{"id":673,"date":"2016-12-27T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2017-01-01T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T03:54:38","slug":"update-for-12252016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/27\/update-for-12252016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 12\/25\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christmas<\/strong> &#8211; Once I got to Texas Sunday night, most of my time was spent sitting around the house and conversing, interrupted by airports, restaurants, and decorating.\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Projects<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Now that Christmas is over, I can tell you about these. One was a journal of relationship questions called <a href=\"https:\/\/journalsunlimited.com\/product\/brother-between-me-and-you\/\"><em>Between Me and You<\/em><\/a> (the brother edition) that Abbie gave me last year at Christmas to fill out and give back to her this year, and I answered them on the computer (a lot of work! half of which I did on the plane ride from North Carolina) and then wrote the answers into the journal by hand. The other project was this year&#8217;s creative Christmas present labels, for which I stayed up super late a couple of nights to paint a portrait (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbbieOnPaper\/status\/813138671692107776\">example<\/a>) of each person with coffee (which at first,\u00a0because I&#8217;d made it so concentrated, people guessed was things like maple syrup and chocolate sauce) on watercolor paper (translucent Yupo paper so I could just trace photos I printed from Facebook, after desaturating and posterizing them in GIMP). Each year I try to pick a theme that fits whatever I&#8217;m into at the time that other people can also appreciate, and this year thinking about coffee reminded me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bernulia\">Giulia Bernulia&#8217;s<\/a> coffee paintings on Instagram.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Presents<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I got a bunch of books on creative topics, a bar of scented soap from Kimberly&#8217;s trip to India, a sloth t-shirt from Abbie (kind of an inside joke), a lamp to represent my mom&#8217;s current Narnia theme, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/vr.google.com\/cardboard\/\">Google Cardboard<\/a> viewer (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodocase.com\/products\/smartvr\">DODOcase SMARTvr<\/a>) to whet my appetite for whatever full VR headset I&#8217;ll get myself at the end of my Common Core math studies. I gave my mom a couple of fiction ebooks, my dad a CD of Chocktaw hymns, Michael a book on team problem solving, Abbie the board game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O4wG9lHHki8\"><em>CV<\/em><\/a>, and Kimberly the book <em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve also been wanting to read in connection with the election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Movies<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; On Monday I went with my mom to see <em>Doctor Strange<\/em>, which was the first 3D feature film she&#8217;s seen, and we both liked it and thought the 3D was a good idea.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Music<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; While we were driving through a Christmas lights neighborhood, I rode in Kimberly&#8217;s car, where she was playing <em>Hamilton<\/em>, so I&#8217;ve finally listened to some of that soundtrack. I was avoiding it for some reason, partly because it was getting so much hype that I felt I needed some amount of ceremony to listen to it myself. I&#8217;m looking forward to listening to the rest of it and then eventually listening more closely to pick up some composition and improvisation pointers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookmarks<\/strong> &#8211; Once I get back to Chicago, I think getting the reboot of my Firefox bookmarks out of the way will be my main project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project map<\/strong> &#8211; Finishing my project map will be my next main project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> &#8211; I managed to take some more dusk pictures here in Texas last week.<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\/BOiBEBKBYo6\/\" target=\"_blank\">A nostalgic #dusk scene from my childhood.<\/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=\"2016-12-27T18:59:14+00:00\">Dec 27, 2016 at 10:59am PST<\/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\/BOiBVAoBWND\/\" target=\"_blank\">Another #watertower friend, this one in Texas.<\/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=\"2016-12-27T19:01:33+00:00\">Dec 27, 2016 at 11:01am PST<\/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>Project updates Christmas &#8211; Once I got to Texas Sunday night, most of my time was spent sitting around the house and conversing, interrupted by airports, restaurants, and decorating. 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