📖 Read pages 97-119 of Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary

📖 Read pages 97-119, Chapter 6: Parent’s Night, of Ramona The Brave by Beverly Cleary (William Morrow and Company, , ISBN: 0-688-22015-0)

Ramona broods at home with a baby sitter while her parents learn about the Owl Incident. Ramona spends the first night in her new room.

Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia

Chapter 6: Parent’s Night

“Oh, I see,” said Mrs. Kemp, a remark Ramona knew grown-ups made when they were not interested in conversation with children.

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… although fathers, Ramona knew, did not spend as much time as mothers thinking up ways to improve their children.

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Sadly probably true, but awfully sexist nonetheless.
Added on Thursday, March 1, 2018 morning

Ramona lay in bed with her thoughts as jumbled as a bag of jacks.

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What a great little simile here.
Added on Thursday, March 1, 2018 morning

📖 Read pages 30-39 and 48-57 of Japanese from Zero! 1

📖 Read pages 30-39 and 48-57, Pre-Lesson D: Coming and Going, Lesson 1 Activities, and Lesson 2, of Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Volume 1) 6th Edition by George Trombley and Yukari Takenaka (From Zero!, , ISBN: 978-0976998129)

Went back and picked up a prior section because I was more curious to begin practicing writing my hiragana. There’s some interesting linguistics material and beginning grammar in this section. I’ll have to come back to it and practice some more to absorb both the vocabulary and the grammar.

👓 The Academy Awards Scandal That First Got PwC Its Job Counting Oscars Votes | Time

Read The Academy Awards Scandal That First Got PwC Its Job Counting Oscars Votes by Olivia B. Waxman (Time)
Years before PricewaterhouseCoopers caused a scandal for mixing up Oscars envelopes, another controversy got the firm that gig.
 

Add support for acquisition kind

Filed an Issue dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds (GitHub)
Adds support for responding to and interacting with other sites using the standards developed by the IndieWeb Community
Based on prior art and details in the IndieWeb Wiki for acquisitions.

I’m including some potential code below, though it will also require adding the appropriate icon and some meta data in a few places for the “Kinds” meta box as well as to the admin UI locations which are currently missing.

I’ve “cheated” a bit and defaulted to display the “wish” icon and thus some of its metadata, so the acquisition kind would need its own icon (the same shopping cart icon may be best) and some small meta data would need to be changed as well in the final.

For those who need to have this right away, the code below will “work” from a display standpoint.

Taxonomy Code template

Code snippet I’ve added to indieweb-post-kinds/includes/class-kind-taxonomy.php just under the section for the wish kind:

'acquisition'  => array(
    'singular_name'   => __( 'Acquisition', 'indieweb-post-kinds' ), // Name for one instance of the kind
    'name'            => __( 'Acquisitions', 'indieweb-post-kinds' ), // General name for the kind plural
    'verb'            => __( 'Acquired', 'indieweb-post-kinds' ), // The string for the verb or action (liked this)
    'property'        => 'acquired-of', // microformats 2 property
    'format'          => 'status', // Post Format that maps to this
    'description'     => __( 'Purchases, gifts, found things, or objects donated to me', 'indieweb-post-kinds' ),
    'description-url' => 'http://indieweb.org/acquisition',
    'show'            => true, // Show in Settings
    ),

Naturally the “true” flag for ‘show’ should be set to “false” until the code is feature complete.

A simple view for the acquisition post kind

Add the following code to the folder indieweb-post-kinds/views/ in a file named kind-acquisition.php

<?php
/*
 * Acquisition Template
 *
 */
$mf2_post = new MF2_Post( get_the_ID() );
$cite     = $mf2_post->fetch();
if ( ! $cite ) {
    return;
}
$author = Kind_View::get_hcard( ifset( $cite['author'] ) );
$url    = ifset( $cite['url'] );
$embed  = self::get_embed( $url );
?>

<section class="response h-product h-cite">

<header>

<?php
echo Kind_Taxonomy::get_before_kind( 'wish' );
if ( ! $embed ) {
    if ( ! array_key_exists( 'name', $cite ) ) {
        $cite['name'] = self::get_post_type_string( $url );
    }
    if ( isset( $url ) ) {
        echo sprintf( '<a href="%1s" class="p-name u-url">%2s', $url, $cite['name'] );
    } else {
        echo sprintf( '<span class="p-name">%1s</span>', $cite['name'] );
    }
    if ( $author ) {
        echo ' ' . __( 'by', 'indieweb-post-kinds' ) . ' ' . $author;
    }
    if ( array_key_exists( 'publication', $cite ) ) {
        echo sprintf( ' <em>(<span class="p-brand">%1s</span>)</em>', $cite['publication'] );
    }
}
?>

</header>

<?php
if ( $cite ) {
    if ( $embed ) {
        echo sprintf( '<blockquote class="e-summary">%1s', $embed );
    } elseif ( array_key_exists( 'summary', $cite ) ) {
        echo sprintf( '<blockquote class="e-summary">%1s</blockquote>', $cite['summary'] );
    }
}
// Close Response
?>

</section>

<?php

Future enhancements

Future additions/improvements to this kind could include potentially adding new data fields to indicate the “location purchased” as well as the “purchase price”, the “manufacturer” and maybe the “condition” with a dropdown for selecting options like brand new, like new, very good, good, acceptable, poor, and unspecified. These could be marked up with the h-product related microformats of p-price and p-brand. These would then need to be tucked into the view as appropriate as well.

