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The title of the post is 'February 2022'
(28 Feb 2022 at 23:05) |
Here we are again! Aside from the usual, my "SIGBOVIK" project is well underway and several parts are already done, so all I really need to do is figure out how many more additions I'm going to try to squeeze in before the deadline. (If there is one! It currently seems like the global malaise / anxiety is afflicting the SIGBOVIK organizing committee (If there is one!) and it's not clear that it will be in full force this year. Hopefully a hero will emerge. In any case I will at least make a video of my silly project for my silly YouTube channel.) I still have two much longer-lived projects close to the finish line, but it's harder to work up the energy when the lines ain't dyin'. Who knows what that's about. Anyway, here's a mysterious image from the new project, which contains almost no information and certainly no spoilers:
Mysterious image from project 'Pingu'
As predicted we finished up this homemade stool made of trash: 
Ampersand stool on dry workbench
In addition to being made of trash, I only used leftover other crap, like instead of using the official fiducial tape for the Shaper Origin (you gonna charge me $17 for a roll of tape??) I used my homemade reverse-engineered pirate markers printed on the laser printer (this is partly responsible for the gouges on the project, no doubt), old sandpaper that's all worn down and loaded with sawdust even though I have stacks of brand new sandpaper, old glue that had dried out but still had one moist part when you peeled off the crinklies and gum, old polyurethane that had a bunch of dirt and rust in it, old wood stain that came with the house and which we applied with old socks that had holes in them, and so on. I think it adds to the fun to use leftovers, and I still think it came out pretty nice. You can compare to the cyber version in post 1201.
Speaking of Cyber I'm still playing Cyberpunk 2077, now at the point where I'm trying to 100% it I guess, which is not challenging except for the grind, which is mostly about moving from place to place since my personal Cyberpunk is just absurdly powerful now. Like even when the bad guys tricked me and took all my clothes and weapons (it was really obvious that they were going to trick me—I'm no Cybernoob—but like I said I want to do all the missions) and put me in the ice bath to steal my cyber-organs, I could still kill everybody in one hit just by breathing on them. To make things more "challenging", a recent update (which is otherwise very nice) made it impossible for me to "fast travel," because I started playing FPS games before the world had standardized on WASD control schemes, so I got used to using the mouse LMB and RMB for "forward" and "back," which is actually a very good control scheme if you ask me (for example easier to temporarily play one-handed if you need to touch your beard, which I do) even though it strikes many people as weird. It also strikes many games as weird, since although they usually let you configure them this way, they also sometimes hard-code on-screen stuff like menus to treat the left mouse button specially as "click this element" (which does of course kinda make sense, although it would be easy enough to just use the "fire" button for this, right?). So a common frustration for me (and sometimes a game-breaking one, alas) is having to use menus or maps where clicking also makes your character move forward or pan upward or something. I imagine it must be what it's like for people who committed themselves to the Dvorak keyboard in 1997. That was definitely happening in C2077 until this latest update but now I can't even click on stuff on the map at all, for example to initiate fast travel. I would probably have figured out a way to work around this or whatever, but since I seem to be close to the end anyway, I'm now just driving myself all the kilometers between missions. Driving around in this game is quite good, at least, owing to the very well-done architecture and scenery. Anyway, I can't help myself but finish, but I'm also itching to be done with this thing since there are a bunch of enticing games enqueued, like the Outer Wilds DLC and Undertale XVII or whatever. |  |
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| Excited to watch the video!!! |
Hi Tom7.
Happy Pi Day!
From your sidewalk chalking partner in crime. |
| Having seen the video, I'm curious how that FFT (I assume) graph was useful. |
| The Cyberpunk bit reminds me of the XKCD about how every change breaks someone's workflow. |
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