We cannot solve our problems
with the same thinking that created them
— Einstein

-- Don Cohoon

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Your Final Decision

https://funerals.org/get-help/making-decisions/

Once you’ve decided what you want, talk to your likely survivors about your wishes and what you’ve learned. If plans go awry, or death occurs far from home, they’ll need the skills and knowledge you’ve developed to negotiate …

Advice to become Better, by Carl Sagan

• Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”

• Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.

• Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in …

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.

Rule 2. Measure. Don't tune …

I did the best I could at the time with the knowledge that I had. Now, I’ll do better.

-- Don Cohoon

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We Should Play

Play requires you to ditch the limiting, binary way we think about our feelings, Mr. Harry added. In other words, we have to let go of the idea that we can’t feel both playful in the moment and anxious about the state of the world. The …

Gotta love Dave. All these years, what a talker. http://scripting.com/

As you get older and see your friends of 30, 40, even 50 years -- you realize how silly this all is. I see them and I see an old person, but I know who they are inside. The …

Oatmeal cookies

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Ingredients:

2 cups or 24 oz quick-cooking oats ( one cup whole oatmeal, one blended)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1 …

How I lost 90 pounds, for years

Decide

that you are ready to do something to become healthy, happy, and thinner. Not for anyone else but yourself. Talk it over with someone who actually has willpower and can keep their weight down. Don’t tell anyone else, this is for …

A world crowd pushing and shoving
one person’s breath
becomes another
and thunder of voice
deafens our soul.

NASA Picture from the International Space Station

My kingdom for some peace and quiet.

When this wish happens
our silence is absorbed,
soft as a country breeze
and swaying like leaves …