Running: the old soft shoe(s)
Self-tutoring about running: the tutor mentions an experiment that turned out.
Urban lifestyle: dog parks
Self-tutoring about living in a city: the tutor brings up dog parks. When I was a kid, I mostly lived in small towns, where everyone had a yard, etc. If people walked their dogs as much as here and now, …
Canadian politics: the Terrebonne vote count
Self-tutoring about Canadian politics: the tutor mentions an unresolved issue from last election. The following is according to my understanding. One would probably like to imagine that Canada’s last federal election, April 28, 2025, is over. Yet, perhaps it’s not, …
Autos: tire pressure gauges: the three-gauge scenario
Self-tutoring about autos: the tutor visits an ongoing saga with tire pressure gauges. As I mention in a post a few days back, I recently found a digital pressure gauge I lost so long ago, I’d forgotten about it. I …
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Bird watching: hummingbird in late October?
Self-tutoring about local birds: the tutor mentions a hummingbird he saw. Here, we had a powerful storm yesterday: very windy, lots of rain, etc. This morning, it’s calm. I stepped out to check the air and see what the storm …
Politics, Education: the Alberta teachers’ situation, part 2
Self-tutoring about politics and education: the tutor continues about the Alberta teachers’ situation. The following is my understanding. I began talking about this situation in my earlier post here. It seems one of the main issues of the Alberta teachers’ …
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Autos, driving: tire pressure change with temp
Self-tutoring about autos: the tutor mentions a pressure change he noticed. The following is my understanding. As mention in my post here, I check the autos’ tire pressures about once per month. A couple days ago, I found a tire …
Electronic Lifestyle, Demographics: GenZ and politics, part 1
Self-tutoring about demographics and politics: the tutor mentions GenZ. Did GenZ just bring down the government in Madagascar, and the government in Nepal last month? What has got this generation so riled up, and why are they so effective? My …
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Politics, Education: the [Alberta] teachers’ situation, part 1
Self-tutoring about the demands on the education system: the tutor mentions an article he read. I confess not to know much about the teachers’ strike in Alberta, but I would claim to understand well enough the logistics of running a …
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Computer science: json, part zero
Tutoring computer science, data structures come up. The tutor mentions json. The following is my understanding. json stands for JavaScript object notation. It refers to a format for storing data. json essentially follows the concept of an associative array (see …