Author: justinaquino
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Chinese update
Did terribly. I need to do it everyday again. 22/49. I had a second go. because there was an opportunity…
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migrated from Zenfone Max to Samsung J7 prime (2016).
Why? One key problem of the Zenfone Max is the Phone reception. Its a problem that I cannot show easily in front…
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Source Material
I’ve been getting source material that are open source or public domain like De Re Militari and using them as…
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Goals of 2017
So I should be updating this blog more often than the others. Because in this blog I tackle: My work…
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Chinese Update
My son refusing to sleep interrupting my studies. What should have taken only one hour (all I had remaining)
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Warfare Notes
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! So I’ve been listening to Tyrant Series, I just finished funeral games and I’m now…
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Chinese update
I did chapter 6 in nPCR without any sound and only by the meaning. I’ll try to do a chapter…
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It’s hard to find time when I lose sleep because of our newborn. Two weeks no drills. 57/68 (83%) 1…
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Core Mechanics can get complicated.
I almost take for-granted how complicated the basic mechanics can be: Determine relevant Scores or Stats for the roll. This…
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World Building is a Skill
It was only recently I realized World building as a Skill. As a skill it has many components with the…
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Chinese update
Despite sick, no sleep (new born), and a lot of things going on. 79/97, 1 hour of 40mins. NPCR 12…
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44/48 42mins I should spend each word writing a sentence that uses that word. In 汉子. That would mean tests…
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79% 38/48 So my brain is trying to form connections. I’ve realized and learned some feelings or thoughts that I…
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I lose the score card when I set up the screen rotate and it rotates. 25% out of 50ish. 6…
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Calling it Laziness is Lazy
After all the improvements I had worked out in my life I realized more and more that laziness is the…
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Chinese update
100% npcr 12, 49 items and about 30 mins. So I built the tones into the exercise. I need to…
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What is the conditions for optimal study to practice ratio
The best in a quick (2 min search and verify) for what I’m looking for : practice to study ratio.…
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Chinese update
NPCR lesson 12 43mins, 45/49 I realized I need to practice my tones more. So as I write the characters…
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Personal Time and Motion of small things.
it takes me about 5 mins to work with my reference document system (finding the right set of notes in…
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Breathing, and Running Mechanics.
i forgot how much the breathing part of my run mattered. The “right” way to breath (belly breathing in a…
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Conditional Success, Significant Actions
Conditional Success is basically replacing failure with an Extreme cost for Success. The Margin of Failure determined how much it…
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Driving More; means more time for my Text to Speech app
So I have to drive the wife more because shes at 37 weeks and I still need to “manage by…
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Character Actions, becoming Character Limits.
I read Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto and it dawned on me how Dungeon World really helped with the Character Options List…
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Exercise Routine
This is an exercise routine that uses soldier Physical Fitness Exams as benchmarks. It emphasizes strength and endurance so that…
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Good on Paper, but not Practical
As I’ve finished C in Dr. Arthur Hill’s Operations Managmeent Encyclopedia there are a lot of ideas and ideals I…
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Subjective Feelings as a Benchmark in Physical Stress
A feat of strength really should have recovery as part of the formula. Like a 2-min or 10-sec recovery between…
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Accepting Limits, and more constructive Regret
There are a lot of things I want to do, but have no real output. Open RPG Project. There is…
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Finished The Long War: Killer of men, Marathon, and, Poseidon’s Spear
These books makes me want to run a GURPS game set in that era (early 5C BCE). Although I would…