Spring 2011 projects

• School: GPA >= 3.75

  • Check out UNC's CS, math, philosophy programs

  • Get advice on what to major in and how to get involved in research work

  • Attendance: One unexcused absence for each class and PY lab. One absence from MA due to snow. Skipped PY and MA on 8 February

• GRK: Learn Attic Greek well enough to read simple texts

  • Suggestion: NT Greek. It's koine, a simpler (and later) dialect that you already have a good deal of grammar for. Best book to start with is Mark. You might also consider (and I would be more than happy to read with you, as I have a Greek/Italian pony of it) Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, a similarly late text. --SteveKillen

• MA: Use both Stewart and Spivak; follow a reasonable study schedule

• PHI: An excellent opportunity to read Frege and Russell

• PY: Not difficult; don't skip class; establish a solid foundation for more interesting physics classes

• FreeSoftware

  • Get the GenericWindowManager working on modern systems and port to GuileScheme

  • Work on GuileElisp -- compatibility, optimization

  • Update Guile website

  • Maintain portal, mlt for HcoopDotNet

    • Send initial mlt patch to ClintonEbadi in 2011-W07

• Esperanto

  • Retake Lernu's basic tests. Mi ne estos eterna komencanto!

  • Attend at least one EsTri meeting

  • Package the Reta Vortaro for Debian

• Personal/Miscellaneous

  • Come out as GenderQueer

  • Visit Rachel twice before summer

  • Write one letter to Rachel per week when apart

  • Exercise three times per week (not including commute)

  • Practice piano once per week

  • Brew beer a few more times before summer

  • Finish a small design project by June

  • Start a journal

  • Floss daily

  • No nail-biting

  • Be punctual

  • Sleep eight hours every night

  • Apply for food stamps

  • Call LionKimbro

• House

  • WallBed

    • Planning begins January 2011

    • Shopping list and price checks

    • Shopping and cutting day

    • 3-4 work days

  • Acquire foam for Saarinen chair cushion

  • Find a couch (perhaps a futon frame plus homemade cushions)

  • More wall decorations

• Computing

  • Backups!

  • Publish more stuff (wikiwiki, software, weblogging)

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This page has quite a bit of overlap with my Org file. That's more for school assignments, appointments, errands, etc. but some sort of integration would be nice. Also, several of "projects" are more like habits I wish to cultivate than discrete actions, and Org-Mode has a "habits" module that would be useful for tracking them

"<cerebral_monkey> bipt: There's a really good book by Martine Batchelor called Meditation for Life, and her husband wrote a book called Buddhism without Religion that is great as well. That is how I delved deeper into it"

The project-tracking notation could use improvement. Perhaps stars for discrete actions, and different smilies to indicate progress on habits to cultivate and general goals?

• or -- No data yet, or not yet applicable

• or -- Poor progress

• -- Satisfactory progress

• -- Excellent progress

• or or -- Goal achieved

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