What does ~rogbeer put here?

choice of hot chocolate

2018-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

If I had to spend money on hot chocolate, and I had SGD$20 to do so - and if the money can only be used on hot chocolate - and if I had access to any seller of hot chocolate in Singapore, I would go to Laurent Bernard Chocolatier.

(Hot chocolate, there, starts at $10 approximately.)

Its brick-and-mortar address is as follows:

80 Mohamed Sultan Road, #01-11, Singapore 239013

And the telephone-number:

+65 6235 9007

And of course it is thanks to my god that I had the luxury to imbibe the hot chocolate there.

Even making this post is a luxury my god affords me. So grateful.

choice of espresso

2018-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

If there were a situation in which I had to spend money on an espresso, and I had SGD$6 - which could only be spent on espresso - and a choice of espresso from any coffee-shop in Singapore, I would go to La Ristrettos and get theirs, which is sold at $3.

When I was there once, a member of the staff told me he had served me espresso that was single-origin (probably he was referring to the coffee beans - which, on that day, he might have said was from Ethiopia).

The other $3? If I could, I would go back there another day to spend it.

Reviews of that coffee-shop can be found here.

~cel and SecureScuttleButt (SSB)

2018-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

My fellow townie ~cel, whom ~vilmibm has organised a fund-raiser for - that was about eight months ago - has now seemed to jump onto the proverbial bandwagon of Scuttlebutt. I had that impression after visiting the web-page https://git-ssb.celehner.com/@f/6sQ6d2CMxRUhLpspgGIulDxDCwYD7DzFzPNr7u5AU=.ed25519

I had to do a little reading to get a better idea of what he was up to, though.

Perhaps the following reading material may help a new-comer to Scuttlebutt:

Bogost, I. (2017). ‘The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces: Could decentralizing online life make it more compatible with human life?’. In The Atlantic. URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/. Accessed URL on 12th Oct 2018.
‘What Is the Difference Between Patchwork and Scuttlebutt?’. In Scuttlebutt: a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform. URL: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/basics/patchwork-vs-scuttlebutt Accessed URL on 12th October 2018.
‘git ssb’. URL: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf2DtR3WQfCkDKlheQU%3D.sha256 Accessed URL on 12th Oct 2018.
‘Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide: How Scuttlebutt peers find and talk to each other’. URL: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ Accessed URL on 12th Oct 2018.

Charlie's suggestions for music

2018-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Charlie was a visitor whom I met in Singapore (in the past couple of weeks or so). He’s from Melbourne and he wore boots from the brand Blundstone. He was born in the year 1996 A.D.

He suggested that I listen to the following musicians:

Music-gigs I have watched 'live'

2018-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

The following are musicians/bands that I have had the luxury of watching in person. I note the venues where I have caught their performances, in the hopes that a new-comer to the scene may have an idea of where to check out.

I record in the format of Name of musician(s). Name of performance-venue. Country where I caught their gig(s).

In no particular order,

Survive said the prophet. Esplanade. Singapore.
The xx. The Star Performing Arts Centre. Singapore.
88 Balaz. Revolver. Taiwan, in the city of Taipei.
Rangka. Lithe House. Singapore.
Ralegh Long. Artistry. Singapore.

On a related note, for listings of music-events, or so-called ‘gig guides’, the following may be helpful for a new-comer to a city - they certainly were for me:

Singapore: http://singaporegigs.com/
Taipei: http://www.gigguide.tw/

Places where I have used my laptop

2018-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

I have had the luxury and privilege of using my laptop at the following places, where beverages are sold

(I am currently residing in Singapore - which is in South-east Asia, if you are not familiar with her.)

