For the last couple of months, I've been working exclusively with SSD-
  driven computers. It's interesting to  see  that  I've  become  pretty
  impatient. In the past, it was no problem for me to wait for a program
  to start up or for the computer to boot. Now it's driving me  nuts  if
  this takes longer than a couple of seconds.

  Funny. My machines used to take one to two minutes to boot.


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  redshift[1]  is  a  pretty neat program.  It automatically adjusts the
  color temperature of your screen according to the current time. During
  nighttime,  you get a red-ish screen which is very comfortable to look
  at.


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  Dug up an old radio. I really miss the simplicity of FM radio.  To  my
  surprise,  this  is  almost  useless today. There is so much noise and
  interference from all the devices around me. I can tune  in  to  only,
  say,  3  or  4  stations.  Remember, radio devices of the eighties and
  nineties had "memory" for about 10 to 20 radio stations...


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  Learning a foreign language (Tibetan, in  my  case)  without  actually
  *using*  it  every  day is pretty hard. Maybe it's impossible. I don't
  know.

  I do want to learn something completely new and unusual, though.

  Thus, I've decided to learn morse code. It's not  a  language  but  an
  alphabet,  so  it's  pretty  universal.  This  means I could use it in
  everyday life for nerdy stuff.

  The Koch method looks good: kochmorse[2].

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  1. http://jonls.dk/redshift/

  2. https://code.google.com/p/kochmorse/