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regarding the chessboard

the paramount older aptitudes

2024 year-end remarks

questionable table dynamics and technologies

more ferreting through proust's recherche

in the grunt of genealogical research

do gym visits make occasional sense?

puebla, the synergy across the walks

the rapport with the street

languages and their funny properties

and in mexico again

the proust reading early impressions

none of that spice

keeping all those languages in shape

adapt, don't translate

the floating ship

the film photography revisited

impressions of gogol's taras bulba

on chekhov's four famous plays

anton chekhov - вишневый сад (cherry orchard)

email deliverability struggles

the bayeux tapestry replica

apollinaire's alcools, on the general sentiment

bear influence over the thinking language

the silent film on the big screen

vending machine coffee

the ultra vulgar meets poetry

if only they swore less

of a few more jazz avant-gardists

time to play the apprehension card

on sun ra's music

le larron d'apollinaire, de quoi s'agit-il?

convention challenging jazz scores

two hundred years hence

the catharsis of camus' l'étranger

adam mickiewicz - sonety odeskie i krymskie

la rochefoucauld's maximes morales

more on the seven days of lviv

the border procedure to and from ukraine

the part of my balto-slavic identity

voltaire - candide

a week in vilnius

a few ways to acquire history

yet another laud to the non-artificial languages

refresher on jewish vernaculars

the morning manoeuvre

the domain-specific politics of man

paul valery's la jeune parque

develop a travel heuristic

william beckford's vathek

the old quarters

concerning the theological allegory

cultural baggage

more reason to read the arabian nights

what to derive in piranesi's etchings

has anything altered in poland?

small backpack travel guide, revisited

the insurmountable structure of the thousand and one nights

thousand and one nights, on the nature of a few translations

the few hours of nyc

baudelaire's fleurs du mal

a generalized statement on moliere's theatre

marcel schwob - le livre de monelle

of the robbery affair

ilheus, bahia, and a few passing remarks on salvador

on roger waters' redux of dark side of the moon

marcel schwob - le roi au masque d'or

enterprising poets

errant spirits and bohemian bards

the kubla khan effect

arthur rimbaud - les illuminations

on the regional dialogue

the egg sandwich

byron's corsair and pushkin comparisons

an indigenous language

on approaching william b. yeats poems

after 500 entries, comparing the then and now

the waltz of french and english

marcel schwob - vies imaginaires (fictitious biographies)

fragment joining and allusions to the beatles

paul verlaine - poemes saturniens

sonnet cycles and michael drayton's idea

the parallel narrative

comparing café dynamics in brazil and morocco

the surreal (and rimbaud's une saison en enfer)

melville - billy bud and the piazza tales

2023 highlights and lessons

better leave ambiguous

the science of safety

the marvels of salvador and the perils of pelourinho

mayakovski poetry (and utility in russian learning)

the empty sands

idea expiration

gustave flaubert - madame bovary

red hot chili peppers and radiohead

the dante project: the italian reading and overall

three months of morocco

liquid abuse of electronics

gogol, provincial realism, and on hearing the voice

french: background, influence and my journey

gogol - ревизор (revizor/inspector)

isaac babel - одесские рассказы (the odessa stories)

after long recess, book available

other accomplishments in the interim

journaling guidelines

shakespeare's timon of athens, what's the deal?

isaac babel's конармия (red cavalry) - crude impression

the black and white houses

maximally reuse old products

don quijote de la mancha: the language

nabokov - приглашение на казнь (invitation to a beheading)

a handful of aphorisms not devoid of paradoxes

tastes in classical music

shakespeare - love's labour's lost

malory's le morte d'arthur, volume 2 - retrospective

ways to situate (yourself)

addictive properties

pushkin and песни западных славян (songs of the western slavs)

samuel beckett's waiting for godot (the play)

the dilemma of authors' biographies

nabokov - защита лужина (aka luzhin's defense)

the awesomeness of pound's early cantos

the perils of inline hyperlinks

king crimson and progressive rock

thomas gray's elegy (and zhukovsky's сельское кладбище)

