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Here's a neat trick I just found out about: You can request the transcript of a YouTube video that has captions by going to More > Transcript.

Reading the transcript is often a nice alternative to sitting through a video of someone talking, even in x2.

Unfortunately, it's still impossible to request automatic captionning for videos where the author didn't enable it. I wish they'd change that.

Been a while! What I've been to since July, in no particular order:

• I visited Tokyo & Ireland.

• I improved the program that generates this website, it now does incremental generation, and I have a post in the works about it (edit: here).

• I started writing my thesis, and got a good headstart.

• I finished my re-read of the first 13 books of The Wheel of Time, and my first read of the 14th and final book. (I must have read 3 of them since July.) I thought of writing about it, but the series means so much to me (I'm not the only one), I'm afraid not to do it justice. I must also recoup my thoughts about it.

  Did you know Amazon is adapting it into a TV show? Might use that as an excuse to re-read and write about it.

• I've kept lifting weights, I'll write some thoughts about it soon (edit: here).

• I'm now reading 8 Years in Azeroth, the account of player Hanzo as he leads his guild through the first eight years of World of Warcraft.

• I've started tracking my sleep using the sonar tech of the application Sleep as Android. I've used that as an incentive to get my average time in bed to 8 hours / night over the past month.