Today's soundtrack is Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 2, which is a gorgeous album composed by an Austrian man whose grandmother registered him as a Jew; he was killed in Nazi death camps (citation). This version of the recording was done by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. This afternoon, I'm picking up where I left off on … Continue reading 08.20.2018: One Music Lesson
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08.19.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Insinnerator: Hypothermia, whose sound harkens to the classic thrash metal bands of the 90s. Energetic and a lot of fun. This morning, I'm reading the introduction of John Grant's An Introduction to Viking Mythology (available in here). Vikings were both chivalrous and barbaric; they had devised philosophies and mythologies that excused "the … Continue reading 08.19.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
08.18.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Society's Finest: The Journey So Far. This morning, I'm reading the sixteenth chapter of The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick and Art Huffman. If we take a battery, put a wire on its positive side, connect that to a light bulb, connect that light bulb to another light bulb, and … Continue reading 08.18.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
08.17.2018: An Entire Day of Recording
This is my 200th blog post! Today's soundtrack is Tallah: No One Should Read This. Mike Portnoy's (my drumming idol) son, Max Portnoy, is the drummer for Tallah. The freshest metal I've heard in years. They call their genre "nu-core" and it's such an apt description. It's like Slipknot and Korn and Katelepsy and Spawn … Continue reading 08.17.2018: An Entire Day of Recording
08.15.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is William Fitzsimmons: Pittsburgh, a beautifully melancholic and strangely nostalgic album. This afternoon, the Randomizer has decreed that I shall learn one lesson on freeCodeCamp. Today, I'll be learning how to use HTML to make checkboxes. Like radio boxes, checkboxes are a form that allows a site to receive user inputs; however, checkboxes … Continue reading 08.15.2018: One Lesson of Coding
08.14.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is Texas Hippie Coalition: Dark Side of Black, an album that sounds like the love child of Pantera and Black Label Society. I spent this afternoon's session writing lyrics for my upcoming metal album. I've now finished writing lyrics for five of the album's songs. Making good progress!
08.12.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Fen: Winter. This evening, I'm reading the thirteenth (and final!) chapter of the first book of Aristotle's Ethics. Since we now know that happiness is "an activity of the soul in conformity with perfect goodness" (p. 51), what is goodness? More specifically, what is human goodness or happiness? It is a "right … Continue reading 08.12.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
08.10.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is The Ruins of Beverast: Rain Upon the Unjust, an epic atmospheric black metal album. This afternoon, I'm reading the fifteenth chapter of Larry Gonick's The Cartoon Guide to Physics, "Electric Currents." Alessandro Volta invented "the electric battery in 1794" (p. 128). He found that two rods made of different kinds of metals … Continue reading 08.10.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
08.08.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is Hank Williams, Jr.: Family Tradition. This afternoon, I'm continuing to learn about basic HTML and HTML5 on freeCodeCamp. We can nest things within other things: for example, a link can be put inside of a paragraph. This isn't clickable, but this is! If we are designing a website but don't yet know … Continue reading 08.08.2018: One Lesson of Coding
08.02.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Lili Poe: Amours Fragiles. This afternoon marks my completion of my math course! As such, I'll be adding Khan Academy's math courses back into my Randomizer. I'll now be reading the fifth chapter of Coles Philosophy Questions and Answers, "Ethics." We study ethics to discover "the life worth living" (p. 18). Ethics … Continue reading 08.02.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
08.02.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is John Fogerty: Centerfield, which is such a great album. I say this in the best way possible: the drums on this album are hilarious. It sounds like they were recorded on the Rock Band drum kit. This afternoon, I did an original metal cover of the Old School Runescape theme song. This … Continue reading 08.02.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
07.31.2018: Special Edition: Facebook Marketing
Today's soundtrack is Billy Talent: Billy Talent III. I remember first hearing these guys back when 104.9 FM was X-FM in Vancouver; this album shows that these guys still know how to rock. This afternoon, I did some more site updates to the footer, then finished the session with a bit of marketing: I used … Continue reading 07.31.2018: Special Edition: Facebook Marketing
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