I’m working at composing an iBook using iBooks Author and Pages.

As it turns out, I feel like writing has become more comfortable and fluid on the AZERTY keyboard of my iPadOS devices (now that I’ve picked up my holiday purchase of a 7th generation gold iPad from USC Village Target, and I’ve settled in, doing some updates on the device, here). The feedback of the text-to-speech works beautifully, and I can lean in to any position; in addition, as musicians would know, its a bit easier to be able to cheat by looking at the keyboard, not sticking to reading the music (piano players, at least).

The device, although, in several ways, simply marginal improvements over the 6th generation version, is a nicer aesthetic, with the thinner bezels on the side; and on this one, I’m riding bareback, at the moment. No cover or case for this one, right now.

For the weekend, I’m heading out to the Inglewood Scientology Center to get a personal evaluation on my Oxford 10 Personality Traits (currently) test and analysis of the results, of which test I took on account of the fact that I had taken it before; I’m older now, and I was in a better psychological and physiological position at the time I took the test, earlier this morning, and I’m doing some writing in my iBook which glosses over (actually, it’ll detail in significant degree, on second thought) - the experiences I had as a schizophrenic, the various characteristics of the experience, the aside stories, the paranoid plots I lived through, and some time-honored experiential insight and discussion of what it really was, and what it means, for myself, and as well, some thoughts on what it entails for others, as I’m targeting a modern-day mature reader audience, perhaps of parenting age of teenagers through young adults. It could be one of the few or only sources that touches on such psychiatric and mental health issues of its sort, at this point in time. I’d say that I haven’t read any literature such as what I intend to write, that is fully competent and capable in portraying the schizophrenic experience, to a large degree. I’m pretty impassioned about contributing to the book’s progress, little by little.

I’ll provide some updates when I get home 

Adobe is still offering discounted rates (January 10th, 2020) on their subscriptions.

Many of my readers would have known me from my old pirating days as a cracked software installation specialist on craigslist.

Since that time, I've been through a gauntlet of many forms of mistreatment through Scientology; I suppose, all in all, somewhat well-deserved. As the years have gone past, the voices and the punishments have subsided; in particular, as of late, some corollary bitsies of stalking from former peers has also subsided. A fortunate segway in to a path towards a new lifestyle - establishing my enterprise on completely ethically-founded and funded merits.

I had planned to get the Adobe Creative Cloud and several of Adobe's apps, from their Creative Cloud Suite, about a week ago, when I was working on my iMessages iPigeon.institute's Pigeons of Lé Lycée Français Pigeon Stickers app for the Apple iTunes App Store. I had to cancel my 7 day free trial before I received my iPad - my formative and fundamental tool for illustration design. (I'm still waiting on it to be processed at a local Target store). Despite this, I saw an offer, as I was cancelling my subscription, for the Creative Cloud Suite for $29.99 per month - a good discount from their annual monthly paid plan of $52.99 per month. This morning, I called Adobe Customer Service +1 (800) 585-0774. It was early in the morning, before 6 a.m. The customer care representative offered me an even better discount than the website offered - $19.99. I was elated to get such a generous discount under their education plan. In addition, he offered me a good faith gesture of 3 free months of subscription after the first month. All in all, an awesome deal.

Product Review - naztech 75W Ultra-Thin USB-C PD Laptop Power Bank

The naztech Ultra-Thin USB-C PD Laptop Power Bank is an ideal solution for powering an iPad Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, Microsoft Surface, Chromebook, or Google Pixelbook.

Not only does the power bank charge devices faster, with the Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 standard (green USB outlet); here, the device charges up to 3 devices at once, through two standard USB ports and a USB-C port, while also being able to charge the charger itself.

I decided to purchase this laptop power bank, in preparation for my pickup at Target of my new 2019 iPad 7th Generation. Having had a standard hand-sized mobile device charger previously (several various ones, actually), I decided to up my standards in mobile device charging against the 1% [barely there] charging that the smaller devices produced on my 6th generation iPad (now gone and traded, for my iMac 2010 model). The naztech Laptop Power Bank will power a USB-C port'ed phone of about 15% power bank battery to 30% phone charging. While it's not the most dense battery pack out there, it does it's job well, of working with efficiency if I'm able to stick nearby to where there's power outlets supplied, out and about, around town.

