Today's soundtrack is Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me. This morning, I perused the final three lessons in Coding Projects in Python, determined that none of them presented anything new and were therefore of no interest to me, checked off the book on Goodreads, and started on Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring … Continue reading 07.01.2018: One Lesson of Python
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06.30.2018: Learning to use the TI-83 Plus (Part 1)
Today's soundtrack is Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack. "Laura's Theme" is such an emotional piece of art. This morning's project is a bit different; my friend gave me his old TI-83 Plus, which I'll be using for my aforementioned upcoming pre-calculus math course. Today, I'll go through the manual and learn … Continue reading 06.30.2018: Learning to use the TI-83 Plus (Part 1)
06.29.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today’s soundtrack is Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young: Deja Vu. This afternoon, I’m reading the fourth chapter of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Who Needs It, “The Missing Link.” Rand begins the chapter by giving vignettes of four different people: the first is a man who denounced the liberal people who threaten his business if he does … Continue reading 06.29.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
06.28.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Mournful Congregation: Tears From a Grieving Heart. This afternoon, I'm reading chapter eleven from the first book of Aristotle's Ethics. In this short chapter, Aristotle continues discussing man's legacy. He says that misfortunes that befall our friends can impact our lives, and that there is a big difference between misfortune during life … Continue reading 06.28.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
06.27.2018: One Lesson of Math
Today's soundtrack is Tim Hicks: New Tattoo. I'm going on to the next lesson of trigonometry on Khan Academy this afternoon. From the Pythagorean theorem, we know that h² = the square of the sum of the other two sides - which could be thought of as h² = o² + a² (hypotenuse² = opposite² … Continue reading 06.27.2018: One Lesson of Math
06.26.2018: One Lesson of Math
Today's soundtrack is Haken: Visions. I've completed Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies, which was a personal goal that I'd set for myself before taking any teacher-led math courses. I'll be starting a month-long Foundations of Math and Precalculus course on July 3, so to prepare for that, I've signed up for two Khan Academy … Continue reading 06.26.2018: One Lesson of Math
06.25.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is Godsmack: When Legends Rise. I spent my time today finding a good mellotron VSTi to replace the one that I accidentally lost when I upgraded my OS, then renamed my working track titles for my metal project. I found that I have seven songs and two interludes. Only a couple of the … Continue reading 06.25.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
06.24.2018: One Chapter of Math
Today’s soundtrack is Saor: Guardians. This morning, I’ll be reading the final chapter of Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies Workbook, and the last two chapters of Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies. These three chapters are all short and don’t have a worksheet section, so I’m just going to do all of them at … Continue reading 06.24.2018: One Chapter of Math
06.20.2018: 30 Minutes of Game Development
Today's soundtrack is Allie X: COLLXTION I. This afternoon's session was spent with a pen and notebook in hand, working through some gameplay design ideas that I needed to sort out before I can start working on the computer side of things. I came up with a working title for the game, redesigned the NPCs, … Continue reading 06.20.2018: 30 Minutes of Game Development
06.19.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Timothy Brindle: The Unfolding. This afternoon, I'm reading the second chapter of Pat Pattison's Writing Better Lyrics, "Rusty's Collar: A Guide to Showing and Telling." Like in the schoolchild's activity of Show-and-Tell, we cannot talk about what we haven't first shown, because "[s]howing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and … Continue reading 06.19.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
06.18.2018: 30 Minutes of Game Development
Today's soundtrack is Ghost of the Robot: Pair of Bulls Volume 1. This afternoon, I'm trying out my red bouncing ball in one of the platformer templates in Construct 2. It took me a while to get Pyxel Edit to export the image properly, but once I got it to work, I was pretty happy … Continue reading 06.18.2018: 30 Minutes of Game Development
06.17.2018: One Chapter of Math
Today's soundtrack is Richard Cheese: Lounge Against The Machine. This morning's activity was a bit different from my usual ones; my father-in-law was putting together a math placement test for his work, and he asked me to give it a try. I finished it in 51 minutes. I felt quite confident about most of the … Continue reading 06.17.2018: One Chapter of Math
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