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With the All Souls’ Day way behind us now, I do regret not having taken the time to talk about my grandmother Amélia. She was by my and my sister’s side during our whole childhood, taking us to and bringing us from schools, the doctor and pretty much everywhere else while our parents worked. She…

I came across the Skeptics’ Guide to the Future, by Steven Novella, totally by chance this week. This book discusses how past futurists foresaw the future, arguing about what they got right or wrong, and this made me instantly start reading it. Among other things it argues how much people tend to underestimate how long…

Nine books. Until earlier this week this is the number of books I was currently reading, and that anyone visiting my Literal.club profile would see. Some might say it’s too much to read in parallel, but I prefer to consider that they’re all stories being concurrently followed along… like many people do with TV and/…

This image by Hayley Murray had to illustrate this particular entry. It called my attention from the very moment I found it, earlier today, while browsing Unsplash for a completely different purpose. “Small steps are still progress” is quite a meaningful sentence to me. It instantly made me think of Kaizen, a Japanese continuous improvement…

I’ve always been so careful about all my websites. Always. Never before I lost any data from any of the ones I’ve maintained over the years… I even have a static version of the longest running blog I kept until I decided to retire it — and I still intend to unarchive it and recover…

Já tem algum tempo que eu flerto com a ideia de jardins digitais. Acho o máximo a forma que cada jardim digital adquire, porque o conteúdo depende da vontade única e exclusiva de quem está cultivando pensamentos e ideias, e interconectando pensamentos. Eis que me deparei hoje com o Untitled Presentation, um projeto das irmãs…

I found this Mastodon post by user Danie Ware, where she mentions her pet peeve about book reviews quite interesting: Pet peeve: A book review is a review of the book. You read the book, and you write down whether you liked it or not. It is not: Whether the postman bought it on timeHow…

While looking for new ways to learn Japanese and to figure out how to make it stick better in my mind, I came across this video by Bunsuke, where he says he’s never used Anki either to learn or to recall new Japanese vocabulary. That got my attention because I have probably the biggest defender…

When I was younger my maternal grandmother lived with us. As my parents both worked, she helped raising both my sister and I. It’s been some years now that she’s no longer with us, but among many memories that I’ve got of her, there’s a particular keepsake, a Danone cream cheese glass cup featuring Bugs…

“Japanese is very simple to speak compared with other languages. There are no articles, no ‘the,’ ‘a,’ or ‘an.’ No verb conjugations or infinitives…Yukimasu means I go, but equally you, he, she, it, we, they go, or will go, or even could have gone. Even plural and singular nouns are the same. Tsuma means wife,…