what exciting things happened this week? let’s see.
⬜ whiteboards
i got some new whiteboard markers as recommended by nils m holm in the usesthis that jake linked me to. they’re very good! i didn’t know whiteboard markers could be good.
t3x.org (nils’s’s web site) is an excellent example of a Web Site.
it’s nice to have whiteboards around the house if you’re working on lots of projects at the same time. when you have an idea you can go and place that idea in the physical location that project lives. oh i get it now. does anyone know where i can get an extremely powerful projector, laser and camera?
🖥️ pixels
the little pixel drawing canvas i added to last week’s post stores all its history, and you can watch it all the play back on this playback page. warning this page is:
EXTREMELY YELLOW
in other news that page is server-side rendered solid-js which hydrates on the client side, magically compiled as part of my blog’s build process thanks to a plugin by this extremely cute developer.
bento
i’m working on making https://bento.party collaborative. the first draft of it went out on a branch yesterday, code is a mess but i was able to sync a track between my phone and my computer
🏝️ events
i wasn’t as broke as i expected after finishing planning my trip to LA. but then i realized i’d forgotten to purchase the £800💷 conference tickets and that made things make more sense. but it will be worth it to hear Richard P. Gabriel perform his famous A.I. Winter with American rock band OneRepublic.
of course i will try to visit lodge 49 in long beach too.
🗃️ other
well maybe that means nothing exciting happened. it’s still september magic time so it’s all just tidying and drinking water and writing code and cleaning up type tasks at the moment. i bought seven extremely noticable jumpsuits. looking at my bank balance now that might be the last purchase i ever make.
i’ll go for a little walk and then we’ll see about bento. it’ll be fun, won’t it? to make something together, i mean.
this post, like some others, has some fun little javascript bits in it that’ll only work if you open it in a javascript-powered browser
there’s an episode of Colombo where Colombo calls Jaws (1975) “the fish picture”. last week after posting my post i went to a CeX in Woolwich and picked up a pair of headphones. walking home to get my bearings i checked the name of a bus stop and it laughed at me.
the lucy & yak jumpsuit fits well so i’ll be getting a few more of them for my trip next month. jumpsuits are a great outfit for travel because you always look pretty put together and neat even if you’re not. though they’re a bad outfit for travel because once you’ve put it on you will never be able to pee again. remind me not to wear a short sleeve on the aeroplane because there is no way i’ll be able to get a hold of that in that tiny bathroom.
zeezy is in canada. hi zeezy.
on tuesday i ordered some chinese food. after i’d eaten half of it i started feeling really sick so i made myself throw up and then i ate the rest of it. that was a low point of the week.
on thursday night i had a video call with a stranger on the instruction of a robot on a Slack. it was good, really interesting, lots of exciting ideas.
getting a lot of resistance from my me trying to enforce an autumnal time shift, but we’ll get there.
i’ve collected together all the 68 books and papers on the https://dynamicland.org bookshelf into a single folder. this took several days. it’s about a gigabyte zipped. lmk if you want it.
im putting together a presentation about bento atm, there’s a lot to say and i don’t yet know how long it’s meant to be. just a big page of tasks right now. anyone know any good outlining software?
you can draw here (a square at a time)
i’ve been falling asleeping listen to detective books this week. i’m in simile land. it’s good to fall asleep to because it’s not too interesting. a lot of action but without anything really happening. actions, but not action, i suppose. she picked up her glasses and placed the stem against her lip, then she reached towards her cup but she didn’t touch it, and she shot me a look like a bathroom attendant being left without a tip. very nice to drift off to.
i updated the spiral from a few days ago so that when @prefers-reduced-motion it is a slideshow showing some of the states instead of a spinny guy. also, the animated gifs only show the first frame when @prefers-reduced-motion. a lot of them aren’t very motiony, but better to err on the side of stillness.
if it loaded, theoretically the little box for drawing in up there is shared with everyone who visits the page. remind me next week to get all my chores done before i start adding little silly javascript things to my blog, because my todo list appears to be the same length now as it was when there was sunlight 8 hours ago.
Here is some music to listen. Sure, it’s crunchy. The end is very nice.
Listening to that Lady Gaga song with Bruno Mars in it, amd I’m not sure if there’s anyone I’d want to be next to when the world was ending. A great thing to start doing in 2025 is tell people to “say cheese!” when you take a photo. The opening line of every chapter of my autobiography will be “I had a perfect life, but I wanted more”. And then you feel them letting go from miles away. They say that we don’t know why the volcanos that spat diamonds turned themselves off a million years ago, I read about it in a magazine. A few weeks ago I stayed at a hotel where the tv remote had a TikTok button. That was the day I stepped in dog shit, and I washed my boots in the bathroom sink. How about Conway’s game of life except instead of dying single cells go off in search of community.
The person who unmasked _why the lucky stiff was a bastard.
I’m going to Los Angeles next month.
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There aren’t three minutes worth of lines to write here about my week. It’s lots of little small things and I haven’t been taking notes. And it’s harder to write about nothing sober. I’m reading The Art of Doing Science and Engineering and writing a lot of little experiments. Today I’m going to try to play a video game. But first, eggs.
It’s been so long since I’ve been in the United States. A decade since I’ve been in California, where infinite westward expansion finally banged into the reality of the Pacific and the only remaining territories were out to space and inside our minds and souls and bodies.
If you’re going to seduce my daughter please have the decency to close the door to my dressing room.
i’m really tired.
things i did this week include writing a cool little app and going to bletchley park computer museum (where i bumped into anna shipman!). it was great seeing all the old computers and the computers that are my age. i wonder if the sega megadrive finds that when it turns its head to the left there is a loud click. there was a little trouble after the meal but apart from that a perfect lovely day. the trains going north of london were all so canceled and declayed because an overhead item fell on the rail.
i have been sober as per usual when September Magic rolls around. and i’ve been watching every episode of Colombo. i need to be bathed in warm jelly and oil and then left in a heap by the side of the road. it’s time for bedtime to be time.
today i am writing from the house where alan turing was born. it’s a hotel now but when he was born it wasn’t a hotel it was a house and he was born here.
a hard time getting home through carnival on monday ended in a early night. ive been so sleeply lately. and need to pee a lot. i have all these bruises that aren’t healing and my bones and muscles are sore all the time. my neck is so crunchy now when i turn it, sometimes when i turn to the left it clicks so sharply.
tuesday and wednesday were mopey sleepy, but the september magic is in the air now and things are picking up. hung out at my ex’s house on thursday. on friday i did a bunch of cleaning + tidying & dressed up in my orange jumpsuit that seems to be getting harder and harder to take off and i attended an algorave. i tried to make conversation but was way too tired. i’d turned up 7 minutes late for the workshops which meant i was suddenly 3.5 hours early for the event. i rode around on the DLR getting slightly drunk and then sobering up repeatedly, which has a way of wearing you out like stretching and releasing an elasticated cuff. it was really good, though, the event. i’m brimming with ideas.
went to my ex’s house afterwards and we drank some water. on sunday we wandered around maida vale, little venice, my old haunt. had some brunch, some tasty south asian dinner, booked a hotel, walked by the water.
