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
- Putting together IndieWeb related proposal for WordCamp Riverside
- Thinking about OER, wikis, and commonplace books in education
- Continuing work with IndieWeb.org Community
To Do Lists
Learning
- Gems And Astonishments of Mathematics: Past and Present (UCLA Extension)
Events
- Innovate Pasadena: Friday Coffee Meetups
- WordCamp Los Angeles – September 21-23
- WordCamp Riverside – November 3-4 (Submitted proposal for talk)
Reading
- Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási (Finished)
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- 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)
- The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Thames & Hudson, , ISBN: 978-0500252093)
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, Eat This Podcast, This Week in IndieWeb, The Daily (NY Times) (playing some catch up on this after being away for a while), Revisionist History, Caliphate(finished), Crazy/Genius, On the Media — I’m regularly posting my podcast listens to my faux-cast feed so followers can see exactly which episodes I’m listening to.
- Spotify: The Bridge, Yacht Rock, various playlists
- Amazon Music (typically via Amazon Echo): various artists
- Pandora (via Amazon Echo): The Bridge, various artists
- Sirius/XM: The Bridge, Yacht Rock (channel 30 – disappears this month)
- Radio
- Morning news (most week days): 89.3FM KPCC–Local NPR affiliate
- 103.5FM
- 93.1FM
Watching
Television
- College Football (Various)
- Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Amazon Prime), Season 1 Episodes 1-8 (Finished)
- Suits (USA Network), Season 8 Episodes 8-10
- North & South (Netflix), Limited Series Episodes 1-4 (Finished)
- The Great British Baking Show (Netflix)
- Whose Line is it Anyway (CW), Various
- Baked (Food Network), Season 1
- Reign (CW), Season 1 Episodes 1-2 (can’t continue…)
- West Wing (NBC/Netflix) various from Season 6
- Empire (Fox), Season 5 Episodes 1-2
- Kids Baking Championship (Food Network)
- Chopped Jr. (Food Network), various
- Worst Cooks in America (Food Network)
- Modern Family (ABC), Season 9 & 10
- The Big Bang (CBS), Season 11 Episodes 17, 19, Season 12
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Blue Bloods (CBS), Season 9
- Bull (CBS), sampled 1 episode from beginning of season
- Magnum P.I. (CBS), sampled pilot episode
- Will & Grace (redux) (NBC), Season 1 and 2
- Fresh Off the Boat (ABC), Season 4
- I Feel Bad (NBC), Season 1 Episodes 1-2
- Star Trek: The Next Generation, various episodes
- Face the Nation (CBS)
- This Week with George Stephanopolous (ABC)
- Meet the Press (NBC)
- PBS News Hour (PBS)
- Washington Week (PBS)
Episodes in parenthesis indicate the next unwatched episode on my list. For the most recent updates on exact episodes see my Watched List.
Movies
- Legally Blonde
- Home Again
- Crimson Tide
Internet
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO via YouTube)
- Yacht Rock Episode 3-
Last updated October 8, 2018.
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers‘ /now project.