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¡Tengo muchos años! T_T
(30 Sep at 21:54) |
Hello team!
I turned 45! It happens every year (not the same age, but the same feeling, of time marching forward, with me along with it) so no big surprise. This weekend was the Great Race, also every year, but I unsubscribed from their e-mail list at some point months ago because they seem to operate this list under the misconception that subscribers want to think about Great Race 24/7 all year round. I thought: It should be easy to just remember when the Great Race is, as it always falls on the weekend near my birthday, and I do not need a list constantly mailing me reminders. Easy. But then I forgot about the Great Race, so I didn't run it.
I did take the day off for my birthday despite this being the busy time of year at work, which was worth it: I made some good progress on some projects that had been backed up in my anxiety-brain for some time. Of course they are confidential, but here is a graphic of some significant progress:
Minusweeper
I forgot to mention this one when I did it, but did you know that you can "buy" a Unicode codepoint, by making a donation to the Unicode consortium? So of course I bought ASCII 0x37, which is the digit 7.
True story: I did a lot of film photography when I was younger, and although I do miss film, I'll admit that the saddest thing I feel about its obsolescence is actually that those little black plastic film canisters are no longer all over the place to be repurposed to hold little objects. I found them very satisfying and useful! Fortunately now that I'm old I found another similar ubiquitous shape, which is these orange prescription medicine bottles. I've been using those for a while to "organize" small parts like screws (e.g. when I take something apart that I might want to put back together, I put the screws in the medicine bottle and label it) but then they just roll around in the drawer of crap. So this:
RxBox, Unpopulated 
RxBox, Populated
A very simple part, of course, but what could be more satisfying than 3d printing your own holder for canisters for fasteners that goes in a drawer in a cabinet?
And speaking of satisfying, I finally finished Chippy (regular difficulty) which was really quite hard. Several of the last bosses I had to practice over several evenings before I beat them! It was a good and creative game, though. I'm mid-way through Solar Ash, which is good (but it's no Hyper Light Drifter IMO!) and just started playing Satisfactory, since they finally put out a 1.0 version of that. It's quite well done, but I'm not sure if I actually like it (seems a bit heavy on the cookie crafting; in fact I'm letting it craft in the background as I write this). I am getting a kick out of allowing thinking about my messy design as the "saddest factory," a joke which I'm sure occurs to everyone, but that's Game Design! |  |
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| Wait, wait, wait, how much is it for a character? |
| $100 for Bronze, $1,000 for Silver, $5,000 for Gold, at the current moment. |
| Wait, wait, wait, how much is it for a character? |
| God I love http forms. |
| Happy Birthday Tom |
Thanks Late 4!
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| happy bday! |
Happy belated birthday!
I like it when I get unexpected doses of Tom 7, like when I'm watching a video on youtube about zone plates and the photo credit is "Tom Murphy VII" My first thought was, can there really be more than one? Why, of course, but in this case it was the one I hoped it was!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igLNSkbx2M&t=275s
I can't help but wonder what former project involved zone plates! |
| Oh, ha, thanks for sharing that! I don't know why science youtube is so into optics recently but I am happy they are. I think the zone plate is so cool. I never actually did any project with them (though there are some ideas on the list); I just made that image as part of my intense Wikipedia beautification hobby during grad school. |
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