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)
Hosting an IndieWeb Podcast with David Shanske
Finishing up 2017 taxes
Learning
Applied Category Theory (Online course)
Japanese
Japanese 1 (Memrise)
Hiragana (Memrise)
Japanese (Duolingo)
Category Theory Lectures by Steven Roman (YouTube)
Big History: Connecting Knowledge (Coursera)
Events
Innovate Pasadena: Friday Coffee Meetups
Onanoue Japanese Library – 4/28 from 10am – 12pm
Homebrew Website Club – Virtual (TBD) & LA Area (TBD)
IndieWeb Camp Los Angeles – 2018 TBD
WordPress Pasadena General Meetup – TBD
Open Domains Lab (first Thursday of the month, every month, from 4 pm to 8 pm CT)
Reading
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015, ISBN: 978-0393088816)
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!, May 2006, ISBN: 978-0976998129)
The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Thames & Hudson, 2015, ISBN: 978-0500252093)
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, ISBN: 978-1451667820)
The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart (Ten Speed Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-60774-865-6)
Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary (Finished 4/4/18)
Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary (Finished 4/14/18)
Back Burner reads:
At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
Complexity and the Economy by W. Brian Arthur
Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites 3rd Edition by Robin Nixon
Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3rd Edition by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern
Dealing with China by Henry Paulson, Jr.
The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
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, The Atlantic Interview, This Week in IndieWeb, Scene on Radio (Seeing White series), The Daily (NY Times), The Gillmor Gang, The West Wing Weekly, The Remnant, Invisibilia, Song Exploder
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
Morning news (most week days): 89.3FM KPCC–Local NPR affiliate
103.5FM
93.1FM
Watching
Television
PBS News Hour (PBS)
The Office (BBC/Netflix), Original British series Season 1 Episode 1-4
Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix) Season 2 Episodes 3-10 (of 10)
Better Call Saul (AMC/Netflix) Season 2 – Season 3
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Netflix) Season 1 Episodes 1-3
The West Wing (NBC/Netflix), Season 3 Episode 24 – Season 4 Episode ??
Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Netflix) Season 1 Episode (5)-
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Season 1 Episodes 6-8 (of 8)
Bosch (Amazon), Season 4 Episodes 1-10 (of 10)
The Good Doctor (ABC), Season 1 April Episode 6, 7,
The Alienist (TNT, limited series), Episode (3)- (of 10)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman (Netflix)
Broadchurch (Netflix), Season 3 Episodes (4)-
Big Bang Theory (CBS), Season 11
Will & Grace (redux) (NBC), Season 1
Madam Secretary (CBS), Season 4 Episode (16) –
Bluebloods (CBS), Season 8 Episode 17, 18
Blackish (ABC), Season 4
Fresh Off the Boat (ABC), Season 4
The Wisdom of the Crowd (CBS), Season 1
Face the Nation (CBS)
This Week with George Stephanopolous (ABC)
Meet the Press (NBC)
United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN) Season 2 Episodes
Movies
Lethal Weapon 2
Smokey and the Bandit 2
Silk
The Wizard of Oz
The Circle
Miss Sloane
Inside Man
Internet
The Closer with Keith Olberman
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO via YouTube)
YouTube Subscriptions
Last updated April 29, 2018.
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers‘ /now project.
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