BENEDICT NEO梁耀恩

austin gets cold

January 24, 2026·#journal·
Pastel Illustrations of Tyrus Wong
Pastel Illustrations of Tyrus Wong

weather in austin was as low as 4 celcius. my brain could not comprehend how austin temp could get so low. but i secretly enjoyed it. nothing beats a warm and cozy home while the weather outside is gobsmackingly freezing. it's something i could never experience in malaysia.

mood: 4/5

wake: 11:00
sleep: 2:00

meals:

  • breakfast: -
  • lunch: salmon with rice
  • dinner: pork wantons

grateful for: heating

til:

  • Spanish, French or Japanese are faster than English, but when you measure how much information they send per second, all human languages sit around the same universal speed limit of ~39 bits per second. Some cram more meaning into each syllable and speak slower, others fire lighter syllables faster, and your brain + familiarity + rhythm do the rest of the illusion.
    • Coupé, C. et al. (2019). Human language has a universal information rate.
    • CNRS (2019). Similar information rates across languages despite divergent speech rates.
    • Pellegrino, F. et al. (2011). A cross-language perspective on speech information rate
  • more about the waterdrop filter: the filter is like a sponge made of tiny beads. these beads are coated with special chemicals that grab bad stuff from your water (like metals and minerals). overtime they fall apart and release trimethylamine (TMA). boiling makes it worse because they turn into gas and goes up your nose. as cold water they stay dissolved and you don't smell it much.

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