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1. Income tax, what a mess

   It's approaching tax season again, and this quote always jumps out at me:

   The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

   -- Albert Einstein

   I found a post at quoteinvestigator.com for this.

   https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/07/einstein-income-taxes/

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2. Playing with DWM

   I recently started playing with suckless tools more, jumping into their window-manager, dwm. It's pretty bare, and requires recompilation to customize it, so I installed a few patches, customized the colours, made it more Debian-suitable, and added some functionality.

   I found I was accidentally using the i3 keystroke to kill …

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3. A quote from an unappreciated movie

   I recently re-watched the movie Primer, which is completely under-appreciated IMHO, and this quote jumped out at me:

   What's worse? Thinking that you're paranoid or knowing that you should be?

   -- Aaron, Primer

   AFAIK you can watch this movie free online. Just search for it. I might have to buy a …

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4. I love working with strange people

   Digging through my old work quotes, I realize just how much I love working with very odd people:

   <tim> I smell dead people

   <msoulier> look under your desk

   <tim> They're in the filing cabinet

   or from another day:

   <tim> If anyone needs me, I'll be out back, mugging old ladies …

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5. We're all Hallucinating

   From a TED Talk by Anil Seth:

   In fact we're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that 'reality'.

   I just love this mind-bending stuff.

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6. A Pilot Metropolitan with a Smile

   Wow, it's been a ridiculous amount of time since I posted anything. The fact is that I've been busy in a lot of non-technical things, like my hobbies. One of those hobbies is working to create, and use fountain pens.

   Yeah, I know. Whatever. Fountain pens made me love writing …

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7. Honda Finally Comes Through

   So, previous I ranted on about an issue with my car that I brought up with Honda Canada, complaining about Kanata Honda and their ridiculous justification for the key cylinders in my car to wear out so quickly.

   Well, Honda Canada did, in fact, get back to me. A nice …

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8. Cloud storage for my photos

   I do love to take photos. I was geeky enough in high school to take photos for the year book with an old 35mm camera and a good wide aperture lens, developing my own pictures in black and white. Yes, I feel old now.

   From there once my son was …

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9. A working logger

   So it took some work, and likely there are better ways to do this, but this logger satisfies my current needs in providing multiple levels of logging, and an iostream interface to make composing strings simpler. First some includes and definitions.

   #include <stdio.h>
   #include <ostream>
   #include <boost/thread.hpp …

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