David Egan Evans

Sanchin kata teaches rooting in a different way from zenkutsu dachi. Its stability is optimized for close range fighting.

Concepts focus on breathing, power dynamics, pull and pushing within grappling, finding the center exposure of your opponent, and recognizing weak/strong side in a fight.

Loved this rumination on the fundamental kata of karate. Being in Goju there is a focus on Sanchin, but experiencing Wado, it has its own look at Naihanchi. I had not heard about the pre-Meibukan interest in Naihanchi.

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“…never fret about the past. I concentrate on the present and plan for the future.”

— Otsuka Hiranori, Sensei. reported by Andy Adams, 29 November 1971. (Black Belt magazine?)

Unprovable impression, but it made an impression

On my mission, after a conversation and interactions with M. Russell Ballard, it struck me that he might not actually believe.

At the same time, it was also clear he wanted good relationships with other churches. The latter thought also applied to Gordon B. Hinkley at the Chorley temple dedication.

Most corporate use of Linux seems to be container images and cloud instances. Personal use of Linux on a laptop (workstation?) seems rare, or done by old hats like us who read your books 30 years ago. :) Java, Python, Go… those seems to be what people learn from books, when they learn from a book.

The first thing we see in despotic regimes is suppression of the press, of free speech, and free thought… Satan loves secrecy, for in that darkness the infernal flowers of ignorance and corruption flourish.

— Piers Anthony, “Wordly Goods”, Niekas 37

The bully does not respect those who cater to him; he thrives on their support. As long as he receives their support, he will never change. Only superior force will move him: this is the lesson of the schoolyard.

— Piers Anthony, “Wordly Goods”, Niekas 37

Koob-cuttle like a cuttle fish

Others often are seetul/c-tle. Old school would likely be ek-seetul

Test for Echo

We come full circle

If we vote for the same parties that hold power, we approve their use of power.

To affect change means breaking from this approach. Change happens from the ground up.

Washington warned us of this.

Yeah, it’s even worse when they’re not out of touch but merely acting to keep themselves in power. Definitely an issue we have right now.

Strawman? I didn’t mention an issue, or suggest never voting for Democrats. I was saying to stop the death spiral. That could be by voting Democrat, or it could be voting for someone else you can not be mad at.

That is quoting out of context. It doesn’t mean that’s what I meant. Reading what I wrote in context of what I was replying to doesn’t seem to be saying that.

If anything was implied, it was to stop voting in the angry anti-Democrat cycle for Republicans.

I didn’t say the Democrats were out of touch. I was responding to the loop, where someone blames Democrats for everything and votes Republican.

What blanket statement?

It’s dumb to vote for a third party or independent candidate when they match your views?

I like this description. Perhaps voting for other parties or independents should be the response. Bipolar voting might be a symptom of bipolar parties that are both out of touch with the people they claim to represent.

Which goes to show that communication is intuitive, and often has instinctive leaps, which is what I was getting at here.

I don’t think my explanation is English, but is the perspective of an autistic software engineer.

It’s like a precog of “The Minority Report”, but without the precogs

He came to Salt Lake once and I got to meet him as a kid when my mother took me. What I remember was he was just like his shows, the genuine article.

When people ask about the confusing adventure gaming paradigm, imagining nerdy people lost from reality, this is the kind of story that is needed (with explanations) to disabuse them. It’s better than monopoly. :)

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

— 11 January 1944, State of the Union, F. D. Roosevelt

“People need to live the life they want to live”, Jesse said. “They can’t live it the way somebody else wants them to….Everybody knows that…and few people actually believe it….”

“There’s often a gap between what we know and what we do”, Dix said.

— Stone Cold, Robert B. Parker

I think there’s more here than open source. Plus, the phrasing seems stuck in old assumptions.

Memory is fickle. It could be when I first noticed it.

MB vs MiB

My memory is Seagate with the 1G drive sizes. I worked at NEC at the time, before they pulled out of North America.