The naztech Ultra-Thin USB-C PD Laptop Power Bank is reasonably larger than a phone, by a fair amount, and thicker than a phone, at that. Despite having other cheaper options (I purchased it at Fry's Electronics for about $75, including sales tax), I'm counting on plotting out a lifestyle trekking habit of making sure I get home earlier and keep my charger plugged in, when I can, while also making sure that I get a more efficient charge, while I'm out and about. This way, I'll be more focused on working quickly, staying available with my devices, and not running out of juice when the time is important - a most unfortunate scenario, when I'm inspired in writing, photography, graphic design, illustration, studying, and research, etc.

The 45-watt wall charger charges the Laptop Power Bank very quickly; just minutes to get it up 10% or so. It's a bit of tricky psychology; while I'm not used to devices charging so quickly, it also makes me forget (somewhat), that it's just a battery, and my mobile production and development devices are constructed to use power efficiently, not as quickly as possible. I determined that the upgrade to a laptop-charging standard is a good idea; the smartphones of today have the capabilities (processor and RAM-wise) of computers such as my 2010 iMac have - a 3.2 GHz quad core processor and 512MB of VRAM; 2-3 GB of RAM on a recent release iPad or cheap Android phone, such as my ZTE Z971. The naztech charger promises 250% quicker charging than standard charging devices (running at 5W x 2.1-2.4 volts).

Update - In order to [now, working... <-<] install Homebrew package manager on macOS,

the user would first have to install the Homebrew-core repo:

Homebrew/homebrew-core

🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS

formulae homebrew ruby tap core

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 Ruby

BSD-2-Clause license

Updated 1 hour ago

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as such. 

I can rescind my former qualms about the authors' claims that a ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

would not have been sufficient. 

Steps that I took - 

1. Create a public git key. 

   Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent ...

   
   

   https://help.github.com › github › authenticating-to-github › generating-a-...

   
   

   
   
   After you've checked for existing SSH keys, you can generate a new SSH key to use for authentication, then add it to the ssh-agent.
   

   ‎Enterprise Server 2.16 · ‎Adding a new SSH key to your ... · ‎Working with SSH key ...

   
   

   as I did for myself, as this: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "jay.ammon@gmail.com"

   
   

   you'll need to change the email address to your own, and add your own password.

   
   

   trivia - here's my generated ascii art image, which came with the key generation. I think it's cute.

   
   

   
   

   +---[RSA 4096]----+

   |    .o*oo        |

   |     =.=         |

   |  . o + .        |

   |   +   +    .    |

   |  ..+...S  o     |

   | ..+o=o...+ .    |

   |  =oo.E .o.= o   |

   |.=..o+  .o  =    |

   |++*=o. .o        |

   +----[SHA256]-----+

   
   
2. Clone the gitHub repository of Homebrew-core somewhat like this: git clone jay.ammon@gmail.com:Homebrew/homebrew-core.git
   
   
       
3. After installing those libraries, you'll surely, by now, want to play around with the original link for installing the "brew" command ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

In order to get the "brew" command fully working, you'll need to

check out the one with the Red / Yellow / Green Tags. 

5. Put the "brew" command in to the /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/bin/ folder. Use, (and get used to): the "shift + command + G" command [it lets you type, or copy and paste the folders you'd want to cd (change directory) in to.
 

from your /Users/(iMac - your name)/Downloads/homebrew-core-master/cmd/brew
(black exec {Terminal Executable} file)

to /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/bin/
as this photo shows.

pluuuUUppe. and dropped in there. it's done.

6. Next, you'll need to install glib. It's a general set of commands and libraries that you probably already have somewhere in your macOS, somewhere [<_ i="">but I figure that we might as well get it in from "brew" command.  

now you'll really see your Terminal start working.  

Just type in  

brew install glib 

into the Terminal. 

Check your /Cellar folder at 

( shift + command + G )

/usr/local/Cellar

Now, you are pwn'ing of on: bwapp, with the directory changing command and your folders in columns view.
translated - cool stuff is happening in the Terminal, right?

