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org-mode Observations 2014-02-24

org-mode style structural editing is available anywhere with the orgstruct-mode minor-mode running.
org-reveal exports Org documents to Reveal.js
org-protocol lets you use emacsclient as a sort of unlimited general purpose API vehicle.
When exporting to LaTeX, you may specify the table width as an attribute.
A Babel session may be “none” to prevent session creation.

Loctite Your One-Quarter Inch Audio Cables

Some of our audio cables were lost in the move. Bought some nice replacements and just like the old ones the end capes were loose and nearly falling off. Didn’t really like it the last time and unsure why I didn’t permanently fix it last time, but blue Loctite should be just fine.
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What Are The Limits Of What This Reality May Teach Us?

I thought that I could find God somewhere in this post [1][2], and other explorations, but in retrospect I was woefully wrong.
I thought that since our universe was created by God, that we could spiritually benefit from understanding it in all of its aspects, but was wrong here, too.
When I pick apart the fundamental natures of our current reality [3]: namely space, time, and causality, the Y Combinator is revealed instead to be, an artifact that *MUST OCCUR*, by definition of this reality, and not something that brings you closer to God per se.
All of the mathematical constants [4] are similarly are as they must be, in this current configuration of reality, because that is in fact their only option, without any implications beyond that.
[1] https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/6344/understanding-the-y-combinator-with-racket
[2] https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/y.html
[3] https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/8206/what-is-the-fundamental-nature-of-our-universe
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant

What is the fundamental nature of our universe?

While working on the easy questions in life I put aside some time to work on defining the fundamental natures of our experience of this universe. The best that I could come up with is:
* Identity: We experience a sense of self that is separate from “others”.
* State: We experience things with a certain configuration.
* Time: We experience a past, present, and future.
* Quantity: We experience configurations in varying amounts. Nearly every idea may be expressed as a number.
* Causality: We experience or observe state changes due to interactions. A combination of identity and state result in things like the phenomenon of sequencing.
* Mortality: We are subject to death and decay.
Observations:
* Is it really this simple? What am I missing? What should be removed?
* Programmers may be intrigued to view their medium at a higher-level if they have not before done so. For functional programmers bewitched by “purity”, one might consider that there is a lot more to remove from a particular programming language to really make it “pure” as long as it remains befuddled by my long list. As I read the list, my romance with logic and its foundations in computer science is deeply reinvigorated.
* Would your life be the same if we didn’t have time? Or causality? What if we lived in only one dimension? What if past and present were intertwined?
* If we never died, how would we live differently or evolved differently?

The Role Of Compiler and Interpreter Writers

Compiler and interpreter writers fill a delightful yet barely occupied role of those who are tasked with bridging the literal gap between machine and implementation and philosophical gap between desire for feature and fulfillment.
My lack of experience in the topic and with such professionals leaves me surprised that not more roles and holders of the expertise exist compared to the more common areas of implementation.

Some Nice Books About Food

Haven’t cooked everything in them, but reading them sure made me hungry:
* ϰ Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker Robin Robertson
* ϰ Great Gluten-Free Vegan Eats: Cut Out the Gluten and Enjoy an Even Healthier Vegan Diet with Recipes for Fabulous, Allergy-Free Fare Allyson Kramer
* ϰ The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Bread: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free Laurie Sadowski
* ϰ The Soy-Free Vegan: Breakfast Recipes Joy Lynn Michaels
* ϰ Vegan Slow Cooking for Two or Just for You Kathy Hester