April 30th 2026 - Reading Summary

The Hobbit

Escaping the goblins

Bilbo sees goblins by the door and they notice him as well. Somehow the ring was no longer on his finger. They start rushing him and instead of pulling out his sword he instinctively reaches in his pocket, looking for the ring. He goes invisible and the goblins are taken aback. They start searching for him as he hides behind a barrel. After some time he braves an escape and swerves between the goblins toward the door. He tries to slip through a crack left open in the door but gets stuck, his buttons holding him back. The goblins notice there is a shadow near the door which motivates Bilbo to push through, bursting his buttons off his shirt in the attempt. Finally he's outside.

Chapter 6 - Out of the frying-pan into the fire

  • Finding the crew

    Bilbo realizes he's lost on the other side of the Misty Mountains and he walks around for a bit. Eventually he hears some voices and realizes its his group of allies. They're looking around for him but can't see him as he's still wearing the ring of invisibility. He plans to sneak up on them and reveal himself as a surprise but he overhears the dwarves saying they should leave him behind. Gandalf angrily disagrees and says Bilbo is useful to the group and that they should go back and search for him.

The Eye of the World

Inviting Egwene to dance

Egwene and Rand have a conversation where he asks her to dance with him tomorrow. She agrees but says she can only do it in the afternoon as she'll be busy in the morning. Rand tells her that even though she's of marrying age she doesn't have to rush and marry someone. She agrees and says that Nynaeve has been teaching her the ways of The Wisdom. This concerned Rand as he was hoping to marry Egwene one day and he knows that Wisdoms seldom marry.

Dreams of moving

Egwene tells him that she's thinking of moving to a different village where her services as Wisdom will be needed. Rand tries to discourage her but she takes offense to this and starts to walk off.

Someone else has seen the dark rider

The other boys approach Rand and tell him that Perrin had seen the dark rider near the blacksmith who acted like he didn't believe him. Egwene overhears them and says they're being childish for believing these things.

Just then someone with white hair rushes out of the inn like they're being chased.

Chapter 4 - The Gleeman

  • The white haired man

    The man is the gleeman.

Atomic Habits

Visual cues

Set up visual cues in order to trigger the habits you want. Design your environment so that cues are sprinkled throughout areas you frequent.

Your relationship with your environment

Eventually you will realize that your relationship to your environment is more important than the objects in it when it comes to cues.

Creating spaces for routines

Try and set up different spaces in your home for different routines. If you're currently triggered for an unwanted habit in a particular location then change locations. Its easier to create a habit in a new location than trying to do it in an environment with competing cues.

One space one purpose

Each room, or each space if you don't have multiple rooms, should be used for only 1 purpose. Examples: the kitchen is just for cooking, the bedroom is just for sleeping, the office is just for working.

Prot's Elisp Book

Chapter 12 - Evaluate some elements inside of a list

In order to evaluate some code inside of a quoted list we can do it like this:

(message "%s" `(one two ,tab-width three))

Notice we replace the ' with a ` and add a , before the variable we want evaluated.

We can do the same to call a function:

(message "%s" `(one two ,(concat "three " "four") five))