the radio and listening moderation

concerning black and white

2022: highs, lows, lessons

shakespeare's merchant of venice

an excuse to survey death motives

after volunteering at san cristobal

malory's le morte d'arthur, volume 2

day of the dead around san cristobal de las casas

the year by road and sea

salvador, bahia, the afro-brazilian capital

recife, retrospective travel notes

a trip to the acatenango volcano

from angigua, guatemala to san cristobal, mexico by road

edgar allan poe - tale of jerusalem

pernambuco, from the rural towards the coast

edgar poe's lionizing and bon-bon

edgar poe, a long overdue reflection

gogol, a few stories and reflections

more poems by joyce (and turgenev)

the year of yerba mate

fun with select ezra pound verse

the influence of ezra pound

пушкин - евгений онегин / pushkin - evgeniy onegin

the merits of short, independent poetic expression

cities and associations: ceará, brasil

maintain a notebook of favourite verse

james joyce, a few poems

piauí, the handful of cities visited

from maranhão into piauí

são luís and an addendum on museum guides

belém, pará, among the best spots in brasil

a tiny survey of art movements

ver-o-peso market

the public library, the avant-garde

ulysses, final reflection

digital analog dilemma

brazilian manifestations

digital minimalism use cases

that too reconciles

the museum challenge

santarém to belém by cargo boat

noise may still be winning

the dream catcher and the daemon

the surprise element

a casual rambling from the amazons

more rambling from the amazons

ulysses, further continued

manaus to santarém by cargo boat

best reads of the last two years

ulysses, continued

leticia, colombia to manaus, brasil by cargo boat

refuse the packages, seek independent components

iquitos, peru to leticia, colombia (the tri-border area) by boat

be a philosopher aboard the cargo boat

the philosophy of lyrics

peru - pucallpa to iquitos by boat

do read the poetry of ts eliot

noise is winning

the social opera

huánuco, peru: a rare, genuine travel post

early stage of ulysses

the terrace skyline

hp lovecraft, an ultra crude conspectus

reliable and unreliable products

thoughts on security as a nomad

a few remarks on the writing habit

julio cortázar - rayuela [aka hopscotch (en), игра в классики (ru)]

the social spectacle

2021 reflections

managing technophobe travel

the bizarre notion of a favourite poem

the beach vs the rooftop

of being a nomad

somewhere this, elsewhere that

the plunge and the eclipse

cold showers in cold climates

book adventures, kafka, the penal colony, shorts

charles dickens - hard times

latin, history, academics, free reflections

paper notebook experiments and reflections

latin, the motivation, the progress and some tips

the horsemen on a sunday afternoon

language is a jazz form

language sonority and phonetics revisited

on booths: public phones and more

an afternoon at the park

playa grande, another attempt

some ill obsessions

james joyce - dubliners

behold the gallery

power to reject the free extras

using vim to render visual documents

travel inexpensively

the lobby - a mini play of a single directionless scene and no dialogue.

frequently asked questions

sources of drained energy - part 2

shakespeare's richard iii

sources of drained energy

the art of undeveloped film

repurpose those older devices

blackberry and button-phone ramblings

a case for ssh remote port forwarding

disparate writings, the las airport, caffeine

the vim typewriter mode

about gopher, the old school pre-internet

why go to the library?

the merits of knowing your roots

jorge luis borges - el aleph

rarely does your time need to be wasteful

ode to email (and the older communication protocols)

dostoevsky - poor folk (бедные люди)

