Self-tutoring about life in the past: the tutor reflects about a lab partner he had. In university, I didn’t like labs much. I took physics and chemistry first and second year, but afterwards I’d had enough of labs. That’s why …
Self-tutoring about Word: the tutor mentions a function for inserting special characters. The key sequence alt-x is very useful for inserting symbols in MS-Word. After entering the character’s code number, pressing alt-x will replace those digits with the actual character. …
Self-tutoring about aviation terms: the tutor mentions ground effect. ground effect: increase of effective lift when craft flies closely over a surface such as the ground. The closer the wings are to the surface, the more pronounced the ground effect, …
Self-tutoring about aviation: the tutor mentions FOD. FOD: foreign object debris or foreign object damage. As I understand, FOD is strongly associated with jet engines, whose air intake can draw in nearby articles such as trash, loose vegetation (from an …
Self-tutoring about life in the past: the tutor recalls and reflects…. Video games came out when I was a kid – PacMan, for instance, when I was 11. I never played PacMan much, but I loved video arcades. They were …
Tutoring math, you see a lot of scientific calculators. The tutor mentions some general advice about using calculator memory. As a kid in high school, I used a reverse entry scientific calculator. It had memory (which was very useful) but …
Tutoring English, new words never stop. The tutor mentions heterodox. heterodox: diverging from what’s commonly accepted. Belief in sasquatch is heterodox. Rather like sasquatch, heterodox has gone unnoticed (by me) for decades – yet it’s always been there, waiting to …
Tutoring English, you encounter curiosities. The tutor mentions one. English is great because of its surprising details (that, no doubt, can make it a challenging language). Resilience means the same as resiliency. I had to look them up to make …
Self-tutoring about two meeting apps: the tutor visits (perhaps) wider philosophies behind them. On this laptop (Windows 10), I used to use Teams but it kept crashing, so I uninstalled it. I mention in my July 5 post that Meet …
Self-tutoring about Windows: the tutor mentions a neat find. I use where filename to find the directory location of a file or program. The command doesn’t change the current directory; rather, it tells the absolute path to the file you’re …