April 25th 2026 - Reading Summary

The Hobbit

Gollum

A creature named Gollum, who refers to himself as "my precious" is rowing on the lake. He spots Bilbo and approaches him, challenging him to a game of riddles. If Gollum wins he gets to eat Bilbo but if he loses he has to show him the way out.

They go back and forth exchanging riddles.

The Eye of the World

Hired by the Lady

Lady Moiraine talks to the boys and they inquire why she's in Two Rivers. She says she's there to study history and that Two Rivers is an interesting place. The boys are dumbfounded as they believe the town is just a place with sheep.

Lady Moiraine gives them each a valuable silver piece in exchange for help with "chores" in the future. The boys are shocked at the value of the piece she gave them.

The peddler finally arrives in town.

Atomic Habits

Chapter 5 - The Best Way to Start a New Habit

  • Implementation intention

    Research shows that the best results come from making a plan about WHEN and WHERE one will act on a habit. This is called implementation intention.

    This takes into account the two most common cues for a habit which are time and location.

Prot's Elisp Book

Chapter 9 - Add metadata to symbols

  • Add a property

    We can add a property to a symbol: 

    (put 'the-symbol 'property-name '("an example" "of" "a list"))
  • Retrieve a property

    We can retrieve the value of that property: 

    (get 'the-symbol 'property-name)
  • Retrieve all properties

    To get all of the properties of a symbol: 

    (symbol-plist 'the-symbol)