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It's a work in progress, but so's life. — #DoctorWho 13 premier.
Since 2015, major edits to this website contain:
💡︎ LED lighting
🚗︎ Honda Fit/Jazz HR-V/Vezel cars In 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 North America, Honda replaced the Fit/Jazz with the similar HR-V/Vezel, somewhere around the start of COVID-19.
For full effect, view the videos ↖ above or to left by selecting a video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads. ☀︎🚶︎🏠︎ Go outdoors, or see more ▶︎ videos like ↖ above or to left. 🚶︎🚼︎ Hike it Baby group hikes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, and their parents! #DiscoverTheForest 👪︎ Family articles from REI Ten Essentials (from USFS) (en Español) (🇷🇺 на русском) Day Hiking Checklist ❄ Cold-Weather Hiking Tips ☀︎ Extreme Heat Fact Sheet "Hazards to Outdoor Workers" by 🇺🇸 USA CDC NIOSH. To learn more about our ☀︎🚶︎🏠︎ outdoors,identify your local 🌳︎ trees and shrubs,using ⟰ educational web app I Can See Nature! Facebook page forI Can See Nature!
… sustainable landscaping and gardening with native plants … mowing my 🌾︎ turf grass lawn 🦌︎ Deer-exclosure plant cages for areas of extreme predation (and keeping squirrels away from your bird feeders), or get and install a 💦︎ motion-controlled sprinkler, or MSUE's article Smart Gardening to Deter Deer.
Reporting invasive species Handling invasive plants using an herbicide applicator dauber wand Getting your Commercial Certified Pesticide Applicator license
💦︎🛢 Rain barrel installation, use and management Ice dams (not yet 🚧 under construction)
Sustainable Business Practices:The 👥︎🌐︎📈︎ Triple-Bottom Line (3BL) Ethic ☑ VOTE informed, in every election!
The 🔥︎💦︎🌱︎☀︎🌾︎🐛︎🐦︎ prescribed fire/controlled burn plan for my own area is 🚧 under construction. Until published, please see This Tree LOVES FIRE (longleaf pine Pinus palustris), and ▶︎ 🔥︎💦︎🌱︎☀︎🌾︎🐛︎🐦︎ prescribed burn videos. If you are still serious, contact your local agencies, get some local training, and study applicable parts of S-130 🚒︎ Firefighter Training, S-190 🔥︎ Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior, and S-212 🔥︎ Wildland Fire Chain Saws > tab Course Materials, all from NWCG training courses. "How Indigenous Burning Practices Could Prevent Massive Wildfires." NPR radio show Science Friday. September 25, 2020. or its 🔊︎ audio (Your browser does not support online audio control tag. Please use this link to the audio instead.) Prescribed fire consultants and contractors in Michigan.
LED lights are an amazing transformative technology:
Just be very careful to buy the exact light source you want …
Q: How many Lutherans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: 25: One person to screw in the NEW lightbulb, and 24 people to talk about how much they liked the OLD lightbulb. — A Prairie Home Companion, as heard by EP a while back.
🏞 For use outdoors :
We recently installed a set of 24 patio lights, each 1W (quite dim) and 2200 K (quite yellow), that so far, attracts no bugs. I have them plugged into a 💦︎ rain-resistant timer box, set to turn ON at dusk, OFF after 3 hours. Seems to be a good compromise.
🏠︎🚶︎ For use indoors …
Or to list it another way, if you already have a lamp or bulb, and are wondering what to use it for:
Or see for yourself at a friend's house, or lighting or hardware store with excellent displays. In my town, Lowe's and Menards have a better selection of lighting and PPE vs. Home Depot.
Get your light brighter — measured in lumens (lm) — than your existing fixtures. You will like it.
Spend the extra US$2 or €2 each and get them dimmable. If you later decide your lights are too bright, you can correct by installing a modern US$25 or €22 LED-compatible "C-L" dimmer switch. (At Costco, saw a two-pack for US$8; don't know if any good.)
Get a light that projects in a good angle:
If getting a "recessed" "can light" "downlight" retrofit insert, consider whether you need a gimbal "rotatable" "eyeball" to illuminate your subjects.
An E26 adapter means your unit contains an electrical connector for your can's existing E26/E27 standard lightbulb base.
If your LED light comes with a Color Rendering Index CRI, get it High=90+, so it doesn't mess with your ability to see color. Nice chart from OttLite.
