Notes

I am one of those people who function better by writing things down. One day, I realized that most of my notes don’t have to be private, so here they are - my second brain. Be warned that, if you stumble upon something here that doesn’t make sense to you, it isn’t meant to!

Vancouver BC

West Vancouver - a bit far, so might want to stay there. VanDusen Botanical Garden. Stanley Park (one more time) and English Bay nearby. If sunny and no better things to do, can chill out again at Granville Island. Don’t: Capilano Suspension Bridge - expensive. Grouse Mountain - expensive.

Victoria BC - things to do

Royal Museum. Miniature Museum. Fisherman’s Wharf.

Volleyball in Seattle

https://www.aevolleyball.net/

Westside for skinny bastards

https://www.defrancostraining.com/westside-for-skinny-bastards-part3/ Rest 1.5 minutes by default, 2-2.5 minutes for ME first 2 exercises. I started this program twice but discontinued on both occasions. I don’t think I should give it another shot. I think the two major reasons I don’t stick with it is that, one, it doesn’t have deadlifts (and my OCD kicks in because I don’t want to leave out an important exercise) and, two, it doesn’t give explicit recommendation on what weights to use for bench press and squats. ...

Whenever I change my primary bank

Credit cards: First Tech. Chase. Vanguard. Fidelity. Schwab? House rental. Auto loan. Payment apps: Venmo. Paypal.

Write to or create a file

# The quotes around `EOF` ensure that everything inside it isn't interpreted (for e.g., `$`). cat > filename.sh << 'EOF' ... EOF

Yosemite

Pending: Half Dome - it seems difficult but isn’t really. Permit needed, probably through lottery.

youtube-dl

Download video or playlist: youtube-dl ... -F: list all formats. -f 271 (where 271 is a format code in -F’s output) will download the video in a particular format. -f best is probably the default.

Zeppelin

<whatever>/zeppelin-0.8.2-bin-all/bin/zeppelin-daemon.sh start Now, UI is available here. Change port number in conf/zeppelin-env.sh file. Setup port tunneling for connecting to a Glue dev endpoint: ssh -i ~/.ssh/key -NTL 9007:169.254.76.1:9007 glue@ec2-18-236-208-209.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com &

Zion

Pending: Angel’s Landing. Kolob Canyon/Reservoir and the area nearby. Drive again to Bryce maybe. (UT 12?)