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We are experiencing a record-breaking heat wave here in the Southern interior of British Columbia. It is 30C by 9 in the morning and reaches 40C by afternoon. My wife and I have been waking up at 4:30 to get out for a walk before the heat. Sometimes I go for a bit of a bike ride afterward. It will be nice when the temperatures drop, but there's nothing below 32C in the forecast for the next two weeks. ------------- Currently reading: Ezra Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of Modern China. It's a thoughtful and detailed account of Deng's life and mid-to-late twentieth-century Chinese history. His daughter's account of the Deng family's experience during the cultural revolution is also very compelling[1]. ------------- Well worth a listen: Sinobabble podcast at https://www.sinobabble.com/ or add it to your rss feeds: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/214505.rss ------------- Jirka mentioned seeing in the Free Thinker's phlog[2] that you can use CTRL+Shift [ack! correction: Shift + Insert] to paste text in xterm[3]. That brings back memories of Word for DOS, which had the same paste shortcut. Maybe Edit did too. I use LXTerm and it allows you to use CTRL-Shift-X for cut, CTRL-Shift-C for copy, and CTRL-Shift-V for paste. It's nice to be able to add shift to the regular cut, copy and paste commands and just proceed as usual. ------------- I've opted into Gemini mirroring here at the Zaibatsu, so you can read the phlog via Gemini too. That might make me reconsider my line-wrapping preferences, which were intended to facilitate mobile viewing. On the other hand, odd traditions are good things. :) ------------- Congrats to cat on the birth of his daughter! [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/422436.Deng_Xiaoping_And_The_Cultural_Revolution [2] gopher://aussies.space:70/0/%7Efreet/phlog/2021-06-19Digital_Distancing.txt [3] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2021_06_03.txt