I got a Kindle when I was traveling around the world for 6 months. Buying a book, carrying it around and selling it for a fraction of its price 3 days later got very tiresome very soon. So I bought a Kindle, which weighs the same no matter how many books are on it.
Since then, I read way more than before (about 25 books per year, fiction and non-fiction, sometimes 2-3 in a week, sometimes nothing for a month). I also feel like I read faster.
I mostly read in English, although my native language is German, because translation is so damn easy (just point your cursor in front of a word), because English books are often way cheaper on the Kindle and there's simply a bigger selection, and because I enjoy reading English books in their original language.
> which weighs the same no matter how many books are on it
Fun fact: a fully loaded kindle weighs more than an empty kindle, by about 10^-18 grams. So, at a maximum of 50mb per book, each book would come in below 12.5 zeptograms (normally below 0.25 zeptograms).
I noticed a similar phenomenon, but I'd distinguish 3 different kinds:
1. As a child (and still as an adult) I sometimes get this tingling sensation in my scalp when someone does something very mundane (e. g. when I watch the barber cutting my hair). I definitely have to be in the mood for that. So, this scalp sensation comes mostly when I see and observe something. Sometimes, it also comes when someone tells a story in a soft voice. My father could trigger that when I was a child.
2. Some music just gives me the chills. This tingling sensation is mostly "goosebumps down my neck and spine", less in my scalp. I found that "Brutal Dubstep Drops" never fail to cause it quite strongly and fast. E. g. this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQU9RFTR_84 (edit2: this never gets old and almost always works, how weird. If you listen to it, listen at least the first 1:30 minutes)
3. If someone touches my neck or back and uses fingernails to stroke me very softly. I get goosebumps and my body doesn't get used to it for 15-20 minutes if done right.
I guess 2+3 are different from ASMR, but I definitely experienced it. Quite enjoyable.
Ah I used the very first version of that system a few years ago. Quite good, actually, I may give it a try again to get on top of everything once more.
Munich - In the night of Saturday to Sunday, a special unit of the police raided the home of retired gardener Heinz S. to seize several cloud computers. Heinz S. allegedly participated as a volunteer to hide Piratecloud servers in Germany.
"I just wanted some heat from the thing, I don’t even know what it really is", is the unlikely claim of Heinz S., who turned 76 this year.
On Tuesday, he has to state his case in court, together with 22 other people who surprisingly tell a very similar story.
I tried to buy a theme from themeforest and it's extremely hard to fine one that is NOT completely polluted with CSS animations and parallax effects. I wish you were right, but just from the top-selling themes of marketplaces like themeforest, it seems that the trend is still quite big, unfortunately.
It is especially terrible, if you use your mouse wheel to scroll and not a swiping gesture on a trackpad. Parallax just looks horribly with a mouse wheel.
Now is probably the time to replace Spotlight as well. I wasn't terribly satisfied with it either for one simple reason: I open one specific file called "todo.taskpaper" with Spotlight all the time. So while I type t-o-d-... Spotlight doesn't remember that I want to open this specific file. I don't open anything else from Spotlight that starts with "tod" or even "to".
Quick test in Alfred: Seems to have learned that "to" = "todo.taskpaper" after 1 try.
