Chandrasekar

Week notes 7: Deepavali

I made a resolution to stay away from Sugar last week. It was a pretty brave thing to do considering it was the week of Deepavali and there was bound to be gratuitous sweets everywhere.

Needless to say, I caved in and ate everything. Anyway, with Deepavali out of the way I have resolved to stay away from Sugar going forward. I watched this documentary called The Truth about Sugar. It is 4 years old and it does not say anything I did not know already but I found the visual approach to sugar interesting. It is definitely worth a watch.

Week notes 6: Netlify CMS

I am pretty chuffed right now. I finally connected this site to Netlify CMS. This means I don’t have to open a text editor on my desktop and push to Github every time I need to post something. I am writing this on my iPad and I am pretty happy with this setup. It took me around 30 minutes to set it up. Should have done this sooner. Without further ado, here are the notes from last week:

Week notes 5: Prince of Egypt

• I hurt my back during workout. Nothing serious. Good thing that it happened closer to the weekend. I am recovering and must stick to Yoga classes next week.
• I spent the weekend watching a few films I have been meaning to catch up with. I watched 'Missing Link' from Laika Studios. They make gorgeous stop motion animated films. It was a good adventure film and well made, but I felt some parts of it were cliched. It did not stick with me after watching.
• I then watched 'Prince of Egypt'. It is a legit classic. Looks beautiful and the story is told with a lot of love and reverance. It does not shy away from showing the darker parts of the story. I think this might go down as one of my all time favorites. I am happy I finally got to watch it.
• I finished Saturday by watching 'State and Main'. I loved 'The Verdict' and wanted to find other films that were written by David Mamet. This was a low key romantic comedy with a great cast and I enjoyed it a lot. It has a calm vibe and great music. Rebecca Pidgeon was super cute. I am surprised she was not big in the 90s.
• I wanted to make more progress on this site but things haven't moved. Hoping to write about it and get things going this weekend.
• I have been listening to "Good Omens" on Libby as an Audiobook. It is narrated by Martin Jarvis and he does a very good job. I have a copy of the physical book as well. I started reading the book and tried listening to the same portions in the Audiobook. I did not find any of the humour missing in the audiobook. If anything, the dramatization made it more fun. This is such a great book.
• I have been spending a lot of time on Twitter and I think it is having a negative impact on my head. My goal next week will be to stay away from Twitter during week days.

Writing about designing this site

I figure I might as well as start writing about my plans for this site. I am clearly not making any progress with the design or even getting this close to where I want it to be. I hope writing about it will help me get out of this rut.

Week notes 4: Battlestar Galactica

This one is going to be short, so here it goes