{"id":702,"date":"2017-02-02T23:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T04:30:16","slug":"update-for-1292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/update-for-1292017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 1\/29\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I blame naps and procrastination because I felt I had too many thoughts to collect.<\/p>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nostalgia box<\/strong> &#8211; This seems to have been my major project last week, spending a few hours sorting through the old stuff I brought from my parents&#8217; house and picking out things to put in each month&#8217;s folder. Each month I&#8217;ll open the matching folder, spend some time with what I put in there, and replace it with something else for the next year, probably something I make; and most months I&#8217;ll keep you posted about what I &#8220;find.&#8221; I&#8217;ll do January&#8217;s folder this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Code console<\/strong> &#8211; This is the new name for what I called my Python console last time (my code manager that creates projects from templates), named more generically now since I want it to apply to other languages too. I want to focus on this project after the book feedback and nostalgia box because it&#8217;s the gateway to a bunch of other programming projects on my agenda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Area X<\/em> &#8211; I finished this last week (awkwardly, since I waited too long to listen to the last 15 minutes and had to reborrow it), and my reaction to the series is ambivalent. I liked the philosophizing about knowledge and some of the character explorations, but the storytelling seemed to keep the mysteries even more confusing than the story required them to be. I think I&#8217;d appreciate the series more on a second reading, but I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll get around to it. As for the audiobook narration, I had the same problem with Carolyn McCormick I had during <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> where half her sentences sound like pronouncements, I liked Bronson Pinchot for the most part and wouldn&#8217;t have recognized his voice at all if I hadn&#8217;t seen his name, and I&#8217;ll have to hear Xe Sands in something else before I decide if I like her style.<\/li>\n<li><em>Little House in the Big Woods<\/em> &#8211; The <em>Little House<\/em> books had been crossing my mind lately as a depiction of life&#8217;s rhythms back in pioneer days, and I wanted to explore the rhythm idea and see if I could adapt it for my life, so I listened to the first book last week. I&#8217;d read some of that series when I was young, and it was interesting to come back to it as an adult and ask my grown-up questions about it to get an idea of its context, and I could see some of why the books are so popular. They&#8217;re an interesting and cozy window onto a healthy family living in a very different, simpler time. I might come back to it in a while and listen to the rest of the series.<\/li>\n<li><em>Experimental literature<\/em> &#8211; I collected a few more links for my list. But this is on hold till I get through the code console.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>TV<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I finished <em>The OA<\/em>, and it impressed me how seriously it took its very unusual subject matter. It got me thinking about my profound questions (such as, what do I mean by a profound question?) and about the times the profundities break through the banalities of life and make you rethink everything. It also reminded me of a genre I call therapy stories, which offer fairly direct opinions on the meaning of life and how it works, movies such as <em>What Dreams May Come<\/em> (which is also a book) and books like <em>The Shack<\/em> (which is about to be a movie). Maybe I&#8217;ll start a page on the wiki to collect a list of these.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Firefox<\/strong> &#8211; As an example of the way I get completely sidetracked from my plans, on Saturday I opened Firefox and was greeted by a <a href=\"http:\/\/fasezero.com\/\">message<\/a> from the developer of one of the Firefox add-ons I have installed (Tab Groups), saying he&#8217;s quitting his add-on development because major upcoming changes in Firefox would severely restrict what his add-ons could do and would require him to rewrite them in any case. This news pushed my buttons, so instead of the three other things I&#8217;d planned to do, I spent the next couple of hours reading about these changes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2017\/01\/28\/firefox-add-on-quicksaver-quits\/\">people&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/pipermail\/dev-addons\/2016-December\/002367.html\">reactions<\/a> to them. But the time wasn&#8217;t completely wasted, because it made me aware of important issues to take into account when I eventually create the add-ons I have in mind and when I study Firefox for its add-on architecture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I blame naps and procrastination because I felt I had too many thoughts to collect. 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