the question of web content, design, and art

thomas browne's hydriotaphia, urn-burial

edgar allan poe's narrative of arthur gordon pym

shakespeare's king john

parallel reading and reflection on some ancient italians

tablets and stylus pens

a remarkable check-in

jorge luis borges - ficciones

on spenser's faerie queene

about those contact lenses

too much biohacking

table tennis and dante

the squirrel, a sonnet

another day on the empty field

the age of paulo and francesca

edgar poe's al aaraaf

the springtime sonnet

the viking's eclogue

to read or to have read

why read dante's divine comedy

any creative vision finds a form

the lay of less

scandinavian myths underrepresented in early european literature

shakespeare's cymbeline

milton's paradise lost, a reflection

favorite mind bending illustrators and painters

why read shakespeare's macbeth

the encoding complexity of poetry with examples

consume less than produce

parables make great short reading

on the internet, dreams and the repressed mind

why read shakespeare's history plays

exercise methodology updated

on writing, research and inventiveness

2020 lessons of sustainable blogging

drama vs poem, comparative analysis

on allegory and favorite allegorical works

vim: rapidly exchange text interposed by varying delimiters

create sequential marks in vim vs the direct

virtual art and eye strain

adapting the written to the visual

why read the canterbury tales?

the merits of shorthand in today's age

the virtues of incomplete works

older word constructions i would love to see in use

vim - generate a reference section for markdown html

which is the more expressive language?

edgar allan poe - four beasts in one

on unsolicited content recommendations

edgar poe reading and a predicament

guide to hosting your own email

a wiki added to the site

shakespeare - taming of the shrew

shakespeare's coriolanus

myriads of ways to automate global search-replace

i prefer the unknown

opt for micro reading over macro

the intricacies of perturbed sleep

linux first steps

exercise free options

shakespeare's troilus and cressida

correspondence chess, a feat of patience

encryption and trust

encryption practices, a brief primer

shakespeare's pericles, the prince of tyre

titus andronicus by shakespeare

the selective attention faculty

cassette tapes, cds and the cold war

flow over rigorousness in chaucer's case

shell: a handful of invaluable pointers

irritable writing syndrome

clever uses of pass, the unix password manager

the entertaining virtual meetups

benefits of a vps over amazon s3 or a web host

skills of greatest impact

on reading shakespeare, with tips

on self-induced slavery

dostoevsky's adolescent

on audio quality

scarcity in music consumption and more

greatest annoyances

goethe's faust (and modal narration)

why historical examples prevail

how much is too much of a good thing?

the precarious book translations

tolstoy's kreutzer sonata and book appraisal

my poetry crusade

exec-cmd powerful examples

pride and prejudice, hmmm

public speaking hacks

ideas that repeat

reading joseph conrad works

edgar allan poe - short stories

mutt - extract content from a batch of emails

function over form

adventures around the kitchen

the distracting lateral growth

being of the world

laptops, tablets, raspberries

the simpler calendaring system

the silent film heuristic

use vim tags to index any text content

what has worked and what hasn't

different types of randomness

the domain independence of asymptotic analysis

mode-aware tools and mechanisms

opportunities in tumultuous circumstances

march reflections

penti chorded keyboard experiments

why exposure to noise is toxic

easy vs demanding pleasure

drastically changing environments

objects handy to keep in sight

frequently used words and word pairs

tips to escape the clutches of multi-tasking

is older music superior?

gothic influences

pedra da gávea

on digital littering

psych yourself out of fatigue

depth vs breadth first search in practice

galeão airport and morning commuter train

what i would outsource

grapefruit and bitter fruit

basic analytics in vim using file searches

exercises i swear by

a simpler way to hike

analyzing the greatest books data

the virtues of the resting squat

tourist traps and pleasureful journeys

about superfluous blog elements

when to avoid peeking into the future

the ideal-life exercise

used books and used-book stores

bleak house brief impression

purposeless questions and bad-case scenarios

yearly assessment 2019

aesthetic preferences and cyber punk

holidays and habits

misconceptions concerning my movement

don't care for most packages

mitigate crowd excess

atmospherics in music, cinema and literature

grounding music preferences

the way of furniture is not my way

expectations among urban adventures

5 mindful behaviors, with commentary

explore mindfully

lists, lists and more lists

digital fatigue day: the joys and nuisances

thoughts about alcohol

brainstorming my ideal city

early morning reflections

list of ways to be indifferent

the ease of happiness by avoiding unhappiness

skills i would love to have acquired

ephemeral objects and minimalism

30 language observations

minimalist and pervasive exercise

manage all those notes

friendly trip to the dentist

self awareness with time

mitigate heat, cold, and weather complaints

the moment of physical oratory presence

the merits in the unfinished

the paradox of a conflicted nomad

meta programming languages debunked

weary traveler and poor decision making

emphasize access to the frequently used

newspapers and cell phones

quality reading in the remaining lifetime

my affinity for the broken

the song of averages

is literature a good time investment?

