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Tue Oct 11 07:27:13 EDT 2016
Slept from around ten to seven without waking.
Partly sunny today. High of sixty-seven.
Goals:
Work:
- Replace CPU fan
Done.
The widely-recommended CoolMaster 212 Hyper 212 EVO PWM is good. I ordered one for home, in fact.
- Make a vm for door entry software
Done.
Thirty minute walk at lunch. Overcast and temperate. Saw half a dozen seagulls, a couple of blue jays, a turkey vulture, and a little white butterfly.
Home:
- Work on Candi canvas display
Not much.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16228048/replace-a-specific-color-by-another-in-an-image-sprite
Twenty minute walk after work. Saw a trio of crows. The moon, now more than half full, was out in the blue sky.
An alleged revival of brutalism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/t-magazine/design/brutalist-architecture-revival.html
> But its deeper appeal is moral. In the words of Reyner Banham, it was an attempt to create an architectural ethic, rather than an aesthetic. When the Smithsons called their work Brutalist or part of a New Brutalism, the brutality to which they referred had less to do with materials and more to do with honesty: an uncompromising desire to tell it like it is, architecturally speaking. The Modern movement in architecture had supposedly been predicated on truthfulness in materials and forms, as well. But as a dreary stroll down Park Avenue will remind you, Modernism swiftly became a gutless orthodoxy, its high ideals devolving into the rote features of the International Style, a repetitive and predictable series of gestures (curtain walls or ribbon windows, recessed plinths, decorative piloti, windswept plazas, ornamental lawns and flat shimmering pools).
> What was and still is appealing about Brutalism is that it had a kind of purity to it. For their first large project, a school in Hunstanton, and in subsequent projects, such as the Economist building in central London, the Smithsons went back to the lessons of the modern masters, to Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier: to build transparently, cleanly and truthfully. “Whatever has been said about honest use of materials,” Banham wrote in a 1955 article, “most modern buildings appear to be made of whitewash or patent glazing, even when they are made of concrete or steel.” The Smithsons’ project at Hunstanton, by contrast, “appears to be made of glass, brick, steel and concrete, and is in fact made of glass, brick, steel and concrete.”
If I was going to track my time at work, what categories would I track?
Roughly in descending order of time spent:
- Misc. tickets
- Major projects
- Reviewing logs and alerts
- Daily planning (reviewing tickets, email, etc.)
- General server maintenance
- Administrative overhead (paperwork, purchasing, etc.)
- Coffee/bathroom break
- Mail server administration
- End user support
- Writing documentation
- Continuing education (general research, tech news, etc.)
- Meetings/consultations
- Slacking (socializing, web browsing, etc.)
- Strategic planning
Breakfast: carrots, spinach, yogurt, coffee with half-and-half
Lunch: chicken burrito, coffee with half-and-half
Dinner: Philly cheese steak, curly fries
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