{"id":1182,"date":"2019-05-13T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T04:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2020-06-20T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T14:29:41","slug":"weeknote-for-5-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/weeknote-for-5-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 5\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Coding project generator<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>I finally got moving on this &#8230; if &#8220;moving&#8221; can mean being immediately sidetracked by a massive dependency update and the total failure of all my tests. I think I know how to fix them now, but yeah, most of last week was spent debugging. I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t have expected anything different after leaving this project untouched for two years in the ever-changing Node.js ecosystem. I don&#8217;t think even Yeoman, the project generation library I&#8217;m using, has kept up.<\/p>\n<h2>Life maintenance<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>To procrastinate on debugging, I organized my hundreds of books. The bookcase books are nicely arranged on their shelves now, and I&#8217;ve separated out the books I&#8217;d already planned to sell and organized the rest in boxes for storage.<\/p>\n<p>Next I&#8217;m going to do some purging. I got rid of a bunch of books a few years ago in a big push to organize my old apartment. But my interests and book buying and reading patterns have changed enough that it turns out I still have quite a few books to remove.<\/p>\n<h2>Apologetics<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inching my way through Craig Keener&#8217;s 2-volume, 1200-page <em>Miracles<\/em>. My Kindle can&#8217;t decide how much time I have left in the book. Somewhere between 30 and 40 hours. Luckily I can skip about 40% of the book because it&#8217;s taken up by indexes and a bibliography. I&#8217;ll wait till I&#8217;m done to give my impressions of it.<\/p>\n<h2>Music<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/thinkulum\/playlist\/1Raa3lkbNGM6pvFERf1tIy\">drones<\/a> featured a ton of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noise_music\">noise music<\/a>. I agree with the general premise that noise can be musical, but most of what I heard didn&#8217;t appeal to me. I&#8217;d rather listen to musical noise that isn&#8217;t so caustic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6KzCsRqxMt5qcwIdLIzBzU\">Chaos Is The Cosmos<\/a>&#8221; by C.C.C.C. &#8211; Mainly what I like is the title. It gives the track an evocative context. I imagine supernovas and volcanic planets and mythological chaos monsters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5UezsklPScipW64XJm7qql\">Merzbow<\/a> &#8211; I didn&#8217;t enjoy this artist, but the amount he&#8217;s produced is impressive. One might even say ridiculous.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1hrngq5HGvgyGELWHjyUtz\">Poisoned Soil<\/a><\/em> by House of Low Culture &#8211; This album was interesting, basically Gregorian chant with added noise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0APTpQzBfQ4o7DgmORRbYE\">Cisfinitum<\/a> &#8211; This is a noise artist I could get into. Each song has a distinct character, and they&#8217;re calm enough that I can contemplate them or just experience them without my ears being in defensive mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I finished adding music to the playlist, but I&#8217;m still catching up on listening, so I&#8217;ll have one more update on it next week.<\/p>\n<p>I was playing on the worship team this weekend, and in my continuing side project of getting a handle on jazz organ, I revisited the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/1110181438\/playlist\/4IJnSR1g3gt66gIQNoz1dd\">Hammond B3 Organ playlist<\/a> I found a while back. I paid more attention this time, listening for patterns I could easily pull off. It gave me an appreciation for the expressiveness of this instrument and the ways it combines with the rest of a jazz band.<\/p>\n<p>I also started looking at the gospel patterns in Mark Harrison&#8217;s <em>Pop Piano Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coding project generator \ud83d\ude10 I finally got moving on this &#8230; if &#8220;moving&#8221; can mean being immediately sidetracked by a massive dependency update and the total failure of all my tests. I think I know how to fix them now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/weeknote-for-5-12-2019\/\">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":[140,26,89,160,204,11,125,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apartment","category-apologetics","category-books","category-coding-project-generator","category-drone-music-wikipedia","category-life_maintenance","category-music","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","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=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}