For my laundry/work/storage room project, I handled each of these issues by replacing humming florescent tube fixtures with new LED lamps, each with:
Best wishes for success with your 💡︎ lighting project!
If you want 📱︎ very-low-cost mobile cellphone service, for use in the 🇺🇸 USA-only, I highly recommend the low-data plan at Republic Wireless. If you tell your 📱︎ phone to get data for YouTube and most apps only-over-Wi-Fi, (page 7) the lowest-cost plan is fine, and even returns a huge rebate, so it which costs only US$12–16 25? or €11–14 21? per month, out-the-door. And if you don't need 🗺 Google Maps or 📧︎ email while on the road, you can get the base-plan (even cheaper!), with data over Wi-Fi only, and 📱︎☎ voice and 📱︎💬 SMS text over that or 📶︎ cell towers.
I bought my 📱︎ phone, a mid-grade, which I like a lot.
When we traveled overseas a while back, we could NOT make phone calls on these phones, so we borrowed a 📱︎ burner phone and got a temporary SIM card in-country. Worked well.
I also hear very good things about price, and coverage in 🇨🇦 Canada and 🇺🇸 USA, about TracFone. I also hear very good things about Ting Mobile, Cricket Wireless, and Boost Mobile. Other alternatives, more alternatives, and even more alternatives.
After you get your 📱︎ phone, harden[?] your 📱︎ phone against threats. (page 4)
📱︎💻︎ Computer use forordinary and tech-savvy 👥︎ computer users
📱︎💻︎ < /> Computer programming forordinary 👥︎ computer programmers 📱︎💻︎ < /> Computer programming advanced topics:⚠︎ safety-critical, ✈︎ aviation, 🏭︎ industrial-quality, 🕵 internals, development, build, install
Project management topics seem to currently be decentralized — sprinkled around the two chapters with buttons immediately ↑ above, and personal topics. Maybe we will centralize it a bit in the future. 🚧
If you are not paying for the product, you are the product. Like nuclear radiation, cyberwar doesn't make you bleed, but it destroys everything. — R. David Edelman, as heard by EP on 2018-01-19.
Protecting your 📱︎ smartphones, ▯ tablets and 💻︎ computers from spam and malware, via antivirus and other methods and 🔍︎ tools 📱︎ Very-low-costmobile cellphone service
Preparing and showing ▭🌄︎ presentationsduring live 👥︎ in-person, or ▭ digital ▶︎ video virtual web-basedmeetings, conferences, gatherings or webinarsof distributed or self-isolating teams
Setting up a Facebook Page, such as to publicize a nonprofit organization, such as Discover! Parks Event
Any < /> useful code must be modified. — Eric's first law, first described by me, as far as I know.
📱︎💻︎ < /> 🔍︎ Computer and programming tools
Leave something for Release 1.1. — Eric's second law, until I get better attribution.
CSharp C# programming, under 💻︎ Visual Studio .NET Java programming (including ▯ Android), under 💻︎ Eclipse or Android Studio
⛬ Quality, time, cost — project managers don't get to specify all three. — saying at many places. This is often called ⛬ The Triple Constraints or ⛬ The Project Management Golden Triangle: Quality is also listed as good. Scope (user features or functionality) is included here under quality by some authors, but other authors treat this component separately. Time is also listed as fast or 📅︎ schedule/calendar schedule. Cost is also listed as cheap or resources (budget, person-hours). These components are all linked. Pushing on any one of these three or four components must cause (an)other component(s) to react. For example, increasing the project scope (user features or functionality) (known as project creep) must cause the project quality to go down, the time or cost to go up, or some combination of these. You can probably guess how this usually plays out.
👩︎👩︎👩︎👩︎👩︎👩︎👩︎👩︎👩︎ Nine women can't make 🚼︎ a baby in 📅︎ one month. — saying at S_____/G_. Meaning that when a project is late, piling on more people usually doesn't help, and often just makes the project later.
📱︎💻︎ Any computer development project 📅︎ $ takes longer, and costs more. The first 80% of 📈︎ the project uses up the first 80% of 📅︎ $ schedule and budget. The last 20% of 📈︎ the project uses up the other 80% of 📅︎ $ schedule and budget. — sayings at S_____/G_. Meaning that no project plan is made with perfect information and analysis.
Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP http scripting language VBA Visual Basic for Applications programming, under 💻︎ Microsoft Excel
Test like you fly; fly like you test. — The way I learned itwriting ✈︎ aviation software. ▶︎ (I guess lots of us hacked inmachine language, to good effect!) Train like you fight; fight like you train. — The way I heard some of our customers learned it. Plan your work; work the plan. — The way I learned it in chainsaw safety training.
But …
Fail early, and pivot. — The way I learned it in entrepreneur startup seminars. No plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy. — Many versions, this is a variation of that said by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. Meaning every plan must be adjusted as you experience new information.
Make sure you fail on the test stand, so you do not fail in flight. — Elon Musk, quoted in "Elon Musk explains that destroyed SpaceX capsule came from testing to the 'extreme'" by Michael Sheetz. CNBC. 2019-10-10. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. — Elon Musk, quoted in "In 2 Sentences Elon Musk Explains Why the Key to Success Is Failure." Inc. 2015-07-14.
But if you have an actual emergency …
Aviate. Navigate. Communicate. — In that order. And don't move on to step 2 (or 3), unless you have step 1 (and 2) fully under control. 6 pilot rules that everyone should live by.
Blast, other topics I wanted to cover here refer to specific projects for particular employers, so I cannot cover them in this public forum. As I find suitable content, I will post here. 🚧 Under construction.
Until then:
🚼︎🎠︎ As children, we had fun playing on the merry-go-round. But one day, 🚶︎🏠︎ as adults, we will live in one. If brute force isn't working, you aren't using enough. Live forever, or die trying. — Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur SFIA, excellent discussion of humanity's future. For full effect, view a video ↑ above by selecting a video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads.
🌏︎👥︎ On spaceship earth, we are not passengers — we are crew. — Marshal McLuhan, slightly reworded by me.
🌏︎🏠︎ Earth is our home. … Earth is not just our home, it is also our house. It's our residence, and we are the owners. We are not renters passing through. We are not tenants who can complain to the landlord and eventually move on to live somewhere else. We live here — on this 7900-mile-wide (13000 km) ball of rock, water, and air — and we are responsible for its upkeep. — Bill Nye, Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. — Marian Wright Edelman.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the 🇺🇸 USA.
Stand tall and proud, Sink your roots deeply into the earth, Think long term, Go out on a limb, Be content with your natural beauty, Drink plenty of water, Remember your roots, Enjoy the view! — abridged version of … "Advice from a Tree," by Ilan Shamir.
☑ VOTE informed, in every election!
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. — ballistics expert Alex Jason, later used by Adam Savage on TV show MythBusters episode "Bouncing Bullet" (2012). [3] For full effect, view the video ↖ above or to left for teens (or older!) by selecting the video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads.
Every day is a learning day. — #DoctorWho 13 premier.
If you are a 🏫︎ student, and want to blow away your teacher with on a school paper, research any of these women: 1815–1852 Ada Byron, the world's first computer programmer, who invented programming without having working hardware! 1906–1992 Admiral Grace Hopper, got computers really going, in a production system. "Nobody stays until somebody pays." 193_–pres. Jane Howard Allen Piehl, business analyst/systems engineer/computer programmer when they wrote programs using wires! For real! Turned mother, campaign manager, caregiver, bookkeeper/business analyst/nonprofit incubator, board member, and more. Ask me for source material! 1706–1749 Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet physicist, mathematician, philosopher, translator, revolutionary. 1845–1910 "Emma Cole, Grand Rapids Flora Pioneer" biologist and educator in western Michigan. "Emma Jane Cole, West Michigan's Late-19th Century Botanist: A Biographical Sketch". "Emma Cole's 1901 Grand Rapids Flora: Nomenclaturally Updated and Revised". 1914–2000 Hedy Lamarr, did so many things, you need great sources to understand she is a single person. 1933–2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg. — my list. With the exception of the last entry (The Notorious RBG), these women are well-known in only the most obscure geeky circles. Do your report anytime — not just for Women's History Month. These are great stories!
Put your head down, do great work, be the most knowledgeable and helpful person in the room.I think that will get you lots of places. — Gwynne Shotwell, CEO of SpaceX, 72 secs from beginning of video ↖ above or to left (link takes you to focus of talk at time 27:23). For full effect, view the video ↖ above or to left by selecting the video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads.
