yeast-riseman @aysamanra@sometimes.when.computer

…one reason this is a bad comparison is that I had the book ~90% finished back in January of 2020, so in reality it's less "I wrote a book in quarantine" and more "during quarantine it took me a full year to finish the last 15k words."

I don't want to draw no conclusions or nothin', but George R. R. Martin didn't finish writing a novel during the quarantine while I did. Just sayin', is all.

I recently made a San Francisco→Portland drive with a dash-mounted camera, so here is a time-lapse video of that drive where each hour of real time maps to a minute of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb61wE4U2PY

This is the whey.

...money used to buy an italian car, that is to say: fiat currency

✏️ The first post in a new series: "In Praise of Netpbm", where I demonstrate how to create procedural pixel art with no library support in basically any programming language: https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/how-i-do-generative-art-in-praise-of-netpbm

Someone should design a percussive computer: that is to say, a machine capable of cymbalic computation.

Proposal: a web site where you can share and commission Furby-related fanart and photos. You can call it FurbAffinity.

I've been uploading a few videos of me (badly) practicing guitar to YouTube, and YouTube appears to scrub the whole video to select the goofiest possible facial expressions as its thumbnail choices.

Show pitch: Babylon 1. "Our first, worst hope for peace."

One time I asked my brother whether he had eaten congee and he responded, "No, I only eat kana."

Well, I've got a "finished" fantasy font, complete with vowel diacritics that get automatically applied using font ligature support. I'm pretty pleased with how it looks!

Doing some fantasy font experiments with ligatures.

in the shadow of cities of steel
where the crows with their black feathers fly
you can still sometimes see the odd spot
in which nature refuses to die
and our industry's grime touches not

finding any such place will reveal
where the crows with their black feathers fly
as they circle the trees deep in thought
idly pondering some reason why
there's this place that mankind has forgot

I've been hoping to write a poetic-meter-generating bot for ages, and I've finally sat down and started it. I'm happy with it so far!

Absence of Malus

The weirdest thing about the banjo so far: for some reason—maybe because of Looney Tunes cartoons in which they're used as an implement of retribution against Coyote or Yosemite Sam—I thought the resonant surface of the banjo was fragile. Nope! In fact, you're supposed to keep a finger or two on it at all times while playing (at least in the Scruggs style.)

"Hey, Getty, how are you coping with current events?" Oh, you know, in the healthiest way I can come up with.

I couldn't sleep well last night, but I don't know if it's because I bought an Internet Mattress and it turned out to be complete and utter bullshit or because of a coup attempt in my country. …I mean, probably both, but still.

Progress report on my miscellaneous current projects: https://journal.librarianofalexandria.com/progress-report-2021-01-03