Category: Trail of Interest
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Trail of Interest day 8: simulation projects in python and distracting rabbit trails
First – I don’t do enough python stuff to know all the tooling so every time I have to set up python environments on a new system I spend hours trying to get it working. I think the issue this time was creating a venv before debian’s ‘python-full’ package was installed. Second – rabbit trails:…
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Trail of Interest day 7: beauty and lack of
I’ve had a few conversations about beauty and lack of beauty in my surroundings in the past few days. Talking about an art museum, various churches, and an old historic house. In the conversation about art I couldn’t quite define the distinction I wanted to make. I had just started reading this essay and gotten…
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Trail of Interest day 6: sheep, goats
The Passover lamb can be either a sheep or a goat as long as it is a one year old unblemished male. That is from Exodus chapter 12. I didn’t remember that. The Matthew 25 “separate the sheep from the goats” parable is way more familiar as a Christian and, knowing nothing about sheep or…
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Trail of Interest day 5: second winds, cold smoking
Something I read suggested second winds applied to more than just running, or the way I use the phrase most – staying up too late until I’m not sleepy anymore. I don’t remember the exact phrase, but it was roughly equivalent to catching a second wind. There is more energy beyond the first level of…
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Trail of Interest day 4: smoke beers, oscillations
Been reading up and asking a few people about smoke beers. Rauchbier and smoked porter are the most common styles in homebrewing circles that I’ve seen. Another style that I’ve decided to try is piwo grodziskie. It’s a Polish style made from wheat malt with oak smoke. It’s light colored, low gravity, low alcohol, and…
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Trail of Interest day 3: avoidance, spiraling, introspection
I sometimes feel like I have spent a whole week avoiding something without being able to put a finger on what I’m avoiding, or why, or even whether it is even a definable thing or not. This feeling is strongest when I’m at a low point and struggling to get things done. It’s weakest if…
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Trail of Interest day 2: lateralization of brain function
Chapter 3 of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is all about the right/left differences in the brain. The R-mode and L-mode thinking were familiar to me: left is analytical, literal, symbolic, rational, linear; right is synthetic, analogic, spatial, intuitive. Where I got more interested is the relation between left/right handedness and left/right…
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Trail of Interest day 1
This trail of interest series is my experiment to document what catches my interest or inspires me, daily or near-daily. The drawing above is my “pre-instruction” self portrait, part of the first exercise in the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. It’s a better drawing than I expected it…