We are experiencing a record-breaking
heat wave here in the Southern
interior of British Columbia. It is
30C by 9 in the morning and reaches
40C by afternoon. My wife and I have
been waking up at 4:30 to get out for
a walk before the heat. Sometimes I go
for a bit of a bike ride afterward. It
will be nice when the temperatures
drop, but there's nothing below 32C in
the forecast for the next two weeks.
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Currently reading: Ezra Vogel, Deng
Xiaoping and the Transformation of
Modern China. It's a thoughtful and
detailed account of Deng's life and
mid-to-late twentieth-century Chinese
history. His daughter's account of the
Deng family's experience during the
cultural revolution is also very
compelling[1].
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Well worth a listen:
Sinobabble podcast at
https://www.sinobabble.com/ or add it
to your rss feeds:
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/214505.rss
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Jirka mentioned seeing in the Free
Thinker's phlog[2] that you can use
CTRL+Shift [ack! correction: Shift +
Insert] to paste text in xterm[3].
That brings back memories of Word for
DOS, which had the same paste
shortcut. Maybe Edit did too. I use
LXTerm and it allows you to use
CTRL-Shift-X for cut, CTRL-Shift-C for
copy, and CTRL-Shift-V for paste. It's
nice to be able to add shift to the
regular cut, copy and paste commands
and just proceed as usual.
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I've opted into Gemini mirroring here
at the Zaibatsu, so you can read the
phlog via Gemini too. That might make
me reconsider my line-wrapping
preferences, which were intended to
facilitate mobile viewing. On the
other hand, odd traditions are good
things. :)
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Congrats to cat on the birth of his
daughter!
[1]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/422436.Deng_Xiaoping_And_The_Cultural_Revolution
[2]
gopher://aussies.space:70/0/%7Efreet/phlog/2021-06-19Digital_Distancing.txt
[3]
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2021_06_03.txt
