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I write almost exclusively in cursive. Besides computers, I think that ball-point pens made cursive so rare. Compared to fountain pens, you need to press harder, which favors the use of short strokes, not long, extended ones. So I write in almost exclusively in cursive, almost exclusively with...

Bird was my nickname from my childhood and resulted from a long series of mutations from my first name. Many years ago, when playing Starcraft on Battlenet, I had my username be BirdVal, from the first few letters of my last name. At some point, someone called me BirdValiant, and I adopted it as...

I'm of the opinion that some cultures and languages can be inherently better than others. Of course, to be "better," there needs to be a particular quality that is judged more important than others. In the case of cultures (sorry for the aside), you could measure the survivability of a...

Just get contact lenses. They give you better visual acuity than glasses, the ability to look around everywhere without changes in the shapes of things, they don't get fogged up, and they're not all that inconvenient. The only thing is that you're less free to just fall asleep wherever/whenever...

Stellarium is an invaluable tool for stargazing. I recommend getting to know the shortcut keys. F3 will be your new best friend. If you have a telescope, the Ocular plugin is quite useful. (I hope that, at some point, someone will program in the observed brightness and resolution through a...