I saw Ocean’s 8 last weekend and, consequently, I’ve been reading entirely too much about heists, grifters, and confidence women.
Links Roundup 08 June 2018
I’ve started painting again and I’m not sure why I stopped, exactly. That’s not entirely true. I do know one of the reasons why: my taste is more finely tuned than my ability and I am really terrible at sticking with things I’m not good at, really really terrible. And I’m not sure how to get past that particular roadblock and I’d really like to, as it’s starting to pop up in some other areas of my life, too.
But in the meantime, I’ll enjoy splattering paint on paper.
Links Roundup: 01 June 2018
Enjoy this nice soothing picture of some jellyfish before diving into this week’s links–I’ve been reading too much about incels, con men, and manipulation. All the content warnings for this week’s post.
Links Roundup: 17 May 2018
Your intrepid reporter. Oh, and a mural by some guy named Diego Rivera.
My trip to Michigan was, overall, pretty good. Saw my sister and 2/3 of my nieces, spent time with colleagues, had dinner with an old friend, visited my mom’s grave, and spent time with my in-laws.
I was also able to spend some time at the DIA. The Rivera murals are an absolute treasure–I hadn’t seen them in nearly 20 years and they’re still heart-stoppingly gorgeous. I love the whole thing, but I have an especial love for the vaccination panel, which nearly caused the murals to be painted over.
I was also able to spend some time with Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes” and it was time well spent. The light in the painting is extraordinary and I found the quality of it to be superior to that of the Caravaggio a few paintings over.
Anyhow. If you ever go to Detroit, the art museum is one of the places you absolutely must visit. It’s wonderful.
No theme this week, just some randomness that caught my attention.
Links Roundup 04 May 2018
Lots of things on my mind this week, but I’ve mostly been thinking about building and breaking. I’ve decided to build a small database at work to hold a spreadsheet project that’s spiraled a bit out of control; it may end up becoming a SharePoint site or being fed into a larger database, but I’m learning things and that’s good. Part of the learning process for me is hitting things with sticks to see what works and what doesn’t. This means that when I try to learn new things–like building a relational database–instead of going about it systematically, I start googling. I’m really not good at sitting through the “hello world” phase of learning anything. I like to jump into the deep end.
But the way I go about this stuff feels weirdly idiosyncratic–I have an idea of what my end product is going to be and then I wander in the dark forest for a while, looking under rocks and inside trees, until I make my way through and I have something that more or less works. But because coding isn’t something I do a whole lot of, I often forget how I’ve managed to do the thing (good thing I comment my code).
There probably won’t be a links post next week: I’m going to Saginaw, MI for work and I have plans most evenings with family, friends, and coworkers. I’m looking forward to the evening plans, I’m not so much looking forward to the 8 hours a day I’ll be shadowing someone during regression testing.