{"id":712,"date":"2017-02-13T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2017-02-13T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:48:28","slug":"update-for-2122017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/13\/update-for-2122017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 2\/12\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Productivity<\/strong> &#8211; After spending too much time on Saturday getting distracted while shopping, as I often do, I&#8217;ve started experimenting with the exercise of asking myself, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MCyWnsX4boU\">Is this what I&#8217;m doing now?<\/a>&#8221; to use my time more efficiently. But the shopping was worthwhile, because I bought materials to make myself a Rotating Priorities Board (from Barbara Sher&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/wiki\/The_Annotated_Scanner%27s_Toolbox\"><em>Refuse to Choose<\/em><\/a>) to remind myself of my main projects, which for now are the code console, which will let me easily create future programming projects, and knowledge representation, which applies to a lot of my other projects, both technical and creative.<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: 50.0% 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\/BQa1draht66\/\" target=\"_blank\">My new project board to remind me of my priorities.<\/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=\"2017-02-12T17:05:59+00:00\">Feb 12, 2017 at 9:05am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nostalgia box<\/strong> &#8211; After worrying that I wouldn&#8217;t find a short, doable, yet imaginative project, I decided to pick the simplest exercise in my <em>Book of Surrealist Games<\/em> and do some automatic writing (basically writing whatever pops into your head without trying too hard to make sense, which for me eliminates the dread of the blank page), specifically a series of fictional letters, since January&#8217;s folder contained old letters. I&#8217;ve written one, which actually gave me an interesting idea for a fantasy concept, so the project is already accomplishing its intended purpose, and I&#8217;ll write a few more this week and then close January&#8217;s folder &#8230; just in time for February&#8217;s!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>To Your Scattered Bodies Go<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; I started listening to this after watching <em>The OA<\/em> because from the premise it seemed to be about the afterlife, and I wondered if it could be another therapy story. It didn&#8217;t turn out anything like that, but it was interesting enough that I&#8217;ll probably return to this series, especially since the first book left large unanswered questions.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>S.<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; So far I&#8217;ve been reading <em>S.<\/em> casually, letting the things I didn&#8217;t understand wash over me, but that&#8217;s gotten tiresome and I&#8217;d like a better grasp on what&#8217;s going on, so I&#8217;ve started taking notes. The book comes with a bunch of loose postcards and photocopies and such inserted into the pages, and I&#8217;m joining in and adding my notes as extra inserts. Here are examples.<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: 62.4537037037037% 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\/BQa1qdEh7AV\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adding my own inserts to Abrams and Dorst&#8217;s S. Here&#8217;s a table of contents.<\/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=\"2017-02-12T17:07:43+00:00\">Feb 12, 2017 at 9:07am PST<\/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: 50.0% 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\/BQa11F7hk6N\/\" target=\"_blank\">More S. I&#8217;m starting to keep track of the layers of conversation in the margins.<\/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=\"2017-02-12T17:09:10+00:00\">Feb 12, 2017 at 9:09am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>500 Handmade Books, Vol. 2<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; In addition to mystery, books seem to be my theme right now&#8211;books as artifacts and not just as containers for information the way I usually treat them. I expect several of my nostalgia box projects to be about making book-like pieces, so I picked up this one from Half Price Books that I&#8217;d seen on Amazon, a gallery of artist&#8217;s books, which are books made by artists to be works of art, so as I flip through it, I&#8217;ll be wearing goggles to protect my eyes from the explosion of creative design ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Socializing<\/strong> &#8211; Sunday evening I launched out on my quest to expand my circle of geeky friends, sparked by my desire to go to C2E2 with other people, by attending a game night with a local meetup group. I was somehow not nervous about going, maybe because I was basically familiar with this kind of event and I assumed the people would be friendly, and it turned out really well, even the Ultimate Werewolf game we all played toward the end that I initially resisted because I&#8217;m terrible at bluffing games. It was a fun night, and they&#8217;ll see me again!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Productivity &#8211; After spending too much time on Saturday getting distracted while shopping, as I often do, I&#8217;ve started experimenting with the exercise of asking myself, &#8220;Is this what I&#8217;m doing now?&#8221; to use my time more efficiently. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/13\/update-for-2122017\/\">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":[102,89,4,151,36,50,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-books","category-general","category-nostalgia-box","category-people","category-productivity","category-project-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}