{"id":55883,"date":"2022-10-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=55883"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:23:58","slug":"seeking-a-title-for-diary-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/seeking-a-title-for-diary-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking a title for diary posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

the trip to Anderson Ranch Arts Center (ARAC) was finite and so I could enumerate the days as a way to track my activities. The trip coincided with a sabbatical from teaching at the University of Denver. For emotional reasons I would count the beginning of the sabbatical as July 1, 2022. This would embed the Anderson Ranch within the ~182 days I have for my sabbatical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is that now, some 75 days before I begin to teach again, I have to order textbooks for my classes. I have to bring my mind back from sabbatical — at least part time — and prepare my materials and myself to walk into the classroom and teach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose I can count down to the end of the sabbatical. This might be too dramatic, and would put me on edge. I still have stuff on my to-do list. I will still track my activities. It is always helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have used a white board for the tracking of projects in a prospective way. These disappear as they are completed. These are rewritten flexibly. I have wanted to have a nicer one to install in the studio. I still have an allergy to alter my walls by drilling into them. I’ve just propped the white board I used in RiNo against the wall next to my desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While at the Ranch I revived this blogging practice. I also kept a block of graph-paper at my left hand at my desk so I could scribble agendas and actions. After the panel I forgot to blog and so this paper record was what I used to (re)build the accounts from those days on this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. change visual style to this blog. Chose “Swiss” style. I think I want to change the red highlight color for a yellow.<\/li>
  2. tweak poppy clone distribution in Snap! using suggestion by Scott L.<\/li>
  3. take some screen shots of the code and the states it generates.<\/li>
  4. I added a tiny scale shift to each clone instance so I can visually spot where overlaps\/superimpositions continue to occur.<\/li>
  5. The pattern yields a checkerboard pattern distribution over time.<\/li>
  6. It’s kinda pretty. I wonder if it can generate PDF still frames from the vector sources. Snap! has access to Javascript. Hmmmmm.<\/li>
  7. I wonder if I can create a data type, a list in Scratch, that tracks the x and y value of each created clone. I can then scan that list and test if the new clone already exists at that location. If so, then the new clone can be deleted.<\/li>
  8. I would also — then — have to track where and when Juan has cut down a poppy instance\/clone and remove that instance from the list. That means that I would have to assign each instance an ID. This kind of thing is trivial with arrays once one understands them. It’s pretty trivial with objects and member\/instance variables. I think the design of Scratch and Snap! may make this kind of thing harder.<\/li>
  9. I’m going to cut the grass. It’s 10:00 am.<\/li>
  10. I was done by 11:30 am. I went to lunch and two errands:<\/li>
  11. I got two Kozo paper pads at Guiry’s. They had four in stock.<\/li>
  12. I got a broad PITT brush pen in black.<\/li>
  13. I got some eggs, milk, fizzy waters, bananas.<\/li>
  14. I got home at put things away by 1:30<\/li>
  15. Checked gmail. A new message from Lindsy with a link to the Aspen Public Radio spot. I have to add this to my media vetting queue.<\/li>
  16. I need to shower, shave. I’ll do that right now.<\/li>
  17. 3:00 back in studio<\/li>
  18. typesetting in Scribus to layout an imposed 18″ x 12″ sheet of Kozo paper. The proportions are ARCH B (?) used for architecture presentations, 3:2.<\/li>
  19. Karin arrives on a 6:00 pm flight. I’ve got to leave here at 5:00<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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