Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • I Had a Disease

    What's up? Last week I was quite sick. I had to miss school because I had viral pharyngitis (strep throat). I've had strep a couple of times in my life. I had it during my worst sickness ever when I had to go to the hospital due to strep, the flu, and being dehydrated.

    Anyway, you're probably wondering, "What are you working on now?" Well... I'm still working on my game. It's called Rock Grabba' and it is a cave-based goblin soulslike / roguelike. I have a lot of ideas for enemies and weapons. Right now, I need to make either maps or procedural cave generation, and I need to make the player able to grab items, swing weapons, etc. All I currently have is a simple first-person controller.

  • On Vibrations

    Gosh, this, this, absolutely this. Putting aside the Kybalion's whole insistence that high vibrations are always better, and its insistence (not paradoxical, just dumb) that "the All" is of such a high vibration it "practically appears at rest" (so we should just accept an illusion due to our limited ability of perception as itself truth?), if you want high vibrations, microwave your food or sit on a subwoofer.

    Considering "high vibration" to be equivalent to ascension is like thinking high temperatures are the same thing as high spice levels, making them both "hot", but the word here has two distinct uses! But also, considering Hermeticism's notion about movement and motion being bound up in affliction and passion, with the result that God is immovable—both not moving and not able to be moved? This would make God the lowest-vibration thing possible, the absolute zero.

  • The strange case of the orange eyebrows

    I like to blame the orange eyebrows for why I didn't meet someone to marry at BJU. After all, at freshman orientation Dr. Bob Jones III called BJU campus "the happy hunting grounds"! There was no good reason why a spindly, socially awkward redhead with crooked teeth shouldn't find a spouse just as easily as anyone else. (Haha.) It had to have been the orange eyebrows, at least originally.

    When I first got to South Carolina I wasn't used to the humidity. In Fairbanks, the air is cold and dry most of the time, so dry that on the coldest, sunny winter day you can look outside and see tiny ice crystals drifting down as moisture falls out of the air. Anyway, after arriving in SC in muggy late August, my eyebrows started looking a little crazy, wavy and messy from the humidity and I decided I need something to keep them in line. Smoothing them out with a wax lip balm seemed like the perfect solution. And it was! I did that for several months. The only problem was, the lip balm I had handy was Blistex Triple Tropical fruit smoothie flavor, and it was orange. The light at my dorm room sink wasn't very good so it took quite awhile to dawn on me that I was coloring my eyebrows and the skin just above them a yellowish-orange and I looked pretty weird. It's hard to explain just how strange those orange eyebrows looked, once you saw it. Finally I figured it out, though, and quietly tossed the Blistex Triple Tropical in the trash.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: BDEFHIS Wordo: TARRY

  • Teen Cabbage in... The Aerosolic Escape

    A thick magenta mist swirls out the ventilation shafts and throughout the Polyurethane Mines, knocking out the prison labor. Teen Cabbage awakes to the strong musk of a Thornapple Valley Bun-sized Smoke Sausage being waved under his nose by Maurora, whose affections inspired the Vizier's jealous rage.

  • Teen Cabbage in... An Ardent Encounter

    A plated hellbender crawls from the steeply pitched roof of the ruins from a Tudor Revival and collides with the vehicle, ejecting Teen Cabbage and Maurora through the windshield, flames grab at their heels.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Cowboy patching corporation

    Some days ago, we had an issue with the automation responsible to create our software releases. Suddenly and without us doing any specific change, we weren't able to create, sign and distribute, new versions of the software me and the team I work with develop.

    Funny enough, we didn't notice that the whole thing has been broken for days. In the end, that specific automation handles, mainly, our overnight builds and installations on the test systems and, given nothing changed in the codebase during that time, we didn't have the chance to trigger any specific problem. It helped also that, in our big and slow organization, the next release of our program is planned for the beginning of next year and thus, it wasn't a real emergency, per se.

  • Nachtigall: dev log 2

    Last log was not very successful. Right now, the program we have has several big defaults with regards to our goals. Long story short, the basic data pipeline from sample to music notes works, but its performance is really bad. It also has a big defect: it only works if the notes are separated with silence. Which is a big constraints with regards as to what I want to use this program for. I want to sing the little tunes in my head as freely as possible, record them, pipe them in, get the notation out. If I have to focus on spacing each note, I tend to lose track of the little tunes.

  • Nachtigall: dev log 3

    We're creating a little program that takes in a soundfile, estimates the pitch and returns it as human readable notation.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Grief Notes: 2024-11-26

      A brief post on my cousin's Facebook account, from his partner: instructions on how to get to his grave: go to that graveyard, and along the wall by the Asda, on the grass, about half way along, there is a small group of new graves - 2022-2024 - some with bright artificial flowers so they stand out very well - he is in that row.