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- + Sketch of a family going camping

We’re going to be backpacking (my first time). One night will be in a cabin, and the next two will be at backcountry sites with tents. diff --git a/journal/a-cappella.html b/journal/a-cappella.html index 8cccedd..a3b4509 100644 --- a/journal/a-cappella.html +++ b/journal/a-cappella.html @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ Once I was a real member, I gradually grew into a major leadership role. I lead rehearsals and did a large chunk of our arranging.

- + Singing group Pentatonix

I personally have never had much interest in a cappella music as a culture. I never listened to Pentatonix or watched Pitch Perfect.* diff --git a/journal/always.html b/journal/always.html index bff1a05..d950b0c 100644 --- a/journal/always.html +++ b/journal/always.html @@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ In any case, almost everyone would agree that most of us live very different lives from those in the past.

- -
Image credit: Nancy Adkin
+ Boys hanging out around a campfire, one cooking and another playing guitar +
Image credit: Nancy Adkin

Even as our lives have changed in so many ways, humans across all times & places still share a lot in common. diff --git a/journal/angels-egg.html b/journal/angels-egg.html index d62d01f..79af3d2 100644 --- a/journal/angels-egg.html +++ b/journal/angels-egg.html @@ -30,14 +30,18 @@ Through exhaustive artistry and an excellent soundtrack, the game articulates a diverse palette of lonely and mysterious moods throughout its abandoned setting. In fact, each game area could be thought of as a separate meditation on solitude.

- + Screenshot from Hollow Knight: the knight sitting on a bench

I heard that one of the creators of the game cited the film Angel’s Egg as an influence, so I checked it out. It was unlike anything else I had seen. The film is extremely slow-paced, regularly lingering on a long shots, occasionally for minutes at a time, just letting the soundtrack play out. The plot is fairly minimal, and what plot there is is challenging to follow.

- + Screenshot from Angel’s Egg: the main characters walk past a hall lined with jars

Like Hollow Knight, the primary content of Angel’s Egg is its atomosphere. Even when you don’t follow what exactly is happening on the screen in front of you, the film consistently resonates on an emotional level. diff --git a/journal/astronomy.html b/journal/astronomy.html index bc77bdb..d41ea5d 100644 --- a/journal/astronomy.html +++ b/journal/astronomy.html @@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ However, getting a glimpse of real astrophysics research on the leading edge of the field gave me a bit of appreciation about just how incredible space really is.

- + Orion Nebula
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

diff --git a/journal/better.html b/journal/better.html index 73dc490..4f557f5 100644 --- a/journal/better.html +++ b/journal/better.html @@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ I realized that a lot of the guardrails I was putting on my behavior were artificial and based on repression, not motivated by good reason or values.

- -
Photo credit: MrNamineSinten
+ Sunrise at Taman Hidup Lake, Argopuro Mountains +
Photo credit: MrNamineSinten

Now, I tend to think that if I accept my motivations, imperfect as they are, I have the opportunity to interrogate them and potentially transform them over time. diff --git a/journal/camping.html b/journal/camping.html index 59dec60..34f3abb 100644 --- a/journal/camping.html +++ b/journal/camping.html @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ In the evening, when the last of the wind died down, the lake really lived up to its name. It got very clear, and we had a great time just sitting by the fire among the hemlocks.

- + Mirror Lake in the Porcupine Mountains

The second cabin we stayed in was near to the shore of Lake Superior. The park is pretty buggy this time of year, so we thought maybe being by the lake would bring some welcome wind to keep the bugs away. diff --git a/journal/candy.html b/journal/candy.html index 1cedb3c..679e272 100644 --- a/journal/candy.html +++ b/journal/candy.html @@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ I like to try out new things that strike my interest as I walk through, because I never know when I’ll find something new I love.

- + Pieces of mochi in a grid-shaped box
As I mention below, it’s not exactly a candy, but mochi is a very photogenic treat.

diff --git a/journal/challenge.html b/journal/challenge.html index ed7740a..920c7a1 100644 --- a/journal/challenge.html +++ b/journal/challenge.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

100-day challenge check-in

- Back in November, I saw Jibran el Bazi’s call for participants in a 100-day writing challenge. + Back in November, I saw Jibran el Bazi’s call for participants in a 100-day writing challenge. At the time, I had been wanting to commit to some long-term goal and see if I could see it through. Often I start projects and don’t finish them, and at the time, I wasn’t even sure whether I could break that pattern.

@@ -33,19 +33,21 @@ I didn’t get discouraged when I didn’t know what to write about, because by that point I had established a track record of getting it done.

- -
Photo credit: FaysaLBinDaruL
+ An outdoor statue of a stack of books +
Photo credit: FaysaLBinDaruL

One of the biggest helps in writing has been knowing that others are participating in the challenge. - Everyone’s contributions are aggregated and published on this Substack page. + Everyone’s contributions are aggregated and published on this Substack page. I try to read my fellow challengers’ writing when I can, and it’s been fun encountering everyone else’s daily thoughts. - I have to give a shoutout especially to my man Kevin Zhai. - He wrote a great post in reaction to my post about music listening, and he’s boosted my writing on Twitter a couple times. - He’s written some great stuff over the challenge, about fear, writer’s block, and this great watercolor comic. + I have to give a shoutout especially to my man Kevin Zhai. + He wrote a great post in reaction to my post about music listening, and he’s boosted my writing on Twitter a couple times. + He’s written some great stuff over the challenge, about fear, writer’s block, and this great watercolor comic.

