{"id":655,"date":"2016-11-21T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:40:07","slug":"update-for-11202016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/update-for-11202016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 11\/20\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project map<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve made progress in sorting out my projects, and I&#8217;ll post a streamlined version of my article sometime soon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookmarks<\/strong> &#8211; The election and creepy fiction articles are coming, but to make those easier, I want to collect the links in my Firefox bookmarks and write a script to transform them into the wiki markup. But I have a little electronic housekeeping to do first, because my bookmark situation is a little chaotic right now because the file is too large to sync easily with my usual method (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xmarks.com\/\">Xmarks<\/a>), so now my bookmarks are desynced across computers, and to fix it I&#8217;ve been wanting to archive most of my bookmarks and start over. Now that I have significant bookmarking projects to start, I&#8217;ve decided to do the archiving first, so that&#8217;s in process.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Movies<\/strong> &#8211; Wednesday my boss invited me to see <em>Arrival<\/em> with some people from work, so I went with them that night, and I felt that I would&#8217;ve made the movie similarly if it were up to me, so I really liked it, and now I&#8217;m reading the rest of Chiang&#8217;s story and mentally comparing it to the movie, which is turning out to be an interesting method of reading. Sunday Tim and I went to see <em>Fantastic Beasts<\/em>, which I liked pretty well, especially the mesmerizing cloud effects in certain parts I won&#8217;t spoil for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Memorial service<\/strong> &#8211; A couple of weeks ago a friend from church asked me if I&#8217;d play the piano for her father&#8217;s memorial service this past Saturday, and I agreed, though I&#8217;m not going to do this on a regular basis, so don&#8217;t get any ideas! I was a little anxious because I didn&#8217;t get around to practicing as much as I wanted, but it turned out fine, and I even was able to assemble a prelude from a great book of lead sheets I found last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00G958HPU\">The Hymn Fake Book<\/a>, which I could get in Kindle format. As I usually find at memorial services, the stories from the people there made me wish I&#8217;d known him&#8211;a kind, generous, knowledgeable, and productive man&#8211;and they gave me some ideals to strive for.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ll be making a long drive for Thanksgiving to visit my sister, where my brother will also be. Our parents are snubbing us. I&#8217;m looking forward to it (the visit, not the snubbing).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Project map &#8211; I&#8217;ve made progress in sorting out my projects, and I&#8217;ll post a streamlined version of my article sometime soon. Bookmarks &#8211; The election and creepy fiction articles are coming, but to make those easier, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/update-for-11202016\/\">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":[92,110,91,88,58,122,105,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-freelancing","category-holidays","category-housekeeping","category-life_updates","category-movies","category-project-updates","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}