Notes Index
 
Learning:
The Journey of a Lifetime
or
A Cloud Chamber of the Mind
 
Journal Index

 

Mathematics
Date
#
Description
Jan 23/07 Review and organization of my personal mathematics books
Jan 24/07 Create concept maps for my Learning of mathematics
Jan 26/07 Make notes for "Mathematics: A Human Endeavor" by Harold Jacobs ch 1
     
Mar 13/07 Make notes for "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems" ch 1 Linear Equations and Inequalities
Mar 15/07 Make notes for "Calculus" by Larson ch p.2 Linear Models and Rates of Change
Mar 16/07 Review Mathematica procedures for graphing equations
Mar 17/07 Make changes to graphs and overall notebook format
Mar 19/07 Make notes for "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems" ch 2 Polynomials
Mar 21/07 Make notes for "Calculus" by Spivak ch 3 Functions
Mar 22/07 Read & make notes on Spivak, chap. 3 Functions
Mar 23/07 Read & make notes on "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems" ch 2 Polynomials
     
Apr 12/07 Begin reading & making notes for "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete" by Frederick Goodman
Apr 13/07 Read & make notes for chap 1 on Goodman "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete"
Apr 14/07 Read & make notes for chap 1 on Goodman "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete"
Apr 15/07 Read & make notes for chap 1 on Goodman "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete"
     
Jul 08/07 Read & make notes for section 1.4 on Goodman "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete"
Jul 09/07 Read & make notes for section 1.4 on Goodman "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete"
Jul 16/07 Problems 1.1 - 1.6 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 17/07 Problems 1.7 - 1.8 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 18/07 Problems 1.9 - 1.20 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 20/07 Problems 1.21 - 1.27 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 21/07 Pages 1 - 3 of Schaum's Outline "Modern Abstract Algebra"
Jul 22/07 Section 1.1 of Herstein's "Abstract Algebra"
Jul 23/07 Problems 2.1 - 2.12 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 24/07 Section 1.2 of Herstein's "Abstract Algebra"
Jul 25/07 Read & make notes for section 1.2 on Ayres "Modern Abstract Algebra"
Jul 26/07 Complete 2.13 - 2.22 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 27/07 Complete 2.28 - 2.32 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 28/07 Complete 3.1 - 3.8 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 29/07 Complete 3.9 - 3.30 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Jul 30/07 Complete 4.1 - 4.10 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
     
Aug 02/07 Work with both calculus and "A Transition to Advanced Mathematics"
Aug 04/07 Complete 4.11 - 4.21 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Aug 05/07 Complete 4.22 - 4.26 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Aug 06/07 Make some general notes on my approach.
Aug 07/07 Complete 4.29 - 4.34 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"
Aug 08/07 Complete 5.1 - 5.8 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"; notes for wk 1a
Aug 09/07 Complete 5.9 - 5.12 of "The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems"; notes for wk 1b
Aug 10/07 Complete notes for week 1a, 1b and 2a
Aug 11/07 Complete notes for week 2b
Aug 12/07 Complete notes for week 3a
Aug 13/07 Complete notes for week 3b
Aug 14/07 Complete notes for week 4a
Aug 16/07 Review notes for linear equations
Aug 17/07 Mathematica notebooks for week 1a, 1b & 2a
Aug 18/07 Mathematica notebooks for week 2b, notes for 4b
Aug 19/07 Mathematica notebooks for week 3a, 3b, 4a & 4b
Aug 20/07 Complete notes for week 5a, Mathematica notebook for 5a
Aug 21/07 Complete notes for week 5b
Aug 23/07 Complete exercises for Factoring Difference of Squares in Weiner p. 3 - 4
Aug 24/07 Complete exercises for Factoring Difference of Cubes in Weiner p. 5 - 6
Aug 26/07 Complete exercises for Factoring a^n-b^n and a^n+b^n in Weiner p. 7 - 10
Aug 27/07 Make notes for material on finding the roots of polynomials
Aug 28/07 Complete exercises on Arithmetic with Polynomial Fractions in Weiner p. 11 - 14
Aug 29/07 Complete exercises on Polynomial Division in Weiner p. 15 - 16
Aug 30/07 Complete exercise on Lines and Planes in Weiner p. 17 - 24
Aug 31/07 Complete exercise on Lines and Planes in Weiner p. 25 - 28
     
