{"id":1169,"date":"2019-04-12T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2019-04-12T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:02:08","slug":"weeknote-for-4-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/weeknote-for-4-7-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 4\/7\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Site update<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday I found out there&#8217;s a term for these updates I&#8217;ve been posting for the past couple of years. They&#8217;re called weeknotes (H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baldurbjarnason.com\/2019\/03\/18\/weeknote-1\/\">Baldur Bjarnason<\/a>). They&#8217;ve been around for a while, but apparently they&#8217;ve become more popular lately, and there&#8217;s a little <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/job-garden\/a-pre-history-of-weeknotes-plus-why-i-write-them-and-perhaps-why-you-should-too-week-16-31a4a5cbf7b0\">community of people who post them<\/a>. So I&#8217;ve decided to rebrand these updates so I can join them.<\/p>\n<h2>Comics<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t finish my comic reading order by the end of the week, so I decided to take a day or two more and then make myself post whatever I had. I&#8217;ll write about it in my next weeknote.<\/p>\n<h2>Experimental literature<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this project month I&#8217;m going back to last month&#8217;s project and adding the rest of the entries to my bibliography of experimental works. In a future phase I&#8217;ll add remarks to give people an idea of why they&#8217;d want to read them.<\/p>\n<h2>Spirituality<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get around to posting about the audio Bible, but I still plan to. Hopefully that&#8217;ll happen this week or next week.<\/p>\n<h2>TV<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>People in my online circles have been excited about Jordan Peele&#8217;s revival of <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>. It started last week, so I watched the two episodes they&#8217;ve released. They&#8217;re on CBS All Access, but they&#8217;ve put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=19GO8-Rrn0g\">the first on YouTube<\/a> so you can watch it for free.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the stories had interesting premises and were fairly clever. But after the mind-bending stuff I normally consume, I ended up disappointed that the concepts and twists didn&#8217;t go further. I&#8217;m hoping I missed some layers of meaning that online commentators can reveal to me. Still, I&#8217;ll keep watching.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Jordan Peele product I&#8217;ve seen. I keep hearing good things about him, so I&#8217;m thinking of watching his films, even though, believe it or not, I&#8217;m very hesitant about watching horror.<\/p>\n<h2>Livestreams<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Friday I found myself unexpectedly captivated by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QtnNXb18_eU\">livestream of a bald eagle nest<\/a> that was in my YouTube recommendations. Usually I find wildlife streams kind of boring because either it&#8217;s outside but there are no animals around or it&#8217;s a cage and the animals are doing nothing. This camera is outside with a clear, close-up view of a family of eagles&#8211;two adults and three babies. We get to see them live their normal lives in their natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>And their environment is impressive. I put on the Lord of the Rings soundtrack as a backdrop, and it was very fitting. It&#8217;s especially impressive when you see a bird swooping across the peaks in the background and you realize it&#8217;s one of the parents coming home from their hunt.<\/p>\n<p>But what really struck me was how ordinary these animals are and how different their lives are from mine. Sure, they look stern and fierce, but it didn&#8217;t take long to realize these are just birds doing birdy things. At times they reminded me of chickens. And their calls are a lot squeakier than I expected, like seagulls.<\/p>\n<p>They spend a lot of their time just standing around. Probably keeping watch, guarding the nation. Or their own little nest, I suppose. (How can they live out in the open like that, I wondered, and in such a small home?) They don&#8217;t have Netflix to pass the time, but they also don&#8217;t have meetings to get to or playdates for the kids. They&#8217;re just living, being animals.<\/p>\n<p>Doing my own hunting online I found some more information. The nest is a lot older than I thought. It&#8217;s housed several generations and has seen some drama.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Info on the nest: <a href=\"https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/west-end-catalina-island-bald-eagles\/\">West End Bald Eagle Cam &#8211; Hancock Wildlife Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judyb-eagles.com\/eagles2009\/west_end_2009.htm\">West End, Catalina Island, CA &#8211; JudyB-Eagles.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Updates on nest happenings: <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.hancockwildlife.org\/viewtopic.php?f=44&amp;t=126&amp;sid=780c89b212bcb45d71b5b63d7b4fd35e\">West End &#8211; Santa Catalina Island &#8211; 2018\/2019 &#8211; Hancock Wildlife Foundation Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site update \ud83d\ude42 Last Sunday I found out there&#8217;s a term for these updates I&#8217;ve been posting for the past couple of years. They&#8217;re called weeknotes (H\/T Baldur Bjarnason). They&#8217;ve been around for a while, but apparently they&#8217;ve become more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/weeknote-for-4-7-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,194,154,12,22,115,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-experimental-literature","category-livestreams","category-site_updates","category-spirituality","category-tv","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}