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Medium difficulty 6-8 servings 30 min prep + 2 hours cooking time Requires 1 large pot, and one skillet that can handle high heat (=cast iron or carbon steel; no teflon or ceramics, or you will ruin it and your health!)

I write texts for myself.

A question I often see asked is one along the lines of How do I motivate myself do (something) … where something may be eat healthier, go to the gym, work on some project, study hard, &c.

@sdfgeoff asked an interesting question on station just a while ago How much of your lives do you spend living (or watching) someone elses?

So that IPCC report, huh.

The technological choices we make determine the rules we have to abide by.

Dece’s post “last times” made me associate to one of my favorite thoughts from Roman philosopher Seneca, who was counting his days having fallen out of favor with Emperor Nero.

I finally got around to moving @marginalia.nu off gmail.

As I have mentioned earlier, perhaps the biggest enemy of PageRank is the hegemony of PageRank-style algorithms.

Early this winter, when I set up the server that would eventually become marginalia.nu, I did so in order to try out some technology I thought looked cool (proxmox, zfs), and stuff I was exposed to at work and didn’t really see the point of so as to see if

I stumbled upon the Memex, which is a spiritual predecessor to hypertext technology.

Maintaining links is difficult.

Don’t chase small optimizations Said some smart person at some particular time, probably.

I find if I do not regularly plant interesting thoughts in my mind, it will rarely grow them spontaneously.

I’m in the midst of rebuilding the index of my search engine to allow for better search results, and I’ve yet again found need to revisit how I handle link farms.

I’m struck by how easy it is to read things on Gemini.

gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2021/07/07.1 I felt the need to add some thoughts tangentially related to this post by Sean Conner.

Something you probably know, but may not have thought about a lot is that the Internet is large.

I realize this may offend frenchmen and eastern europeans alike.

Simplicity: Easy Meal: Breakfast Health: It healthy for the soul Servings: 4, or 2 if you are hungry Ingredients 7-8 strips of bacon 6 eggs Cream Chives Cheese (grated or to grate) Black pepper Instructions Cook bacon in a large skillet until crispy Take…

For a long while, I have been puzzled by the strangest problem: My attention span is really bad when I use a computer.

Disclaimer: Many will argue this never happened.