om2 / notes / March 2024
2024-03-02
⚽ The Game
- Documentary from the New Yorker, fantastic!
- with the power of Euler's formula (1740)
- but Cotes had
log(cos x + isin x) = ixin 1714, why do we focus on Euler's form? - ah, StackExchange explains, this complex log was correct at the time but is no more!
🔥 HVAC
- I'm learning about mini-splits
- TOH install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bMb-K_baOI
- another installation walkthrough from WA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8o4K9AYr8 ; multiple outdoor units with an air handler, a variety of vents and several wall-mount units
- can we leverage the existing ducts in the crawlspace??
- Another TOH video where they install an air handler + ducts in the attic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb0UgFisz1E
- Anki uses this platform to run a sort of patreon-type community, pretty cool!
- looks like a handful of corporate entities which you can plug into + a way to manage finances
- "exit to community" is a cool aim as well, where they plan to "mature into ownership by their community of stakeholders"
- incredible set of memoirs, focused on Americans living in East Pakistan in the 60s
- I'm listening to Midnight's Children now, set in the same vicinity
- also just a great project put together by a mother/daughter team, that's really touching
🏡 Siloe Oliveira rebuilds a garden shed
- bricolage!
- wonderful detail and all-around aesthetic
🐚 Eirik Brandal's shell-tethered vesper
- so awesome, I love the scaffolding
🌔 Midnight's Children
- I listened to this phenomenal book by Salman Rushdie via Libby, with great narration by Lyndam Gregory
- It's one of my all time favorites and I can't wait to get into it again -- the characters, setting, brilliant language, history, allusions, surreal elements -- all fantastic
- I liked the recaps and discussions on this book from the podcasts Good Scribes Only and Open Book
- articles to read: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7