I came across a couple of interesting posts today, one by Jiminy Panoz, “Iām a complex Average Joe designing eBooks @ChapalPanoz & getting shit done.” He recently gave a talk entitled “Why the web should take a look atĀ eBooks” basically stating ebooks are messed up!
Another interesting quote by NateĀ Hoffelder, who started the blogĀ the-digital-reader.com:
About Nate Hoffelder
Top image of me sitting in front of my 3 monitors for my main PCs (at home taken by my chromebook). I also have a couple kindle fires and a great Chromebook 15″ that I got refurbed for $150! Wonderful laptop & no maintenance. I work on lots of PCs at work every day doing tech support & network administrivia.
Itās difficult for those of my generation ā people who grew up with the beige PC box as a cultish object of desire and the symbol of cutting-edge computing ā to understand just how divorced the modern world and population have become from the desktop PC. The desktop today is akin to what mainframes were in the past: an imposing, burring, gargantuan construction that you only resort to when you really need to get some heavy work done.
from an article on The Verge.
Snapshot of linux (xfce) running on my Chromebook
I’m really enjoying working on my new (refurbed) 15″ chromebook I got from Acer for just $150. First thing I did was add the developer version of linux using the Crouton setup.
Google did an excellent job designing a very lightweight OS–and I am running a linux virtual OS with it, and it works fine for my current learning of laravel (a php framework on steroids) and web design.
Another little project: I also just loaded the latest version of linux (16.04, xfce) on an old dual-core system, and it runs using only 300 megs of ram on a base system. I put in an SSD disk to boot off, and it’s ready to run in about 5 seconds–and runs really smooth! SSDs are ideal to boot off, and then you just add an extra hard drive for additional storage look these up.
The Basket of Tolerance, by Adi Da, is a book with 3 bibliographies, about 16,000 items, mostly books, with CDs and videos too. I’m working on how to access it so it’s visually interesting, and not just a thick telephone book of lists. Apart from book sellers and scholars, such a book/website won’t appeal to most people. Most people are interested in a certain topics. I want to make a top level dive into wherever, and back again, but to also show the context of the stages of life, such that if a person gets curious, she can find and read more about the seven stages of life, and Adi Da.
The featured image above is a template for looking at all the items in a section of The Basket of Tolerance. This section I’ve divided into 110 stacks, which contain 3,554 items. The list of titles & authors alone, without any pictures, goes for 101 pages at 12 point text. I want something more like ~25 pages of abbreviated info, with pictures, so a person can see an area of interest, then click on that to get a wall of books/CDs/videos on a particular topic.
Iām slowly rousingĀ to life again after a long twenty-three year nightmare of fatigue. After thisĀ long-time of suffering chronic fatigue, I was finally diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, thanks to Obamacare!
So I changed my diet & wear an octopus on my face at night (a cpap machine), and itās made some real difference. But not enough. So I have keep at it like a detective figuring out why such low conductivity and how to naturally amp it up, without coffee, etc.
I will try & bother my doctor so I can look at the stats the cpap makes. (Iāve looked at a file, and can reader the header, but the data is binary encoded, so I will push to get the format.) So far he hasnāt been willing to give the data to me, although somehow the fact of me having a cpap has (via my providers no doubt) gotten into the hands of internet advertisers, not thru me, so now surfing shows cpap machines in the adverts. Kind of amusing how itās easier to see my stuff on the internet than it is to get it from my provider.
Rip meditatesĀ & does Da Chi Gong
So pranayama & Chi Gong then. & Guru meditation. Adi Da says, āI am your capability. Therefore, your capability is Unlimited.ā āfrom the book Love and Blessings.
The Basic Principle Of General Health and Well-being In The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given āRadicalā Reality-Way Of The Heart, and The Basic Principle Of āRadicalā Healingā¦ Is Communion With The Prior Perfectionā¦ In Which the bodily human being is arisingā¦
by Adi Da, from Right Life Is Free Participation In Unlimited Radiance.