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Mon Sep 25 09:13:25 EDT 2017
Slept from eleven to seven.
High of eighty-six today, and mostly sunny.
Work:
- Tidy iptables rules on bag
Done.
- Rachel HZ call at 3 PM
Couldn't get ahold of her.
- Review invoices
Done.
--- falstaff ~ % sudo gsmartcontrol
No protocol specified
<error> [gtk] cannot open display: :0
--- falstaff ~ % xhost +SI:localuser:root
Fifteen-minute walk at lunch.
Hot.
Home:
- Understand Golang net/http ListenAndServe more thoroughly
Done.
https://paulgorman.org/technical/golang-nethttp.txt
- Pay water bill
Done.
- Go to bed early
Done.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-secret-formula-for-resilience
> One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow?
> “The prospective epidemiological data shows that exposure to potentially traumatic events does not predict later functioning,” he said.
> “It’s only predictive if there’s a negative response.”
> In other words, living through adversity, be it endemic to your environment or an acute negative event, doesn’t guarantee that you’ll suffer going forward. What matters is whether that adversity becomes traumatizing.
> The good news is that positive construal can be taught. “We can make ourselves more or less vulnerable by how we think about things,” Bonanno said.
> You can train people to better regulate their emotions, and the training seems to have lasting effects.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12382/time-abraham-lincoln-and-political-rival-almost-dueled-island
> The relationship cooled, however, when Shields became the State Auditor. He passed a number of controversial measures and even instituted a policy whereby the state stopped accepting its own paper money as payment of taxes and other debts.
> Lincoln expressed his disapproval in the most professional, statesman-like fashion he could think of: by anonymously lampooning Shields in print. He began composing letters to a Springfield paper deriding Shields' character as well as his policies.
> Poking fun at Shields wasn’t hard to do. He was notoriously pompous, vain, and a tad eccentric. Opponents dubbed him “an irresistible mark for satire.” Putting his infamously sarcastic wit to work, Lincoln created two fictitious characters -- Jeff and Rebecca -- who were unable to pay their debts because the state no longer accepted paper money.
> He also poked fun at Shields' lack of romantic game. One letter, signed "Rebecca," quoted Shields as saying, “Dear girls, it is distressing, but I cannot marry you all . . . It is not my fault that I am so handsome and so interesting.”
> The letters soon became the talk of the town. Though Shields was generally well liked, people got a kick out of Lincoln’s hilariously spot-on satire. Shields, however, didn’t get the joke. Incensed, he contacted the paper’s editor and demanded to know “Rebecca’s” identity. The editor gave him Abe’s name – as per Lincoln’s instructions
http://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/
Lunch: coffee, peanut butter and jelly
Dinner: greek salad, gyro, onion ring
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