https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/everyday-inspiration/ Recent content in Everyday-Inspiration on A Geek's Life Hugo en Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:57:28 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2018/12/05/things-liked-a-list/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:57:28 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2018/12/05/things-liked-a-list/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_20181117_120906.jpg"></p> <p>---</p> <ol> <li>Coffee, particularly when it is -5 deg C outside</li> <li>Fried chicken, in all its various incarnations</li> <li>Digging out the right answer to a particularly difficult question</li> <li>Music, particularly ones which take me back memory lane</li> <li>Handwritten notes (when received)</li> </ol> https://archive.rustgeek.me/2018/12/04/i-write-because/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:57:30 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2018/12/04/i-write-because/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hannah-olinger-549280-unsplash.jpg"></p> <p>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/8eSrC43qdro?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Hannah Olinger</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/search/photos/writing?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></p> <p>---</p> <p>One of my earliest memories of doing stuff with my mother is of a newspaper cutout, sheets of paper and her sitting beside me encouraging me to apply whatever iota of critical thinking I could summon to whatever was the task of the day, usually some Close Up essay competition or the other. I don&rsquo;t recall us ever submitting any of those, the discipline of wrestling thoughts into semi-coherent arguments perhaps being the point of the entire exercise. That sense of writing as a vehicle for thinking aloud about a subject is one that has stayed with me over the years.</p>