{"id":1683,"date":"2021-10-31T23:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2021-10-31T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T04:06:30","slug":"weeknote-for-10-31-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/31\/weeknote-for-10-31-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 10\/31\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Programming<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p><strong>I crawled almost to the end of unit 2 in my Haskell book.<\/strong> I have a bit more to do on the final exercise, which I&#8217;ll try to finish in the next day or so.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I want to keep going through unit 4, I need to get back to my Christmas project, so that&#8217;ll be this week.<\/p>\n<h2>Fiction<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>I listened to some Edgar Allan Poe.<\/strong> I had read a little of him in school\u2014I remember &#8220;The Raven&#8221; and &#8220;The Tell-Tale Heart&#8221;\u2014but he didn&#8217;t grab me until I heard PodCastle&#8217;s version of &#8220;The Fall of the House of Usher&#8221; a few years ago. Listening to to more of his best works (according to ST Joshi) this past week, I got a better sense of the breadth of stories he told. He was very good at capturing certain moods and adding layers of interest to simple plots. I kept feeling that you could sit with each story quite a while plumbing the depths. I spent a little too long searching for the recordings I wanted for each story, but here were the sources I settled on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/4394\">Metzengerstein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/5468\">MS. Found in a Bottle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/2832\">Berenice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/3005\">Shadow\u2014A Parable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/3219\">Silence\u2014A Fable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/7152\">Morella<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/300\">Ligeia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/14322\">The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion<\/a> (a little unnerving given my current climate interest)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/13044\">The Haunted Palace<\/a> (the Algy Pug recording)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcastle.org\/2011\/10\/04\/podcastle-177-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher\/\">The Fall of the House of Usher<\/a> (I revisited the PodCastle episode)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/3677\">William Wilson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sustainability<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>I found another few climate podcasts to follow.<\/strong> The climate podcasts and my regular political ones from earlier in the year will get me through the tension of following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/bidens-scaled-spending-bill-big-upsides-climate-fight-rcna4061\">climate-relevant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/117\/hr5376\">Build Back Better Act<\/a> in Congress and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference\">COP26<\/a> at the United Nations over the next couple of weeks. Here are my new ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degreespod.com\/\">A Matter of Degrees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicalclimatepodcast.com\/\">Political Climate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volts.wtf\/\">Volts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming \ud83d\ude10 I crawled almost to the end of unit 2 in my Haskell book. I have a bit more to do on the final exercise, which I&#8217;ll try to finish in the next day or so. As much as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/31\/weeknote-for-10-31-2021\/\">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":[186,13,211,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-programming","category-sustainability","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}