#482: Bicycle Adventures: I-275 Metro Trail And Metroparks
Wednesday • March 17th 2021 • 9:20:03 pm • 4KB
I noticed the little road by I-275 a long time ago, back then it was still in disrepair, today it is all new. The I-275 Trail connects to other trails. Hines Drive is pretty neat and very safe, as you can ride on the sidewalk away from all the cars. Lower...
#481: Evenings At Nordhouse: Adventures At The Edge Of The Universe
Tuesday • March 16th 2021 • 9:23:55 pm • 10KB
We are each a unique creature, so what I felt won't be what you will feel when you are there. But there are some things that may be similar. There are more than 218 moons in our solar system, each one is an edge, just like the beach at Nordhouse is an edge...
#480: Start With Baby Steps And The Little Trails
Monday • March 15th 2021 • 8:15:45 pm • 5KB
It won't be as easy, as a walk in the park. Because you need an edge, an Ocean, a Sea, or a Great Lake. It is best to set off for a body of water, that has nothing on the horizon. This is what an edge is, a starting point. Ludington State Park is the...
#479: The Reverse Engineer
Sunday • March 14th 2021 • 11:57:17 pm • 3KB
Hacker Boy Hacker Breaks Down 26 Hacking Scenes From Movies & TV | WIRED Introduction to Reverse Engineering for Penetration Testers – SANS Pen Test HackFest Summit 2017 Introduction to Reverse Engineering - Mike Anderson, Introduction to Firmware...
#478: Job Interview Tips: They won't ask you questions that have answers.
Sunday • March 14th 2021 • 8:42:59 pm • 8KB
So everything you memorized, goes straight out the window. You will be thrown against questions without answers, and judged based on the methods you use to eventually fail. It is the quality of your thinking, not the solution of the problem that gets you...
#477: Finding Rhymes And Magic, A Tiny Poem Tutorial
Saturday • March 13th 2021 • 9:33:13 pm • 4KB
Tiniest poems are by far best, but writing short stories is a real test. Be warned, whatever you do not create a poem that is angry or sad, as people search for poems to get away from all the bad. The first step is to get a hold of a list of words that...
#476: The Future Legacy
Friday • March 12th 2021 • 8:08:13 pm • 5KB
As far as assessment, grades, level of education, or even the greatness of your mind, are concerned. You can only be judged, by the legacy you pass onto the future. There are no tests that you can take, that will say anything meaningful. If you get bad...
#475: Spring Arrives Nine Days Early: A World Medley
Thursday • March 11th 2021 • 9:34:16 pm • 1KB
It took a little bit, for the thought to completely transmit. The thermometer it my car, read 70, and I muttered, "how bizarre". I stuck my head out, to cast aside doubt. And yes, Spring is here, let us cheer! Nine days early, but it is here, surely. It...
#474: The Nature Of Greatness
Wednesday • March 10th 2021 • 6:36:38 pm • 3KB
Evolution, or perhaps it is little more than chance, made it so that we have a tendency to follow. Richard Dawkins demonstrates that very well in his "What If You Are Wrong?" response. We will believe in things that we are born to, what surrounds us...
#473: Learning Is Amazing: Adventure Driven Self Education
Tuesday • March 9th 2021 • 6:52:44 pm • 5KB
You have to learn a tiny bit at a time, and sometimes let what you are learning dictate a new path forward, so as long as it is interesting. For example, I've been looking over the LB302 instrument that comes with lmms, the 302 developers homepage has...
#472: To Venus And Back: A Fanciful Flight Of Fancy
Monday • March 8th 2021 • 5:59:48 pm • 8KB
Nobody cared about the old Bulletin Board Systems, and not all the people cared about Zak McKracken, or later on Wolfenstein 3D. The old computer dreams are good dreams, finely crafted expert systems for one were clearly going to change the world. An...
#471: The Polymath
Sunday • March 7th 2021 • 9:54:48 pm • 1KB
The first 20 hours, how to learn anything by Josh Kaufman 4 Chords by The Axis Of Awesome How to become a Jack of all trades and Master of Some by Nicholas Grundy Being a Renaissance Person in the 21st Century by Randy LaFoy Paths to Polymathy | Ben...
