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Unusual Sleep Patterns

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Edited and posted a 9–12 lesson plan, Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music.

Sadly, my other major accomplishment for today is that I didn’t lie back down and take a nap. I’m not the most motivated person, and between that and the fact that I don’t have office hours or anything, I’ve fallen into bizarre sleep patterns.

My inner clock is totally mixed up. I mean, it’s set normally for my body; but the problem is that my body doesn’t like anything like a normal time system. I’ve been up till 4 am the last few nights. Wake back up between 12 and 1 pm. I’m quite rested and all, but the problem is that between my odd schedule and the fact that it’s summer in the UP, I really have no sense what time it actually is. Could be 8 pm. Could be 2 am. No clue.

There’s no real problem with that I guess, since no one cares when I’m awake or what I’m doing. Hell, I’m not sure that anyone would notice one way or the other. I had been spending a lot of time chatting in IRC in the Blogshares channel, but apparently my point of view isn’t meshing with the people in power, so I’ve stopped going there and I’m selling off all my “assets” in the game. The whole series of events has reminded me how territorial the female gender can be. I’m only keeping a handful of things that have sentimental sorts of value—my own blogs and my ideas in the Lord of the Rings industry. Everything else I’ve sold off. I can’t get rid of artefacts, so I’m stuck with those. I wouldn’t sell off the LOTR artefact anyway. Who would sell “The One Ring”?

It was an interesting experiment while it all lasted. I enjoyed chatting with smart people who understood the nerdy things about technology. I guess I missed MOOs more than I thought. But it’s all over now, Baby Blue.


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Another Lesson, Another Web Site

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Edited and posted a 6–8 lesson plan: You Know the Movie is Coming–Now What?

And due to a momentary lapse of sanity, I bought listsoften.com (that’s Lists of Ten, not List Soften because I don’t think they’re soft at all, and not Lists Often because I haven’t written anything in like a decade or something). It just redirects. We are not sure what I have learned from this experience. Maybe that I need a life.


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WordPress

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Apparently my new hobby is to install a piece of software each weekend. Last weekend, Gallery; this weekend, WordPress. Folks in the blogshares online discussion were comparing MT and WordPress, and I was inspired to try WordPress.

It was another easy setup, once the fantastic and fabulous Eric Crump gave me a mysql login. He didn’t even make me explain why I’m fiddling with WordPress when he already has Drupal installed. (It’s cuz I wanted to play, Eric.)

Installation was only a few minutes, but making it do what I want is another issue. I managed to get it to list my bloglines subscriptions as a blogroll, and I added a customized calendar. And I’ve fiddled a great bit over the weekend with the layout. I’m trying to figure out whether I can get it to do what I’m already doing with flat pages AND whether it will go beyond what I’m already doing in ways that would make the trouble of converting everything worth the bother. I’m told that I can easily import the Blogger entries that I already have. The biggest concern is managing the Lists of Ten and other resources that are outside of blogger but that would benefit from the RSS feed.

You can peek at my current status, but realize it is a very rough work in progress. I’m not sure yet, but after two days of playing, I do feel like I accomplished something. Even if I decide not to use it, I’ve learned a good bit about PHP and RSS in the process. Not bad for a weekend procrastination project (e.g., a project that’s real purpose seems to be to provide an excuse not to work on those 125 pages I’m supposed to be writing).


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