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My lease is up at the end of July, and this year I’m planning on making myself move into a bigger place. I’ve been putting it off for a few years because moving’s a pain. But last week I took the first couple of steps. I now have a general rent figure to fit into my budget and a list of search results to narrow down.<\/p>\n
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Work’s been an adventure lately. They’re replacing a bunch of carpet, so the halls are cluttered with moved furniture, and the building has become a reconfigurable maze of places we’re not allowed to walk. On Friday afternoon they started on my department’s room, so I left after lunch to work from home.<\/p>\n
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While pondering how to explain my modeling project, I discovered that contrary to my assumption, people do recognize a form of modeling that crosses disciplines. It’s called conceptual modeling<\/a>. So that’s the project’s new name. Unfortunately that’s also the term software engineering has adopted for their own version, so I’ll need to make that distinction. I still need to update the article to reflect these recent changes.<\/p>\n As my notes for this project have piled up, I’ve been casting about for a way to organize them, which will also become part of the method as a recommendation for how to organize other modeling work. For help I’m looking at advice on academic writing, particularly from Peg Boyce Single’s Demystifying Dissertation Writing<\/em>.<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n Reading Valerie Tarico’s Trusting Doubt<\/em> is reminding me that when I’m looking at debates about evangelicalism, I want to pay special attention to the replies each side gives to each other’s arguments. It’s one thing to see the claims a worldview makes for itself and the rumors it tells about its neighbors; it’s far more enlightening to see how competing worldviews interact.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n This coming Saturday is Free Comic Book Day<\/a>. Go to your friendly local comic book store<\/a> and pick up a few from this year’s list<\/a>! If you’re looking for a way to get into comics, I’ve written a guide<\/a>. FCBD snuck up on me this year, so I didn’t get around to the big updates I have planned for that guide, but this week I’ll give it a small update and post a note on the blog when I do.<\/p>\n Something else that snuck up on me was Tabletop Day<\/a>, which was Saturday of last week. I didn’t do anything for it. Oh well, maybe next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A short-ish update for once. I still procrastinated on it. Life maintenance \ud83d\ude10 My lease is up at the end of July, and this year I’m planning on making myself move into a bigger place. I’ve been putting it off … Continue reading Beliefs report<\/h2>\n
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