Sep 01/07 Complete exercises on Linear & Quadratic Equations in Weiner p. 29 - 36
Sep 02/07 Complete exercises on Linear & Quadratic Equations in Weiner p. 37 - 38
Sep 03/07 Complete exercises on Linear & Quadratic Equations in Weiner p. 39 - 42
Sep 07/07 Complete exercises on Linear & Quadratic Equations in Weiner p. 43 - 44
 
 

Technology 2007
Date
#
Description
Jan 01 /07 Creation of web site for Learning 2007
Jan 02/07 Charge iPod; review iTunes website; update iTunes software to 7.0.2; play some music
Jan 07/07 Review various digital photo storage devices.
Jan 08/07 Purchase a digital photo storage device (Epson P-3000)
Jan 09/07 Learn to use digital photo storage device (Epson P-3000)
Jan 10/07 Experiment with different settings for Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Jan 14/07 Transfer images from PC to Mac
Jan 15/07 Remove a file folder that contained many "user" files
Jan 20/07 Download music from iTunes
     
Feb 03/07 Begin notes for "iPhoto 5" book
Feb 04/07 Make notes for "iPhoto 5" chapters 2 - 4
Feb 06/07 Make notes for "iPhoto 5" chapter 5
Feb 07/07 Make notes for "iPhoto 5" chapter 6
     
May 24/07 Make notes for chap. 1 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
May 29/07 Make notes for chaps. 2 & 3 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
     
Jun 08/07 Make notes for chap. 4 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 09/07 Make notes for chap. 5 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 10/07 Make notes for chap. 6 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 11/07 Make notes for chap. 6 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 14/07 Make notes for chap. 7 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 14/07 Make notes for chap. 8 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 15/07 Make notes for chap. 9 of "Dreamweaver 8" by Short & Green
Jun 17/07 Make notes for chap. 1 of "SAMS Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days"
Jun 18/07 Make notes for chap. 2 of "SAMS Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days"
Jun 19/07 Make notes for chap. 3 of "SAMS Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days"
Jun 22/07 Make notes for chap. 1 of "Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge"
Jun 26/07 Make notes summarizing activities of the last few days
 
 

Literature 2007
Date
#
Description
Jan 01/07 Complete reading "The View From Castle Rock" by Alice Munro
Jan 02/07 Complete reading "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf" - Jacob's Room
Jan 03/07 Notes for Jacob's Room
Jan 06/07
Read & make notes for "Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life" chaps 5 - 7
Jan 09/07 Make notes for "Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life" chaps 8 - 9.
Jan 12/07 Make notes for "The Waves" by Virginia Woolf.
Jan 13/07 Read "Virginia Woolf: The Inner Life" chaps 11-12; Read "Three Guineas" by Virginia Woolf
Jan 16/07 Complete notes for "Between the Acts" and "Virginia Woolf: The Inner Life"
Jan 17/07 Begin reading and making notes for "Passage to Juneau" by Jonathan Raban
Jan 22/07 Complete notes for "Passage to Juneau" by Jonathan Raban
Jan 25/07 Make notes for "The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle" by Monique Proulx
Jan 30/07 Make notes for "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon
     
Feb 08/07 Make notes for "The Big Why" by Michael Winter
Feb 25/07 Make notes for "The Tale of the Heike" translated by Helen Craig McCullough
     
Mar 03/07 Make notes for "The Cold Moon" by Jeffrey Deaver
Mar 15/07 Make notes for "Runaway" by Alice Munro
Mar 21/07 Make notes for "Baudolino" by Umberto Eco
Mar 23/07 Make notes for "The Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino"
     
