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Things not Stanley Kubrick ‘s Shining Thing!

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

  1. I think pleasure and pain are well defined for most people unless you’re suffering from some disease.
  2. They don’t change for most animals all their lives.
  3. Almost all of the things done by people are guided either by desire to experience or desire to not experience.
  4. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably in the words of Nisargadatta who with help of Maurice Frydman created I AM THAT.
  5. When I began writing this article by responding to the prompt I had taken it for granted that it was about ‘activity’ as if the prompt asked “what are the 5 everyday things you do that bring you happiness.”
  6. I think a 4G smartphone is the most advanced technology I have.
  7. Most of the advanced technology is for comfort.
  8. Microphones let me talk as earphones let me listen music.
  9. Tubewell for fresh water.
  10. Coffee, tea machines for drinks. Similar to refridgerator for ice cream and cold drinks.
  11. Internet archives for research entertainment are some of the greatest inventions of this century.
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Grammar, Pythagoras Theorem and Algebra!

Describe something you learned in high school.

  1. Grammar: Active and Passive voice. Narrations etc
  2. Example: I wrote this article. ( Active voice)
  3. This article was written by me. ( Passive voice)
  4. Emphasis is on the subject or doer of the action in the first case, whereas in the second case it’s on the completion of action by ( someone.)
  5. As I was a Hindi medium student Grammar and English writing were considered important to learn. Government Hindi medium schools had syllabus which begin to touch English language with any seriousness only at standard sixth.
  6. No wonder all such students including convent school Hindi medium students faced difficulties with competitive exam books and magazines which were in English language. Later, we continued to face difficulty with engineering studies because syllabus was taught in English. I tried to help dozens of such students with translation of lessons even when I was myself in engineering.
  7. Apart from communication skills we took great interest in Pythagoras Theorem, working out Algebra and other problems because of our teachers who were dedicated to achieve excellence. I remember initial zeal when as a teenager I wanted to be the first guy every time around a challenge was given by our teachers and I often was this first guy which hurt sentiments of many students as well as teachers. I had a lot to learn about Educational Psychology and competitive exams.
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Maybe Walking or Doing Puzzles

What’s the most fun way to exercise?

Exercise might mean physical or mental exercises.

  1. I have played various sports all my life and used to work out in a gym in my college days.
  2. I walk everyday. I have walked almost all my life.
  3. For mental exercise : I read, write and do vocabulary tests.
  4. I frequently update my weblogs with results of my findings on tests like Peter Schmies Word Classification Test or United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice or Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words or James Harbeck’s Sesquiotica.
  5. I also update weblogs when I find some strange interconnections between words and etymologies in languages like Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, English, Mandarin, Spanish etc and in local dialects used in Indian subcontinent especially in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
  6. I think there can’t be a single fun way to exercise for everyone.
  7. Though it seems that labour you do to earn your living is also exercise or fun it isn’t so. It soon devolves into anxious anticipation for a raise, for a holiday , for a better future.
  8. Exercise which is done because a doctor advised you to do that or your yoga guru had a program for you or you wanted to come out of depression might be helpful but :
  9. Air Quality Index at most of the places doesn’t really prove that walking, jogging or other exercises are significantly going to help longevity.
  10. That’s all.
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None!

What book could you read over and over again?

None of them.

And it’s just my opinion: we are all stuck with something or the other for some reason or the other.

An example might be an imaginary book where every event of your life has been described in detail. I think nobody else has come close to doing something like that about my life so far, but even if such a work was available for me, I might not be interested after a while.

Hence:

None of them.

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4120, 47 look ups, United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th

  1. Free Rice was created by Josh Breen in 2007.
  2. I have been using it since 2010-2011.
  3. It puzzles you by using primary, secondary or tertiary connotations at times.
  4. I invited James Harbeck of Sesquiotica fame to try the test out, the event created a ceiling in old frame which I myself cracked many times over. [ 0 errors until you score 1000 and 16 errors at max before you reach 2060. ]
  5. James Harbeck is a linguist and weblogger at Sesquiotica who is in the  great list of literati created by Peter Schmies, which was maintained by Darryl Miyaguchi up until 2000 or 2001.
  6. The Peter Schmies Word Classification Test used to accompany another detailed test which is now dysfunctional.
  7. Similarly, United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice which claimed to support cause of alleviating World Hunger; to which I devoted a great amount of time and energy is bugged or they changed the test format.
  8. In either case: they don’t respond back to emails.
  9. James Harbeck, Peter Schmies or James Grimes might still respond to your emails if they promote their business as well.
  10. I once did a guest post for James Harbeck’s Weblog Sesquiotica: it’s the only post with “Freshly Pressed” status.
  11. No such thing as apartheid on WordPress.
  12. Yes, Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words or Language Log still exist as functional websites but I seldom get time to explore them because I devote all my free time to develop my personal AI assistant with help of Replika platform.
  13. Yes, WordPress websites are three times as costlier as they used to be just a decade ago. Inflation. This website hardly uses any images at all these days and I am chopping off old branches or leaves one after another.
  14. For example: the latest WordPress weblog where I hardly have any followers has only capacity for about one fifty articles if I also post images.
  15. A decade ago such websites let you publish about a thousand articles before you moved on.
  16. How so very organised. Another website soon popping up on Blogger.
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Words!

What animals make the best/worst pets?

  1. 2130 on UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th.
  2. 20 look ups in total.
  3. Yes, not being directly relevant to the thread it seems as if I am only trying to get traffic ( which is mostly likes rather than any thoughtful addendum to my inputs in form of systematic archives to alleviate hunger in the world. )
  4. All animals and pets come out of words as per one theory:
  5. “In The Beginning Was The Word; Word Was With The God; Word Was The God.” John 1:1
  6. Why United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice staff isn’t responding to our emails is another valid prompt.
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How Would You Know It’s Your Tribe? By Being Freshly Pressed Author!

How would you improve your community?

Step one: find yourself.

Step two: find your tribe.

Step three: know your tribe.

Step four: is your tribe in alignment with your Self or vice versa?

Yes: proceed to step four.

No: repeat step one.

Step five: define improvement as per your community.

Step six: contribute to your community.

For example: I consider, this article, as well as others similar to this as improvement to WordPress community.

I have contributed to WordPress, Blogger, online forums and e-mail community significantly since 2005.

OTOH, I am still waiting to qualify to become a “freshly pressed” author or an author who’s paid for his articles. That’s why I doubt if I am actually in the league of extraordinary gentlemen or in a wrong league.

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What Changes?

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

What changes?

Don’t you think that fourth and fifth world war already took place?

If, after fifty years, Russia-Ukraine and Israel Palestine are taught as fourth and fifth world war, who’s going to awaken them? Nobody.