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I just wanted to say …
I remember my first year in college, there was a student in one of my classes (this class only had 12 students) who frequently prefixed her comments in class with “this might stupid, but …”, and then went on to say something which most people thought was stupid. In other words, it probably would have…
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THINK
My kids’ school back in Colorado had this mantra that before you talk, you should THINK – a helpful acronym to check that what you are about to say is True Helpful Informative Necessary Kind My daughter recently made me a new sign to hang on our wall near our dining room table so that…
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MacOS tip of the day: Dictionary
If you’re like me, you find yourself looking up words in the dictionary fairly frequently. For me, this is particularly true, since I am an American living in Germany, and even though I speak German quite well, there are few days that go by where I don’t need to look up a word or two.…
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UNIX tip of the day: pushd
I am frequently surprised by the number of colleagues I have who do not know about the BASH builtins pushd and popd. I myself remember seeing them for the first time in a script about 10 years ago, and had to look up the commands. At first I didn’t quite understand the point, but now…
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(mostly) Unplugged weekend
Last weekend I decided to try an experiment in which I didn’t use any screens at all. I made a couple exceptions for some video chat meetings I had already had scheduled with some friends and family, and there were a few very brief things I had to do on my computer for the kids.…