7. Look at all the interesting stuff that's transpiring after brew install glib happens:

8. Pretty cool stuff. 

Now,

you can go in to the Homebrew Formulae website at https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ and check out the thousands of repositories you might want to install (certainly not all of them, all on your own and by yourself; but some - that appeal to your strengths and interests).

ace	6.5.7	ADAPTIVE Communication Environment: OO network programming in C++
aces_container	1.0.2	Reference implementation of SMPTE ST2065-4
ack	3.2.0	Search tool like grep, but optimized for programmers
acme	0.96.4	Crossassembler for multiple environments
acmetool	0.0.67	Automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)
acpica	20191018	OS-independent implementation of the ACPI specification
activemq	5.15.11	Apache ActiveMQ: powerful open source messaging server
activemq-cpp	3.9.5	C++ API for message brokers such as Apache ActiveMQ
adios2	2.5.0	Next generation of ADIOS developed in the Exascale Computing Program
admesh	0.98.4	Processes triangulated solid meshes
adns	1.5.1	C/C++ resolver library and DNS resolver utilities

From Pinterest - Cartoon Process

A set of higher-definition photos to illustrate the creative workflow behind my organic and digital cartoon design processes, from 2017.

Making ramen more special - with spices, meat slices, and canned sweet yams.

Ramen,  although cheap in the stores,  is also a highly celebrated Japanese form of socialization,  as one would come to understand for visiting DTLA's local corner locality of Little Tokyo at night.  Ramen is a common night out affair for the young adult crowd.

Given that,  restaurant-style ramen is significantly fancier than packaged ramen from the store.  Here,  I've assembled a tasty mock-up recipe of a beef ramen base - it includes thin beef slices and candied yams (canned). Don't use the whole can or two packages of ramen,  of anything like that.  It's a hearty enough meal,  in and of itself.

In addition,  other embellishments I made,  as far as spice-wise - these spices really do the dish bowl justice,  for a meal that otherwise is about a quarter per serving / meal.

The spices I had used were turmeric,  several shakes, dusting the top of the ramen while it cooks. Same with African Berbere, a slightly spicy and richly fragrant substitute for standard cayenne pepper (if still desired,  I recommend just a tiny pinch). The final spice ingredient I used in addition to the standard spice pack is grated dried ginger.

 I cooked the soup over the standard amount of water and some cooking oil.  It comes out great! Very tasty. 

An exciting start to a new year - plotting my macOS, iPadOS, mobile and development lifestyle budget and subscription allocations.

Having been a former shameless software pirate craigslist enterprise (2007-2012-ish), as well as DRM content torrent downloading aficionado, I must say, once again, for the record, that I fully encourage people who still refuse to pay for their content and app licensing, to become free of their bonds and debts due to the creators of works in digital - few could claim that the merits of the opposition would outsmart the big tech's legal, executive, administrative, surveillance, and counterintelligence departments, altogether. I sure got a Scientology hard time about it, for a significant run of 5 years, and more.

That being said, I now have a much more stringent and disciplined lifestyle (of tech, still) in that I am, in small measures and means, contributing and creating in small developmental tech, IoT, creative, and analytical projects, many; and much to the fulfillment of all hours of most days (of days that are well-to-do in productivity.

Here's what this month's budget for iPigeon.institute's January 2020 plans for the roadmap, affinity, and content distribution of efforts and capabilities will extend unto.

The details of my proposed budgeting for my creative, recreational, development, connectivity, and financials (credit and loans), subscriptions, Human Resources and outreach marketing, design, cloud platform, and MDM (Multi-Device Management) efforts. I have $221 to work with, starting on the 2nd of each month.

I was a bit torn, as to who, where and why I would [might] allocate this largest chunk of payment towards, here; being Adobe's Creative Cloud Suite offerings, at individual retail price of $52.99, versus a Jeux d'orgues virtual instrument pipe organ, a fine suite of offerings in this category, by Markus Sigg, who offers some of the sampled organ instruments for free. The larger spread of octaves and samples are for the paid apps.

This app is available only on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

Jeux d'orgues 4+

Markus Sigg

• •  

    5.0, 2 Ratings

• • $30.99

Screenshots

• iPhone
 
• iPad

Description

The famous Jeux d'orgues 2 sampleset of Joseph Basquin (see http://www.jeuxdorgues.com ) is now available on the iPad and iPhone. Connect a MIDI keyboard or MIDI console to your device to play this sampleset of the Stiehr-Mockers organ located in Romanswiller, France. The app supports wireless MIDI, virtual MIDI, background operation and recording to WAV/M4A files. Visit the app support page for a detailed description of the app's features and to listen to some sound examples. An iPad 2 or later is recommended to get a decent polyphony, but the app can also be run on an iPad 1 with lower polyphony or sample rate. For usage on iPhone, we recommend the models with large screens.

For hearing sound examples of the app, please visit the support page http://polaron.de/Jeuxdorgues/ .