Today's soundtrack is Natalie Prass: The Future and the Past, a neo-disco album with gorgeous harmonies and intriguing chords. I have fallen in love with her song "Hot For the Mountain." This afternoon was the orientation day of the math course I'm taking. While I was going over the introductory refresher assignment, I discovered that … Continue reading 09.17.2018: One Lesson of Math
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09.15.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is YOB: Our Raw Heart, a sludgy doom metal record that features beautiful singing over heavy guitars with wicked riffs. This morning, I'm learning how to use a CSS id tag to stylize a specific HTML element on freeCodeCamp, then I'll learn how to adjust an HTML element's padding and margins. id tags … Continue reading 09.15.2018: One Lesson of Coding
09.14.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon, a gorgeous album released by the Canadian artist in 1970. I'm so glad to have finally found the source of the "Dooo bup bup bup bup" song that I heard many years ago in a coffee shop - Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi"! This afternoon, I'm … Continue reading 09.14.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
09.13.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Stevie T: Album of Epicness, an absolute work of art by Steve Tereberry, a guitar god from Canada and one of my favourite YouTubers. This evening, I'm reading the third chapter of Dr. James White's The Potter's Freedom, "The Inabilities of Man." Dr. White begins by quoting C.H. Spurgeon, who said, "'As … Continue reading 09.13.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
09.12.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is Lightning Bolt: Fantasy Empire, which sounds kind of like an avante-garde noisecore doom metal album. I was first playing it as background noise and hated it, but I've realised as the evening has progressed that the louder I play it, the better it sounds, and now I actually don't want to turn … Continue reading 09.12.2018: One Lesson of Coding
09.11.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is One Bad Pig: Swine Flew. This afternoon, I'm reading the second chapter of Charles Darwin's The Illustrated Origin of Species, "Variations Under Nature." We often see varieties within species of communal descent. We less often see "monstrosities" (p. 61), which Darwin says refers to "some sudden and considerable deviation of structure, generally … Continue reading 09.11.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
09.10.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is MGMT: Little Dark Age, which kind of sounds like what I'd imagine a collaboration between Shiny Toy Guns and Modest Mouse might sound like. This evening, I'm learning how to size images using CSS with the freeCodeCamp lessons. In the same way that we can make font classes with CSS, we can … Continue reading 09.10.2018: One Lesson of Coding
09.09.2018: Handwriting One Poem
Today's soundtrack is Ghost: Prequel, probably my favourite of the albums that my Randomizer has introduced me to yet. This morning, I'm scribing the third part of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."
09.08.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is Buddy Guy: The Blues is Alive and Well. This morning, I'm continuing with the lessons on freeCodeCamp; today, I'll be learning more about CSS styling. I've already learned how to use CSS style classes to modify the colour of a piece of text; now, I'll be learning how to use CSS to … Continue reading 09.08.2018: One Lesson of Coding
09.07.2018: Handwriting One Poem
Today's soundtrack is VAPERROR: Mana Pool, a chill vaporwave album with lots of a e s t h e t i c c . This afternoon, I'm writing out the second part of Walt Whitman's "Song Of Myself."
09.06.2018: Handwriting One Poem
Today's soundtrack is Uniform: Peaceable Kingdom, a metal album with production that is super raw and very refreshing. This morning, I'm handwriting the first part of Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself."
09.05.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is LMFAO: Party Rock, an album that I decided to check out after hearing it referenced on MBMBAM, which I checked out after seeing the acronym referenced on Reddit. My favourite track on the album is definitely "Shots." This evening, I'm reading the fourth chapter of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, … Continue reading 09.05.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
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