The script for my Niklas Luhmann movie is coming along nicely. After watching some of Ned Ballamy‘s work, I’m thinking that he’d be the natural lead… #zettelkasten
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Two bits of post-Thanksgiving news: First, the hardcover edition of GENEROUS THINKING is on super duper sale today at @HopkinsPress: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12108/generous-thinking
Looking at my website’s traffic logs, I see some spurts of traffic from LMS platforms at University of Mary Washington and Furman. I can’t help but wondering who’s assigning my website for classes, but the thought tickles me pink.
Planning has begun for a potential in-person IndieWebCamp in San Diego, CA in December. Interested in attending? Can you help out? Register your interest now and save some dates. #IndieWeb
KOST 103.5 has apparently switched formats to Christmas holiday music already. My first song: Perry Como’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. 🎶 🎄
Almost as if perfect timing, my audiobook hold for David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 years shows up just as my book club is about to delve into the first three chapters this coming weekend. Care to join us for some history and economics via Zoom? 📖🎧
We did a dry run of most of a Thanksgiving meal for dinner tonight. The turkey was pretty good, the gravy was stellar, and the minimal run of sides was very good. Timing was alright, but could have been better, especially when we add more sides and dessert. I’ll sneak in some scratch pumpkin pies later this week because there haven’t been enough pies lately. Now it’s garde manger for the rest of the week.
I came across this Matisyahu song; it has an incredibly resonant message today.
It’s a very autumnal IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg this weekend. Red, orange and yellow leaves cut out to resemble the IndieWebCamp logo.
Today is the release day for Roland Allen’s new book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Books, 2023). Those in the note taking, #zettelkasten, #PKM, and intellectual history spaces may appreciate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkQy-Yb0QLE
Oktoberfest has decimated my stock of sauerkraut, so I’ve started fermenting a new batch.
Diet coke
Dr. Mike Miller announced in class last night that in the coming Winter quarter at UCLA Extension he’ll be offering a course on elliptic curves.
The text for the class will be Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (Springer, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) by Joseph H. Silverman and John T. Tate. He expects to follow and rely more on it versus handing out his own specific lecture notes.
He mentioned that while it would suggest a more geometric flavor, which it will certainly have, the class will carry an interesting algebraic component which those not familiar with the topic may not expect.
To register, look for the listing sometime in the coming month or so when the Winter catalog is released.