{"id":638,"date":"2016-10-18T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:49:58","slug":"update-for-10162016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/update-for-10162016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 10\/16\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Site updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wiki comments<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve enabled guest commenting, so now if you don&#8217;t want to register with Disqus, you can just type in your name and email address to comment like you do on the blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s almost unbelievable, but I&#8217;ve uploaded actual code to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thinkulum\/math-student-sim\">my project on Github<\/a>, though it isn&#8217;t much, only the beginnings of the command line interface and the tests, but it works, and it&#8217;s taught me the basics of several tools, including the literate programming tool I&#8217;m using. This week I&#8217;ll set up the installation script and update the readme file, and then I&#8217;ll be ready to teach my program to count!<\/li>\n<li><strong>GTD<\/strong> &#8211; I need another project to fill the times when it&#8217;s awkward to program, but my attention is very scattered right now, and I can&#8217;t settle on one, so I&#8217;m taking the opportunity to revisit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Getting_Things_Done\">GTD<\/a>, starting with the <a href=\"http:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2011\/01\/the-6-horizons-of-focus\/\">horizons of focus<\/a>, which let you put your tasks in a broad context and prioritize them based on your goals and values. I use <a href=\"https:\/\/nirvanahq.com\/\">Nirvana<\/a> as my main task manager, and in addition to prioritizing my projects I want to clean out my old tasks and tune up my task managing routine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life maintenance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Diet<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I seem to be balancing things better now. Now that things have calmed down, I&#8217;m going to drop this category from my updates until something interesting happens.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Exercise<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I think getting to bed on time really will be the key to getting back into regular morning walks, neither of which has happened yet, but I managed to walk a couple of times last week.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Daily routine<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; My sleep schedule is still chaotic, but I think the key here will be awareness of my mental habits, which I suspect will be helped by training myself to think through my evening at the end of the workday.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Housekeeping<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;m trying the technique of cleaning up a little at a time, basically making each room a little neater whenever I leave it (yes, my apartment has rooms, even though it&#8217;s a studio), and it&#8217;s helping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Music<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;ve been collecting more cyberpunk music for reading my <i>Cyberpunk 2020<\/i> manual and contemplative music for taking dusk photos, and the songs I&#8217;ve had on repeat are &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/2Ki7GVBupviuwX1zBh23j7\">From Here We Move Forward<\/a>&#8221; by Carolino and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Aphex+Twin\/_\/Stone+In+Focus\">#19 [Stone in Focus]<\/a>&#8221; by Aphex Twin, which both go well with the Ellis book I&#8217;ll tell you about next.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I finished <i>Mixed Up Files<\/i>, got through Randall Munroe&#8217;s <i>What If?<\/i>, and now am back onto <i>The Magic Thief<\/i> with book 3, <i>Found<\/i>. I also found a new author to try, Bret Easton Ellis, and I checked out from the library his first novel, <i>Less Than Zero<\/i>, which so far is about the emptiness of college-age Hollywood life, which goes with my current existentialist themes. Along with that I checked out <i>Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology<\/i>, which I&#8217;ve had in mind for a while, since it&#8217;s annoying to be into a genre abstractly without actually reading much of it.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Movies<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; After several months I was finally able to check out and watch <i>The Garden of Words<\/i>, a short and beautiful anime about a relationship between two strangers in a park. The art was pretty much what I was hoping for, with many picturesque shots of quiet corners of everyday life. I haven&#8217;t decided yet whether I want to own it, and I&#8217;ll probably watch some more slice-of-life animes before I settle on my favorite examples to collect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Politics<\/strong> &#8211; This election has turned my attention back to politics, which I was surprised anything could do, and I&#8217;ve even joined a class at church about politics and faith, whereas I normally avoid all church classes, so I guess Trump is good for something. As usual I&#8217;m handling my confusion by buying books, in this case <i>Five Views on the Church and Politics<\/i>, <i>Political Theory<\/i> by Andrew Haywood, and <i>The Voting Booth<\/i> by Skye Jethani. My confusion comes down to deciding on one of my non-Trump voting options, which include not voting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> &#8211; Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJZdIU0Bcxy\/\">this photo<\/a> sparked an adventure.<br \/>\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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/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\/BLuuR0xBq9b\/\" target=\"_blank\">I went on a quest to find the water tower from a few images ago and get some photos from a closer distance. I started out in a nearby park, and from the far end I could just glimpse it above the trees. Can you spot it? I walked all the way to the other end, but the trees hid the tower completely the whole way, so I photographed the park.<\/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 photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:51:02+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:51pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><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\/BLuuV7NBMmB\/\" target=\"_blank\">The park had a pond.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:51:36+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:51pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/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\/BLuuZZJhA90\/\" target=\"_blank\">The park district is &#8230; planting an orchard?<\/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 photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:52:04+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:52pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><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\/BLuucyJh9H2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The camera exaggerated the sky&#8217;s gradient, but I really like the effect.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:52:32+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:52pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/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\/BLuuj38BwlR\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tell me that isn&#8217;t a little eerie. Since the park didn&#8217;t work out for the photos I wanted, I drove over to the water tower&#8217;s home, which is in the middle of a neighborhood. It was too dark for good pictures the first night, so I came back a later day. How would you like that in your backyard? My megalophobia was kicking in a bit.<\/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 photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:53:30+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:53pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><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\/BLuupjhh9zi\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is the kind of photo I was after. I was hoping for an orange sky, but I was happy with the pictures I got. So happy I couldn&#8217;t decide on one, so you get three.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:54:16+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:54pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/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\/BLuutE3BNnY\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darker<\/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 photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:54:45+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:54pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/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: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><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\/BLuuv4HBD7H\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darkest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-19T03:55:08+00:00\">Oct 18, 2016 at 8:55pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site updates Wiki comments &#8211; I&#8217;ve enabled guest commenting, so now if you don&#8217;t want to register with Disqus, you can just type in your name and email address to comment like you do on the blog. 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