{"id":1042,"date":"2018-08-12T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T03:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2018-08-13T01:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T06:23:44","slug":"update-for-8-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/12\/update-for-8-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 8\/12\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life maintenance<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0f<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten over my bad feelings left over from the move and from a sense that I don&#8217;t belong in my nice new place. What helped was the idea of rebelling against it to make it a place I do feel I belong. Hopefully my friends who wanted my living arrangement to improve will be displeased. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m focused on setting up my furniture layout using Sweet Home 3D. It&#8217;s taking more time than drawing or eyeballing it, but a computer model is more stable than the little scraps of paper I used for my last apartment, and this way I won&#8217;t have to redraw everything when I rearrange my furniture, which I expect to do once or twice. Plus, measuring tape is way more reliable than my wacky spatial sense.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been researching and putting together a cleaning routine. I&#8217;m tired of always being embarrassed by the state of my dwelling and of dreading the cleaning part of moving out. This time my home will stay nice.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I like about this apartment is that the parking lot is next to a miniature forest, so I get to say hello to trees and flowers and moths and bees as I pull into my space.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmUdctAlxz3\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" data-instgrm-version=\"9\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmUdctAlxz3\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is next to the parking lot of my new apartment. It turns out part of Narnia was transplanted to Illinois, and now I live there.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thinkulum\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Andy Culbertson<\/a> (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-08-11T01:11:21+00:00\">Aug 10, 2018 at 6:11pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m getting back to researching grad school and other career-advancing activities. Don&#8217;t tell Jeremy. He might think he had something to do with it.<\/p>\n<h2>Fiction<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>I finished <em>Blindsight<\/em>. 5\/5. This book is like a novelistic introduction to cognitive science. Peter Watts and I think along similar lines. We clearly have some of the same influences. Unfortunately the resulting worldview is rather bleak, at least in the scenario he paints. I&#8217;m hoping the perspective I come up with will be more positive and hopeful.<\/p>\n<h2>Cognitive science<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have this Fire with text-to-speech, I can get through some of the important cognitive science books that have been patiently waiting in my Kindle library. Currently I&#8217;m listening to an intro textbook by Jos\u00e9 Luis Berm\u00fadez, <em>Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life maintenance \ud83d\ude0f I&#8217;ve gotten over my bad feelings left over from the move and from a sense that I don&#8217;t belong in my nice new place. 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