xkcd: Machine
Please, do yourself a favor and go check this awesome proposition from XKCD. I need to work a little and I have to leave it for now, because otherwise I can fall in this rabbit hole for ages. If you got a few hours to spare, don’t miss it. Or else, bookmark it.
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It’s easy to generate a UUID in Terminal: simply type
uuidgen
and that command tool will return a fresh UUID as its response, neatly formatted using the standard layout. There are also equivalent calls available to software through the UUID structure in the macOS Foundation API. You can use those to verify that UUIDs generated close together in time are actually very different indeed.
I don’t know what I need this for, nor whether I will ever remember I bookmarked it, but it looks cool and I have the feeling some day it might pay off to keep it. #geekery
📸 Day 6: windy as suggested by @miraz #mbapr
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At times I feel trapped between the two. Every day, whether I’m writing, coding or designing, a part of me strives for perfection while another is painfully aware that perfection is a mirage. What looks perfect now won’t look perfect tomorrow. I grow, I evolve, I change and my definition of perfection evolves with me.
It’s uncanny how much I identify with so many of Manu’s #thoughts
Day 4: foliage, suggested by @pratik. I had to add some fruit to the foliage, my friend. Fruit that makes a very fine white wine, Txakoli ;-)
Day 3: Card. #mbapr Cards describing the properties of spices at an Epicerie in Donibane Garazi, Navarre, Pays Basque, south of France.
📸 Day 2: Flower.
Flowers on a wall in Cadaqués. I took the picture two years ago, and today I’m going back. Happy.
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I want to laugh, but: If Trump is elected again in November — which, based on the close results of 2016 and 2020, and the current polling data, is definitely possible — shaking down lobbyists and foreign governments with exorbitant rates for ads on Truth Social seems like a much better grift than running a hotel across the street from the White House. A corrupt president owning a social media site would be a grift that scales. If there’s any rational reason for Trump Media to have any value at all, it’s that. It’s worthless today, but could be a veritable goldmine in a second Trump administration.
It’s all so scary, guys. Please, please elect the boring old guy, for fuck’s sake. #thoughts
This is my paradoxical view on Religion. Rationally, intellectually, I understand that religious beliefs are inherent to humans. After all, our brains have evolved to make images out of our senses and imagination, illusion, myths, dreams, questions, curiosity, are all a product of our ability to construct abstract concepts and to try to make sense of our surroundings. I’m an agnostic myself, but I don’t want a world without imagination, creativity, hope or faith. Nor I think such a world is possible, fortunately.
Yet, emotionally, deep in my own cosmological view of the world and of human beings, I just don’t understand how that faith can be placed in a particular god, a particular book, the interpretation of a particular church, the teachings of a particular prophet. And I understand even less the urge to believe and explain that one’s own view is more valid than others. My emotions are mine, we all have our own emotions, all of them are different, so I, we, must know those emotions are fallible, are just valid for us and, most probably, only valid for a short period of time.
I mean, let me rephrase my paradox: Intellectually, I understand Religion. Emotionally, I don’t.
Apple CEO Tim Cook for Associated Press: “Enough DMA. We’re pulling out of the EU”. #Applexit
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Here’s a letter he wrote to The Kansas City Star in 1993 in response to school children writing letters to try and pressure MTV to drop Beavis and Butthead.
I loved reading this emotional post by @bradbarrish about his father. Please go read the whole thing, and especially the letter the former quote is about. Mr. Barrish was Brad’s best friend, and he was a true free speech champion for all of us. Very necessary in these times of turmoil. #thoughts
I was thinking about giving myself time to think and be with myself and my thoughts. I have noticed lately that I’m always looking for my headphones and my phone to watch YouTube videos non-stop in my free time. At breakfast, lunch, dinner… even when I’m shaving in the morning! And I have reached the conclusion that I do that because I don’t want to think about my fears. I’m constantly stressed out with my work, because I have taken up a few projects that are a bit too much to handle and I’m overwhelmed. So I fear failure, and being always late with my commitments. And I also fear that I am not taking enough time to build a team that will help me cope with my excess of work. Above all, I have two deep fears: one is small, I think I can handle it, that I’m not as good a profesional as my ever challenging work demands; and the other one is the big one, the really big fear, that I’m wasting the little time I have in this world, and that, when I look back to my life, the minute before I dye, if I even have that minute, I will regret all the years that I’m giving to my profession. But I really don’t know what to do to change that. So I run away from those fears hooking myself to a constant video stream that switches off my brain. That’s why I think that I need to change that habit, shut down the noise and go back to living with my thoughts.
Well, I think I made it. Both Focus and Focused are working properly and I now have a computer that can’t run Safari or any other browser, can’t connect to any webpage and can only run one app. One that opens a blank page with a single blinking cursor and is ready for me to write. (I stopped Focus and opened Mars Edit to micropost this).
