Oneirata

Scare tactics: a quick quiz

Ci — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:09 +0000

It was denounced as a socialist program that would compete with private insurers and add to Americans’ tax burden so as to kill jobs. One Republican representative predicted that “Americans would come to feel “the lash of the dictator”. Another Republican representative said, “Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as [...]

More on TinderBox

Ci — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:50 +0000

So I took a day to try and learn more about TinderBox. I still don’t grok it, but it’s still working better for me now. When making notes, I still turn to iOrganize, which I’ve been using for many years, but I really want to be able to link notes, not just group them the [...]

Putting feelings in a box can help

Ci — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:10:46 +0000

Starting more than a year ago, I started putting a lot of my feelings in a box. Not all of them, to be sure, but primarily the negative ones. And not consciously, but out of necessity.

For roughly three years before he died last February, my father had been falling into Parkinson’s-related dementia. The hardest part [...]

Part of today’s agenda

Ci — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:00:24 +0000

Trying to learn TinderBox which “is a personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze, and share your notes.” It’s very powerful, but intimidating as all get out. And I’m someone who almost never gets intimidated new software, at least on the Mac. Blender made my eyes glaze over, for example, although maybe if I [...]

Another small emergency

Ci — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:50:02 +0000

One of the “fun” things about creating and maintaining educational websites is that emergencies have to be dealt with now. I managed to break a couple of things in the math publisher software mentioned yesterday, so when Larry was showing his students something about the blog, it didn’t work, throwing up annoying PHP messages. Fortunately, [...]

One of my many obligations

Ci — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:02:36 +0000

I maintain a blog for Larry's students, which means making sure that the plugins that he uses work. Since he teaches math, that means making sure that wpmathpublisher, the math plugin works. Only occasionally it stops working. [...]

The problem with starting a blog…

Ci — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:47:54 +0000

…is that there is so much backstory. The reader doesn’t know the characters, the major events of the past, or what’s going on now. So every time I thought about starting a blog, I became paralyzed by how I would write about anything that wasn’t self-contained.

Well, screw it. If I keep letting that get in [...]