{"id":487,"date":"2016-03-14T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2016-03-14T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:23:31","slug":"update-for-3132016-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/update-for-3132016-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 3\/13\/2016, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 2 of a three-part initial weekly update on my site, my projects, and my life. Part 1 is <a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/03\/13\/update-for-3132016-part-1\/\">here<\/a>. Future updates will probably only take up one post.<\/p>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<h3>In progress<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cognitive science field research<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m reading Berm\u00fadez&#8217;s <i>Cognitive Science<\/i>. I&#8217;ve paused in my reading to survey the book by reading all the chapter summaries, which give a decent idea of the contents while making me want to read for the details. Right now I mainly want to know the scope of the field&#8211;what questions does it ask, and what does it not? Other than that I&#8217;m collecting schools to evaluate and online sources to watch for regular updates on the field. I also want to get an idea of who&#8217;s who and what professional options cognitive scientists have. Getting to know a new field is kind of fun!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m gearing up to work through the EngageNY curriculum, starting all the way at the beginning with preschool. But first I&#8217;m reading yet more meta documents, the front matter to the P-5 section of the curriculum, which is titled <i>A Story of Units<\/i>. I&#8217;m not commenting on this one like I did with the Progressions. I want to get an idea of the writers&#8217; approach to math education, but I don&#8217;t want to spend very long on it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet<\/strong> &#8211; Yes, I&#8217;m finally taking the plunge into a low-carb diet&#8211;as an experiment. I refuse to commit to it as some sort of cultish philosophy! A while back I read that a low-carb diet could help with high cholesterol, and we have a wellness screening at work in about six weeks, so I&#8217;m trying the diet to see what happens. I&#8217;m using <i>The New Atkins for a New You<\/i> as a guide. At some point I&#8217;ll probably use the diet as an excuse to write a little nutrition program I&#8217;ve had in mind for years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Board game box<\/strong> &#8211; For the past few months I&#8217;ve been assembling a box of board game systems, which are sets of generic components that can be used to play multiple games. I&#8217;ve collected all the systems I want for now, other than some simple RPGs I&#8217;ll put in the binder of rules. Now I&#8217;m waiting on a book on card games I ordered, and with the help of my friend Jeremy I&#8217;m making an index of the games so it&#8217;s easier to decide what to play. At some point I&#8217;ll write an explanation of the box for the wiki.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nostalgia box<\/strong> &#8211; This box is ridiculously close to being done. I just have to attach the decorative paper to the folders and make a label for each month, and then I can start using it. I&#8217;ll post an explanation on the wiki for this one too.<\/li>\n<li><strong><i>Doctor Who<\/i><\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m in the middle of catching up on the modern seasons of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> and its spinoffs, a project that will take months because I&#8217;m many years behind. Right now I&#8217;m in season 2 of <i>The Sarah Jane Adventures<\/i>, which is at the tail end of the 10th Doctor. My goal is to be caught up by December, which is when the next new episode airs. Then I can participate in the hype like the fan I claim to be. I&#8217;ll post my watching order on the wiki.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Planned<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Programming<\/strong> &#8211; A few programming ideas have been percolating in my mind forever, and I&#8217;d like to start on them soon: a database convenience library, a feed reader, and a mnemonic substitute dictionary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Videos<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve also been wanting to make some videos for a while. I feel a bit out of my depth here, so I&#8217;ll need to practice some. I&#8217;ll also need to get over my perfectionism and get used to watching myself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drawing, creative writing<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve had a vague desire to get back into these. Maybe I&#8217;ll start dabbling sometime in the next couple of months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 2 of a three-part initial weekly update on my site, my projects, and my life. Part 1 is here. Future updates will probably only take up one post. Project updates In progress Cognitive science field research &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/update-for-3132016-part-2\/\">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":[102,103,104,107,106,100,87,13,105,108,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-career","category-cognitive-science","category-doctor-who","category-drawing","category-math-relearning","category-nutrition","category-programming","category-project-updates","category-videos","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}