House
Things are arriving for installation in the house.. Details in the description for each picture.
Learning
I have a learning style question. A friend of mine (Paul) asked a similar question a few weeks ago about learning new concepts from video material.
Consider the video linked below. It is a classroom video from a Cornell class on non-linear dynamics. This particular video isn’t very technical, and the math used is light high school calculus level. The presentation is a standard college lecture style. The concepts in this video would probably only span 4-5 pages in a written text book.
The question: How is this kind of presentation as a learning tool for you? Could you follow along the with the concepts? Do you pause and think, rewind and play again, take notes? Scream out answers to the questions?
This video is 1h 13 mins long, so I suspect most of you are not going to watch the entire thing. I watched all of these at 1.5x speed since the content rate isn’t super high.
My opinion – and the reason for the question – I like this style, and I can really absorb concepts delivered this way. Am I in the minority or majority?
Also, I must have stacked slidable whiteboards in the new house. Must.
Optics
Switches and optics.. good stuff brewing!
Terms
I have a lot of terminations to do at the new house. I would guess over 1000. On the panel side I’m going to use keystones in place of the standard panels.
One advantage is I can use metal shielded ones for the Cat6A shielded wire, and the regular Cat6 ones for the Cat6/Cat6A unshielded. It also makes the cable management a bit easier as I can move things around.
Driveway
Today was part one of three driveway asphalt installations. Total sq ft is around 28,000, but today was the smallest of the three sections. They used about 7 trucks worth, so around 140 tons of asphalt. In total there should be about 525 tons of asphalt (~ 1 million pounds), and about the same amount of rock.
It was a cool day (50F), but that is workable.
House
Today was part one of three driveway asphalt installations. Total sq ft is around 28,000, but today was the smallest of the three sections. They used about 7 trucks worth, so around 140 tons of asphalt. In total there should be about 525 tons of asphalt (~ 1 million pounds), and about the same amount of rock.
It was a cool day (50F), but that is workable.