For the last couple of months, I've been working exclusively with SSD-
driven computers. It's interesting to see that I've become pretty
impatient. In the past, it was no problem for me to wait for a program
to start up or for the computer to boot. Now it's driving me nuts if
this takes longer than a couple of seconds.
Funny. My machines used to take one to two minutes to boot.
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redshift[1] is a pretty neat program. It automatically adjusts the
color temperature of your screen according to the current time. During
nighttime, you get a red-ish screen which is very comfortable to look
at.
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Dug up an old radio. I really miss the simplicity of FM radio. To my
surprise, this is almost useless today. There is so much noise and
interference from all the devices around me. I can tune in to only,
say, 3 or 4 stations. Remember, radio devices of the eighties and
nineties had "memory" for about 10 to 20 radio stations...
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Learning a foreign language (Tibetan, in my case) without actually
*using* it every day is pretty hard. Maybe it's impossible. I don't
know.
I do want to learn something completely new and unusual, though.
Thus, I've decided to learn morse code. It's not a language but an
alphabet, so it's pretty universal. This means I could use it in
everyday life for nerdy stuff.
The Koch method looks good: kochmorse[2].
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1.
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
2.
https://code.google.com/p/kochmorse/
