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Just awakened from a wonderful dream, like an intricate adventure story where Indiana Jones might appear at any moment. I was somewhere in Central America, and I had just accidentally found an ancient relic, a golden crown with a beautiful band of rubies near the base. Before that scene, as I write  […]

Today is my birthday and I am yearning for silence of a rare kind. I've been yearning for silence for years, as may be clear to one reading many of my preceding weblog articles here over the past five years or so. Today, as the sun rises and I am contemplating my life in the annual "it's your  […]

The image to the right gives an example of two laws, or two principles. The "Law of Excluded Middle" and the "Principle of Bivalence." They are presented as being distinct from each other, but in fact, they are two sides of the same hair being split down the middle, and they're  […]

In a dream from which I awakened as my alarm went off at 5 this morning, I was on a comfortable tour bus with friends. The bus stopped and I saw that there was a large crowd of people gathered around, like a state fair or something. I was contemplating whether to stay on the bus or get out for  […]

I'm not familiar with Ruby, Rails, Puma, or anything else in the Ruby environment, although I'm well familiar with other programming environments which are similar. Still, it took me longer to install Dradis than it should have, and I finally gave up on the Docker version entirely. I had to cobble  […]

To listen the gift of listening, one must first listen What a way to begin the year. This morning I awakened in the dark before the alarm went off, which is always a good way to start a day. Quiet thoughts ambled through my mind for a while. At the conclusion of a chain of thoughts which have now  […]

To open up a file within a browser having a vscode://file/ URL like this: vscode://file/C:\xampp\htdocs\mycoolapp\app\Models\Membership.php So it looks like this:   Then save the following as a registry file named vscode.reg: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  […]

Euclid's Definition 1 Now it's time to unravel something even more fundamental than the 5th postulate: the 1st definition. We normally think of a geometrical point as being smaller than anything, because of where Euclid placed it in the hierarchy of geometry. Building up from simple to more complex,  […]

No, one times one does not equal two. But here is an intriguing argument that one plus one is equal to three. It sounds absurd, so let's start small and carefully establish the logical elements which comprise this argument. Each element will be seen to be logically sound in themselves. Then we'll  […]

The wild headline is intentional because the audience for this article will most likely arrive here by search engines, as people are trying to find "the opposite of schadenfreude," but not the obvious opposite. Of these visitors only a few will appreciate this little word adventure here,  […]