Irrational Exuberance

archive / 2008 / February

1. Title: Quick Reflections on JET in Haiku
   Tags: JET japan
   Series: JET: Culture and Communication

   A quick summary of my current feelings about the JET Program in haiku.

2. Title: Assigning One To Many Relationships in CoreData
   Tags: Cocoa CoreData ObjC

   A few brief code snippets on how to add an instance of an entity to another entity's one-to-many relationship.

3. Title: Spring Doesn't Come in February, But Snow Does
   Tags: JET japan

   The weather here is insane. It was getting above freezing and fairly pleasant for the last four or five days, but then it all flipped.

4. Title: On Writing
   Tags: thoughts writing

   It turns out that I spend a lot of time writing. I have developed my own aesthetic, and today it seemed like a good time to write about that aesthetic, and also the process of learning to write.

5. Title: Filtering Arrays in Objective C
   Tags: ObjC functional

   A quick look at how to filter NSArrays in Objective C.

6. Title: Teaching Elementary Classes as an ALT
   Tags: JET education elementary japan
   Series: English in Japan

   Teaching elementary lessons has been one of the banes of my time as an Assistant Language Teacher. It just isn't part of my job that I enjoy. Here are a few tips and thoughts about the experience.

7. Title: My First Sickday in Japan
   Tags: JET japan

   Had a weird morning today...

8. Title: Midnight Philosophy in The Garden of Good and Evil
   Tags: thoughts

   Whatever one might be tempted to label it as, its just a disjoint collection of sentence scribed by someone who ought to be in bed.

9. Title: Seeking Some Music I Can't Find
   Tags: IDM music

   I have been desperately searching for a piece of music that will resonate with my current state of being. Here is a travel log of the beginning of this journey.

10. Title: Some Biased Analysis of Music Videos
    Tags: music

    Although not very many people have been exposed to this minor hobby of mine, every once in a while I spend a week or two watching a lot of music videos. From these studies I have learned a thing or two about what makes music videos click.

11. Title: Using Our Own Software
    Tags: software thoughts

    Do you have software that you wrote that you use on a daily basis? A few programs, or none at all? Why or why not?

12. Title: Using Optional Parameters in Django Urls
    Tags: django python

    A simple but helpful trick for using optional parameters in Django views to allow one view to serve multiple urls with varying parameters.

13. Title: Technical Aspects of the Life Flow Editor
    Tags: django lifeflow lifeflow-editor

    A discussion about some of the technical aspects involved in the implementation of the LifeFlow Editor. Some Django snippets included.

14. Title: Introducting the LifeFlow Editor
    Tags: lifeflow

    Its taken a while, but I've finally gotten around to writing an editor for LifeFlow which will replace using the Django admin. Its not completely finished, but a lot of the functionality is here.</p> <p> <strong> Don't play with this on your production deployments yet, its being a bit weird on converting between Drafts and Entries </strong></p>