Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions a connection between it and English. Shoveling the driveway one of numerous times recently, I came to wonder what “driveway” is in French. Curiously, I can’t remember it from the French I learned through …
Self-tutoring about cooking: the tutor reflects on baking sheets. We have numerous different baking sheets. Some have special coatings, some have specific designs, etc. Two are stainless steel, from the 70s or 80s, that have nothing fancy about them: they’re …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor shares a Christmas Eve story. There was a time before I had kids when life was unstructured. When I wasn’t working or working on an assignment, the day was open. …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions a change in an environment he noticed. Years ago I knew someone who seemed like a smoker. However, when you got to know him, you realized he definitely wasn’t. …
Self-tutoring about engineering: the tutor mentions the idea of sacrificial material. When you know there will be wear at a junction, replacement is inevitable. The wisdom proceeds that you can purposely make one side of the junction more prone to …
Self-tutoring about health and dieting: the tutor explores short-term fasting. My impression is that, for a healthy adult (finished growing) who tends to gain fat, it’s best to minimize, per day, the hours the body spends under the influence of …
Self-tutoring about chess: the tutor makes an observation. Most chess players seem to prefer playing white. The reason is obvious: white moves first, and chess is about choosing and occupying the best squares on the board. Being first at a …
Self-tutoring about winter life: the tutor reflects. Today I walked somewhere through a couple of snowy fields. An hour and a half later, returning, it occurred to me to looks for my prints I’d made earlier, going. Casually looking for …
Tutoring English, evolution of it is interesting. The tutor looks into the abbreviation of something. I saw an abbreviation for “something” today, for the first time. To confirm it, I looked it up on the Internet. There I found numerous …
Self-tutoring about words and their actual meanings: the tutor reflects about majority and minority. Perhaps one can say “the majority” in a more confident way than “the minority,” since there can be only one majority group (for a given opinion, …