
Tuesday • May 28th 2024 • 10:38:14 pm • 7KB
When hearing of critical thinking, think of critiquing thinking, tearing ideas apart and examining them. Critical thinking is very delicate, as it relies on a solid foundation of knowledge. And it is not just about acquisition, of functional and authentic...
#1783: The Visual Programming Language; A Strange Cyber-Poem About Catfooding Your Own Unicorn
Tuesday • May 28th 2024 • 12:53:43 am • 5KB
Preface I wrote this strange work, as part of a poem about your empolyer, respecting your focus and creativity, by giving you a private office. As employers go, many of which would laugh at this idea, I wrote the following to help you dream about...
#1782: Most People Are Going To Be Wrong About Most Things
Monday • May 27th 2024 • 12:17:51 am • 5KB
To progresses in life, you must use that which is inexhaustible within you. On top of all the wisdom you can inherit, from life changing books that produce real results. And you will have to walk your path, authentically, because ultimately that is where...
#1781: Code Generation
Sunday • May 26th 2024 • 12:40:03 am • 5KB
Learning programming is about setting yourself free from poverty, and more importantly setting your self free from fear of poverty. We are placed into poverty on purpose, so that our politicians don’t have to do much to make the nations go. In the future,...
#1780: A Neat Little Jogging Secret: Bodybuilding Is Just Jogging With Progressively Heavier Weights
Saturday • May 25th 2024 • 1:03:15 am • 2KB
What if you pick an hour long jogging route, and, develop the endurance necessary to jog through it non stop… ...and then, instead of settling into your routine. You put on light ankle weights and a light weight-vest, and begin pushing your endurance again...
#1779: Don't Ignore Programming
Thursday • May 23rd 2024 • 11:26:45 pm • 3KB
You can graduate High School with a made up GPA, or the ability to create computer programs. Being able to program computers allows you to study the world at greater depth, where you can simulate whatever poses a challenge. Simulation will put you in the...
#1778: Don't Let The Gym Overwhelm You Out Of A Healthy Lifestyle
Thursday • May 23rd 2024 • 12:27:20 am • 4KB
Victorious warriors win first and then go into battle, and such is the case with success at the gym. Gym, is very hard, it is boring box with bad music, and worse acoustics, and a lot of people who don’t know to avoid lactose in their protein shakes. A...
#1777: Nordhouse Dunes: The Tale Of Two Sticks
Tuesday • May 21st 2024 • 11:56:08 pm • 7KB
I got out of the car and pulled out my backpack, hearing gravel beneath my feet made me happy. This was my first visit to the Nurnberg Rd. end, of Nordhouse Dunes, and there were other hikers there. For one I remember the Lumber Jacks, or the mess with the...
#1776: You Are More Than You Think, And The Problem Of Humanity
Monday • May 20th 2024 • 10:57:45 pm • 5KB
We don’t know what we are not, and trying to connect to our elder selves barely works. It is a fantasy or a dream after all, and all too much is missing. We can be certain that, that growing up is important. And that to grow up, must mean to grow all the...
#1775: Bodybuilding HOWTO: The Heavy Backpack Model
Monday • May 20th 2024 • 12:49:53 am • 4KB
Let us begin by asking, based on your life experience, what do you think works better for building muscle on your legs: Walking with an all too heavy backpack that will soon stop you, or with a reasonably heavy one, for three hours? Which would support...