This is a little muddled, but I had some ideas I wanted to get out there.
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People hide behind the shield of ancestral abuse and fish for privilege.
writing
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Not surprising.
There are plenty of good (and bad) bands and songs that both you and I haven’t heard of.
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A long while back, this blog lost its database. That’s why it went dark for some months.
The host claimed that the database was dropped using it’s hosting control panel. This post is an examination of that claim using The Chain of Trust.
It tries to break down that claim and other possibilities to understand their likelihood and difficulty. This is a method to untangle claims to line them up and go down that list. If at any point a link in that chain is seen to be impossible, then the entire claim falls apart.
This is the reasoning that should be done with any discussion, especially something as important as the law. Make a bulleted list, go down it from start to finish. For each link, show another chain coming off of it. Any link from that parent-chain that branches must itself have one single unbroken chain.
This could be demonstrated physically, even graphically, but is straightforward to do in a top-down list (a post), a bulleted list for the main chain, bulleted lists for each link, and hyperlinks for any shared problems.
I don’t know that I demonstrated this very well, but I’ll give it a shot with a real-world claim.
I just now learned that Karen Kenworthy, the author of a great number of excellent tools , is dead. All my heroes are dying.
Spoiler
I’d like to thank the outpouring of support for this great programmer and person. Though I did not know her myself, I feel strongly about this topic and am glad it has attracted readers.
Whenever you act as a consumer — use a piece of software, watch a video or read an article or just a comment — and it brightens your day or informs your life, please think about leaving even the smallest reply. These matter more than you may ever realize.
One moment of your writing will impact uncounted hours of a person’s future efforts. One minute of your time will brighten years for another. If all we have is kindness, maybe that’s the one thing that another might need.
If something matters to you, then you matter to it.
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2022-07-10 – Joe Winett stopped maintaining Karenware.
To get the best picture, one needs more than a high-quality webcam. Lighting is important.
A bad webcam with great lighting is better than a great webcam with bad lighting.
TL;DR
- Two light sources.
- Positioned behind the camera, to the left and right.
- As far back as possible, at about 45 degrees, pointed right at the subject.
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As bright as possible, but “softened”, using a good light bulb, a light box, a filter, or reflecting.
Two desk lamps and your ceiling light is a basic start. Those and another two lamps pointed at the wall behind the camera would be a great start.
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(company page, on Wikipedia)
was bicworld.com/en/products/details/59/velocity-gel
These are good-quality gel pens.
When my Kyocera pen ran out of ink, I explored some other pens. Unfortunately, I fell in love with the Bic VelocityGel. It’s not a fancy pen, so it lacks the sort of ritualization of a very high quality pen and a pen with a cap. But its ink and the writing experience are spectacular.
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Entertainment > Webcam modelling >
There appear to be some differences between female and male webcam models and modelling.
I jotted down some thoughts, but I got a bit burnt out so maybe there’s more to be written at some future point.
I have more notes which I will eventually get around to retiring into these pages.
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This was a project to understand why live streaming is so popular.
There is also very little information out there which targets males, so I decided to do some digging to learn more. I ended up needing to adapt female-centric writings to extract things which are gender-neutral, rewrite things so they are more presentable to a male or just write my own stuff.
While interesting, this was a side-project I lightly researched ending in August 2015, but never pursued.
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(company page, on Wikipedia)
store on penloversparadise.com
was global.kyocera.com:80/prdct/fc_consumer/stationery/index.html
These are high-quality pens which use ceramic-tipped water-based refills.
Much of my writing is pen and paper, and the right pen is extremely important. A certain balance, texture and weight of pen, and a smooth writing experience are important to me. Put one of these pens down on a table, and spin them. They spin around the central closure for when the cap fits against the pen. That’s Japanese quality.
I’ve bought these from ThinkGeek , but most recently I’m buying them from penloversparadise.com.
I do not know if this ink is archival quality!
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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210511011408/https://us.moleskine.com/en/
These are high-quality notebooks with archival quality paper.
Much of my writing is pen and paper, and it turns out that good paper also matters a lot. I’m perfectly comfortable with cheap paper in a three-ring binder, but I want something much better for travel and for long-term storage. A bookshelf of these little notebooks also look a hell of a lot better than binders.
