{"id":720,"date":"2017-02-19T23:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T05:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2017-02-19T23:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T05:39:04","slug":"update-for-2192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/19\/update-for-2192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 2\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Work<\/strong> &#8211; Most of last week was taken up with finishing a work project that kept me there late a couple of days and had me working on the weekend. I did manage to work a little on my personal projects though, as you will see below.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jury duty<\/strong> &#8211; I got a jury duty notice a few weeks ago, which means Monday evening I have to check the website to see if they&#8217;re calling me in; and if so, I have to show up the next day to see if they&#8217;ll need me; and if they do, I&#8217;m not sure what to expect, because it&#8217;ll be my first jury duty ever. But I&#8217;ve just watched <em>Making a Murderer<\/em>, so I&#8217;m prepared to think about a trial, at least more than I normally would be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Productivity<\/strong> &#8211; The Rotating Priorities Board has actually been helping me. I&#8217;m finding myself thinking about my most important projects much more, spending my spare moments on them, and trying to work on each of them a bit each day. I&#8217;m thinking of adding more projects to it, but I need to make sure I don&#8217;t overload myself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Code console<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve been researching Sphinx (a Python documentation formatter) to decide on my default documentation setup.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Knowledge representation<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve been skimming <em>The Handbook of Knowledge Representation<\/em> collecting the names of software for each of the KR methods so I can find links for the wiki and decide on a tool to experiment with for each method.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nostalgia box<\/strong> &#8211; I finished writing my fictional letters for January, a fun exercise I recommend, and this week I&#8217;ll open February&#8217;s folder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Last week I listened to <em>Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children<\/em>, and I enjoyed it and will probably listen to the rest of the series at some point, though in many ways it just followed the formula for this kind of story. I suppose it&#8217;s the variations that make the story worthwhile, such as the interesting mechanic in the story&#8217;s premise, and the writing, which I thought was good. I always wonder, though, why SFF writers make the point that the (real) world is an extraordinary place when it lacks the things that make their story worlds extraordinary.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>TV<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; <em>Making a Murderer<\/em> was stressful but good, though I knew I was only feeling and concluding what the documentarians intended, but I didn&#8217;t mind too much. I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2016\/01\/making_a_murderer_is_so_emotionally_manipulative_it_left_me_angry.html\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/01\/25\/dead-certainty\">articles<\/a> afterward to get updates and other people&#8217;s take on the case, which I think is really how you have to approach a documentary. I&#8217;ll spoil that my favorite person in the show was Dean Strang because he looks at his job philosophically, the way I would, and I appreciated his comments on justice. The series certainly left me with strong feelings about the presumption of innocence and all the issues that arise from it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life updates Work &#8211; Most of last week was taken up with finishing a work project that kept me there late a couple of days and had me working on the weekend. 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