Imager is a handy dandy image drawing library in Perl that we're going to be using for our Meme creation needs.

Imager has about a gazillion methods to do pretty much every standard graphics manipulation you can imagine. But, shockingly, it doesn't have a way to draw standard meme text (Impact font, white text, black outline.) We can fix that by adding our own plugin:

1. Develop a daily writing habit
2. Watch popular speeches and learn how to critique them
3. Observe the strong communicators in your own life
4. Record yourself every day talking into a camera for 3 minutes
5. Reach out to one person a week whose work you admire
6. Volunteer to teach whatever you can whenever you can

o what is Click? From the webpage:

It (Click) aims to make the process of writing command-line tools quick and fun while also preventing any frustration caused by the inability to implement an intended CLI API.

The first step in cooking beans is buying the right ones. Most dried beans you’d find at the grocery store or in the bulk section of high-dollar organic markets aren’t very good since they don’t see enough turnover to be remotely fresh. Rancho Gordo has excellent beans; so does Zursun, a company out of Idaho.

A cheaper alternative would be to buy beans from busy international markets that cater to bean-loving populations, where there’s a better chance that the store is turning over its inventory.

A word on the pot: I like to cook beans in clay. Glazed or unglazed, terra cotta is the perfect vessel for cooking beans. Put them in the chosen pot and cover them with fresh water. You don’t need as much as you might think: enough to cover the beans by an inch or so will suffice. Too much water and the flavor of the beans will be diluted. Place a lid on the pot and place on a burner over low heat. For a clay pot, use a heat diffuser — or use one regardless. The idea is that you want very even, slow cooking for the beans. As they come up to a simmer, skim any foam or froth that might come to the surface and replace the lid. Cook. Slowly. Nice and easy.

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The results of the two studies showed that these elements of text fields were of most value:

• Enclosed text fields with a rectangular (box) shape performed better than those with a line affordance
• The text field box should be represented with a semi-transparent fill and a bottom line or with a fully transparent fill and an opaque stroke.
• Color contrast of the text field’s lines or strokes met the minimum 3:1 contrast ratios with the background
• Label text should be placed within the bounds of the text field box
• Text fields should have rounded corners

Vegetable oils were brought into our lives in about 1910 when the processing of them became cheap. Make no mistake, these oils are a food technology that should never have been.

I have a rule of thumb; if the oil comes from something that is not obviously oily then don’t eat it, ever.

Canola, soybean, corn oil, cottonseed, safflower, margarines, often hydrogenated, sunflower, see a comprehensive list.

Olives, avocados and coconuts are all fruits and obviously oily. So that’s two reasons why they escape my rule and are therefore not something you need to avoid.

The Only Real “Life-Hack”

So if I had one hack to offer it’d be this — fall in love with doing instead of the idea of doing.

Learn how to bring animation to your web projects https://cssanimation.rocks

For years, we've struggled to build resilient layouts on the web, but CSS Grid promises to change all that — and you can start using it now, with only a few properties and basic concepts. Learn how to build some previously-complex layouts in under 10 minutes, with only a few lines of code. Miriam Suzanne walks you through a practical demo.

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The foundational S-E program that every white short La Sierra student began each day with looked like this:

• Side Straddle Hop (aka jumping jacks) - 5 sets
• Push-Ups - x5
• Windmills - 5 sets
• Push-Ups - x5
• Full Bends - 5 sets
• Straddle Hops (jumping jacks w/o arms) - x50
• Push-Ups - x5
• Stride Hops - x50
• Push-Ups - x5
• Toe Hops - x50
• Push-Ups - x5
• Squat Thrusts - 5 sets
• Mountain Climbers - 5 sets
• Push-Ups - x5
• Agility routine - 4 rounds of sprint in place; first two whistles drop to plank - third whistle drop to supine position and roll-over to stand

Adding tempo makes the movement considerably harder and helps you gain more strength and stability, especially in areas of the range of motion you’re currently weakest.

Chin Over the Bar Hold

Handstand Push-Up Negative

Negative Pull-Up

Why Journaling is So Effective

They say if you want to reach your goals, write them down.

If you want to remember something, write it down.

If you want to discover what’s really going on in your mind, write it down.

I use journaling to serve all three of those purposes.

Here’s how it works. You write down 10 ideas per day. These ideas can be about anything you want. You can create ideas to improve your own life. You can also create ideas for other peoples lives and businesses. James says he often uses his ideas as a networking technique. He’ll create ideas for others and send them (tactfully) as suggestions.

The biggest problem in using the camera is that it needs high light levels. This would have been a big problem, but with today's high output LEDs you can probably manage to construct something that works and runs fairly cool.