Replied to Updates broke query variable fill · Issue #158 · dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds (GitHub)
The adding of kindurl= no longer works. Fix needed.
@mrkrndvs I’ve found that if there’s an emoji within any of the metadata sucked into the meta box fields, the filter that sits on these fields to prevent malicious code, can then remove ALL of the data from them when you either save as a draft or try to publish the post.

If you’re finding that it doesn’t seem to work or does so sporadically, you might take a look for things like emoji or other potential unrecognized characters for the URLs you’re trying to use to see if that’s what is causing the bug.

📖 Read pages 58-60 of Japanese from Zero! 1

📖 Read pages 58-60, Lesson 2: New Hiragana かきくけこ and がぎぐげご, of Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Volume 1) 6th Edition by George Trombley and Yukari Takenaka (From Zero!, , ISBN: 978-0976998129)

Also did a fair amount of writing practice of these new hiragana.

📖 Read Murilla Gorilla, Jungle Detective by Jennifer Lloyd

Read Murilla Gorilla, Jungle Detective by Jennifer Lloyd (Simply Read Books)
Murilla Gorilla, the jungle detective, is woken up by a new case: Ms. Chimpanzee’s muffins were stolen. But who did it? It’s up to Murilla to find out... as long as she can find her badge first! Murilla may seem like a hopeless detective—disorganized, messy and always thinking about her next snack—but out of her mess come some pretty good ideas, and some pretty funny moments too.
Simple but entertaining. Great illustrations with a lovely pallette. I’d read others in the series.
It’s a pseudo chapter book with incredibly short chapters for kids on the border of moving from short story books to chapter books.
Rating: 3 of 5 stars

👓 ‘I Live Paycheck to Paycheck’: A West Virginia Teacher Explains Why She’s on Strike | New York Times

Read ‘I Live Paycheck to Paycheck’: A West Virginia Teacher Explains Why She’s on Strike by Jess Bidgood (New York Times)
We spoke to Katie Endicott, a high school English teacher, about why teachers are not returning to the classroom, despite a deal that offered them a 5 percent raise.
This is just painful to hear. We really need to double teachers’ salaries and create some competition in the market to improve schools. We really can’t afford any more uneducated people in this country.

👓 Trump was angry and ‘unglued’ when he started a trade war, officials say | NBC News

Read Trump was angry and 'unglued' when he started a trade war, officials say by Stephanie Ruhle and Peter Alexander (NBC News)
Frustration on several fronts aided the president's tariff decision
A bit of a click-bait headline, but the general coverage of the lack of planning around this is astoundingly inept. Stories like this shouldn’t exist in the opening days of an administration much less a year in. His one primary campaign platform was that he was such a great leader and it seems to be his worst possible attribute.

👓 Trump spends 100th day at golf club as president | CNN

Read Trump spends 100th day at golf club as president by Dan Merica (CNN)
President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.

👓 We Want Your VHS! | bavatuesdays

Read We Want Your VHS! by Jim Groom (bavatuesdays)
If you have some old VHS hanging around the house, yet have gotten rid of your VCR long ago—it might be high time to let Reclaim Video take them off your hands. Rather than letting them sit around collecting dust...
Interesting…

👓 Coming Soon: Reclaim Video | bavatuesdays

Read Coming Soon: Reclaim Video by Jim Groom (bavatuesdays)
The idea of running a video rental store has been bouncing around at Reclaim Hosting for over a year now. When we started renovating the CoWork space/Reclaim Headquarters over a year ago we realized we would soon have a vacant strip mall storefront at our disposal. I started floating the idea of a video rental store to Tim, but given he was knee-deep in actually designing and building CoWork with Lauren, those discussions were postponed. At this point it was not clear how it related to anything else we already do, namely run Reclaim Hosting and CoWork—it was just a fun idea.
This is an awesome sounding idea. I’d love to hear more about it. I know that folks like Kevin Smokler and David Dylan Thomas are going to flip over it.

Despite the fact that it seems like a lot of fun, I’m curious how they’re going to make sure it doesn’t bring down the bottom line and put anything else in jeopardy. I certainly get the fun part, but the minimal break even portion doesn’t sound like it’s quite there to me.

The tough part of the physical media game is that these are magnetic tapes. While many of my 90’s VHS tapes are relatively fine, my VHS from the early 80’s are in worse shape. Tougher is having machines to play these successfully on. This post reminds me a lot of the difficulties I’ve heard from UCLA Film & Television archivists doing work on tapes themselves.