When you are offered a test or intervention,BRAN reminds you to ask about and consider the Benefits, Risks and Alternatives, and to also consider the effects of doing Nothing in this situation. — Sarah J Buckley, MD, Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices
"The Feelings Circle: A Genius Chart For Better Communications"
IF (1) your situation seems untenable to you, and (2) really is bad (not just you overreacting to it), and (3) you cannot effect change to that situation to make it tenable, THEN you have no alternative — leave that situation. — paraphrase of speaker during a group discussion on 2022-01-24.
We need job time boundaries. Even without pandemic emergencies. I used to work very closely with a team in Sydney, Australia, 15 or 17 hours ahead of me, depending on Daylight-Savings/Summer Time. After meeting in-person for a few days (including a team-building dinner, and a team-building trip to our local rollercoaster park, we worked very well via email or phone. After a few missteps: ◦ I soon learned that my team is Oz would be happy if, when starting work MTWR, I checked for emails from them. Then, before ending work MTWF, sending something back to them. Could be a reference to the bug and fix, could be diagnostic questions for the customer, could be Got it, working on it, no questions yet. Friday morning, I didn't need to check email so diligently, but still needed to send out any updates before ending work. ◦ They soon learned that, if they needed to talk to me, they could always call me during my working hours, although inconvenient for them. Or they could call me at home during their working hours. After a few Can I call you back in an hour?s, they learned that calling me at home during dinner, kid-bathtime, reading-time and bedtime was terrible, and once they learned when the kids were reliably asleep, they could call and have my full attention. For an hour, anyway, perhaps a bit more. We also soon learned to notify each other whenever it was time to Spring Forward or Fall Back. Fun, felt connected to something larger than ourselves! This global arrangement worked out very well, after we got some ground rules that worked. Later, with a local team, on very-tight deadlines, we set up a culture where we would check our email when we started work, again maybe 45-minutes before leaving for the day, with an optional (if not deep in research or debugging) check at lunch. If that wasn't timely enough, your remedy was to call, or walk over there! Again, having your team create a culture of when to expect people to be working, when to be responding to email, made it much easier for everyone. And more productive! You can't do hard research, development or debugging when being interrupted. I recall some hard projects where it took 3–3½ hours to get your head down deep enough into the code, where if you didn't have 5-hour stretches of uninterrupted work, you would never get anything done at all!
Five Principles for a Life of Breakthrough and Purpose: Take big bets and make history. People can be naturally cautious. They look at what's worked in the past and try to do more of it, but history-making transformation happens when people strive for revolutionary change. Be bold, take risks. Have the courage to try new, unproven things and the rigor to continue experimenting. Risk taking isn't a blind leap, but a process of trial and error. Make failure matter. No one seeks out failure, but if you're trying new things, the outcome is uncertain. Great innovators make setbacks matter, applying [Lessons Learned and Best Practices], and sharing them with others. Reach beyond your bubble. Innovation happens at intersections. Great and original solutions come from engaging with people with diverse experiences to forge unexpected partnerships. Let urgency conquer fear. Don't overthink it. It's natural to want to study all angles of a problem, but don't get caught up in the fear of what could go wrong — allow the need to act to outweigh doubts. — Jean Case Be Fearless
If you are 📅︎ scheduled to do something hard, at showtime, you want to live in the moment.If you don't yet feel ready: Prepare. Hard. Over-prepare. Exercise. Hard. Center yourself. Using whatever works for you: ◦ Yoga. ◦ Long walk. ◦ Play your 🎸︎ favorite instrument. ◦ Garden. ◦ Cook. ◦ Dance. ◦ Whatever. If you are reasonably-young or -urban, 👂︎ listen to ▶︎ Eminem's Lose Yourself a few times. 🍲︎ 😋︎ Eat a good healthy and yummy dinner. Get a great night's sleep. Eat a moderate healthy breakfast, caffeinating normally. Get your game face on. You are ready. You own it! If it still doesn't feel right … Fake it until you make it! — various sources, some me, 2018-03-26.Resist imposter syndrome. If you still feel like a fraud.
You can prove me wrong. Because we are all capable of the most incredible change. We can evolve, while still staying true to who we are. We can honor who we've been, and choose who we want to be next. How about it? — #DoctorWho 13 premier.
🕒︎ The time is always right to do what is right. — Martin Luther King Jr.
