Today’s accounting. Still in some generalities.

Berkeley, Thursday, August 20, 2026 2:11 am

I can believe it is Thursday already.

I did not write today. Still did to make some accounts, but a day should not be wrapped up with at least some progress.

Received a few advices. Had an interesting phone call. A friend is back from some time that he was abroad.

Other unplanned interactions in the evening which was good.

There is this ok habit, of searching something in google that I need to learn or understand. I use that mainly for mundane matters [interruption. I received a notification for an update].

Probably is positive to clarify a thought a questions with searching some material in google. It is backed up now with gemini, which answers could be conversational while one is trying to understand the term. The point is that one must always be aware that it might be a shallow answer, or that actual knowledge comes from people, experience, and sometimes, although a great source with deep reading of a good text. Plenty of knowledge also happen with writing. Also with singing and music, and so, which is part of the empirical aspect.

OK. Things I have learned.

I learned a bit about Federico Barreto, from Tacna. A few rivers, probably with low flow, are nearby Tacna, the Caplina and the Sama. All of this started with a poem in Barreto’s book Algo mio.

Someone asked me today about The Brother Karamazov book from Fyodor Dostoevsky. I know it a very superficial level. Have not read it yet. i might get there at some point. Apparently several folks are reading it now, and talking about it. I cannot correct every single bit. My friend, interested on reading the book, might have said Tolstoy. One listens, and correct important things, but depending what is the focus of the argument. Otherwise, it might hinder the main point.

I learned a bit about the Quezaltepeque volcano. I knew from an interaction in November last year, somethings about the Nahuatl language. For instance tepec, which likely a bit modified in translation to Spanish, or who knows, is spelled tepeque. It means cerro. Quezal is a bird. I just remembered then Sensusntepeque. I guess the debate was if centzun, sensun, is fourthhundred in nahuatl. It seems according to wikipedia that this is also Pipil language, or nawat, which is similar to Nahuatl. It might be as Kichwa and Quechua, which are two different dialects of a very similar languages spoken in Ecuador and Peru respectvely. Or like Flemish and Dutch, spoken in Flanders, Belgium and the Netherlands respectevely.

Quezalt is a bird, if I did not mentioned that.

I learned a bit about bobos. A term, likely coined by David Brooks, in a book, I think called bobos in paradise. It is a word play about bourgeois bohemian. The term makes a lot of sense, as well as information one can read online or in gemini. I would see if I get to that book. Need to pass trough a received book first from an Armenian descend author, born in Fresno, who in his book talks about water in California, particularly the water use in the Central Valley I think. I think he has seen through his family the change from agricultural farms, to the current industrial one. I think he is baffled by the dryenes of the Kings river. those are things without reading the book yet. I might be wrong even in the interpretation. One thing is having a sense of who is the author and what is the book about. Another is feeling and understand the book, which might even put one in silence and deep understanding. I learned that the father from the author was killed in an night club bar that he owned, probably in Fresno.

General arguments and general knowledge, would be like me commenting on what is the Brother Karamazov about.