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(This is a continuation of my last article, on a mental health technique I discovered a few months ago. It’s not the “much larger side” that I mentioned at the end of that post though; that will posted as a third part, soon.) It may sound strange that I’m talking about getting rid of beliefs. …
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably remember my big discovery about myself last year. This article continues the theme, though it has nothing to do with the earlier entries. I’ve always thought that I was as mentally healthy as the next person. “Well adjusted” is the term commonly used. I …
So much for the “obesity epidemic.” 🙂 (There’s something I’ve wondered about the “Body Mass Index,” or BMI, ever since I learned how it was calculated: why the heck would medical professionals use such a measurement? It’s obvious to anyone with a math education that it couldn’t be right — it assumes that a person’s …
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As some of the readers of this blog may have noticed, we posted the Linux version of our product yesterday, joining the Windows version we originally released. The product was originally developed under Linux, so it would have made sense to post that one first — except that we had no experience packaging things for …
After the highway trip, the average fuel economy on the Camry (with a little over a quarter tank left) is 38MPG. And that’s with running the AC in both directions, and the not-so-good initial mileage averaged in. 🙂 The AC on the Camry has an “ECO” mode, which seems to work pretty well at restricting …
I’d been driving the new Camry the same way I drove the Corolla, accelerating very slowly in an attempt to save gas. On the Corolla, it worked very well, sometimes giving me close to 50% more miles on a tank, but on the Camry it seemed to be hurting the mileage… instead of the nearly …
We got the new car on schedule, got it home, and I spent several hours setting everything up and reading about various features. It paired with both my phone and GoddessJ’s, via Bluetooth, with no problem. The hands-free system works like a charm; the audio quality is as good as our phones alone. The built-in …
Our ’96 Toyota Corolla, occasionally known as “Nellie,” has been very good to us. We bought it used, twelve years ago, and it has served us faithfully ever since. Nellie is feeling her age, though. The engine is still chugging along enthusiastically, but the body is beginning to show some rust. When idling at a …
On a recent visit to our local Big City, I saw this spray-painted onto an overpass: “ I’m not a big fan of graffiti, but this is geek graffiti, and both amusing and intellectual. It might be tolerable in this particular instance. 😉
On the afternoon of April 22nd, 2007, five years ago today, I wrote my first blog post. This will be my 1,663rd, for an average of a post roughly every 26 hours and 20 minutes. I’m not aware of an easy way to count the number of words in all of them, but I suspect …