the poetry season is in full bloom, and I have signed up for multiple courses, read “bhali se ek shakal thi” by Ahmad Faraz multiple times, each time trying to squeeze the last drop out of it, recorded myself and listened to my own recording to calm myself down before an interview. I am also leaning towards pursuing recording more poems, soon when my blog is ready, it shall be filled with my voice-overs of sonnets and nazms.
This blogpost might as well just be a todo list:
Things that haunt me:
- I started reading Nicomachean Ethics, and I am five paragraphs in, since last Feb and I so desperately want to summarize what he’s saying in a chronological flow, because it seems too precious to be trusted upon my algernonish mind.
- I read a few chapters of Walden by Henry David Thoreau at a friend’s place, and I want to know so badly if the life in the jungle is possible, if you can actually live out there by yourself with some community and be okay.
- I have a almost done article on How to debug web apps on mobile since the second to last IndieWebClub, but I wanna test debugging with usb to make it more research complete, yet it sits there, collecting fog.
- I read Lihaf by Ismat Chughtai, it left an impression, it’s not a a scar as Khaled Hosseini would yet it goes deeper as if evoking a long lost memory from childhood.
- I am yet to create a PR for an opensource project, it’s pending because I haven’t figured out how to take screenshots on my i3wm.
Things that I am working on which also haunt me:
- adding Share calendar invite feature to Timo, the calendar event creator web-app I have been working on.
- my personal roughjs blog, which has not seen a line of code since last two weeks.
- I am 3 months late to return the library book, I feel so much weight, but I still haven’t read it in toto.
- D.H. Lawrence has my attention: Lady Chatterley’s lover. (this is non-haunting)
Insights on self:
- I am a Z-shaped learner, not an M or T shaped, I work how a dredger ship works, I go along the breadths of different landscapes across the sea, and then I turn around and do seconds, that’s why I have always felt so shallow, but I know for sure that my understanding of, say REST API’s, is better than say 3 years ago, perhaps I can increase the frequency of dredging by covering less breadth, or doing breadth only on specific days and months, I think I will eventually come up with an SRS system. As an example, my knowledge of Docker has faded than what I knew 2 months ago, it seems like back then, I could understand really well, how it works not only at high level but low level, how `cgroups` can be used to isolate each process and resources. And what exactly did `docker compose -d` did. Now it’s just a faded memory in the back, that I once knew this and had been on this adventure. So by the time my ship comes back to the same jungle checkpoint, it has collected a lot of cobwebs. I always have to start from the beginning, with brooms and sticks. It certainly sounds inefficient and it probably is, but it seems to have been this way for a long while. I don’t know if learning this way is my inherent style or I can adopt other styles of learning. [to be continued..]
- I’d like to build myself a collection of poems I like, which are annotated with my interpretations.
- If I want linux, where I want control but also want first-hand for things to work out of the box as the default, am I indirectly asking for a Mac? I don’t want to xrandr my screen every time I connect to an external monitor and disconnect. It’s cool for the first few times. Perhaps this is where scripting and aliases come in?
Life Hacks, should be a separate blog honestly:
- keeping milk packets underneath the freezer in the tray leads to less milk solids separation and coagulation.
- adding a wet waste poly installation date on the fridge magnetic white board next to the Use By dates of perishables in the kitchen has been useful. (see note)
- brushing in the night and leaving the paste in, has been the holy grail habit to live by.
- glad there is now a high protein milk (25g) from Akshayakalpa, it has been hard to do powders, and this doesn’t smell or has weird taste, planning to drink it more regularly, although it’s expensive.
note: the worms on the wet waste definitely come on Day 5 of the installation.
Thoughts on playing Badminton:
I have been practicing badminton for almost 4 months now, and here’s my notes for future version of me:
Level 1:
- ALWAYS look at the cock, shamelessly. This is the game.
Level 2:
- Yes, still look at the cock.
- The faster you hit it back, the faster it will come back, make sure you are ready to receive it. (see note)
note: it’s a mindset change as well, earlier we were betting on other people to make mistake if we hit fast, but that’s something we cannot control, so only hit fast, if you can recalibrate.
Level 3:
- Still looking at the cock? yes, alright now slightly see the angle of the racket. Good.
- Stay on your toes more.
- racket in front while moving, racket up while chassing.
Level 4:
- Cock, it is. You saw the angle, and moved towards it quicker, yes? sweet. Now, look at the empty space in the court.
- Try placing.
- Racket parallel to shoulder.
- Split-step, given above has been achieved.
- Receiving from your non-dominant side is still a pain.
I will update more as I grow into it.
Warmly burning,
calra
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