Somewhere between the granularity of following my daily updates and my about page here’s a quick outline of things I’ve been doing within the past month or plan to do in the coming weeks.
What am I focused on Now?
- Reading new book/novella submissions for Boffo Socko Books
- Building a few websites/author platforms/social media hubs for some clients.
- Continuing work with IndieWeb.org Community
- Hosting meetups for the Homebrew Website Club
- Building a Gen2 geared website IndieWebPress.com to help onboard new users
- Writing a book ostensibly IndieWeb for Dummies (focusing on WordPress)
Learning
- Algebraic Geometry September – December (UCLA)
- Hiragana (Memrise)
- Category Theory Lectures by Steven Roman (YouTube)
Events
- Innovate Pasadena: Friday Morning Coffee Meetups
- IndiewebCamp Austin – (Remote attendance) 12/09-12/10/17
- Homebrew Website Club – Virtual 12/13/17; 12/27/17
- IndieWebCamp Baltimore – January 2018 (Potentially Remote)
Reading
- Origin: A Novel by Dan Brown (finished 12/9/17)
- Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by (Gotham Books, , ISBN: 978-1592406524) (Finished 12/31/17)
- Elementary Algebraic Geometry by Klaus Hulek
- Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms: An Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) 3rd Edition by David A Cox, John Little, and Donal O’Shea
- The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by (W.W. Norton,
, ISBN: 978-0393088816) - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by (Random House, , ISBN: 978-1400064281)
- The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by (Thames & Hudson, , ISBN: 978-0500252093)
- Weapons of Math Distraction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (for Bryan Alexander’s online book club)
- American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (Simon & Schuster, March 29, 2016)
For up-to-the-day updates on what I’m reading, see my reading updates, or, if you prefer, the syndicated copies I send to GoodReads.com. I now also post online articles I’ve been reading lately too.
Listening
- Podcasts: This Week in Google, This Week in Tech, Eat This Podcast, This Week in IndieWeb, Modernist BreadCrumbs, The Daily (NY Times)
- Spotify: The Bridge, various playlists
- Amazon Music (typically via Amazon Echo): various artists
- Pandora (via Amazon Echo): various artists, lots of holiday music including Christmas Radio
- Sirius/XM: The Bridge
- Radio: Morning news (most week days): 89.3FM KPCC–Local NPR affiliate
Watching
Television
- Cheers (Netflix), Season 11 Episodes 19 -28 (Finished series 12/28/17)
- The Crown (Netflix), Season 2
- Bosch (Netflix), Season 3 Episodes 1-10
- PBS News Hour (PBS)
- Big Bang Theory (CBS), Season 11 Episodes 7-11
- Blackish (ABC), Season 4 Episodes 8-9
- Bluebloods (CBS), Season 8, Episode 9-10
- Face the Nation (CBS)
- This Week with George Stephanopolous (ABC)
- Meet the Press (NBC)
Movies
- Pitch Perfect
- Pitch Perfect 2
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Pitch Perfect 3
- Body of Lies
- Magic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- The Imitation Game
- The Founder
- The Fifth Estate
- Smokey and the Bandit
Internet
- N/A
Last updated January 1, 2017.
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers‘ /now project.
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