{"id":966,"date":"2018-05-06T23:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2018-05-06T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:57:02","slug":"update-for-5-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/update-for-5-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 5\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Comics<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of last week getting ready for my annual comics purchases on Saturday, which was Free Comic Book Day. I like to buy things that day to support the stores so I&#8217;m not just taking advantage of them for free stuff. I made a couple of trips to the stores I&#8217;d be visiting, and I researched some cyberpunk comics to keep an eye out for. Here&#8217;s what I ended up with at the end of the day.<\/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-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BidbXSCh_Lz\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/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\/BidbXSCh_Lz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My #freecomicbookday 2018 gleanings. I bought the Action Comics and Legenderry to support the stores. Of the free ones, Wormworld was my top choice.<\/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 post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thinkulum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Andy Culbertson<\/a> (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-05-07T02:40:44+00:00\">May 6, 2018 at 7:40pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I also picked up the first volume of <em>Blame!<\/em> from the library. I learned about the series and its intriguing setting from the developer of the upcoming architectural puzzle game <em>Manifold Garden<\/em>. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/williamchyr\">Twitch stream<\/a> he told us that manga was a major inspiration for the game.<\/p>\n<h2>Thinking<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Peg Boyle Single&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Demystifying Dissertation Writing<\/em>\u00a0is giving me a new outlook on my conceptual modeling project. She divides up the process of research and writing in a way that feels much more manageable than what I was trying to do. I feel like I have a better handle on this project. And all my others, for that matter.<\/p>\n<h2>Life maintenance<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been too distracted by comics and conceptual modeling to do much of anything practical. Here are the main things I need to work on this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronics recycling<\/li>\n<li>Budget<\/li>\n<li>Sorting housekeeping tasks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fiction<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I finished Wingfeather Saga, book 2: <em>North! or Be Eaten<\/em>. 5\/5. This series continues to be very interesting.<\/p>\n<h2>Beliefs report<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started on <em>Eternal Living<\/em>, a book of people&#8217;s reflections on the impact Dallas Willard made on them. Some of it repeats what&#8217;s in the biography, but there&#8217;s enough new to give me food for thought.<\/p>\n<h2>TV<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>After a break, I came back and finished <em>The End of the F-ing World<\/em>. It ended not quite how I expected, but more or less. I&#8217;ve read they&#8217;re looking at making a second season, which I might watch. I saw the graphic novel at the comic store. I only flipped through it, but it looked very different from the show.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m trying to finish <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Movies<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday I&#8217;m finally going with my geek meetup to see <em>Infinity War<\/em>. Somehow I&#8217;ve managed to avoid any real spoilers. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s the same day as the futurism meetup, so I&#8217;m missing that one this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comics \ud83d\ude0e I spent a lot of last week getting ready for my annual comics purchases on Saturday, which was Free Comic Book Day. I like to buy things that day to support the stores so I&#8217;m not just taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/update-for-5-6-2018\/\">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":[163,89,90,11,122,179,115,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefs-report","category-books","category-comics","category-life_maintenance","category-movies","category-thinking","category-tv","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}