Apr 01/07 Make notes for "Of This Earth" by Cormac McCarthy
Apr 04/07 Make notes for "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Apr 09/07 Make notes for Book I of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
Apr 10/07 Make notes for Book II of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
Apr 12/07 Make notes for Book III of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
Apr 14/07 Make notes for Book III of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
Apr 25/07 Make notes for Book IV of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
Apr 26/07 Make notes for Book V of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
Apr 29/07 Make notes for Book V of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
 
 
May 03/07 Make notes for Book VI & VII of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
May 12/07 Make notes for Book VIII of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
May 16/07 Make notes for Book IX of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
May 19/07 Make notes for Book X of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
 
 

Psychology 2007
Date
#
Description
May 24/07 Read & make notes for "Why Good People Do Bad Things" by James Hollis
     

Science 2007
Date
#
Description
June 24/07 Read & make notes for chaps 1 - 2 of "The Canon"
June 27/07 Read & make notes for chaps 3 - 4 of "The Canon"
June 29/07 Read & make notes for chaps 4 - 5 of "The Canon"
     
July 01/07 Read & make notes for chaps 6 - 7 of "The Canon"
July 06/07 Read & make notes for chaps 8 - 9 of "The Canon"
     

History 2007
Date
#
Description
February 09/07 Notes for "The Maya" by Michael Coe
     

Philosophy 2007
Date
#
Description
Mar 25/07 Begin reading "How Are We To Live?" by Peter Singer
     

Model Trains 2007
Date
#
Description
Jan 02/07 Trim and install coal loads onto 100 ton quad hopper cars.
Jan 03/07 Install a base under the coal mine structure.
Jan 04/07 Lay roadbed and nail track down in Pine Ridge, the Channon and Queenston.
Jan 05/07 Finish laying roadbed and nailing track in the Channon and in Coaldale.
Jan 06/07 Create a stand-alone web site for my model train activities.
Jan 11/07 Review of track planning software
Jan 12/07 Review track planning software. Download & install XTrkCad 3.1.4. Purchase 3rd PlanIt.
Jan 13/07 Follow tutorial for 3rdPlanIt (Manual p. 3 - 8)
Jan 18/07 Follow tutorial for 3rdPlanIt (Manual p. 8 - 13)
Jan 28/07 Continue assembly of coaling tower
Jan 31/07 Begin tutorial for 3rdPlanIt version 8.
 
 

Birding 2007
Date
#
Description
Feb 12/07 Day 1 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 13/07 Day 2 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 14/07 Day 3 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 15/07 Day 4 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 16/07 Day 5 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 17/07 Day 6 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 19/07 Day 8 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 20/07 Day 9 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 21/07 Day 10 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 22/07 Day 11 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 25/07 Day 14 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 27/07 Day 16 of our trip to Mexico
Feb 28/07 Day 17 of our trip to Mexico
     
Mar 10/07 Trip to Lethbridge coulee
     
Apr 21/07 Trip to Nicholas Sheran park
Apr 22/07 Trip to Par 3 golf area
Apr 23/07 Trip to Henderson Lake, Pitcher Butte and Kehoe Lake.
Apr 24/07 Trip to Stirling
Apr 26/07 Trip to Kinbrook Island Provincial Park
Apr 30/07 Trip to Pakowki Lake
 
 
May 01/07 Trip to Crowsnest Pass & Waterton
May 15/07 Trip to Jasper
May 25/07 Trip to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
May 30/07 Trip to Par 3 golf area
     
Jun 04/07 Trip near Beaverhill Lake, near Tofield
 
 

GO 2007
Date
#
Description
 
 

Recipes 2007
Date
#
Description
Jan 19/07 Slow-cooker Beef Brisket with Beer
Jan 19/07 Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole
Jan 20/07 Pork Sausage with Apricots
Jan 26/07 Glazed Chicken with Cashews
Jan 28/07 Cajun Meat Loaf
     
Mar 13/07 Baked Creamed Spinach
Mar 17/07 Yellow Split Pea Soup With Ham
Mar 18/07 Avocado & Lime Black Bean Salsa
Mar 18/07 Broccoli & Red Pepper Medley