I have been learning French via Duolingo and Pimsleur audio lessons.
I am halfway through the fourth Pimsleur course and have been doing just about one lesson a day like they prescribe. That puts me at about 145 lessons.
I started to watch a movie in French. It opened with some women talking to each other which was easy enough to track.
Then this dude shows up. I couldn't understand a single thing this jerk said. Has he ever pronounced a consonant in his entire life?
A family first! We all made it up and down Hogsback in one piece.
Harry thinks turning is boring so he just crashes when he reaches peak speed.
Go Sounders!
After my third annual attempt to switch to Dvorak it has finally “stuck”.
By “stuck” I mean I’m stuck in Dvorak because I’ve screwed up my Qwerty so bad that I can’t switch back and be productive.
At this point I think it’s mostly a geek status thing since there’s no hard evidence there’s any ergonomic or speed improvements.
This post took fourty-seven minutes to write (I kid).
At least it would appear my words-per-minute is improving:
I don’t care.
You are not your home directory. You are not the contents of your source repository. You are not your farking editor. You are the all-singing, all-dancing self-replicating code of the universe. And you are shutting down, one day at a time.
– Comment by reddit user grout_nasa