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Fri Sep 11 06:00:01 EDT 2020
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Slept from eleven to six without waking.
Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy late in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Work
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- Partition and format new Storage drive
Done.
- 2:30 PM weekly Entrata call
Done.
- Scott's performance review
Done.
- Follow up on Alltronics hardware for Greg
Done.
- Follow up on Alltronics hardware for Robin
- Create Entrata assistant manager group
- Set up IVR's for GM, RG, PR
- Count main office laptops (needed/have)
No.
- Count central maintenance laptops (needed/have)
No.
- Send work log to Jamie
Done.
Fixing Huntley's unit types took most of my day.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Sunny and cool.
Saw a little white butterfly and a Carolina locust.
Also, the big, flat mushroom (sulfur shelf?) that grew on a tree near the north-west corner of Huntley is back on the same tree this year.
Heard a couple Cicadas.
Talking to Jim about weird and misspelled resident names, I was reminded of the entry for Danielle Parker/Astondebonde's husband.
We entered his first name as "Qxtuapzpji".
That name does not appear on any of his e.g. renter's insurance, and Google doesn't even return any hits for it.
Rare indigenous Mesoamerican name or glorious typo??
Went in to the office after hours to add a drive to Storage.
Home
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- Drive car? (Install Storage drive at office tonight? Tomorrow?)
Done.
- Debugger
Not much.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
https://norvig.com/21-days.html
> "Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter" says Eric Raymond
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/archaeologists-with-drones-discover-pre-columbian-earthworks-in-kansas/
> Meanwhile, the remnants of these centuries-old earthworks testify to one thing: there were large, organized communities in Kansas at least 400 to 600 years ago. Digging a 2-meter-wide ditch around a 2,000-square-meter patch of land is a big project, and you need organization, people, and resources to pull it off. That lends support to the idea that the sites clustered along the Walnut River were actually one large concentration of people, rather than the traces of a smaller group that lived in different places at different times.
> That, in turn, supports the idea that the settlements clustered along the Walnut River may have been Etzanoa, the large settlement Spanish conquistadors described in the 1590s and early 1600s. In 1590, an unauthorized Spanish expedition set off northward in search of Quivira, a fabled city of gold. The expedition met a violent end, probably in what is now central Kansas. Its sole survivor, an indigenous man from Mexico named Jusepe, made it home and described “a large settlement extending for many miles along a river, with houses built of grass roofs closely spaced together and surrounded by agricultural fields,” wrote Casana and his colleagues.
> A few years later, in 1601, Oñate set out to find the settlement Jusepe had described. When he found a large community on the Plains, he captured a local resident and tortured the man until he revealed the name of the city: Etzanoa. If Oñate’s estimate of 1,200 to 2,000 houses was accurate, Etzanoa may have been the largest city north of Mexico at the time.
Chatted with Jay on Jitsi for a while.
Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: cucumber, banana, coffee, Cheetos
Lunch: orange, egg and avocado wrap
Dinner: Cheetos
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