life in the favela

beware of cleansing

creativity with little, part 2: enforce constraints

travel with nothing but a backpack

the master list of books

the strange case of sub-dimensional worlds

a casual assessment of haruki murakami novels

visualize your path across all domains, including oratory

do more buttons make a better product?

managing work abstraction layers

w3m general strategies

creativity with little

problems to no problems

why turing machines rock

analog is better

vim general strategies

how i prepare speeches

w3m browser redux

change context by way of randomness

inwardly social

the resilience of simple solutions

the tale of the persian prince

have a 90-degree day

mobile rendering fixed, backpacks and podiums

the universal algorithm and the busy beaver problem

be conscious of your movement vector

on watching andrei tarkovsky films

adventures with diagram creation

barter with yourself

hamiltonian cycle hardness and gadgets

pseudo-polynomial computational complexity

the ever common knapsack problem

sketches of favorite cities, part 3

the art of fusion

walk in the park and a music review

sketches of favorite cities, part 2

sketches of favorite cities, part 1

on learning history

my experience with war and piece

public speaking reflection

a modest little table topic

on constructive conversations

yearly assessment 2018

decisions, trees and cycles

public speaking club - continued

assimilate vs adapt that language

what is this success in languages?

fun with self-referential paradoxes and the halting problem

creating a public speaking club

the elusive guttural 'r'

foz do iguaçú and the value of experiences

focus on the core, independent components

about not sure what

a few words on programming yourself

toastmasters from physical to virtual

on the great purge, house plants, and enduring creatures.

a few stoic ideas from an ancient text

on marginal value of books

a multi-language os environment in linux

an enhanced, but compact shell-command processor

how to practice improvised speeches for lazy folk, part 2

how to practice improvised speeches for lazy folk, part 1

quick, but killer exercise circuits with aid of technology

plus one minus two rule

shades of modern and old english

speculative execution in computer architecture

more inspiring technologies

how daily journaling alleviates hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

create slides in seconds via sent

single-tasking workflow in linux with dwm

cell phones and travelling

achieving an action-oriented workflow in linux

jrnl, from plain cli journaling to time reporting

interesting clubs to attend or start

my experience with w3m, a console-based web browser

how to be cutting-edge and old-school in the linux terminal

why i use linux

alternative things

toastmasters and public speaking

chaotic travel updates and kraków

jazz, there and back again

about lisp and programming languages

relationship with books

relationship with music

meta literary critique

quick presentations in markdown with pandoc

berlin to copenhagen

david bowie's berlin

travel in southern germany

meta-writing and language conflict

kultur und informatik 2018

how to become a markovian revolutionary element

most inspirational fiction novels

writing a fitness manifesto

berlin, german, cohesion

priority management and energy dissipation

lazy learning - how to manage with the minimal initial investment

how to wield the pareto principle to great efficiency

not (entirely) about hostels

subset sum problem np-hardness proof

computer architecture bottom-up, improvised

on computational complexity

about computability and turing machines

ant assembly in oaxaca

silence, leopards, and princess diana

são paulo - city of paradoxes

travel notes and unplanned experiences

30-day video recording experiment

carnaval and dune

80% inexpensive travel and 20% supervised machine learning

about languages

clever tactics to increase physical movement

daily walks and randomness, part 1

on producing finished products

southeast asia reflection

experiments worth conducting part 1

accountability and incentive

documentation, presentation, aesthetics

information storage, discipline, and a 30-ml espresso.

são paulo - morning work out

cartas escritas a mano

calamidades del smartphone

pormenores y las acciones aleatorias

overconsumption

six years, no news

julio cortazar at the laundromat

three most inspiring technologies in my life