Ben Lovett
http://www.benlovett.com
Sophia
A Sound Of Thunder
For The New Year, Ray Bradbury’s Buoyant Vision Of The Future
January 2, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/01/02/373248603/for-the-new-year-ray-bradburys-buoyant-vision-of-the-future
A Sound Of Thunder and Other Stories (once known, in a different format, as The Golden Apples of the Sun) is the one that I want to carry with me on into this new year. In it are both sides of Ray — from Bradbury the Destructor, smashing worlds and mucking up timelines, to that barefoot kid lying on his back in the summer grass and staring, entranced, up into the stars.
Python @ Codecademy
Internet Protocols and Support
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/internet.html
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/urllib.request.html
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None keyword
example: i = A
i = None
Building lists
evens_to_50 = [i for i in range(51) if i % 2 == 0]
print(filter(lambda x: x % 3 == 0, my_list))
>>>for i in filter(lambda x: x[0] == “P”, languages):
print(i)
Python
>>> languages[2]
‘Python’
Just a Little BIT
Welcome to an intro level explanation of bitwise operations in Python!
Bitwise operations might seem a little esoteric and tricky at first, but you’ll get the hang of them pretty quickly.
class Fruit(object):
“””A class that makes various tasty fruits.”””
def __init__(self, name, color, flavor, poisonous):
self.name = name
self.color = color
self.flavor = flavor
self.poisonous = poisonous
def description(self):
print “I’m a %s %s and I taste %s.” % (self.color, self.name, self.flavor)
def is_edible(self):
if not self.poisonous:
print “Yep! I’m edible.”
else:
print “Don’t eat me! I am super poisonous.”
lemon = Fruit(“lemon”, “yellow”, “sour”, False)
lemon.description()
lemon.is_edible()
class PartTimeEmployee(Employee):
def calculate_wage(self, hours):
self.hours = hours
return hours * 12.00
def full_time_wage(self, hours):
return super(PartTimeEmployee, self).calculate_wage(hours)
class Car(object):
condition = “new”
def __init__(self, model, color, mpg):
self.model = model
self.color = color
self.mpg = mpg
def display_car(self):
print “This is a %s %s with %s MPG.” % (self.color, self.model, self.mpg)
def drive_car(self):
self.condition = “used”
my_car = Car(“DeLorean”, “silver”, 88)
print(my_car.condition)
my_car.drive_car()
print(my_car.condition)
class ElectricCar(Car):
def __init__(self, model, color, mpg, battery_type):
self.model = model
self.color = color
self.mpg = mpg
self.battery_type = battery_type
my_car = ElectricCar(“Dodge Stratus”, “white”, 18,”molten salt”)
{Is there need to re-define everything??}
my_list = [i**2 for i in range(1,11)]
# Generates a list of squares of the numbers 1 – 10
f = open(“output.txt”, “w”)
for item in my_list:
f.write(str(item) + “\n”)
f.close()
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with open(“text.txt”, “w”) as textfile:
textfile.write(“Success!”)
with open(“text.txt”, “w”) as my_file:
my_file.write(“I am Sam”)
Friction Can Save Your Sandwich
Friction Can Save Your Sandwich, And Other Tips For Better Bites
October 13, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/13/355115593/friction-can-save-your-sandwich-and-other-tips-for-better-bites
“Give a lot of thought to the interior layering of your components,” he says. In particular, “watch out for slippery components like sliced cucumbers, tomatoes and avocados.”
He calls this “the sliced cucumber conundrum.” But it can be solved with “the silver lining of greens.” Instead of keeping all the slippery ingredients together, Pashman recommends separating them with thin layers of greens in between to create friction.
Facing A Blank Page Is ‘Bravest Thing’ A Writer Does
Novelist Nuruddin Farah: Facing A Blank Page Is ‘Bravest Thing’ A Writer Does
October 25, 2014
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/25/358322551/novelist-nuruddin-farah-facing-a-blank-page-is-bravest-thing-a-writer-does
03:30 … did you set out to learn a lot about photography? Is this a hobby for you or what?
Kaleidoscope (by Tiesto)
Songs To Shake The Dance Floor
Tiesto (feat. Jonsi)
Album: Kaleidoscope
Song: Kaleidoscope
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125166444
Headlining this year’s festival is Dutch DJ and producer Tiesto.
As arguably the most famous DJ in the world, Tiesto’s influence in dance music cannot be overstated.
His star power has helped to change the way DJs are perceived: They’ve gone from anonymous faces behind turntables to iconic musicians.
On the title track from his latest album, Kaleidoscope, he teams up with Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi. The Icelandic singer’s haunting falsetto builds the first five minutes of this song, and releases it to a trance-y explosion of synthesizers. The latter half of the piece is more typical of Tiesto’s sound.
Osprey Orielle Lake: Nature As Guide
Nature As Guide In Perilous Times with Osprey Orielle Lake
New Dimensions. December 4, 2013
http://www.newdimensions.org/nature-as-guide-in-perilous-times-with-osprey-orielle-lake-2
her adventures in nature, one of which was to take some inner city young people to the desert where, for the first time in their lives, they experienced the full measure of the night sky filled with stars.
there is no substitute for the visceral experience of “looking up at night sky and taking a moment to realize, wow, we’re on this spaceship earth, as Bucky Fuller was famous to say . . . how does that affect our actions and our choices when we remember that we are part and particle of this great, mysterious, numinous journey called life; I think the stars give us that.
When we don’t have that, our experience as a human being is actually diminished.
I think we need the measure of seeing the stars, remember where we are, why we’re here, what we’re doing here in this truly amazing miracle called life.”
Book: The last child in the woods
neophilia?
patient recovery is faster when they have a window
author: Bucky Fuller:
“the best thing you can do is start building the reality you want, and other people will come”
Moldives Islands: to another country
book:
Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature (White Cloud Press 2010)
http://www.ospreyoriellelake.com
Topics explored in this dialogue include:
◦ Why nature programs on TV should not be a substitute for being in nature
◦ Why is it necessary for children to have time to play in nature
◦ Why it is important to see the full night sky beyond the city lights
◦ Why we need to listen to indigenous peoples, who have been holding many keys to ancestral knowledge
