{"id":641,"date":"2016-10-24T21:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:49:11","slug":"update-for-10232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/update-for-10232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 10\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; I finished the installation code, but I want to update the readme file before I commit everything. Then I&#8217;ll start on the actual math programming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GTD<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to revisit an idea I had a while back, making a concept map of my projects and their goals, which will help me think through my priorities. I&#8217;ll do some of that this week, using the open source concept mapping software <a href=\"http:\/\/vue.tufts.edu\/\">VUE<\/a> (Visual Understanding Environment).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life maintenance<\/strong> &#8211; I haven&#8217;t made much progress on either regulating my sleep schedule or getting exercise in quite a while, and saying that every week doesn&#8217;t seem to help, so as with diet, I&#8217;m going to drop those categories from these updates until something interesting happens, though I&#8217;ll continue to experiment with them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>TV<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; <em>Doctor Who<\/em> and <em>Arrow<\/em> are on hold for <em>Luke Cage<\/em>, and now <em>Luke Cage<\/em> is on hold for my Halloween special, a creepy web series called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCACDEE1E71FC8E5E\"><em>Marble Hornets<\/em><\/a> (along with the response videos from totheark), which came to mind last week when I wandered back into the dark side of YouTube and took another look at a channel called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC58IKuPHnZkdCZ6T5mSRGCg\">Night Mind<\/a> that investigates the weird fiction of the web in depth, starting with <em>Marble Hornets<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>My side trip through the <em>Magic Thief<\/em> series has concluded, and although I didn&#8217;t like the first book much when I read it long ago, now that the series is over I already miss it.<\/li>\n<li>Next I&#8217;ll continue my Halloween theme by trying out my idea for a Stephen King reading project: the <em>Dark Tower<\/em> series and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_King_works_related_to_The_Dark_Tower_series\">all the major tie-in stories<\/a> in publication order, which is probably too ambitious (24 novels and short stories), but I&#8217;ll see how it goes, starting with a trip to another distant library to pick up the audiobook for <em>Salem&#8217;s Lot<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>While I&#8217;m waiting to start that one, I&#8217;ve been listening to a book I bought a few weeks ago on the subject of skill development, which I&#8217;ve had in mind to explore for years, <em>Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise<\/em> by Anders Ericsson, one of the main researchers in that field; and as you might expect, my mind is already spinning out project ideas.<\/li>\n<li>My superbook investigations while I made my Christmas wishlist led me to some more conventional but still intriguing children&#8217;s books by author-illustrators like Colin Thompson and Shaun Tan, so I&#8217;m looking more into those.<\/li>\n<li>In unguarded moments I find myself looking up books on apologetics, so I guess I&#8217;m ramping up to do that project sometime soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Math relearning &#8211; I finished the installation code, but I want to update the readme file before I commit everything. Then I&#8217;ll start on the actual math programming. GTD &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to revisit an idea I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/update-for-10232016\/\">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":[26,89,117,35,144,100,13,105,54,145,127,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-books","category-daily-routine","category-exercise","category-gtd","category-math-relearning","category-programming","category-project-updates","category-projects","category-skill-development","category-sleep","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}