I made some hearts for Valentine’s! Also experimenting with converting some of my animations to gif as I’ve gotten reports animated PNGs don’t animate for some…
Also, thinking of making a separate thread for my programmatic art… Even started composing an initial post for such the other night, only for it to get eaten by an Internet outage.
Okay, it was done with a carpenter’s tape measure and not a tailor’s tape measure, and there’s some slop in the measurement as my fingers slipped a bit between taking the measruement and having a sighted housemate read the tape measure, but measured my waist today and got a reading of 48 inches. The last time I was measured was by an attendant at a big and tall store pre-covid, and at that time, I had a 60" waist, 60" chest, and 20" neck. I knew I had lost some inches as I’ve been needing to use draw strings or pin waistbands to keep my pants from falling down, but I wasn’t aware I had lost a whole foot from my gut. Also weighed 291 today, which I believe is the lowest my weight has been since before the pandemic.
Also, cleared out my YouTube backlog below 50 minutes today and knocked out the longest video in my backlog recently, a 10-hour monster that I feel could have been a 40-some part series and had no business being crammed into a single video(thank Turing for yt-dlp’s split-chapters option… and shame on creators who upload multi-hour videos with no chapters). Also, cleared out my back log of blog posts to read.
I finished writing the Results chapter of my thesis, and a new section of Future Work! There’s still a lot of editing and adjusting to do—I’m trying to keep each chapter to around 10 pages, and Results just hit 25, for example—but now once I finish the conclusion, I’ll have a complete, start-to-finish draft.
Good: Today’s a more seasonable 40-something after a few days of it hitting the high-60s or low-70s. Also, stepped on the scales this morning and got three readings with a max of 289.x, so another 10-pound barrier has been broken.
Not so good: my achey joints have been acting up since last night and I’ve had a headache and running nose for most of the last 18 hours and my teeth are aching as well. Gotten bad enough I’ve popped a couple of ibuprofen and I’m the kind of person who is reluctant to take over the counter medications… Hope I’m not coming down with whatever lead to one of my house mates calling out most of the last week(they usually work Wednesday through Saturday, but called out Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday)… My income isn’t tied to not getting sick like it is for my housemates, but the one time every year or two I do get sick tends to really suck, especially since I still have to prepare all of my own meals when I am under the weather.
I’ve developed a habit of, when backing a kickstarter, opening the confirmation e-mail(which would otherwise be a delete without reading affair) to check my backer number and try to find something interesting about it mathmatically… I often start with trying to figure out if the number is prime if it isn’t obviously a multiple of 2, 3, or 5(those primality tests are so simple I almost do them without thinking)… Backed a project just a few minutes ago and got 403 as my backer number… last digit of 3, so not a multiple of 2 or 5, digit sum of 7(a nice property in itself), so not a multiple of 3. Test divisions lead to me discovering its a semi-prime, specifically 13*31. 13 and 31 are the first pair of a prime and a emirp, that is, the reverse of a prime that is itself prime, and 403 is the only 3-digit product of such a pair. The next such pair, 17 and 71, have a product of 1207 and the only other pairs with 2-digits are 37 and 73 and 79 and 97. Honestly, not sure why I didn’t notice this before, but this makes 403 almost as cool as 91(also a semi-prime, specically 7*13, making it metaphorically the product of good and bad luck and the 2-digit semi-prime most likely to be mistaken for prime(again, 2, 3, and 5 have trivial divisibility tests, and 2-digit multiples of 11 are trivial to spot, and squares are well known, so this is the first product of two primes where one might have to resort to test division).
Worked on my two WIPs and it’s getting closer to being finishable. At least, one is. I also recorded the vocals and acoustic guitar for a song that I may release soon, for good reason.
I have had to do two small performances from Much Ado About Nothing for my GCSEs. One went really well, but my monologue not as good as I would have hoped. Ah well. At least it’s only a mock.
On Monday I crashed my bike on my way home (I mentioned it just now in another thread) and the cuts were annoying in placing and size. Not very painful, though when I returned to wash it off before I headed home, one person was like “you’re literally shaking” and I hadn’t noticed. Anyway, the positive part is that the cuts are now starting to heal, so I should be fully healed soon!
Finally made the move from Spotify to Tidal and it was such a smooth transfer that I am happy to continue on it. If you’re already on Spotify premium, I would suggest looking into Tidal as it is much better for artists. If you’re currently on a Spotify free plan, don’t worry about it. You can’t listen to an entire song for free on Tidal.
I finally completed my latest toy. I worked with Claude to complete a Rust port of Atari 2600 Adventure that has all the quirks I can recall from one of my all-time favorite games. I found the easter egg by myself back before the internet was a thing. Weird story there: it came to me in a dream. No kidding.
Honestly I had to fight the AI on almost all of it to keep it accurate and the whole thing probably would’ve been less work just to write it by myself, but I wanted to see if Claude could do it.
Without me continually hounding it to stay inside constraints I’d already set multiple times, it continually colored outside the lines and made waaaay too many assumptions about what was acceptable. It would almost be accurate to call it lazy. It also had a nasty habit of marking bugs fixed that absolutely weren’t fixed and was very quick to throw in quick hacks to “solve” a problem that 1. didn’t solve the problem and 2. broke something else.
Not sure I can really share it since there was at least one other Adventure port that got pulled many years ago due to copyright.
I played accordion for my first proper performance in a mashup of Farewell To Whalley Range and The Kesh. It was very fun, even though I slightly messed up…
I went in to my Friendly Local Book Store today to pick up a pre-order. I was chatting with the staff and mentioned a time I went in on an evening or weekend and the people working didn’t know who I was and I was afraid they thought I was showrooming.
They said, “if you’re ever here with other staff just have them pull up your account. Under your name it says 'VIP. He can do what he wants.”’
Googles showrooming. Huh, that’s a thing people do? Honestly, I’m like, what’s the point? If you’ve already made the effort to get to a brick and mortar store and found something you want, why wouldn’t you just buy it right then and there instead of then going online and risking it being out of stock or dealing with shipping and the hassles associated with it? Or risking that the item you buy online is a different item from the one you found in store? It just sounds like dealing with all of the hassles of both online shopping and in-store shopping when the main advantage of each is avoiding the hassles of the other.
Anyways, recently did some reorganizing of my Firefox bookmarks and feel like I’m starting to really chip away at both my YouTube backlog and my long list of bookmarked fanfiction. And I now have my total of Firefox bookmarks under 1100 for the first time since figuring out how to keep track of how many bookmarks I have in total… and I’m down to the last dozen backlogged YouTube videoes under an hour… though I have over 40 in the 60-65 minute range and probably a couple hundred total…)
