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(30 Jun at 23:59) |
Hello my blog, my ball and chain, my primary source of -1,000 points for lateness. Did I know the month was ending? Yes. Was I sitting at my computer doing something else? Yes. Did I then just get tired and go to bed, forgetting about my chore? Again yes.
One piece of cover is that my site was down yesterday. I foolishly rebooted my server without looking at it, and learned this morning that my magnificent TLS reverse proxy httpv was not actually configured correctly to restart when the server came back online. My invincible website! It had been running continuously since that video, which now seems like a million years ago. I simply had never done systemctl enable httpv. Anyway, that should be okay, but might as well take another -1,000 points.
Next up: I initiated and got deep into a new stupid project, which hopefully I'll have ready for AEOUD in Brooklyn. The project part is "almost done" but I also need to make the story/visuals, which I basically just have the long 4th of July weekend for. So it's getting tight. I'm probably the only idiot in the world who does a new topic for every single appearance, which is probably why I usually just get stressed out and don't even respond to people who kindly e-mail me inviting me to talk somewhere.
But I like newness, which is why I also made myself run out of time by downloading Returnal, which I thought was going to be a straightforward single-player third-person shooter that I could just play through in bits when I needed a break. Turns out is actually a single-player Roguelike bullet-hell third-person shooter, which random-reward genre is known to be addictive to accomplishment-driven players like myself. Might as well take another -1,000 points for that error while we're in the mood. It is a good game, although it is funny to me how incredibly slow the walking-simulator sections are compared to the normal twitchy gameplay. I'm sure that as video game professionals they did this on purpose, but it's impossible for me to imagine someone who likes twitchy dodgy bullet-hell also being patient enough to enjoy a ten second long animation of the player picking up a piece of paper. I have picked up paper multiple times in my life, and done so in at most one second, even wearing a spacesuit.
We've got some record-level heat here! It had better at least reach 100°F if it's going to flirt with that level. |  |
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| New video when! |
| Oh man, that's funny. I was building my website just the other day and added a link to your awesome https site, only to see it fail to connect, resulting in me spending the next few minutes trying to figure out what I did wrong, then ending with me removing the "s" and saying yay when it worked. I think God has a sense of humor. +1000 points or so, if that helps. |
Zane: I'm sorry that I failed you! You'll find the http version is faster anyway :)
Greedy anonymous fan: I'm always working on something for a video. Probably this talk will end up being a video, but since those don't have deadlines I will be following my heart! |
| tom, i will give you the remaining +2,000 points to even out your debt, and +500 extra points as a treat. |
Hi Tom7!
I'm Chloe. I recently sent you an email asking for permission to use your lovely font for our brand logo.
I just wanted to leave a quick message here to make sure my email reached you safely. I know you may be busy, so there's no rush at all. Whenever you have a chance, I'd really appreciate hearing from you.
Thank you so much! |
Lauren: That *is* kinder! Now I'm rich!!
Chloé: The message went to spam (this is annoying to me too), but I found it and replied with the permission you sought. :) |
| Hi, Tom! I found your "Two Turtle Doves" font on 1001 Fonts and love it so much! We've used it in a few small ways in our latest children's book, and I would love to send you a copy once it's available on Amazon. I found a street address in the readme file that came with the font, but I don't know if that's still the correct one. I'd be happy to send you my email address privately. Thank you for your wonderful creativity and for generously allowing others to enjoy your work! Our web site for our children's books (if you're at all interested) is www.mrmustachebooks.com. They came about when my granddaughter was young and afraid of the dark, and I invented a silly character and stories for her. She is now almost through high school, and I have finally gotten around to publishing the books. No money to speak of yet, but we are having a blast and getting great receptions at schools from other kids, parents, and teachers! Thanks, again! |
| Cathy, great! I'm sure the address in the readme is out of date (that font is 30 years old!!), so if you e-mail me at tom7.org I can share a new mailing address. Of course this is optional but I do like seeing the fonts in use. :) |
| I think its funny that a security-oriented browser like Trivalent will still connect to httpv but Firefox, which has been criticized by all the max security people for being insecure, refuses |
hi tom :] im a poor-to-mediocre programmer who has been idly throwing things together in a few languages, mainly python, off and on for like a decade-ish. im not too good at programming but i love it lots and i REALLY enjoy what i've done with programming in C, but i wanna learn more. just recently made the switch to linux and this has been the little kick i need to get into the language for real, and i was curious if someone like urself has any advice for someone who's really into logic and math and enjoys programming but isnt good at it for tackling C!
endless thanks and respect for all ur fantastic work across the net ^w^ |
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