Today's soundtrack is The Tiger Lillies: Bad Blood + Blasphemy, a very odd album with its own unusual charm. This afternoon, as I sit on the couch with a heating pad on my neck which seized up this morning after I stretched, making me feel much older than I actually am, I am reading the … Continue reading 09.23.2018: One Chapter of Nonfiction
09.22.2018: One Lesson of Math
Today's soundtrack is Amorphis: Queen of Time, an album that filled me with happiness right from the first awesome riff. This morning, I'm bypassing the Randomizer's activity for the sake of finishing my "Pre-Calculus 11 Introduction Assignment." In this final section, I'll be revisiting radicals. Simplifying Radicals To simplify a radical, we convert an entire … Continue reading 09.22.2018: One Lesson of Math
09.21.2018: One Lesson of Math
Today's soundtrack is Thee Oh Sees: Smote Reverser, a band that, despite their tech-death style album art, is actually a psychedelic garage-punk prog band. It's really a bit misleading, but I'm glad for it in the end, because it's really a good album. I especially love the final 30% of "Sentient Oona." This evening, I'm … Continue reading 09.21.2018: One Lesson of Math
09.20.2018: Running a Python program on an Android phone and syncing it with PC
Today's soundtrack is Connie Francis: Rocksides. I heard her song "My Best Friend Barbara" being played when I visited Nuggets Used Books in Chilliwack, and was immediately enthralled with the classic sound. It's a really fun album. This evening, I'm revisiting the Randomizer to try to figure out whether I can get it to run … Continue reading 09.20.2018: Running a Python program on an Android phone and syncing it with PC
09.19.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is Swallow the Sun: Songs from the North I, II & III, an epic album of folk doom metal that clocks in at over 2.5 hours. This evening, I spent my time trying to sort out my drum sound. Something about it was bothering me, and I couldn't find the problem. I finally … Continue reading 09.19.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
09.18.2018: One Lesson of Math
Today's soundtrack is Haircuts for Men: Solo Works Discography 1982-2016, a chill v a p o r w a v e album that's perfect for homework. I'm bypassing the Randomizer's activity today; I want to start off my math course on a good foot, so this afternoon I'll be doing a quick review of what … Continue reading 09.18.2018: One Lesson of Math
09.17.2018: One Lesson of Math
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
09.16.2018: 30 Minutes of Songwriting
Today's soundtrack is Paul McCartney: McCartney II. This afternoon, I worked on transcribing an old demo of mine, "In Another Life." I also spent some time tweaking my drum sound, and I found a really nice setup for my piano vst's effect chain.
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
