{"id":757,"date":"2017-04-25T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2017-04-25T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:55:17","slug":"update-for-4232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/update-for-4232017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 4\/23\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Public coding guide<\/strong> &#8211; I posted my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/w\/index.php?title=From_Private_to_Public_Coding&amp;diff=296&amp;oldid=295\">documentation updates<\/a>, and the only thing left for this phase of writing is a couple of sections on configuration and logging, after which I&#8217;ll make the boilerplate code that corresponds to the things I&#8217;ve written so far, and then I&#8217;ll get back to my regular programming projects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nostalgia box<\/strong> &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get around to opening April&#8217;s folder, so I&#8217;ll do that this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TV<\/strong> &#8211; I finished <em>Iron Fist<\/em>, and my feelings about it are mixed. Danny&#8217;s changing circumstances were interesting, and I&#8217;m curious to see where the story goes next, but Danny himself still seems like an overpowered child to me, though he grew a bit towards the end, while Ward ended up being one of my favorite characters, and the Hand is currently my favorite villain organization, mostly because I&#8217;m not familiar with them from the comics, so they&#8217;re still a mystery to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Meetups<\/strong> &#8211; Saturday I went with some people from my geek meetup to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2e2.com\/\">C2E2<\/a>, a pop culture convention in Chicago (<a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/thinkulum\/thinkulum-at-c2e2-2017\">posts from my experience<\/a>, including a really short video where I can just barely be seen), and while it was draining enough that I didn&#8217;t enjoy every minute, I&#8217;m glad I went, and I hope to go to more of them. I went to a couple of panels (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/wiki\/C2E2_2017_Livestream_Archives\">all the livestream recordings<\/a>)&#8211;an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/137413604\">interview with Frank Miller and Stan Lee<\/a> and a discussion by a couple of big YouTube channels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/comicstorian\">Comicstorian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/fluidicbeats\">ComicsExplained<\/a>&#8211;but mostly I shoved my way through the very dense crowd on the show floor, looking at all the merchandise and cosplay (<a href=\"http:\/\/thirdcoastreview.com\/2017\/04\/24\/gallery-c2e2-cosplay\/\">a gallery showing a small fraction<\/a>), but I think of this convention as a trial run, and now I know how such events go and how I can be more prepared for them as a somewhat casual fan. Conventions are basically marketing and sales events, so I wanted to participate and buy stuff, but my cautious buying habits and the additional mental burden of dealing with a crowd conflicted with that goal, and I only bought a trade paperback of the <em>Infinity Gauntlet<\/em> series, but that kicks off my Marvel collection, so I&#8217;m considering it good. After the convention we had a delicious dinner at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.habanalibrerestaurant.com\">Cuban restaurant<\/a>, where we tried beef empanadas, yucca fries, and a soda called malta that tasted like molasses (maybe because it contained molasses).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Death<\/strong> &#8211; Sunday I learned that the day before, a Wheaton College student was killed in an accident at a track meet, struck by a hammer during the hammer throw. Reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-wheaton-college-student-dies-20170422-story.html\">article<\/a> about his life reminds me of a sad and sobering thought I always have when I hear about deaths at the college&#8211;that having a promising future on earth doesn&#8217;t guarantee it will come to pass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Public coding guide &#8211; I posted my documentation updates, and the only thing left for this phase of writing is a couple of sections on configuration and logging, after which I&#8217;ll make the boilerplate code that corresponds to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/update-for-4232017\/\">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":[90,166,92,58,164,151,105,162,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-conventions","category-death","category-life_updates","category-meetups","category-nostalgia-box","category-project-updates","category-public-coding-guide","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}