Plutonic Rainbows

Today is Epiphany. It also makes me think about this excellent track from the 1991 David Sylvian & Russell Mills collaboration - Ember Glance: The Permanence Of Memory. I particularly have always loved the spoken word samples on this, especially that of Irish Poet, Seamus Heaney, whose words are lifted from A Northern Hoard.

I should to spend some time this weekend going back over the first seven sessions as I find it has become very complex quite quickly - at least for me.

formatter = "%r %r %r %r"

print formatter % (1, 2, 3, 4)
print formatter % ("one", "two", "three", "four")
print formatter % (True, False, False, True)
print formatter % (formatter, formatter, formatter, formatter)
print formatter % (
    "I had this thing.",
    "That you could type up right.",
    "But it didn't sing.",
    "So I said goodnight."
)

Central Processing Unit announced another new album, Alph4 from Maelstrom. It's also available on a limited 12 inch. It comes out on 16th February.

• Followed exercise six, creating multiple strings and text in Python.
• Two hours of written Japanese

Today I learnt that you need to use single quotes when inserting text (that you have not declared as variables) into strings.

print "Mary had a little lamb.
print "Its fleece was white as %s." % 'snow' (not a variable - so I use single quotes)

• I tried to follow a tutorial on how to write variables into strings. I also made conversions from imperial to metric values.
• Studied Japanese for two hours.
• Went walking in the woods.
• Some more Japanese for an hour.
• Took photos of decorations and the outside lights.

The main thing for today is writing variables to strings.

name = Gail
print "%s is a good girl." % name

• Worked through a Python introduction, explaining simple math, the Print command and basics of variables. Built a simple monthly payment calculator.
• Wrote two thousand words for writing project
• Went through kanji cards.