Category Archives: Fiction

Weeknote for 11/1/2020

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Andy

Christmas labels 😐 Still working on it. Even though I didn’t finish last week, I was pleased with my progress compared to some other weeks, given how much I’ve struggled to do anything productive lately. As usual I’m hopeful that … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 10/25/2020

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Andy

Christmas labels 🙂 I made progress again. Still hoping to finish this week. Fiction 🤔 Friday my department at work had a lunch discussion of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. We talked about whether it … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 10/18/2020

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Andy

Christmas labels 😐 No progress last week. I was too preoccupied with the rest of life. Fiction 🙂 I finished my Thomas Ligotti book, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. It’s an omnibus of his first two short story … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 10/11/2020

Posted on October 17, 2020 by Andy

Christmas labels 😐 I made substantial progress. I doubt I’ll finish this week, but probably by the end of the month. Fiction 🙂 I finished my Brian Evenson collections. These were A Collapse of Horses, Windeye, and Fugue State. Some … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 10/4/2020

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Andy

Christmas labels 😐 I got started. That’s about all the progress I made. I also realized a week late that October’s project month started this week, not last week, so I shorted last month’s project. But it doesn’t matter, since … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 8/9/2020

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Andy

Math 🤔 I feel more motivated to study math. Thanks to David Tall and some handily organized course descriptions from California State University, I found out that I won’t get to the interesting, formal mathematics I’ve been waiting for till … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/26/2020

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Andy

Math 😐 I continued my prealgebra review. I was juggling work and naps for most of the week, so I was only able to squeeze math in on the weekend, but I was pleased at how quickly the note-taking went. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/12/2020

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Andy

Self-improvement 🤔 Choice architecture might help me make better everyday decisions. Continuing in my theme of social engineering, I listened to Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, which promotes libertarian paternalism, designing the way choices are presented so that … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/5/2020

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Andy

Programming 😐 I devoted almost the full 10 hours allotted to the project last week (Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Robert Lafore), but I spent most of that time figuring out meta issues, like how exactly to take … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/1/2020

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Andy

Learning 😎 Last week officially started my learning project, and I dashed out the plan and started the work, since I was so excited about it. The project’s purpose is to set up a learning system to experiment with, and … Continue reading →