Homework - Due Friday, January 20, 2023
A new year suggests a chance to set new goals. At the same time goals need to be achievable and desirable. To that end homework goals will be refocused toward smaller commitments and more variety. At the same time I have some ideas for new things to do together this year along with some classic hits we need to repeat.
The main assignment is to come with a personal goal you want to share with the group along with a goal for another Fribrarian that you want to challenge them to.
For extra credit:
Tell us your view on Pascal case vs. camel case
In thinking about conversational doorknobs, are you a taker or a giver and what can we do to have more doorknobs on this podcast?
Check out the latest IFF:
Check out these unlikely simultaneous historical events from Jason Kottke. For example: “The first wagon train of the Oregon Trail heads out the same year the fax machine is invented.”!!!!
For all you doom-scrolling, pessimistic fans of catastrophizing life, I give you The Extinction Clock. Notice the track record for all those where the prediction time has passed.
Did you know the simple secret of runway digits? Now you do.
The much more likely though much less exciting or fulfilling explanation for UFOs.
Gurwinder gives us 40 useful concepts that we should know.
Here are some goals I'd like to do together in 2023:
Watch a movie (together or separately) and then review it on the pod
Vegas
Lake
Bingo
Comedy club
Karaoke
Cooking class
Escape Room
Get to know the rest of us
Jams (who did it better?):
Thunderstruck
The Final Countdown
California Girls (a callback of sorts to last homework)
David Lee Roth (I saw this video 10,000 times as a kid)
Katy Perry (I know it is not the same song, and I actually don't think I had ever seen this video)
Should be a great year. See you Friday!
[this post's title image is from Stable Diffusion using the prompt: a bar called "the library" on the Las Vegas strip]