#470: How To Study For Real
Sunday • March 7th 2021 • 7:40:31 pm • 5KB
Just like you can't be told what to learn, you can't quite just sit down and have a successful study session. It is not guaranteed to work, allow me to explain with something similar to learning: inspirational teaching. When I write these poems, I often...
#469: Do Not Let Schools Trick You, You Are Very Smart
Saturday • March 6th 2021 • 7:36:56 pm • 8KB
What we learn must be meaningful to us, it has to make us happy and fulfilled, and that means we must make that choice ourselves, out of curiosity, or passion. We cannot be asked to learn Mathematics, and when we get stuck given a calculator. For one, You...
#468: What Does The Adventurer Seek?
Friday • March 5th 2021 • 9:21:34 pm • 4KB
The longer the trail, the more distant our troubles become. We gain a new perspective on our existence, and we begin to notice troubles that aren't real. The morning alarm is not a useful invention, it is not even healthy. The job that pushed us into...
#467: Song Structure Tutorial with Lil Jazz And His String Orchestra
Thursday • March 4th 2021 • 4:17:18 pm • 2KB1
Understanding song structure by listening for it is somewhat difficult, too many things are going on at once and one on top of the other. But song structure, is extremely important, as it marks beginnings and ends, helping you reason about buildup and...
#466: How To Create A Tiny Product
Wednesday • March 3rd 2021 • 9:09:50 pm • 4KB
If I only had to say one thing about it, I'd say: "You create a tiny product by putting in a tiny amount of effort." How tiny?, My smallest product, was 6x4 pixels small. I generated my own color swatches via the HSL Color Model randomly colored my some of...
#465: On Finding A Path To Greatness
Tuesday • March 2nd 2021 • 2:29:43 pm • 15KB
Above all, begin paying attention to your mental well being, whatever is causing you harm, get away from it. If you think you can't get away from it, then find a relative that will take you in. If you don't have relatives, then you will have to talk to...
#464: The Experimental Class
Monday • March 1st 2021 • 9:26:05 pm • 3KB
I was in a news class, one of the kids fell asleep. The teacher, gave him what he called a "wet willy", for which he should have been terminated. I was supposed to give a speech soon, I didn't know enough English yet, I was learning at my own pace. I...
#463: The Prop Maker
Sunday • February 28th 2021 • 10:14:50 pm • 1KB
Totally Obsessed Turtle Girl TMNT Raphael and Michaelangelo Full Suit Iron Man MK 7 - Connecting the Chest and Abs & More Making an iron man suit cool Maleficent Makeup Transformation AVENGERS Nebula Makeup Transformation Nebula Costume Guide Catwoman ...
#462: How Your Generation Can End Fraud And Corruption
Sunday • February 28th 2021 • 3:04:58 pm • 8KB
This poem is many things; a day dream, a regular dream, a hope, a wish, a promise, a solution and a problem, a tutorial, and a school of thinking. Come back to it if you can, I hope that it will always have something new to offer. The ultimate goal is to...
#461: So, What Is Learning Anyway?
Saturday • February 27th 2021 • 7:52:49 pm • 6KB
Let us define some things up front: Teaching, or being taught, is when someone else is trying to make you learn. Learning, is when you your self reach out for knowledge. Studying, means looking at something up close. Studying for an exam, is code for...
#460: The Way The World Is
Friday • February 26th 2021 • 6:55:45 pm • 3KB
We are great thinkers, great dreamers, and great leaders, and yet, things rock back and forth, a little bit of this, a little bit of that... And then they settle, in the middle. We need to know why Humanity does things, that wise humans disagree with....
#459: Little Adventures At Nordhouse Dunes
Thursday • February 25th 2021 • 9:19:34 pm • 7KB
I parked at a little wooded rest area, I was already nearing Ludington I didn't need to stop. But I had some tasty crackers with me, and I wasn't actually in any hurry to get anywhere at all. This was early morning, and it is not possible to describe that...