Weekly Head Voices #179: Direct Experience Trigonometry.

(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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Weekly Head Voices #178: Parallel world.

GOU#2, age 9, painted this unicorn for all of us. Sometimes you need more unicorn in your life, especially when you’ve reviewed photos for the past two weeks and came up with nothing and you start doubting everything. Now I believe!

This edition of the WHV looks back at the two weeks from Monday September 9 to Sunday September 22, 2019.

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Note-taking strategy 2019.

At the start of 2016, I published an overview of my note-taking strategy then.

In the intervening three and a half years, my note-taking has further evolved to adapt to my changing environment, and the underlying “system” has co-evolved to support this.

Although note-taking is at the core of the system, a more accurate description of its current purpose would be personal knowledge management.

What you’ll also find in this post, is the culmination of many years of lessons learned trying to “keep a lab journal”.

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Weekly Head Voices #177: Streakers.

A piece of the Lourensriver, captured for you during a particularly challenging post-Sunday-lunch run.

This edition of the WHV looks back at the two weeks from Monday August 26 to Sunday September 8, 2019.

On friendship, 25 years later.

The birthday mentioned previously, along with the portentous visit of a good friend from afar, led to at least two small celebrations (that I know of) with a bunch of us that have been friends for more than 25 years now.

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Weekly Head Voices #175: Plaintext me.

Good evening fellow humans.

This is Head Voice #37 reporting for duty. I have been instructed to perform retrospection on the period of time from Monday July 22 to Sunday July 28.

Due to the ongoing hibernation and consequent lack of interesting events to talk about, this should be short.

This delectable Fred & Max Flat White was one of a quite few more enjoyed during life-affirming breakfast with a Very Flat Cat. (By the way, why didn't any of you tell me that fried egg yolk slowly drenching the quinoa bed it lies on is so amazing?!)

I’m stubbornly doubling down on plaintext email.

I spent a precious hour or two (or perhaps three, in which case I am ashamed) performing experiments to try and understand how GMail, fastmail web, thunderbird and the iOS mail.app encode quoting in HTML email replies.

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Weekly Head Voices #173: I know.

Taken on a run in the mountain, on a trail quite aptly called the protea. By the way, although I have become slightly less terrible at running up hills, I'm still quite bad.

Let’s go for a slightly less anxious start than the previous edition did:

Well hello there folks!

A week ago, I made a deliberate decision not to post a WHV, as I really did not have much to report on.

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Weekly Head Voices #171: ICEMiRB.

Down here, you never know what sort of fantastic beasts you could run into. I met this particular fullmetal creature right about here.

Dear friends,

In this post, I do a particularly lossy review of my trip through time, from Monday May 6 to Sunday May 19, 2019.

First we talk about sleep, then a long part on technical tricks, then a slightly more backyard philosophical piece on human tool sharpening, and finally the announcement of a new academic event somewhere in the far or near or medium term future.

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