The tutor discusses more lifestyle self-tutoring: maintaining coffee quality when you’re living from a suitcase. My wife says that my taste buds aren’t very refined – I can’t tell the difference between good food and great food. Likely, she tells …
Lifestyle, Canadian brands: coffee: Best Gourmet Coffee Company, Kona Blend, ground Read more »
Technology self-tutoring: the tutor checks the importance of unplugging an unused phone charger. I’ve read in more than one place to unplug a phone charger when it’s not being used. Doing so I find inconvenient, but I’ve done it anyway …
Mobile phones, electronics: should I unplug the phone charger when not in use? Read more »
Home computer use means self-tutoring. The tutor shares an observation. This computer, before use or after idleness, locks out to a screensaver. To open the password field I have always clicked on the screen. After a few clicks it would …
Driving in a different city means self-tutoring. The tutor tells a strategy. Let’s imagine you need turn left onto a road, but don’t know how busy it will be. You might wish to do so from a light or a …
Becoming familiar with a city means self-tutoring. The tutor discovers Mambo Gourmet Pizza, Nanaimo. I’m based in Campbell River, but am working in Nanaimo for a couple of weeks. Times before, my wife has done the driving, etc. This time …
Tutoring web design, you might encounter other color systems besides rgb. The tutor begins about hue. Hue exists on a scale from 0 to 360 degrees: 0 is red 120 is green 240 is blue Between those values are combinations …
My quest for definitions means continual self-tutoring. The tutor discusses the definition of religion. religion: system of belief in and worship of a supernatural power or god.1 Over the past year I’ve been party to several discussions about belief in …
Tutoring high school subjects, you learn about teenagers. The tutor tells a story about a recipe he found. On a late-July day in 2013, walking around Robron Centre with my kids, I saw a photocopy lying on the deserted pavement. …
Tutoring, you notice how the seasons affect people. Back in my Jan 26, 2015 post, I explained my personal definition of the first day of spring: the first sunny day with temperature 10°C or higher. It happened on January 25 …
Tutoring English, you can’t help but notice nuances. Here’s one the English tutor has thought about since elementary school. About 35 years ago I asked my elementary teacher whether to use defence or defense. She was sporting; we looked in …