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What I am Doing Now

I am almost done with college for the time being. However I have some other things I’m working on. Stuff I’ve been planning for a while but I am trying to finally get done.

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First, I have several videos I’m planning. The first is one about Linux, telling people to switch to Linux for general use. Yes, this is because Windows 10 is being discontinued. I do not plan on switching my windows 10 install to 11 I plan on sticking with Linux (which I have done for several years now).

I want to make reviews of several books I am reading. When I read them. I have a long list at the end of this post.

I want to do a lot of different things. I have a curse where I want to do a lot of different things at once but can’t so I end up switching between doing a lot different things and not doing either of them particularly well. The only exception is with Technology stuff which is always my “main focus” in terms of hobbies despite that thing B always changes. Anyway here’s thing B-D I’m working on.

I’m trying to learn how to program in C#. Something I surprisingly haven’t done yet. I can program in Python, C and C++, and can write decent Bash scripts but I haven’t tried to learn C# yet. From there I plan to make a game. The basic concept is that the US government paid some company to make a new fuel substance that doesn’t work that they launched into space. In the future some company is paying you to find all of it because they want to make scented candles out of it.

I had an epiphany that I don’t like modern Minecraft and prefer the 1.6.4 version significantly. I will likely make a mod for that just to improve it slightly so that I can maximize my “fun” with it. “But Nathan you have no experience with Java and you have said previously (not here) that you hate Java as a programming language” shut up I can learn it and suffer.

I keep writing music or improving songs i have written previously and I would like to record music again. I deleted everything except for what is unlisted on my YouTube channel off of BandCamp and backed it up, but a tragedy: the hard drive with the music on it got corrupted so now most of it is lost. Anyway. If I do this it won’t be under my own name but probably as Cardboardknoxmonkey.

Here is a full list of all the books I’m planning reading. Most of these are Orthodox Books because I have kept on buying books from my church’s bookstore. Presented as they are on my bookshelf:

  • In the Desert of the World by Archimandrite Symeon Krayiopoulos
  • A Life Testimony by Metropolitan Saba
  • Exploring the Inner Universe by Archimandrite Roman Braga
  • The Watchful Mind (I have a blessing from my priest to read this one very slowly) by an Anonymous Elder
  • Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  • St. John Chrysostom and The Jesus Prayer
  • Maximos a Novel By Aleka Ritsou
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • On the Aquisations of the Holy Spirit by St. Seraphim of Sarov
  • Vous Viola by E. Howard Hill (I really like this guy’s animated show Fluer de Lis. Go Check it out!)
  • Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius of Pontus by Gabriel Bunge
  • My Elder Joseph the Hesychast by Blessed Ephraim of Arizona
  • Philokalic Library Volume 1: The Lives of Saint Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, Saint Makarios of Corinth, Saint Athanasios Parios
  • Philokalic Library Volume 2: An Apology for Christianity by Saint Athanasios Parios (This one I bought at a Monastery where during the Trapeza they were reading a part from this. So I bought it because it sounded interesting)
  • The Cross of Loneliness: The Correspondence of Saint Sophrony & Archpriest Georges Florovsky
  • The Way of the Pilgrim
  • Way of the Ascetics by Tito Colliander
  • Wounded by Love by Saint Porphyrios
  • The Blessed Surgeon: The Life of Saint Luke of Simferopol by Archdeacon Vasiliy Marushchak
  • Genesis Creation and Early Man by Fr. Seraphim Rose
  • The Writings of Saint John of Damascus (this one specifically)

I have not Acquired these next ones… Yet!

  • For my legionaries by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
  • Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War” by Patrick J. Buchanan
  • The Death of the West by Patrick J. Buchanan
  • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
  • Democracy – The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (technically I have already read this one but I did it a long time ago in a really stupid way)
  • The Federalist Papers (I am surprised I do not have this one)
  • What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard (I also surprised I don’t have this one)
  • End the Fed by Ron Paul (Ok I have to have this one in my house somewhere? My family must have it if I don’t!)
  • Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
  • Jesus in the Talmud Peter Schäfer
  • You Gentiles by Maurice Samuel
  • The Creature from Jekyll Island
  • The Holocaust Industry by Norman G. Finkelstein
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  • The Making of the Modern Mind by John Herman Randall Jr.
  • On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ by Saint Maximos the Confessor
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth