Category: Projects

A category for projects

Reading

Tracking my recent reading/listening (post 2020), most recent first

Photo by Margarida Afonso on Unsplash

Steel on Target (The Buzzer War Book 1) – Kevin Ikenberry

The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy – Ursula K. Le Guin

Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu

Stranded (Starship of the Ancients Book 1): – A.K. DuBoff

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World – Naomi Klein

Orders of Magnitude – Yuval Kordov

The Extinction of Experience – Christine Rosen

Low Tech Life: A Guide to Mindful Digital Minimalism – Jose Briones

Days of Atonement – Walter Jon Williams

Syrup – Max Barry

Dragon’s Egg – Robert L. Forward

The Last Town – Blake Crouch

Wayward – Blake Crouch

Pines – Blake Crouch

Hidden Potential – Adam Grant

Eat, and Love Yourself – Sweeney Boo

Hardwired – Walter John Williams

Atomic Habits – James Clear

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Video

One of my goals going forward is to take more video of our lives.
When I spent a whole days going through photo books from my mom’s flooded house, I was surprised to see how much the photos shifted in quality. The older photos were actually better. Brownie photos from the fifties and sixties had better color with sharper focus. The seventies were generally out of focus and sepia-brown. This might have been a byproduct of the cellophane photo books my mom used, but the clarity of the pre-seventies never returned.

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3d Printing

12/14/24 Testing what happens when I update a Project post. Does it go to the top of the Category page?

Update – It doesn’t currently.

Now it does! I used the WPCode plugin and ChatGPT to create the snippet answer questions about where to place the code. Sweet.

A placeholder for updates on 3d printing projects.

Workflows

I realized recently that I spend a lot of time futzing with gadgets and making aspirational purchases with the idea that I’m going to get to something in the future. My gadget inventory is proof that I probably also enjoy owning retro tech that was out of reach in the past.

Still, I would like to make things, not collect things. As I look at paring down the stuff I have, I want to link the remaining stuff to some sort of desired outcome, i.e. I want to finish more novels and short stories, and I want to take more photos and make more videos.

So I’ve been thinking of all this in terms of workflows. What gear, time and process lead me to accomplish my goals?

First I’ll list the workflows I’m thinking of, and then I’ll build them out so the stuff I have is accomplishing a purpose and not just taking up storage.

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