{"id":770,"date":"2018-08-18T01:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/?p=770"},"modified":"2018-08-18T01:34:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T06:34:14","slug":"what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/2018\/08\/18\/what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sidetracked from my projects lately.<\/p>\n<p>They are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dennisdarland.com\/my_sw_projects\/physics\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Physics programming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisdarland.com\/my_sw_projects\/index.html#goedel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Porting the Goedel Programming Language<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclectic-philosopher.com\/e_pluribus_unum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are roughly in order of increasing difficulty and increasing importance.<br \/>\nI can write philosophy only when I am inspired.<\/p>\n<p>I can program physics at the level I have gotten to most any time.<br \/>\nAs I progress it will become more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I can work on projects like porting languages most anytime, but it is strenuous and<br \/>\nthere is no guarantee of success.<\/p>\n<p>While doing any of these I usually have something on TV or I get bored.<\/p>\n<p>The options are:<\/p>\n<p>Music.<br \/>\nSports.<br \/>\nNews.<br \/>\nTV Fiction.<br \/>\nListen to book.<\/p>\n<p>These are in increasing order of interfering with the project.<br \/>\nMusic hardly interferes.<br \/>\nSports interferes very little &#8211; but because I can just watch after excitement.<br \/>\nI usually stream sports and can replay.<br \/>\nI usually can get main ideas of news without it interfering much.<br \/>\nUnfamiliar fiction interferes very much &#8211; especially if I am not familiar with the characters.<br \/>\nIf I am replaying fiction (say favorite movies) it interferes very little.<br \/>\nNew books interferes very much.<br \/>\nI think I could re-listen to books without much interference &#8211; I have not tried this much.<\/p>\n<p>I have great difficulties with names and faces.<br \/>\nThis interferes with most of the above.<br \/>\nI.e. listening to music does not interfere with programming, but I have very hard time learning names of artists.<br \/>\nI have hard time remembering names of players in sports.<br \/>\nIn TV fiction, I have hard time recognizing characters from scene to scene even within one TV show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2006\/06\/have-we-met\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Face Blindness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do eventually learn names and faces if I use\/see them often enough.<br \/>\nI suspect the disorder is on a spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sidetracked from my projects lately. They are: Physics programming Porting the Goedel Programming Language Writing Philosophy These are roughly in order of increasing difficulty and increasing importance. I can write philosophy only when I am inspired. I can program physics at the level I have gotten to most&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/2018\/08\/18\/what-to-do\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennisdarland.com\/dennisdaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}