You will draw from your errors the very lessons which may enable you to avoid their repetition. — Sir William Osler, Aequanimatus
You don't have to behave perfect, just meet the reasonable-person test. Don't do anything you don't want to explain to a judge. — Eric's fourth and fifth laws, first described by me, as far as I know.
When stopped by the 🛂︎ police: If driving: ◦ Put on a turn signal or otherwise acknowledge the Stop. ◦ Turn off the radio. ◦ Continue driving to a safe open location, pull over, Park, turn on the flashers, lower the driverside window (or whichever window you expect the officer to approach), and turn off the engine. ◦ If you are a racial minority, and it is dark out, turn on the interior lights. If you can't find the lightswitch, ignore this point. ◦ Tell any passengers to remain silent and do not reach for anything — you are the driver and will do all the talking. If you are racial minorities, tell any passengers to put their hands on the dashboard or seatbacks. They may record video of the encounter (just like any encounter in a public space), but don't be a nuisance, and start way before the officer comes to the window. ◦ Put your hands on the wheel, and leave them there. Don't reach for any paperwork nor anything else, until (A) the officer requests them, (B) the officer and you verbally confirm their locations, and (C) the officer instructs you to proceed. At all times: ◦ Be polite. ◦ Be respectful. ◦ Keep your hands visible, and movements slow and calm. ◦ But … Do not disclose information to the police: ◦ Do not lie. ◦ But unless you called them, consider not disclosing the truth, either! See video ↗ above or to right. For full effect, select the video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads. Do not consent to a 🛃︎ search. ◦ Not your 🚗︎ vehicle, 🏠︎ home, 📱︎ phone, 💻︎ computer nor 🎒︎ backpack. ◦ If searched anyway, 🗣 speak loudly enough to be heard by witnesses, carcams and bodycams that you do not consent to this search. Do not 🛂︎ hand over your 🆔︎ ID. ◦ Unless, of course, you are crossing an 🛃︎ international border, in which case you are legally obligated to provide your 🆔︎ travel documents. ◦ Or you are the driver in a traffic stop, in which case you are legally obligated to provide your 🆔︎📄︎📄︎: (1) driver's license, (2) registration, and (3) proof of insurance. But do not reach for them until 🛂︎: (A) the officer requests them, (B) the officer and you verbally confirm their locations, and (C) the officer instructs you to proceed. Do not take ⚖︎ legal advice from 🛂︎ a cop. ◦ 🛂︎ Police are allowed to lie to you about almost everything — and do! Good answers for 🛂︎ police requests include: ◦ "Am I ⚖︎ legally obligated to answer that question?" ◦ "Am I ⚖︎ legally obligated to provide my 🆔︎ ID?" ◦ "I think I will consult my ⚖︎ attorney on that." And the ultimate, … ◦ "Am I free to leave?" If the answer is "Yes", calmly and silently 🚶︎ walk away. More details at 🇺🇸 ACLU series Know Your Rights If You're Stopped by the 🛂︎ Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI 📄︎ printable card 📄︎ printable sheet. If you expect 🛂︎ police contact, what to do with your electronics. (page 19) If you expect 🛂︎ ☑ trouble voting. Between encounters with 🛂︎ police, 💳︎ pay your 📝︎ parking tickets and citations, and 🚶︎⚖︎ 📅︎ attend all court dates. Attending to these things may be a pain, but they are far is easier to unwind early on, before getting muddled up with other offenses and eventually turning into an 🛂︎ arrest warrant. ▶︎ How To Speak, by Patrick Winston. And while we are at it, you know how 🚼︎ children need a parent when they go to the ⚕︎ doctor — a guardian or patient advocate? I think that we all — ⟰🚶︎ educated adults included — need a second with us — an advocate — for all important encounters with ⚕︎ doctors, the 🛂︎ police or ⚖︎ courts. A family member or friend, who:is organized,can 📝︎ take notes,can notice stuff that you miss, andcan continue thinking after your brain shuts down upon hearing keywords cancer or jail.Maybe we can catch all this information the first time, without having to resurrect everything later. If you want to know even more, attend the Citizens Police Academy CPA of your local 🛂︎ police or sheriff department > personalize myJurisdiction. We did, and are very happy with the experience. We learned a lot! If you are 👪︎ family or a friend, ask us for details — we will talk your head off!
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell. — Carl Sandburg.
