why the big paws
I haven't been putting stuff here on this website, but I should change that.
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the outlining continues
Yesterday I made good progress: chose two books that I have access to, outlined the curriculum from one of them (Ross), and did a problem. Yesterday it turned out that the Internet Archive's copy of Hassett and Stewart can only be used concurrently by a finite number of people, and it was unavailable by the time I got to it. But I have it this morning. So that's today's plan.
asymptotically approaching the starting line
The liveblogging felt very useful yesterday, so I'm going to try that again.
manic monday
A busy day today. Quick lists --- but on my phone, in Markor, a delightful Android text editor.
in which i develop courage
After some consideration, I think that I can keep this in public. It's going to take me a few days before I can post it, anyway, and I'll have some amount of time to build up the posting habit. Making a low-effort tool for writing from the phone will still be a challenge. But I want to move my goal from "write every day" to "write every day in public," even if I'm not expecting to have an audience.
It occurs to me that lots of this musing might have gone into my perhaps-someday-a-reference about nikola. But right now I'm figuring things out, and I suppose that should be more declarative than interrogative.
every new diary starts with metadiarying
Part of the reason that I started to convert to this web-output-friendly system is that I'd like to be able to write more frequently in a public-facing kind of a way. I think I have this sewn up (though I'm going to be tweaking things for a while). But I do have a little bit of a decision to make: do I want to use this as a personal journal as well? I feel super-squicky about that. While I would like to write in public more, I need to have a space that is safe for me to be dumb and annoying. Clearly the most probable outcome of me starting to post in public regularly is that no one ever reads anything that I write, unless I happen to direct them at it. But it's also the case that a desired outcome is for other people to discover that I write things. In that case, I need to stick to my old rule that I shouldn't write things on the Internet if I don't want them to appear on the front page of a newspaper.
a new blog engine
When I started this calendar year, I was pretty optimistic about how much teaching and creativity I would have, and I started trying to collect some doodads at a blog. I was being a university person, and I started at a university-supported blog. But it turns out that I'm not continuing as a university person, so now I have to do those things differently.