Weekly Head Voices #225: Just a perfect weekend

Dear reader,

Welcome (back) to the Weekly Head Voices, and specifically to the 225th installment, covering the period from Monday May 24 to Sunday June 6, 2021.

Keyboard update: K1

You’ll remember from WHV #204 that my previous keyboard acquisition was the Womier K87 with its all-encompassing RGB and hot-swappable Gateron brown switches.

That keyboard is so much fun to type on.

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Notes on the book "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuro-scientist and psychologist who studies the brain and especially how emotion works in the brain.

In addition to her 240 peer reviewed scientific publications, she is the author of the popular books How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, the book notes on which you are reading here.

The book consists of seven and a half beautifully written and amazing stories about the human brain.

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Weekly Head Voices #223: The potjie never left

Welcome friends to the two hundred and twenty third edition of the Weekly Head Voices, covering the period of time from Monday May 3 to Sunday May 16, 2021.

(Hah, by writing out the words like that, I’ll get paid even more for this article!)

Figure 1: Scene from the perfect first half of a run, right before that sublime experience was sunk by a catastrophic audio hardware fault.

Figure 1: Scene from the perfect first half of a run, right before that sublime experience was sunk by a catastrophic audio hardware fault.

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Weekly Head Voices #222: Scotty, we need more power!

Welcome back everyone!

It’s now early(ish) Friday morning of the weekend after, but I would like to get the 222d edition of the WHV out, namely the one covering the two weeks from Monday, April 19 to Sunday, May 2, 2021.

My excuse for skipping a week is that the second week was spent on vacation. Exhibit A is shown below:

Figure 1: Scene from an unexpected and sublime run on the St Francis beach.

Figure 1: Scene from an unexpected and sublime run on the St Francis beach.

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Weekly Head Voices #219: Stilbaai Easter weekend 12/10

This edition of the Weekly Head Voices covers the period from Monday March 29 to Sunday April 4, 2021.

However, its raison d’ĂȘtre is to act as a reminder of the epic weekend in Stilbaai that we have just returned from, and also to practise the borderline (un)justified use of a posh French expression or two.

Figure 1: If morning starts like this, day could turn out OK.

Figure 1: If morning starts like this, day could turn out OK.

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Weekly Head Voices #217: Continuum of Consciousness

Hey, welcome to the Monthly Weekly Head Voices!

This one covers the extensive period from Monday Feb 15 to Sunday March 21, 2021.

Since we last connected here, much has transpired, a strangely selected subset of which is mentioned below:

New computer

An M1 MacBook Air became part of my computing zoo. See the new computer post if you’re into that sort of thing. Short version if you’re not: It’s the best Emacs-capable device I’ve ever used.

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