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
- 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 Tuesdays from January 9 – March 20, 2018 (UCLA)
- Hiragana (Memrise)
- Category Theory Lectures by Steven Roman (YouTube)
Events
- Innovate Pasadena: Friday Coffee Meetups
- Onanoue Japanese Library – January 7 from 10am-12pm (skipped 1/20)
- IndieWebCamp Baltimore – January 20-21, 2018
- WPCampus Online Conference – January 30, 2018
Reading
- Weapons of Math Distraction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by (Crown, , ISBN: 978-0553418811) (for Bryan Alexander’s online book club) (Finished 1/15/18)
- Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms: An Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) 3rd Edition by , , and (Springer, , ISBN: 978-0387946801)
- 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) (Finished 1/28/18)
- The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by (Thames & Hudson, , ISBN: 978-0500252093)
- Ramona the Pest by (Scholastic Book Services, , ISBN: 0-590-04493-1) (Finished 1/24/18)
- Henry and Beezus by (William Morrow & Company, , ISBN: 978-0062652362)
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, The Daily (NY Times), The Gillmor Gang, Percolator, The West Wing Weekly
- Spotify: The Bridge, various playlists
- Amazon Music (typically via Amazon Echo): various artists
- Pandora (via Amazon Echo): The Bridge, various artists
- Sirius/XM: The Bridge
- Radio: not much this month
Watching
Television
- Blackish (ABC), Season 4 Episodes 10-11
- Madam Secretary (CBS), Season 4 Episode 11-12
- Bluebloods (CBS), Season 8, Episode 11, 13 (missed 12)
- The Good Doctor (ABC), Season 1 Episodes 10-13
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Season 1 Episodes 1-8
- Bosch (Amazon), Season 3 Episodes 9-10
- Tin Star (Amazon), Season 1 Episodes 1-2
- The West Wing (NBC/Netflix), Season 1 Episodes 1-9
- Sherlock (BBC/Netflix), Season 2 Episodes 1-3, Season 3 Episode 1
- Broadchurch (Netflix), Season 3 Episodes 1-3
Movies
- Eyewitness (1981)
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
- Doctor Strange
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1974)
- Miss Sloane
- The Post (2017)
- Spotlight
- Trolls
Internet
- n/a
Last updated January 31, 2018.
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers‘ /now project.