I’ve jumped into the middle of my series of notes on building a PC. I’ll write the intro to this series, later. I start with this, now, because this is what I spent too many hours researching, this weekend.
Personal #quandary: I have a strong desire to create something, but I’m lacking the initiative.
— Bill Lee (@wrlee) April 12, 2014
I have more personal projects in mind than I have taken the time to start. Too many Internet distractions, TV distractions, and general malaise. When my tweet (above) landed on my Facebook timeline, my friends were compelled to respond; which motivated me to, at least, write this list down (the first step to success—well steps 3 and 5 according to “How to Plan for a Successful Future“). Continue reading Personal Project List
I’m not conventional. But I like tradition.
I push the limits; within limits.
Happiness can incite complacency.
Comfort can incite complacency.
Complacency can be comfortable.
It is easy to take happiness and comfort for granted.
Until it’s gone.
What is the next thing to push me out of my comfort range? انواع البوكر What is the thing that will challenge me?
There is a big, wide world out there. Too many things to do and see in a lifetime. And yet, I haven’t moved fast enough to fill my life.
Or maybe I’ve moved too fast to allow my life to become filled.
I like to be on the move, but it is good to know where home is.
Some discovery needs to be done alone. I have done that. Even more can be done with someone; that, I’ve yet to do.
Life is a constant challenge of balance. Finding the knife-edge of balance is one challenge, the other is maintaining it.
Maybe, balancing life is easiest when you have a partner to hold on to.
If you have a partner balancing you, it is too easy not to notice that you are not standing upright by yourself.
Until that support is missing.
Such are the challenges life outside the edge of convention. لعبة بينغو
Live life.
And appreciate it and those in it. كيف تربح المال من الإنترنت
I’ll start on these … tomorrow.
Again, I am off on a tangent. This is actually a tangent of a tangent (so I am way off course!). If you care about typefaces and the look of your text communications on your computers and smart-phones, as I do, then you probably feel constrained by the limited typewriter character set in your electronic communication. Finding the exact character to look and act like you want can distinguish and beautify your communiqués. It turns out that things have evolved a bit since the typewriter days and, though keyboards doesn’t show this, there are a bunch of other standard characters that are available; double-quotes (“ and ” vs. "), single-quotes (‘ and ’ vs. '), ellipsis (… vs. ... —which saves also save you two characters in limited-length messages such as tweets and text-messages), and the topic of today’s post, dashes: hyphens (-), en-dashes (–), and em-dashes (—). I simply want to be able to enter these characters to make my messages look better, without a lot of tedium.
As tangents go, this led to more tangents; but here, I will try to distill these meanderings to something digestible and useful. So, first, a little about dashes then some howtos to enter the one you want on computers, tablets, and smart-phones you’re using
It turns out that dash/hyphen, en-, and em-dashes not only look different, they have different meanings. Reading through the Wikipedia’s “Dashes” entry reminds me of one of my peeves: when composing a document’s formatting, apply semantic formatting independent of how you want it to look (and address the look of the elements separately)—do not format content based on how you want it to look. (But I digress again…). Continue reading Be a Little More Dashing in Your Text Communiqués