These questions must all be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States: Is a vital national security interest threatened? [What is it?] Do we have a clear attainable objective? [What is it?] Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed? Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted? Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement? [What is it?] Have the consequences of our action been fully considered? Is the action supported by the American People? Do we have genuine broad international support? — The Powell Doctrine. [Emphasis mine.] I found this to be a terrific help in understanding our government's actions. A tragedy that it survived as policy for only a dozen years — 1990 to 2002. If it had continued, our world would be very different today.
Eschew obfuscation. — my Dad, among other people.
Test like you fly; fly like you test. — The way I learned itwriting ✈︎ aviation software. Train like you fight; fight like you train. — The way I heard some of our customers learned it. Plan your work; work the plan. — The way I learned it in chainsaw safety training.
If in danger, if in doubt,run in circles, scream and shout. — OK, maybe this won't do any good; ignore this advice.
Don't let Perfect be the enemy of Good. — aphorism commonly attributed to Voltaire, slightly reworded by me.
If you have identified a near-optimum solution, it may be OK to implement this one, instead of continuing the search for the optimum solution. — Not sure I've ever heard it said this way; said by me for years, recorded here 2018-06-30. Understood instinctively by single parents. — Seems to map to the tension between current terms FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out/Fear of Missing Opportunities) versus FOBO (Fear Of Better Option) (which results in fear of commitment). Both basically are fears of unknown risks. Use this tension — don't run from it — or you will end up with FODA (Fear Of Doing Anything), which has its own known risks. [2019-09-01.]
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela For full effect, view the video ↗ above or to right by selecting the video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads.
You are what you have patience to be. — MTA, personal communication, 2019-01-22
🏊︎ Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim. — Dory.
It gets better! — I first heard this used by people trying to reduce 💥︎🔫︎ death by suicide in gay teens. Later, I found it applicable for all young people, and anyone trying to find their way in this crazy world.I think it usually gets better:Partly because you get more experience solving problems.Partly because you meet more people who can help you out — who know that nugget of information that you need right now, or whatever.Partly because you slowly acquire more assets to help you along the way.It may not look that way now, but if you can avoid dying, I've found it generally does get better! If you or someone you know is considering harming themselves, please contact the: National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Crisis Lifeline > survivors, youth, black, Native Americans, en Español, chat, more; also at 📱︎☎ 988 or 📱︎☎ 1-800-273-TALK , or 📱︎💬 SMS text to 988. Veterans Crisis Line is at ↑↑ above site > link Veterans, or ↑ above phone > press 1, or 📱︎💬 SMS text to 838255, or through online chat. For depression and other mental health issues, please contact the: Depression screening questionnaire. For alcohol and drug use, anxiety, dementia, PTSD, and 📱︎ calculators, use that link > ▦ top-left or left navigation. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) 📧︎ email 📱︎☎ 24-hour helpline 1-800-950-NAMI. Info on other health topics, including 💊︎ Rx, medical tests, medical terminology, recipes, supplements, and genetics.
We are all only temporarily-abled. — Source unknown, I heard it a long time ago. Although on 2018-10-02, I heard Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee say that ⚕︎ doctors understand very well that they will soon be on the other side of the exam table. Lesson Learned: Design everything for your future self: ◦ Build your websites with text large-enough, contrast high-enough, and all that accessibility stuff. ◦ Design/acquire/modify your 🏠︎ home with your ♿ future abilities and limitations in mind. ◦ Etc.
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Not knowing something is fine.Not wanting to know, or refusing to know, is the problem. — Eric's third law, first described by me, as far as I know.
If you don't ask, the answer's No. — MM, about 1998.
