November 21 2020
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Sunsets can be beautiful, particularly the way clouds are lit up. It's interesting to note that the clouds appear differently depending on where you are standing. They may look dull grey and lifeless to you, but bright pink and colourful to someone else.
schedule
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0800,0830 cycle into office
0840,0850 purchase dates
0855,0920 make date bliss balls
1000,1200 saltworks district cleanup
1200,1245 burgers for lunch
1300,1700 working on mish
1720,1800 cycling back home
1830,1930 dinner
2000,2100 evening walk
trash
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At 10am I joined ~50 other people on the roof of the carpark next to Saltworks.
Kotte, Rory and Troy had organised a Salt district cleanup - where people pick up trash from the area.
It was a cloudy day, warm with a slight breeze. Perfect, not too cold or hot.
We started with a light yoga session, led by Kotte. Stretching arms, neck and thighs.
We picked up gloves and plastic bags and got to work. I found a tonne of trash in car parks and empty lots. Over an 1.25 hours I filled 5 large bags.
I jumped into the trailer to empty one of the bags so I could reuse it. Upon exiting the trailer I slammed my forehead into an unseen metal bar. It's left a bump but I think I'll be alright.
At 12 noon everyone met outside Little High. Troy had the Bacon Bros truck setup and was cooking burgers for everyone. I had a jackfruit burger, they are quite delicious. I also grabbed two burgers for Pete and Brendo who were working upstairs in the office.
I chatted to Kotte. She has been organising cleanup events for 3 years now! She said that she usually does them at the beach and has had as many as 150 people attend! This is the second event that she has donw with Bacon Bros.
It's quite inspiring. I would like to do something similar.
It reminded me of primary school. Misbehaving children would be punished by having to pick up litter. This seems like a good punishment but it implicitly trains people to associate picking up rubbish with bad behaviour - or inversely that good people don't pick up rubbish.
Ideally I think we should have been rewarded if we were seen picking up trash and punished if we were caught littering. It should be seen as an honourable and selfless act to keep our environment clean.
Of course, entropy always increases, and the trash we are picking up doesn't just disappear once we put it in the bin. It is a good idea to reduce our own waste by avoiding packaging when possible and reusing containers.
Ground treasures:
- reusable coffee cup
- 10cm USB-C to USB-A cable
- Snap Fitness members card
watch/read list
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Crash Course Computer Science
Recommended by Pete.
[[ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo ]]
Pieter Levels blog.
The guy made nomadlist, remoteok and hoodmaps.
[[ https://levels.io/reset-your-life/ ]]
[[ https://levels.io/archive/ ]]
MakeBook
[[ https://makebook.io/ ]]
Noton
> A minimal logic gates playground, written in ANSI C.
[[ https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/noton ]]
Hexapawn
> Hexapawn is played on a mere 3x3 board. The near rank contains your three pawns, and the far rank contains those of your opponent. Pawns move as in chess, but with no double-step. You win if you get one of your pawns to the far rank. You lose if it is your turn and you cannot move.
[[ https://www.chessvariants.com/small.dir/hexapawn.html ]]
Minimalism and Self-Reliance
[[ https://wolfmd.me/blog/minimalism-v-self-reliance.html ]]
XXIIVV Webring
> This webring is an attempt to inspire artists & developers to build their own website and share traffic among each other. The ring welcomes personalized websites such as diaries, wikis & portfolios.
[[ https://webring.xxiivv.com/ ]]
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert Pirsig
[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance ]]
George Hotz | Programming | twitchcoq, writing a language we can prove things in
[[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFaWOPspEo ]]
mish guru
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