§ The snow that was threatened for this week did indeed arrive Monday morning and stuck around through Tuesday. I had to dig through the garage for a snow brush to clean off my car and the quail’s water froze solid—proper winter weather. By the weekend temperatures were back up to acceptable autumn levels.
§ I also heard Christmas music while out shopping. Criminally early, if you ask me.
§ On Wednesday my copy of The School of Night, the fourth book in Knausgaard’s Morning Star series, arrived from the UK. I’ve only just started reading it but I’m excited to continue.
§ On Thursday I started prototyping a project that involved edge-lighting custom laser cut acrylic panels with individually-addressable LED light strips. The plan is that eventually the colors and animated patterns of the lights will correspond to live API data from a local environmental monitoring sensor. We will see how that goes.
§ I watched the first few of episodes of Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s new show. It feels spiritually similar to Mrs. Davis though not quite as successful, at least so far. It’s stylish and inventive, well shot and acted but a bit one-dimensional. It doesn’t help that there is only one fully fleshed out character.
§ I also watched the fifth season of Slow Horses. It’s good, just like the previous four seasons, precisely because it is basically the same formula as the previous four seasons just with a few minor elements shuffled around.
§ On Saturday I helped teach an introduction to 2D CAD to a local First Robotics team. It has been a couple of years since I’ve done any true ‘classroom-style’ teaching. All things considered, I think it went pretty well.