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Hamilton: An American Musical is amazing, on lots of levels. To convince you to get 🎫 tickets to the show next time it comes to your town, please study the quotes, videos and Dramatus Personæ ↓ below, synopsis and lyrics. This first video image (↖ above or left) links to fragments of PBS TV show American Experience episode "Hamilton's America," which describes the story about the musical, and about half the musical itself. Its second link used to show the full episode. Later, it was available with ☸︎ PBS Passport. Later, even that was taken away. I hope PBS restores access to this episode — it is terrific. Meanwhile, enjoy the fragments! And these newer fragments! For full effect, select the video image or link, then sublinks, then icons ⤢ fullscreen, ㏄ captions=On, and ▶︎ Play. Talk less, smile more, don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.…You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices.…You want to get ahead? Fools who shoot their mouths off, wind up dead. — Aaron Burr I can wait for it. — Aaron Burr ⚰Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and saints,And we keep living anyway, we rise and we fall, and we break, and we make our mistakes.And if there is reason, I'm still alive when so many have died,Then I'm willing to wait for it, I'm willing to wait for it.…I'm the one thing in life I can control, I am inimitable, I am an original.I'm not running behind or running late, I'm not standing still, I am lying in wait. — Aaron Burr This second video image (↖ above or left) links to the entire musical: audio plus lyrics. For full effect, select the video image, then icons ⛶ fullscreen, ㏄ captions, ▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads. No one else was in the room where it happened No one really knows how the game is played The art of the trade How the sausage gets made We just assume that it happensBut no one else is in the room where it happens. — Aaron Burr I have never been satisfied. I am never satisfied. I will never be satisfied. — Angelica Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton Rise up. — ensemble I'd rather be divisive than indecisive. — Alexander Hamilton I am not throwing away my shot! — Alexander Hamilton We gotta go, gotta get the job done, gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son! — Alexander Hamilton, about to lead a charge in the Battle of Yorktown Tomorrow there'll be more of us. — John Laurent I wanna be in the room where it happens. — Aaron Burr Dying is easy, young man, living is harder.… Winning was easy, young man, governing's harder. — George Washington You could let it go, stay alive for me.Let it go, live to fight another day. — Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton) and George Washington Look at where you are, look at where you started.The fact that you're alive is a miracle, just stay alive, that would be enough. That would be enough. — Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton) Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now. — Alexander Hamilton If you stand for nothing, what'll you fall for?…What're you waiting for, what do you stall for?We won the war, what was it all for? — Alexander Hamilton Why do you always say what you believe?Every proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies! — Aaron Burr Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? Soon that attitude may be your doom!How do you write like it's going out of style? Write day and night like it's going out of style? — Aaron Burr How do you write like you're running out of time? Write day and night like you're running out of time?How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive, How do you write like you need it to survive?How do you write every second you're alive? Every second you're alive? Every second you're alive? — ensemble I feel that for much of my past, I have been an amalgam of Burr and Hamilton. But am increasingly Hamilton. Obviously, Lin-Manuel Miranda watched some of the same movies as me. See what Hamilfans think of ☑ voting. Dramatis personæ Character How to recognize Played by (Broadway original cast | Lansing) Alexander Hamilton, protagonist, born Saint Croix, Nevis Light vest and pants, coats=brown then blue then dark green. Lin-Manuel Miranda | Edred Utomi Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton), wife to Alexander, sister to Angelica and Peggy Hair=tied back neat, dress=brown or white. Phillipa Soo | Hannah Cruz Aaron Burr, antagonist Hair=near-shaved, burgundy or dark coat. Leslie Odom, Jr. | Josh Tower Angelica Schuyler, brightest character in play, sister to Eliza and Peggy Hair=long, dress=bright. Renée Elise Goldsberry | Stephanie Umoh George Washington, general, President Hair=shaved, white britches, navy coat with white trim, light blue sash, navy 3-cornered hat. Christopher Jackson | Paul Oakley Stovall Marquis de Lafayette, revolutionary in USA and France Hair=wild, pulled back into ponytail. Daveed Diggs | Bryson Bruce Thomas Jefferson, Ambassador to France, Secretary of State, President Hair=wild, bright purple coat. Hercules Mulligan, tailor's apprentice, spy Hair=gray winter knit cap, dark coat, light vest and pants. "Oak" Okieriete Onaodowan | Chaundre Hall-Broomfield James Madison, President John Laurens, abolitionist Hair=brown pulled back. Anthony Ramos | Jon Viktor Corpuz Philip Hamilton, son to Alexander Peggy Schuyler, sister to Angelica and Eliza Jasmine Cephas Jones | Olivia Puckett Maria Reynolds, affair with Alexander Hamilton King George III Jonathan Grof | Peter Matthew Smith Hamilton details found by YouTube content creator Flicks and the City
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The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide. — Michael Russell, Astrobiologist at JPL. … or on other worlds, perhaps hydrogenate acetylene or ethane. — Chris McKay, Astrobiologist at NASA Ames. The purpose of life is to dissipate local energy and increase our universe's entropy, more efficiently than possible with non-biological processes. — Is the universe pro-life?Quartz. 2019-02-15.
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one. — Tom Hiddleston.
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