Today's soundtrack is Amon Amarth: Fate of Norns, another incredible album from the kings of viking-themed melodic death metal. Today's post isn't going to be a typical one. This afternoon after work, I had a large-scale project I needed to complete: taking hundreds of screenshots from a learning resource, cutting each page apart into three … Continue reading 03.14.2019: An Experiment With the Adobe Photoshop Slice Tool
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02.12.2019: One Meme
Today's soundtrack is Marcus Zuhr: Hellbound, the OST for the documentary by the same name. The album is gorgeous, featuring lush strings and gentle piano riffs. It goes from hopeful to suspenseful and back again. I've been incapacitated with the flu all day and have been unable to leave the couch, so I was unable … Continue reading 02.12.2019: One Meme
02.04.2019: Celebrating 365 Days of Learning and Creating
Today is a special day! 365 days ago, on February 4, 2018, I wrote my first entry on this blog. Since then, I've been posting once a day, and a lot has happened! Today, I'm going to be looking back on my favourite posts from this past year. It's been an exciting journey! Without further … Continue reading 02.04.2019: Celebrating 365 Days of Learning and Creating
01.27.2019: Tidying Up With Steven Mills
Today's soundtrack is Arch Enemy: Doomsday Machine, a melodic death metal album from 2005. One of the things about the band that intrigued me was the fact that the powerful growled vocals were performed by Angela Gossow, one of the few female death metal vocalists that I've heard of. Last night, I decided to check … Continue reading 01.27.2019: Tidying Up With Steven Mills
12.31.2018: Looking Back on the Last Day of 2018
Today's soundtrack is Polarboy: Back from Nowhere. Though I prefer their album 4008 for purely sentimental reasons, this is a solid album in its own right; it's clean acoustic rock, a bit folksy in places, and sometimes reminiscent of the Matthew Good Band. The album has aged incredibly well, considering the fact that it was … Continue reading 12.31.2018: Looking Back on the Last Day of 2018
12.23.2018: One Lesson of Math – Graphing a Quadratic Inequality
Today's soundtrack is Katy Perry: Prism, which is, along with Taylor Swift's two newest albums, one of the few pop albums that I enjoy. On this Christmas Eve Eve, I am continuing to work on my quadratic inequality homework. We went to the Advent Sunday service this morning, and I just bought "Getting Over It" … Continue reading 12.23.2018: One Lesson of Math – Graphing a Quadratic Inequality
12.17.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting – Special Edition: "Stopping By Woods"
Today's soundtrack is Christmas With the Mills Family, a Spotify playlist that includes my favourite Christmas songs. This afternoon, I used my txt2mid.py program to convert Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" from text to music. I found a recording of Frost reciting the poem and included that audio in the track … Continue reading 12.17.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting – Special Edition: "Stopping By Woods"
11.23.2018: Special Edition – Site Update
Today's soundtrack is Wintersun: Wintersun. I remember being disappointed with this album when I first bought it. I was really into Emperor and Satyricon at the time and, based on the name and the album art, I was looking forward to a bone-chilling album full of blast beats and vocals recorded in a bathtub in … Continue reading 11.23.2018: Special Edition – Site Update
11.03.2018: One Lesson of Math – Factoring Polynomial Expressions
Today's soundtrack is Lil Wyte: Doubt Me Now, one of my favourite rap albums. An absolute classic. This evening, I'm working on the first chapter of the third unit of my Pre-Calculus 11 course, "Factoring Polynomial Expressions." The general form equation of a trinomial is ax² + bx + c. Thus, if ever we are … Continue reading 11.03.2018: One Lesson of Math – Factoring Polynomial Expressions
11.02.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is The Three Tenors: The Three Tenors In Concert, an incredibly passionate performance. This evening, I'm reading the first chapter of the second book of Aristotle's Ethics. There are two kinds of virtue: "intellectual and moral" (p. 55). The former comes by teaching; the latter, by habit. As habit is formed not by … Continue reading 11.02.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
11.01.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I bought this album in circa 2007 at the recommendation of a friend and, while I thought it was "nice," it never really clicked. I've popped it (or rather "them" - it's a dual-disc set) on now and then since then, but I hadn't given … Continue reading 11.01.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
10.31.2018: One Lesson of Math – Unit 2 Test
Today's soundtrack is Visigoth: The Revenant King, probably my favourite heavy metal album released...ever. The lyrics are super fun, and the songs are all memorable. I've been following these guys since they released their free-to-download EP on Bandcamp back in 2013. This afternoon, I wrote my Unit 2 precalculus exam. I think it went really … Continue reading 10.31.2018: One Lesson of Math – Unit 2 Test
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