Between figure skating competitors, Rachel Gun runs out onto the ice in stolen skates, starts hopping around like a kangaroo and faceplants. When apprehended, she speaks in the worst Russian accident you’ve ever heard and claims to be Anna Shcherbakova.

Tacos, anyone?

The kind who spends more time compiling than using my system.

Not sure I see the point of impeaching Noem when Trump is right there.

Wait, where’s Gentoo?

Do they though? I think the one thing nearly every US American can agree on is that shit’s fucked. They all disagree on the cause or solution. (And half of people are high on fascist propaganda from FOX news or worse. And they’re the ones actively causing the worst problems in the country.) But I don’t think there’s any significant amount of people in the US thinking “yeah, this is how a country should be.” It’s just that some are like “we’re fucked because capitalism” and others are like “we’re fucked because we haven’t killed all the brown people yet”. (And even the ones who are a little less delusional, are throwing their hands up saying “too bad there’s nothing we can do about it”.)

Just some examples of things I’ve printed or plan to. Ones marked with an asterisk (*) at the end are ones I largely or entirely designed myself or plan to largely or entirely design myself. Ones marked with a plus (+) are ones that are half completed. Minuses (-) are ones I haven’t started yet but intend to.

• Wall mounts for Nintendo Switch components (dock, controllers, Joycon charger, etc.) Definite space saver. *
• Wall mount for a Raspberry-Pi-based NAS solution. *
• Parts to augment a computer chassis wall mount for my ridiculously-large chassis. (Yes, there’s a bit of a pattern there.) *
• A custom Raspberry Pi case that mounts nicely and nondestructively to my desk.
• A custom adapter for my drill that let me run the drain in my washing machine when the motor was broken. *
• A custom plate to cover my nightstand clock face so it doesn’t shine in my eyes all night. *
• A custom die for a Sizzix Die Cutting Machine for quilting use. (That one took a lot of work.) *
• A custom tool for precisely bending 16mm steel strapping (which I’d sharpened into a blade) in service to the custom die just above. *
• Custom yarn bowls for my crafty mother. *
• Custom stitch markers for my crafty mother. *
• Custom barrel buttons for my crafty mother. *
• A couple of custom mounts for SAD lamps. *
• Custom shelving for a bathroom. *
• Custom mods for some wire shelving in the same bathroom. *
• Custom mount for a reflector mirror to let me see more with the security camera on my front porch. *
• A tool for straightening 3D-printing filament. *
• Spacers for mounting a peg board on the wall.
• I also had a folding door that broke and got kinda janky. I had a few extra of those peg board spacers, and they turned out coincidentally to be exactly the right size to properly shore up that door.
• Custom shelving for DVDs/Blurays and video games. *+
• A custom shelf-drawer for my mousepad. *-
• A custom 3D printed mechanical keyboard… once I’m done writing the program for rapidly prototyping 3D-printed keyboards. *+

I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch. And the above is only the useful things and excluding the mostly art/fun items.

I have in mind to do more 3D-printing of tools. I don’t have much specifically in mind. But that custom steel strapping bender is pretty cool. Also, some of what I mentioned above is available on my Thingiverse.

Oh sweet. I’ve been hearing how great this talk was and looking for a place where I could watch a video of it. Thanks.

There are games I pay for, but only on Nintendo consoles. Aside from that, it’s strictly write it myself or go without.

I definitely should donate to more FOSS projects, though.

One egg white omelet with a side of yolk.

I use Lemuroid on Android. Works well. On F-Droid. Nothing about it has prompted me to search for alternatives, so no idea how it stacks up against other options.

Also, EasyRPG Player on Android for RPG Maker games. (I played the original Yume Nikki not terribly long ago via EasyRPG Player.) Also on F-Droid. Also worked great.

Bookmarked that shit so fuckin’ hard.

Curl.

“Clown.” Some of my best friends do clowning as a hobby.

Check your spam folder. I don’t know that I’ve ever not received an email I was supposed to have received and found that the spam folder was actually the issue. But it’s still a good idea to check it in case that’s the whole issue.

Hey thank you! I’m glad to hear some interest in it. I’ve definitely got ideas as far as how I’d like to see it improve moving forward (some syntactic sugar, more sophisticated ways of drawing “people”/creatures/skeletons/etc, maybe vector graphics output support – no project is ever really done, you know.) I’m on another project at the moment, but if it got enough interest, I’d probably be inclined to put more work into it.

I don’t have a TTRPG campaign running right now (which is what I wrote it for), so I’m not “eating my own dog food” very much with that particular project. But I would love to do more with it. Only reason I’m not already is because I’ve got so many other projects I want to work on. Heh.

The main project I’m working on lately has been that 3D game assets DSL that I mentioned later in my post. It’s probably quite a bit more ambitious than codecomic (it’s actually Turing complete which definitely adds to the challenge), but I do see a point approaching where it’s feature-complete enough to at least publish an alpha version. It also definitely needs a lot more code comments/documentation before I publish. Probably still months away, but it feels a lot closer than it did last week. Heh.

Anyway, thanks again for the complement!

• Circular financing where all the “AI” players are paying each other making it seem like they’re worth something when they’re not (kinda like circle-jerk-style wash trading in a way.)
• The tech CEOs and government all know that AI’s failing miserably and the bailout is already happening. The government is just casting things that are a bailout as “not a bailout” to try to keep it under wraps. (The “Great Big Beautiful Bill” had measures in it specifically to bail out AI companies.) They’re also propagandaing us hoping the public will support (or at least tolerate) a much more blatant bailout in the near future.
• CoreWeave is a former crypto company that pivoted into building data centers. Many of the other AI players are financially dependent on CoreWeave. Meanwhile CoreWeave is in gar-fucking-gantuine amounts of debt that they will never be able to pay back in a trillion years. It’s very possible CoreWeave could be the first major domino to fall.

It’s the only thing that is.

Whirled peas.

That’s the joke.