The Holdun Consistent Calendar has 12 months of 4 weeks and 28 days. Each week begins on a Monday (as per ISO standard). The clock runs only on Universal Time.
The benefits are many regarding consistency of scheduling while ignoring 29,30,31 day weeks starting on every which day, leap years, seasonal time changes, time zones, and more.
While the HCC and a traditional clock do not align during a given calendar year, by the end of the year they are momemtarily matching to start a new year. There are tools in the HCC to convert from one calendar to the other.
Random Music Notes is a proof of concept attempt to show that hearing audio information in a random order and unpredictable moments fosters long-term momory of that information.
The user controls how many times the program will attempt to produce a sound (a note is played or not based on a random outcome) and how frequenly the random outcome plays a note.
This program writes a short story about the topic of your choice in your native language as well as a language you are learning, at an educational level of your choice.
The output is a prompt that can be ported to the Chat AI program of your choice where the story output in two languages and a list of vocabulary words taken from the story in both chosen languages is generated.
An attempt to automate the latter process to seemlessly create the output within this program via an API to the Chat AI has failed thus far.
Memory Assistant is a platform that lets users easily learn or review information on any subject from the built-in library.
The questions on a given subject may be separated by keywords, be it sub category or level or chapter.
This is a proof of concept of a new kind of diagramming that utilizes colors and symbols to identify parts of speech and word usage in a sentence. The user investigates each word in a sentence, noting its usage in a Reporter's Notebook. A Sketch (Diagram) is then drawn (in a Reporter's Sketchbook)showing how these words are connected or encapsulated in phrases or clauses.
The sentences for this exercise are twenty one quotes from Disney movie songs. These demostrate a variety of sentence types and word funtions. A traditional diagram of each quote is provided for comparison.
There is limited programming involved here. The work is a google doc with a Publish to the Web code embeded into HTML iframe code.
This is a literary and Spnish language exploration - one sentence at a time written in Google docs - of one of the great novels written in Spanish - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize for Literature awarded author Gabriel García Márquez.
My exploration incorporates a simpler but still effective method of tearing sentences apart as was the visual pencil and ruler line diagrams I learned in grade school and came to love for its challenge of examining the function of each word and how it relates to other parts of a sentence. It is this aspect that leads me to include it in my list od programs.
Because the document linked to is a work in progress and will grow to many hundreds of pages, only the first ten sentences are available here to give a sense of the nature of this project. Contact me if you have an interest in seeing the document upto where I've got to by that time.
Peace of Mind is a program to address the large and growing problem of aging adults living alone having no means of communciation with friends and relatives should they be in a distressful situation or possibly deceased.
The main idea is that the at risk person communicates with the app - check-in - within a given time period. If that doesn't happen a series of events takes place including at a point the notification of others that the person should be physically checked in with.
This is an app in progress with the sticky point largely being access to the WhatsApp platform to communicate with those involved as necessary. And without an expensive alternative such as Twilio.
Often Spanish language learners are confused as to the rules of how to pronounce a given word.
This program not only offers the correct pronunciation of an entered word (in common English letters for each pronunciation unit) but also explains the rules governing the pronunciation applicable to that particualar word. Additionally the word is broken down into sylables, again with an explantion of the rules determining how the given word was broken apart as it was.
A link to spanish dictionary allows the user to explore the definition of the word, and examples of it used in sentences.
View randomly selected combinations of Adjectives and Nouns that inspire emotional responses.
This site can be used to provide or stimulate ideas for songs, books, media posts, jokes, advertisements, personal philosophy, amusement, ..., .
A note on the major music scale (A flat to G sharp) is audibly presented to the user and identified.
Any given note is presented randomly both in content and time interval between notes.
Whether or not this technique fosters learning and retention is thus far unknown. My theory is that the unexpected (being random as to what note will be played and when) will make a remembered experience ad rhe brain cannot predict when it will occur and what the note will be.
The user sees the Parts and Sub Parts of Speech of the words that make up any phrase, clause, or sentence entered.
A Glossary offers definitions of the Parts and Sub Parts of the words identified in the Report.
Buy and Sell Tweedle Coin based on the Tweedle Dum Tweedle Dee Coin flip competition.
Use Buy and Sell timing strategies to try to amass a fortune (or at least a profit) in the wacky Tweedle Dum tweedle Dee Tweedle Coin flip comprtition. If Tweedle Dum wins your wealth increases. If Tweedle Dee wins, you lose wealth.
Convert any temperature to/from Celsius, Fahrenheit, Holdun, Kelvin temperature scales.
Short descripion of each temperature scale with a link to a more detailed information page.
Draft Wikipedia page for the Holdun Temperature Scale.
Page includes reasons why the Holdun scale was created, and background on the inventor, James Holdun. There are also tables of Temperature Scale Comparisons at significant temperatures, The Holdun Scale, and formulas used to convert between the temperature scales.