Today's soundtrack is Sinsaenum: Repulsion for Humanity, a death metal album that reminds me of a cross between "Domination" era Morbid Angel and "Conceived in Fire" era Living Sacrifice. Great stuff. This evening, I'm learning on freeCodeCamp how to prioritize one CSS style over another if they conflict - for example, if my HTML style … Continue reading 10.05.2018: One Lesson of Coding
10.04.2018: Special Edition – Hungry Man Beer
Today's soundtrack is Steve Roden: walking from savoonga to gambell [sic], a relaxing drone/ambient electronic instrumental album. This afternoon, inspired by Hungry Man's "Pub Favourites" collection, I created the following graphic, then tweeted them with the idea. I expect it'll be a great success.
10.03.2018: Special Edition: LAMP
Today's soundtrack is Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses, a goth rock album that I found a bit underwhelming. I've listened to their brilliant albums "October Rust" and "Dead Again" over and over; this one just didn't grab me in the same way as those ones did. This evening, I was having a bit of fun … Continue reading 10.03.2018: Special Edition: LAMP
10.02.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
Today's soundtrack is Dev/Null: Lazer Thrash, a super chaotic electronic album that is largely instrumental and very experimental. This afternoon, I'm reading the sixth chapter of John Calvin's The Institutes of the Christian Religion, "We need Scripture, as a guide and teacher, in coming to God as Creator." I am now in the second part … Continue reading 10.02.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
10.1.2018: One Lesson of Math – Geometric Series
Today's soundtrack is Netherlands: Black Gaia, an album that I don't really know what to make of, but I do genuinely enjoy it. The band clearly has tons of influences; throughout the album, I heard sounds and riffs reminiscent of Ghost, High on Fire, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Talent, Devin Townsend, and Gojira. The only … Continue reading 10.1.2018: One Lesson of Math – Geometric Series
09.30.2018: One Lesson of Math – Geometric Sequences
Today's soundtrack is Jesus Piece: Only Self, a 30-minute technical hardcore masterpiece that borders on deathcore, kind of like what I think a collaboration between Hatebreed and "The Unspoken King" era Cryptopsy might sound like. Really good stuff, with lots of memorable moments. For example, I love the tongue-in-cheek Six Feet Under-esque breakdown on "Dog … Continue reading 09.30.2018: One Lesson of Math – Geometric Sequences
09.29.2018: One Lesson of Math – Arithmetic Series (2/2)
Today's soundtrack is Myles Kennedy: Year of the Tiger, a solo album by the singer of Alter Bridge, the band that Mark Tremonti is a guitarist in. It's interesting that Alter Bridge is the middle ground of these two artists' solo efforts: Mark Tremonti's solo albums are very heavy, almost metal; Kennedy's "Year of the … Continue reading 09.29.2018: One Lesson of Math – Arithmetic Series (2/2)
09.28.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is Sleep: The Sciences. This evening, I worked on adding the bass line to "In Another Life." After I did that, I found a good synth for it, then worked on adding a delay to the synth.
09.27.2018: One Lesson of Coding
Today's soundtrack is Death Cab for Cutie: Thank You for Today, another incredible album from this indie rock band from Washington. Every time I listen to their music, I'm inspired to write songs about memories. They were a huge influence on my debut album; most of those songs were written in circa 2005, when I … Continue reading 09.27.2018: One Lesson of Coding
09.26.2018: One Lesson of Math – Arithmetic Series (1/2)
Today's soundtrack is The Advantage: Elf Titled, a really cool instrumental Nintendocore album that features prog rock covers of classic NES-era video game tunes. This evening, I'm working on arithmetic series, which are related to arithmetic sequences. An arithmetic sequence is a set of numbers with the same difference between each one (2, 4, 6, … Continue reading 09.26.2018: One Lesson of Math – Arithmetic Series (1/2)
09.25.2018: Special Edition – Building a Bookshelf
Today's soundtrack is Zevious: Lowlands, an instrumental rock album. My favourite song on the album was "Smear Campaign," probably because it reminded me a bit of Norma Jean's syncopated, abrasive riffs. This afternoon, I built a new bookshelf to go behind my desk. Before, I had my amp set atop an old printer, and my … Continue reading 09.25.2018: Special Edition – Building a Bookshelf
09.24.2018: Handwriting One Poem
Today's soundtrack is Nicki Minaj: Queen, an album that I'm honestly enjoying a lot more than I thought I would. This afternoon, I'm handwriting the fourth part of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."
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