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An eclectic mix of thoughts and views on life both in meat-space and in cyber-space, focusing more on the informal observational/inspirational aspect than academic rigour.

Friday, December 31, 2021

~72 Hours After mRNA-1273 Booster...

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Frankly, nothing noteworthy. The soreness of the intramuscular injection site (missed it the first couple of times) is nearly non-existent...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Does There Exist a Trade Off In Bore Geometry for [Concert] Flutes?

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As a reply to a post on Flute Forum that segued from how a flute played easier in the altissimo range compared to the regular, with the post...

Playing High Notes Requires Blowing Edge Angle Changes, Not More Volumes of Air

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In response to the poster replying ``It's a wooden bamboo flute brand new.. (sic)'' when the suggestion of leaks/bent keys was p...

~48 Hours After mRNA-1273 Booster...

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Okay, we're more than 48 hours since the booster jab, and frankly, I'm fine. I'm probably going to take one more dose of parace...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Abuse Mechanic in PayNow?

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So okay, thanks to the exigencies that is COVID-19, I find myself dragged through necessity to setting up and using ``PayNow'' , sor...

~24 Hours After mRNA-1273 Booster...

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It's a little more than 24 hours since my booster shot. Frankly, apart from the soreness of the intramuscular injection and the overall...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Boosted But Sleepy

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That booster shot... was something else. I was at Buona Vista CC bright and early this morning, way ahead of the appointment time of eight...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Everything Comes Together

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One theme from my baptism testimony was how God was always orchestrating things according to His way, and how I have always been caught up b...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

Today, Was a Good Day

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Today, was a good day. An old friend reconnected with me, and I shared the news of my baptism with a couple of other dear friends as well....
Saturday, December 25, 2021

I Am Baptised

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Long story short, I have been baptised in a Protestant church. Henceforth I am a publicly declared man of God. That's all for this e...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Blunt Affect or This Title Does Not Fit the Contents, Mayhaps

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I spent much of the day digging out another couple of floors in the hill of my base in Minecraft while having various Hololive VODs running...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Disappointment and Bird's Eye Tour of Hilltop Base

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Hm, the ``year end blues'' have finally started hitting. I was expecting it any day now, so it wasn't really that much of a sur...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Dragging My Quasi-Survival Solo Player into 1.18.1

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Alright, today was a calm day. I talked about the whole Minecraft 1.18.1 updates, and how I wasn't sure if I wanted to bring my tech-...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Inching to the End of the Year

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Today was mostly a reading sort of day, and a continuation of the slow shutting down of various internal processes that were allowed to run ...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Inverse of Brevity

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And just like that, two thirds of the month are now gone. I honestly do not know what to feel about that. I've been marathoning me so...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Making It Brief

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This will be brief. I met up with some TGCO old fogeys for an afternoon/evening of catching up. It was fun. It is late now, so this po...

``Tonguing''

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In reply to a Flute Forum comment asking what is ``double tonguing'': Assuming you're not trolling... Single tonguing uses onl...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Drivel

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Ah... what a hectic day it was! As a rule of thumb, I don't like scheduling more than three activities in a day. There is nothing mag...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Ear Impression: Done

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I finally completed The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. To s...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Scratching That Aburi Nigiri Itch...

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Mmmm. It really is much easier to realise what one has missed once it is gone out of one's life. And I'm referring to awesome ab...
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