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.

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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].

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Well worth a listen:

Sinobabble podcast at 
https://www.sinobabble.com/ or add it 
to your rss feeds: 
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/214505.rss

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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.

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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. :)

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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