I just watched a short Shin Lim-performance and at the end it is clear that he forced the card at the beginning, and suddenly I am watching the beginning over and over again how the hell he did the force…my watching habits definitely changed. #magic
Fellow IT-people: when you are not a freelancer, do you take additional customers that will pay you money for your services or do you keep it at family support? I’m hesistant to do so because usually it is not “do it once” but usually they expect then support, if something breaks
Yeah. It is Tuesday and I am finished with the preparations for the next Curse of Strahd-session (Death House, part 2). That one might be a deadly one. #rpg #dnd
In terms of hobbies where I can also have fun with my kids, magic beats so far everything. They want to be an audience, they want to know how stuff works, they want to try stuff themself. It is great :)
Oh, and it is astonishing what you can already do with a couple of mediocre sleights, a double lift and a bit of card control. #cardmagic
My older son told me about a magician that comes to their school. He worked out the tricks, cause he did really bad sleights by flashing to him the coin he palmed etc. He knew how the tricks worked but didn’t tell because he didn’t want to be the annoying spectator. Well done!
A short follow up. After my kid tried it twice, I asked him to hand me over the cards. I exchanged the cards snapped the finger and the right card was on top. He was flabbergasted. That was really cute ;)
Ok…so I could fool my kids with a couple of magic tricks. Nice. We all had fun :) The cutest thing was when the little one wanted to show the trick my wife, snapped his finger and the wrong card turned up. Snapped again, still the wrong card ;)
I have to say thought that I’d like to be more minimalistic andcould reduce my consumerist behavior. And regarding software: I use tools like mutt and vim because they make me productive. Use the tools that make you more productive and don’t trash talk other peoples tools.
Regarding minimalists: I still find those fun that own like a hundred things and one of them is a smartphone and one is a kindle. And they don’t mention how many ebooks, pieces of music and apps are on those. I bet often they are not really minimalistic ;)
This “your software is more bloated than yours” feels like a similar elitism like those from “militant” minimalists: look, I own only 10 things and my life is so much better than yours because of this. Fap, fap, fap… Minimalism is fine but this behavior just annoys me massively…
When I read those articles about bloated software like vim I always wonder what for machines these people use or files they edit, that they see a difference in their daily usage.
Just read yet another article how bloated vim is in contrast to nvi. Luckily even my slowest computer, a 1.6 GHz-dual core Atom from nearly 10 years ago with 2MB Ram, is performant enough that I do not really see a difference in my use cases (even with plugins etc).
Hm…I just figured out how I can”teleport” a card from hand to the other. This still needs a lot of exercise but that should work. Neat. #cardmagic
I am starting to understand some card magic performances and the whole thing becomes even more interesting when I have an idea how it works and see how skilled the people are who created and doing them. Shin Lim is not so magic anymore but I am more impressed by his performance.
Apple implements Screen Time and immediately does it right. This is far better than what Google does with Family Link.
Fighting with a RaidZ2 to get it to be performant. Added now a SLOG-device but it doesn’t really seem to help. Let’s watch that. But I see me already moving data to pools that are just a mirror and dissolve this RaidZ2. And I have to read up on the ARC… #zfs
Ok…Linus apologizes and Linux gets a sensible Code of Conduct…what happened? This is a great development imho. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f
Wow! Linus apologized and wants to change: “My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. (…) I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.” https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
Out of curiosity I installed the Fedora XFCE-spin on my netbook. And it is sooo much more performant than OpenBSD (both with FDE). I didn’t expect that much of a performance boost. 🤔
That soccer game was a party and I had an awesome time with the big one. I can understand sports fans a lot better now.