‘Brunches’. URL: https://www.facebook.com/BrunchesCafe/
‘Enchanted’. URL: https://www.facebook.com/EnchantedCafeSg/
‘Old Hen’. URL: https://www.facebook.com/oldhencoffee/
‘Coffeesmith’. https://www.facebook.com/CoffeesmithSG/
‘Kopi & Tarts’, in the shopping mall City Square. https://kopiandtarts.com.sg/
‘Real Food’, in the shopping mall Orchard Central. https://www.realfoodgrocer.com/

I had the inspiration to post about this after visiting Tania Rascia’s record of cafes that she has visited: https://taniarascia.github.io/coffee/

And of course I can only have such inspiration if my god gives it to me. I thank Him for that.

A room-mate leaves

2018-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

One of my room-mates - who has just moved in, in the past two weeks or so - said he is leaving tomorrow to reside at his new work-place, a ‘vegetable farm’.

Yes, he said he would be staying on the farm.

And he says that ‘in the beginning’, he would have no pay/salary. Perhaps he would have food and accommodation.

When I asked him for the name of the place, he said it is called ‘Onesimus Garden’, which he claims is in the area of Lim Chu Kang (probably in the north-west region of the island of Singapore).

Setting this up with Jekyll

2018-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

I thought I would post about the resources that I have had the privilege to refer to, in trying out the static-site generator Jekyll and one of the themes for it, Poole.

Resources

In no particular order,

Lande, J. (2014). ‘How I Created a Beautiful and Minimal Blog Using Jekyll, Github Pages, and poole’. URL: http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole. Accessed URL on 4th Oct 2018.
Resi. (2016). ‘Jekyll and tilde.town’. In tilde.town (Issue 2), pp. 5 to 9. URL: https://github.com/tildetown/zine/blob/master/issue_2/zine.pdf. Accessed URL on 4th OCt 2018.
Moore, P. (2014). ‘Clearing Up Confusion Around baseurl – Again’. URL: https://byparker.com/blog/2014/clearing-up-confusion-around-baseurl/. Accessed URL on 4th Oct 2018.

A new way? nineteenth of March 2018: Night

2018-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

When did it become an assumption that I have to have a password on the Internet or even my desktop-computer? I was inspired to think if something has gone wrong, in the design of Internet-and-computer technologies, when I realised that an engineering problem - how to display certain information on a web-site - could possibly be solved by letting users run commands on the server (as opposed as viewing data on a client) Passwords, levels of privilege, ‘admininistrator-rights’ - don’t all these scream ‘I don’t trust you. I don’t trust others’ Now is that what I want in my life, I ask. Do I want to indirectly say ‘I don’t trust others’ every time I use a technology. Or do I want to spend time building (trust in) relationships that arguably are made and broken by (mutual) trust. Does using technology necessarily mean that I have to give up on trust and/or trust-building. Is it possible we could find a new way to use technology so that we find the satisfaction (and intimacy) that comes from a rewarding relationship with a something. A god. A business-partner. So on and so forth.

fifteenth of March 2018: Sunny

2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

10th November 2016: Rainy

2016-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

I’m suffering. They are suffering.

How to put an end to suffering? For myself.

Others can try out my methods if they want.

And of course they have to find out their own way.

Kodo Suzuki Roshi said that adults have to become like children, and children have to become like adults, for children to grow. Apparently, he said that.

If I were a foster parent of all these lovable children in the world, my impending death is something I have to deal with. Preparations have to be made for other people to help all these children grow, so that my death will not stop their growth.

Yes, as Jobs said, death means having to tell your children what you thought you would have the rest of your life so tell.

THere is a temple called Antaiji in Japan. The people there practice zazen that is good for nothing.

There is a person who is helping people to find a suitable livelihood. She also practises Zen. Her book is a work-in-progress. It is predicted to be published in Fall 2017. Her name is Maia Duerr.

There are people who teach Zen in Singapore. Their names are Vivienne and Boey Wah Keong.

They will do what I amy not have the time to do. At least, they can do what I may run out of time to do.

Zazen is good for nothing. It is the way to liberate-save suffering people-human. Suzuki Roshi said that.