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Health - Undo minor case of hip impingement ( sitting down too much! ) - Connect with more people / foster better relationships. Who knew making friends in a
by olingern 9y ago
Health
- Undo minor case of hip impingement ( sitting down too much! )
- Connect with more people / foster better relationships. Who knew making friends in a city could be so hard?
Programming
- Finish SICP. Made it through four chapters with co-workers, and then everyone dropped off.
- Continue exploring functional programming
- Finish my homegrown Japanese kana / kanji language learning tool
Other:
- Take some of the wisdom from this thread[1], and make myself more "marketable" through blogging, giving talks, etc.
- Pass the JLPT 3 test
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994410
- Broken_Hippo 9y ago"Who knew making friends in a city could be so hard?" I've never found a place where it was easy to make friends, though the easiest has seemed to be language class full of other immigrants. We all had that one thing in common.
- olingern 9y ago> I've never found a place where it was easy to make friends, though the easiest has seemed to be language class full of other immigrants. We all had that one thing in common. Learning and/or shared discomfort has seemed to foster the closest relationships I've had to date. Perhaps, it's time for more classes. Coming from the countryside, it's such a strange paradox -- to be surrounded by so many people, but alone at the same time.
- sirtel 9y agoIs the Japanese learning tool online? Are you going to share it with others? I'm just curious.
- olingern 9y agoIt's still in development. I didn't think anyone would be interested, since I see one pop up on /r/learnjapanese each month. Perhaps, I'll clean it up and submit my first ShowHN