This Given Sunday
Jan. 8th, 2012 09:39 pmFour things make a post.
Today:
0) Proved my worth as an American by driving around and buying stuff.
- Groceries, gym clothing, and loaf pans.
1) Baked a loaf of beer bread, using Guinness.
- I definitely chose the wrong week to lower my carb intake, but I'm doing it anyway. The co-workers will be getting a loaf of mindblowingly good bread tomorrow, and I'll be doing willpower push-ups in the corner.
2) Coded up a Bloom Filter to do a low-memory-footprint spell checker, mostly to see it work.
- I realized that I hadn't actually programmed random interesting stuff in a while, and I feel like I haven't done enough deliberate practice in learning how to code. Ergo, I've started looking through the Code Kata blog and started doing a few of the exercises. I fully expect I'll be doing more of these.
3) Continued reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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- If you have an interest in the evolution of the concept of debt at all, I recommend reading this book. Graeber goes through several thousand years of history to look at economies past and present, completely demolishes the notion that "in the beginning there was barter", and has a ton of interesting things to say about how debt intertwines with morality. Mango-Bob says, "check it out."
Not bad for a random Sunday.
Today:
0) Proved my worth as an American by driving around and buying stuff.
- Groceries, gym clothing, and loaf pans.
1) Baked a loaf of beer bread, using Guinness.
- I definitely chose the wrong week to lower my carb intake, but I'm doing it anyway. The co-workers will be getting a loaf of mindblowingly good bread tomorrow, and I'll be doing willpower push-ups in the corner.
2) Coded up a Bloom Filter to do a low-memory-footprint spell checker, mostly to see it work.
- I realized that I hadn't actually programmed random interesting stuff in a while, and I feel like I haven't done enough deliberate practice in learning how to code. Ergo, I've started looking through the Code Kata blog and started doing a few of the exercises. I fully expect I'll be doing more of these.
3) Continued reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- If you have an interest in the evolution of the concept of debt at all, I recommend reading this book. Graeber goes through several thousand years of history to look at economies past and present, completely demolishes the notion that "in the beginning there was barter", and has a ton of interesting things to say about how debt intertwines with morality. Mango-Bob says, "check it out."
Not bad for a random Sunday.