Category Archives: People

Weeknote for 5/3/2020

Learning 😎 For my project to create a first draft of a dictionary of mnemonic substitute words, I finished setting up the TransPhoner software and tinkered with it enough to see that parts of it will be useful. This week … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/19/2020

Website πŸ™‚ I’m experimenting with adding text-to-speech to my site. Click the Listen button at the top of this post to hear it read by a life-like machine. I’ll probably try a few options, but this is a pretty good … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/5/2020

Programming 😐 I devoted almost the full 10 hours allotted to the project last week (Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Robert Lafore), but I spent most of that time figuring out meta issues, like how exactly to take … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 12/8/2019

Christmas labels πŸ˜› Not quite done, but I made good progress. I give myself about 2 1/2 more weeks and it should be done. πŸ˜‰ Last week my excuse was that music preparation kind of took over my time, but … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 7/21/2019

Site update πŸ€” I’m going back to the more restricted template I used early on in these updates with a max of four sentences per topic. Life maintenance πŸ™‚ To prepare for researching my mystery medical bill, I filed the … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 7/7/2019

It’s a record! 8 days–a new personal best on lateness. Independence Day πŸ™‚ Last week (technically the week before at this point) we had a little family reunion at my brother’s place in Wisconsin for the 4th of July. My … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/21/2019

Music 😎 At the beginning of the week, I played synth on our worship team at church. In our Saturday rehearsal the day before, our pianist, Sejeong, spontaneously reharmonized a couple of lines using an odd chord that worked perfectly. … Continue reading

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Update for 3/31/2019

Comics πŸ€” My project for the first half of Thinkulum April is a reading order for DC comics’ crossover events. It might end up mostly being a big planning session. DC’s publication history is very complicated, and I’m not really … Continue reading

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Update for 3/17/2019

Experimental literature πŸ€” My goal in this project is to create a list of experimental works and links to other such lists. I’m basing the organization on a collection of scholarly essays, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. I got … Continue reading

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Update for 2/10/19

Programming πŸ™‚ I planned out this month’s software development project. I’m feeling pretty good about its modest goals. At the end of the month I want to end up with a basic procedure for my programming projects, along with a … Continue reading

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