This is fine

See also:
https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine

"Find who you really are"

Is this not the search for regret-free action?
However, since presence-of-mind fluctuates,
there is always a non-zero probability
of taking actions which appear sub-optimal
upon deeper reflection.
And so it is a journey towards
heightened presence-of-mind.

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I accept this burden

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Doubles Advocate

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesnt take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like its a peach of cake.

Marshmallow Hotspot Tether DNS issue

Problem description:
adb shell onto the phone -> ping works, as does name resolution
On laptop connected via hotspot or usb tethering to the android phone
ping to an ip address works.  ssh to an ip address works.
Name resolution is refused

Solution:
Under IPv4->Other DNS, I added the google NS: 8.8.8.8
Disconnected, reconnected and nslookup is now working, and I can submit this blog post over the wifi hotspot!

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Busyness

noun | busy·ness | \ˈbi-zē-nəs

: the activity of keeping busy
: work that is part of a job created for the sake of it
: the intense activity that results from not having enough to do

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Steps, suited to the task

So close, its breathing in my ear ...
So near, like the climax of a mystery novel

What is it?

The answer is simple: Exercise your free will.
All this blame game, isn't it coming from a guilty conscience
of those unwilling to choose wisely
unwilling to show resolve,
blaming others?

The solution is inside us all
its in plain view
but to walk it, we must make the steps,
and build the habits anew
suited to the task.


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Probiotics and Antibiotics

Probiotics in the prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and Clostridium difficile infection
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105609/

This worked:

Low fiber, probiotic diet
White rice, carrots, miso soup


1 cup water+1 lactibiane (Lactobacillus helveticus LA401 candisis)
followed by bfast

1 dose 10am antibiotics followed by rice crackers+peanutbutter+apples+washed&unpeeled carrots

1cup water+1 probactiol 25 (Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM, Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07)
followed by lunch

1 cup water+1 lactibiane (Lactobacillus helveticus LA401 candisis)
followed by dinner

1 dose 10pm antibiotics

Pep talk

Not some cliche
For real real
Get out of your comfort zone

Give yourself permission
To live in the moment
To take it all in
Giggle you up inside
Cause you to squirm and wriggle
Dance in a trace
... full of romance
for life
vibrant sharp concious
aware alert present open
playful
permission to laugh out loud as you feel it
flowing free of "shoulds"
... and "what will people thinks"
synonymous with living a facade
let your insides out
don't be afraid to open the door
and find the unknown inside
Catch yourself giving up, leaving the door closed
Make a concious decision to challenge yourself
to try your best
to learn from your mistakes
give yourself permission
to explore your own being
how can you know who you are
if you don't let yourself out
of the "shoulds" box
out here is a beautiful lush green grass meadow
the sun burning high in the sky
beautiful deep blue
your ideas are raining down on you
your soul is a rainbow


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The scientist's gamble

The scientist's gamble:
Pursue the long path from a->b with certain arrival
or pursue a search for a shorter path, a possible holy grail.

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Methods of Adjectivation

Be a leader

... tell others where to go.

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Vanquish the thesis

And may the force be with you on your quest to vanquish
The Thesis in the Swamp of Gradskull.

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2015 Turkey notes

Followed these notes:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/story/66/

Preheat to 165 deg (without fan)
5.4kg bird
- Washed
- Patted dry with paper towel
- Coated with olive oil mixture inside and out:
  - 1/4 cup olive oil
  - 1.5-2 tsp oregano
  - 1.5-2 tsp marjoram
  - did I put also sage??
  - 2-3 tsp salt?
  - pepper

Stuffed with this recipe:
http://www.thedomesticfront.com/old-school-sage-stuffing/
(excluded broth for stuffing used to stuff)

Cooked uncovered
At 2hrs increased to 170deg with fan

Target temp 75 deg C
At 3hrs checked temp
Cooked another 10 mins.
Turkey sat covered for 20-30mins until carved.



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Asparagus and the absence of knowledge

The loss of knowledge
Wild asparagus
Starving in abundance
Can't put 2 and 2 together to save your life
In time
Up against nothing
But time
And comfort zone

I've dreamed the mark of a master

I've had a lucid dream 

an interpretation

of a real experience

but the dream was more lucid than the real

a posthoc realization

the gentle progression of the day

eclipsed by an afterthought

Like looking in the mirror

and finding you're the reflection

It was this.

In my dream, my mind replayed a guitar player,

mirroring an impromptu gig in an Erice Marsala cellar.

It was not the song I remembered.

Now I cannot play even a Ramones song,

but here replaying in my mind

was a song I've never heard.

I was conscious it was a dream,

a manufactured total experience,

and yet I could recognize a skill in the player

far exceeding my own.

So effortlessly forthcoming,

precision without tension, 

speed without hesitation.

An extension of the body,

the song an old friend,

yet entirely new to me.

I was conscious it was a dream,

a manufactured total experience,

and yet I could recognize a skill in the player

far exceeding my own.

I can imagine an expert,

without being one myself 

So effortlessly forthcoming,

precision without tension, 

speed without hesitation.

An extension of the body,

the song an old friend,

beauty from imperfection

and apparent happenstance.

The mark of a master.

To play music,

we have to choose an instrument.

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It's all around you

It's all around you 

at the doors of perception

A leap of conciousness

 in an instant

the mystery falls away

... a what if scenario

It happens every day 

in an analogous way

The secrets are right before us

... in plain view

Just looking isn't enough

I see a pristine coastal lake

I hear the haunting call of a loon

My brother is near me

beholding the spectacle

A vibrant ecosystem

spared of motors

Like Columbus' "India"

the significance evades us

... in plain view

the secrets are right before us

the mystery falls away

  in an instant

 a leap of conciousness

 at the doors of perception

 It's all around us

awaiting our faculties of mind

to awaken

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Ceci n'est pas un poem

just words and sentences
that suited my fancy
a me(a)ssage for my sub- and consciousness
for the future since 2010

Darjeeling, bergamot and walnuts they say
up and lifted the Lorax away.
Although contrarywise, the opposite is true
Those who did the lifting away, those are you
who bang your who trinkets and bang your who trumpets
Going on without noticing what we must do.

Now I am no poet, I just speak for the trees
without whom you can return to the ocean if you please
To hang with the curious oysters and fishes
If all you want for the world is to grant your three wishes.

Too many a lichen have struggled on rocks
than justify a collection of pink cashmere socks
The power of life has been granted to you
Now go hurry up and figure out what to do.

By any other name?

Tai Chi
Chai Tea

A dalinprome?

Chai darjeeling
Thai bergamot

Why walnuts?

Explorers

Explorers venture out to discover what is unknown to them. The world is getting smaller, but more complex. There is more to learn and know than ever. The modern explorer is a bridge builder between pockets of knowledge... A work in progress. Perpetual.

- Airline pilots
- Gene sequencers
- Healers of ailments of the heart, by surgery
- Antarctic navigators
- Caribou hunters, for livelihood
- Natives of the Amazon