Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell - cover

It was Aug 2009 when I wrote I’ve put in my 10,000 hours. Rather than updating that post, I’ll save it for history and completely rewrite it.

A long time ago, Malcolm Gladwell was on The Hour, and he talked about his “10,000-Hour Rule” from his book Outliers. When I saw that interview, I realized I’ve put in my 10,000 hours on a couple of topics now.

However, when I now think back on it, I see a big difference between the “expertise” 10,000 hours of intuitive interest, versus 10,000 hours of practice with a learned skill.



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(on Wikipedia)
www.lua.org

A programming language of some note.

I had some small interest in this language, primarily because it’s used for World of Warcraft addon programming and general scripting , but I ended up losing interest in it and in programming in general.

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Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274905/

A crew on route to a space station learns that it’s crippled by a meteor storm.

It’s 1990s quality. Seeing as it’s a TV movie, that’s not surprising. Overall it’s fair, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

  • aka Black Horizon
  • There is the occasional unsubtitled Russian language bit, but they are meant to be unobtrusive.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4644382/

Something about trolls and such, and a little boy who probably becomes a hero.

I didn’t get very far into this. It’s way too over-the-top childish for my tastes. I would recommend this be watched by a parent with their kid. It seems action-packed yet “safe”. Nobody dies, even through major fight scenes.

  • Properly titled Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015)
  • 西游记之大圣归来 or Xi you ji zhi da sheng gui lai in Chinese
  • You may think that “is back” would mean this is a sequel. It is not.



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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2759066/

With his sister in trouble with the local semi-mob, a man works to pay off her debts but gets in too deep.

It’s generally slow and brooding, doesn’t get to the point and has an unsatisfying ending. Not recommended.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4235342/

The Golden Cane, the symbol and ultimate power of the House of the Golden Cane, is to be passed to one of the four students, but there is jealousy among them.

A very well-written and well-told story. It’s also refreshing to see something from a non-standard “martial arts movie country”. Definitely worth a watch for fans of the genre. It’s overall quality makes me recommend it even to those who don’t normally like movies like this. This is not a “kung fu flick”.

  • The martial arts in this movie is almost entirely with a staff.
  • The Golden Cane Warrior is entirely voiced in the Indonesian language, and has subtitles throughout.
  • Known as Pendekar Tongkat Emas in Indonesia.



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Linux email clients >

https://web.archive.org/web/20150114084355/www.fossamail.org/

An email client and RSS client made by the developers of Pale Moon. Based on Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client.

Meh, I’m not sure I like it very much.