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Story Idea

Right now, I am working on the idea for a story and the concept is something similar to that of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and, to a lesser degree, Beyond Earth. This concept would be based around a ground of people and various civilizations coming together to form their own nations in a strange new...

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The Enclave and Fallout (West Virginia Branch Intro)

One branch of the Enclave was able to reside in West Virginia after the bombs fell. They lost contact with the main branch off the coast of California living in an oil rig, so they form their own splinter faction. This branch is based in the Whitespring Resort, which is based on the real-life Greenb...

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The Enclave and Fallout (Overview)

Years after the bombs fell and America - as well as the rest of the world- became covered in radiations, The Enclave would come out of their hiding with a very specific ideology: the belief that all mainland humans as mutants, save for those who were hidden in bunkers and fallout shelters known as v...

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The Enclave and Fallout (Pre-War)

Right now, I am getting ready to work on a personal project, but before that, I am reading about the different factions for Fallout. The one I am currently reading about is the Enclave. Basically, in Fallout, the world in devastated during a nuclear world called the Great War and your main character...

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Nothing Much But Spanish

All I am doing is working at the office, nothing more and nothing less. I am also taking some course on Spanish to add more to my vocabulary through Duolingo:The meat - la carneA cheese sandwich - un sandwich de quesocheese - quesofish - pescadohamburger - hamburguesaA glass - un vasosugar - azucarc...

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Scala Programming Language Intro

Scala stands for "scalable language" and is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming (multi-paradigm)also object-orientedDesigned to be conciseScala is the 25th most popular programming language in February 2020 according to the TIOBE indexLicense: Apache...

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Duolingo and Work

Duolingo is an app I am using for a while in order to learn Spanish and Esperanto. It has allowed me to start learning basic works and phrases while only needing to work on these languages during my breaks. Many people find this app annoying, but I think it is pretty ok. Anyway, there is nothing els...

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Continued Teaching

Now I preparing to teach a student about Data Warehouses. These are technologies that aggregate data from multiple sources so they can be compared and analyzed for various purposes. They can:Hold data for a long period of timeoptimize operations for reading datahold data for long periods of timeHold...

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Pre-Calculus Notes

Today, I am tutoring a student in complex numbers, so I am going to use my journal to type up some notes before the study session: Polar Form of Complex Number:x + yj = r(cos0 + jsin0) where j = sqrt(-1)r = sqrt(x^2 + y^2)In polar form, 0 can be expressed as radians or degrees *Radian = degree...

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Tutoring

I work as a tutor for Varsity Tutors in addition to working my regular 9 to 5 job. If fact, I have worked as a tutor for about five years now - two for Varsity Tutors and three with Oneclass. I tutor people who are in high school or in college in various different subjects. My main focuses are Compu...

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Python Intro

As a programmer, I use many programming languages and currently my favorite one to use is Python. Python is currently a very popular programming language: the third most popular programming language of February 2020 according to the TIOBE Index (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/), only behind Java ...

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Miyake-jima

Right now, I am reading interesting information about the city of Miyake-jima, a small inhabited volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea. It is a Japanese city exists at the base of an active volcano that releases lethal levels of sulfuric gas at regular intervals. Yet, people s...

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