Friends, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you back here to the Weekly Head Voices!

The passing of time usually seems to be quite a theoretical affair, but at this moment I can really feel the year taking its last few breaths.

(People even seem to think of this as the last year of the decade, which makes it all the more dramatic, but not everyone is convinced. If the first day of the first year was January 1, year 1, the end of the first year was December 31, year 1, and the end of that first decade was on December 31, year 10. By this reasoning, the end of the current decade is still more than a year away, on December 31, 2020. Yes, the calendar has changed drastically over the years, but the principle of when decades start and end is the same.)

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Welcome back friends!

It’s a lovely, laid-back Sunday morning (the 8th, at 11:16 to be slightly more precise) as I sit down to write this paragraph right here.

Smatterings of this post were already jotted down in this markdown text file two weeks ago, but then I didn’t see enough that was noteworthy, and then everything suddenly Got Really Busy(tm).

In the end, all of that led up to this perfect little moment in space-time right here and right now, and now I am grateful that I can try again to look back at the passage of time from Monday November 18 to Sunday December 8, 2019.

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Welcome travellers of the great and beautiful information universe!

(That universe was what we were promised. Thanks to the inherent and fundamental difficulties of our meat-based reality, we have ended up with something… different. I remain hopeful.)

Here in this little corner, I’ll be reminiscing about the minuscule thread of personal time stretched taut between Monday, November 11 and Sunday, November 18.

pling

(that’s me plucking the thread. meat-space issues…)

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This, the 183d edition of the Weekly Head Voices, looks back at the week from Monday November 4 to Sunday November 10, 2019.

In this post we have a BLoM, a story about the conflict between a man and a toy and finally some great quantum mechanics visualizations for your meat-based neural network.

BLoM (Bullet List of Miscellany).

• Thanks to the gentle urging of my friend the Vogon Poet, I finally got around to fixing my custom Hugo shortcode for image inclusion so that it would use full path names. This will hopefully result in RSS feeds and the subscription email correctly displaying images.
• I forgot to mention in the previous WHV that I wrote a post explaining how you can use Emacs and Orgmode to form and maintain good habits. This has really been working quite well for me.
• It is hard to explain how happy I am that the comments on this blog are now also self-hosted using the open-source software isso. Of all of the advantages, I think I appreciate the lower barrier to entry the most. With full markdown support, you should be able to post whole blog posts down below in the comment section! (HINT HINT)

I should really look where I’m walking.

Picture this:

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As one is prone to do on a Saturday, I decided yesterday to migrate all 2500+ of the comments on this site to isso, an open-source self-hosted commenting system.

TL;DR: Comments on this blog are now managed by self-hosted, open-source isso that I control. Commenting should be much faster and more fun, so have at it!

Why I recommend strongly against Disqus.

You might recall, or you could just check the relevant blog post, that I ported all comments from wordpress to disqus (grrr…) in March of this year, when I upgraded to the Hugo static site generator.

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Welcome to your home away from home folks!

This, the one hundred and eighty second edition of the WHV, looks back at the three weeks from Monday October 14 to Sunday November 3, 2019.

On attempting to publish the WHV on a weekly basis.

Somewhere at the end of the first week, I sat down to write, but I soon realised that I didn’t have all that much to say.

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In this post, I explain how to get up and running with Emacs Orgmode habits.

Even if you’re not planning to use Emacs for this, it might be interesting context for the development of other ideas for habit tracking tricks and tools.

The importance of habits.

If you have some experience being, you know, alive, and perhaps even trying to get just that little bit better at it every day, you will have realised by now that being able to form and maintain good habits is almost a super power.

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Welcome back everyone!

This edition of the WHV, #181, looks back at the period of time from Monday October 7 to Sunday October 13, 2019.

Alternative WHV notification modalities.

Shortly after publishing WHV #180, I decided (bolstered by the advice of my, err, advisor) to return to announcing new WHVs on Facebook and perhaps even on Twitter, in spite of TwiFRaF-YT.

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Dear friends,

Welcome to this, the 180th edition of the Weekly Head Voices, in which I perform retrospection on the week from Monday September 30 to Sunday October 6, 2019.

To be more specific, this is mostly indirect retrospection, meaning that I think about and attempt to describe the thoughts I had about topics and events that might or might not have occurred in the period of time that this post is ostensibly looking back on.

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(WARNING: not your typical WHV post ahead. CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)

In this, the 179th edition of the WHV, I look back at the week from Monday, September 24 to Sunday, September 29, 2019.

We spent slightly more than half of this time on vacation in the Cederberg mountains.

This Cederberg mountains frame and support a truly beautiful place, with as one of its many additional features the fact that mobile phone reception and other forms of modern digital communication have not managed to penetrate all that much.

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