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This afternoon, I spent two hours to clear up all the stuff from book shelves. Many of them are textbooks and a few other things that I couldnt even remember after I just removed them few hours ago.

Just junks setting on shelves collecting dust.

Its quite a shame that I never got to possess those knowledge, I might learn a tiny portion when I was a student, but now, most of what Id studied has all gone. Textbooks are expensive, but the money isnt the issue here, the true waste is I never tried to learn. I can still try, but I am just not interested in them.

What I have today were all learned after school, yes, C was taught, but its just very basic, I have to say the bar at school wasnt set high. Even before the school, I learned microprocessor assembly and the 90s web design on my own, HTML and JavaScript, the first version of .net. After school, I learned Python and all sorts of tools and libraries. Little more than ten years ago, I learned to work with Linux by myself, running my own server. It seems to me for application, its better to learn on your own with your own pace.

I remember I used to tell myself useless stuff is garbage, even for knowledge. If you have no uses of it, then its junk. I have a whole lot of them, stashed away.

I got human-checked by this CAPTCHA:


I have known that reCAPTCHA is a project about digitalization of books, so those ugly, twisted, blurred, torn, broken, and most extremely inhuman images we got to be asked with those scanned images of tons of tons of books. I think that's great idea to benefit the project (helping digitalization) and the websites which uses it. We help input the text by proving that we are human indeed.

This was first time that I actually saw a photo from a book. It looks clearly to me it's a street number. If you have used OCR softwares, sometimes, they do detect text within an image even you ask them not to check text in image.

Last time, I was asked with some language I didn't even know what the language is, though I didn't have problems typing int those letters with diacritics.

Anyways, just one more thing to say, I really hate reCAPTCHA this day. Years ago, you don't even need to press the reload button for another image, I almost reload for another at first image these days and quite often that I can only tell what the two words are from third or fourth images. They have been getting terribly hard to recognize.

I just watched this dangerous video: (Be warned: Brace yourself!)

I have no idea what this story is about. All I heard was fox, fox, and fox.

Anyway, I couldnt stop to wonder what words are said most, so I googled for a text version to do a simple check: