Previews from the future - Des aperçus du futur : HSK 1 + HSK 4

Very excited with the progress made these last few weeks!  I'm very confident I'll meet my personal deadline (click to see the post on that).  Here are some last previews of my future work, before I pause posting and make the final push to finish the book.  Enjoy!  Feel free to like or comment below. : )

   Original art - Howard T. Chiam

HSK 4 - 翅膀 - chi\bang\/ - wing

 

 Original art - Howard T. Chiam

HSK 1 -  愛 - ai\ - love

Still can't tell what's going on?  Once all the dust clears in August/September, it'll be clearer when everything comes together.  In context.  With the whole story.

And one final hint:  a few minutes after reading this post, try remembering these pictures. ( :

Bacteria - A Drawing Test Using App/Program

Original art - Howard T. Chiam - 2013

Clocks and Time

Keeping with the apparent clock theme, time is ticking:  I've got about two months left to finish the book before I hit my personal deadline.

Original art Howard C.

Random food for thought:  is time actually linear?
Hmmm...

Original art Howard C.

Some observations of reality assume time is perfectly linear and constant.  But our most accurate observations of time itself are based on the most accurate clocks, themselves arguably inherently imperfect (and hence not perfectly linear and constant).  And how do we know they're so accurate anyways?  I'm actually wondering now:  while making these "more-accurate" clocks for the first time, how do you test that they're more accurate if all you have are "less-accurate" clocks to test/compare them with?

Original art Howard C.

Anyways, the pictures in this post are a test of drawing with superimposed lines/colouring.  The text in this post was just generated/added to surround them.  Heh.

How to Do a 7 Minute Workout - another experiment

I've experimented with a free, intuitive programming language called Scratch.

I also happened to see a news broadcast talking about a 7-minute workout for busy people without gym equipment, apparently with some research behind it.

Put them together and what have you got?  Bippity boppity 7 minute program (see below for embedded version).  I open the on-desktop Scratch interface (API) and put it on full screen, using it as breaks between half hours of work when i decide to use a disciplined schedule of alternating 10-minute "breaks" and 30 minutes of "work".

   Get at least 7 minutes full body resistance+cardio with minimal equipment.
   Repeatable cycles of 7 minutes of high-intensity circuit training.

   News broadcast, video:
   http://globalnews.ca/video/568138/seven-minute-workout

   (I couldn't find the original broadcast I saw, but this looks good enough to see the mechanics of the exercises.)

   Research, still photos:
   http://journals.lww.com/_layouts/1033/OAKS.Journals/Error/JavaScript.html

   Note:  The creator of this program does not solicit or endorse the research, just created it for personal use.  Use at your own discretion.

Here's an embedded version of the code you can try right here:

The code is downloadable at the Scratch website:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11184401/ 
Click "Share to" and the button "Download code" will show up.  It's a file that runs on Scratch programming software.  I found Scratch an interesting, easy programming language.

Personal Deadline: AUGUST - Date limite perso : AOÛT

    I just realized I've been giving a lot of hints as to what the book will be about, but not really giving a date as to when it'll be available for order.  So to let you know when the suspense'll be over, and to give myself a push to prioritize tasks, I'll publicly set a deadline for me to meet:  the book and a link to order it will be made available here by the end of August, at the latest, before September 2013 (before school starts--oh, another hint?).

    Je viens de me rendre compte du fait que je donnais bcp d'indices sur le sujet du livre, mais pas une date qu'il sera disponible à commander. Alors pour que vous puissiez savoir quand la tension dramatique se terminera, et pour me motiver à prioriser les tâches, je vais publiquement annoncer une date limite que je dois satisfaire : le livre puis un lien pour le commander seront disponibles ici à la fin du mois d'août, au plus tard, avant septembre 2013 (avant la rentrée à l'école...oh, un autre indice ?).

Oh boy, that took a little wee bit longer to write. : )
(By the way, all the French has basically nothing to do with the book, but otherwise it'd be a pretty indirect connection--it's just for fun. haha)
班
書
氣
多
海父

Hint numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Original art - Howard C

A break from the book - Batteryless Mechanical Clock - Horloge mécanique sans pile

ça marche ! Il compte une minute à l'aide du poids et du fil.
jpeux changer la vitesse en modifiant soit la longueur du fils, soit le poids, soit les poids milk bag tags (voir les pièces de plastique blanches)

Io debe dicer que iste non esse mi proprie idea, es solmente por le fun!
Io volevea postar un video, ma non functiona. Pardono! Solmente mi amicos pote vider lo in mi computator.