Once I’ve finished the challenge, I don’t think I’ll post every day, but I’d like to keep it up, maybe weekly at least. - I have some other ideas for the site I’d like to put more focus into. + I have some other ideas for the site I’d like to put more focus into. I think I’d like to start another “100 of something” sometime too, maybe something musical instead of literary. In any case, I feel very proud of what I’ve accomplished so far. It feels great to look back through what I’ve written, knowing it’s the fruit of my persistence. diff --git a/journal/chess.html b/journal/chess.html index 63acdcf..efb2fa2 100644 --- a/journal/chess.html +++ b/journal/chess.html @@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ But some don’t, and they make these tantalizing unresolved puzzles with a few pieces missing. Learning etymologies, you get a sense of how lively words are, moving around and occupying different meanings like the shifting borders of a country.

- So today, I looked up the meaning of the German word Bauer. + So today, I looked up the meaning of the German word Bauer. I studied some German in college, but I am rusty on it, so I thought it maybe meant “builder”.* It actually means “farmer”, or “peasant”, but I noticed that it’s also the German term for the pawn piece in chess.

Even better, the entry includes a table showing the names for the other chess pieces in German. - Even better than that, there’s actually a page with a big table that gives the names for chess pieces in many languages. + Even better than that, there’s actually a page with a big table that gives the names for chess pieces in many languages. Just with the clicking around I’ve done so far, I’ve picked up some fascinating tidbits.

Just in the German table, I saw that the term for the bishop was Läufer, which means “runner”, not bishop. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Another great tidbit I picked up from the German table was the word Ross as one of the terms for the knight. Ross means “horse”, evidently, but it’s not the common word I learned in my German class, which would have been Pferd. It’s a more archaic and poetic term for horse, perhaps like steed in English. - But it’s cognate with English horse, because both descend from the same Germanic root *hross. + But it’s cognate with English horse, because both descend from the same Germanic root *hross.

When I was learning German, I noticed that a lot of the cognates between English and German went the other way, where the modern German word was linked to an archaic-sounding English word. For example, Mädchen is the normal word for “girl”, whereas its English cognate maiden is a more archaic word. @@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ Please let me know if you know any more about it.

- + Ancient chess set from Iran. One side is green and the other is brown
One of the oldest remaining chess sets. Check out the tusks on the bishops!

diff --git a/journal/choral-favorites.html b/journal/choral-favorites.html index 0e2090d..1c030e0 100644 --- a/journal/choral-favorites.html +++ b/journal/choral-favorites.html @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@

A few of my favorite choral pieces

- I wrote last week about my love of choral music, and how I used to think about it more when I wrote more of it. + I wrote last week about my love of choral music, and how I used to think about it more when I wrote more of it. I also spent a lot of time listening to it back then. Today I’ll share a few of my favorites.

Faire is the Heaven by William Henry Harris

-

Link to recording

+

Link to recording

Double choir is a technique where a composer writes parts for two separate choral units, both consisting of each part of the choir. These units then sing separate & overlapping phrases according to their organization. @@ -37,11 +37,13 @@ There are a lot of ideas in the piece, but they flow together so nicely that it feels well-structured nonetheless.

- + Album art for Allegri: Miserere by Tenebrae
This entire album is fantastic, by the way. Choral music is a huge challenge to record well, so the audio engineers who worked on this one deserve a lot of credit.

O sacrum convivium! by Olivier Messiaen

-

Link to recording

+

Link to recording

Messiaen is a composer who kind of just had his own way of doing things. He didn’t write much choral music, and his mature compositional approach probably wouldn’t have been well-suited to it anyway. @@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ The harmony is generally tonal but features some forays into octatonic harmony, lending it an otherworldly but nevertheless devotional feel.

Ubi caritas by Maurice Duruflé

-

Link to recording

+

Link to recording

This piece has a special place in my heart. I sang it in an honor choir I participated in in middle school, which was one of my first experiences with 4-part SATB choral music. diff --git a/journal/choral.html b/journal/choral.html index 5ccd0bd..b4e9b70 100644 --- a/journal/choral.html +++ b/journal/choral.html @@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ and my general career trajectory isn’t currently bringing me closer to choral music either.

- -
They’re singing Brahms’s Requiem
Photo credit: Schorle
+ Oratorienchor of Würzburg singing Brahms’s Requiem +
They’re singing Brahms’s Requiem
Photo credit: Schorle

In spite of all this, I still have the glowing embers from the fire of choral inspiration that once burned in me. diff --git a/journal/cold-walk.html b/journal/cold-walk.html index 18695a1..644a239 100644 --- a/journal/cold-walk.html +++ b/journal/cold-walk.html @@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ It gets me into an open and receptive mood. I notice all the things I would normally miss in a car, and getting my body moving helps me have good ideas.

- + A school with one room lit up, surrounded by snow. The full moon is visible behind clouds

When it’s as cold as it is outside, your ability to take walks is somewhat limited, and most people choose not to do it. I myself don’t take as many walks in the winter, and usually not after dark. diff --git a/journal/colour-green.html b/journal/colour-green.html index de582fa..474aa4a 100644 --- a/journal/colour-green.html +++ b/journal/colour-green.html @@ -27,16 +27,18 @@ It wasn’t until 2006 that the songs were actually released as an album. In the intervening time, Sibylle Baier didn’t pursue a career in music but instead focused on raising her family.

- I first discovered Colour Green around the same time period as 무너지기, when I was finishing my second degree. + I first discovered Colour Green around the same time period as 무너지기, when I was finishing my second degree. For that reason, the two albums have a somewhat related flavor to them in my mind. The comparison kind of fits outside my mind too, since both albums have a lonely and reflective mood, which, as I mentioned in my 무너지기 post, is great for a Fall full of coding.

- + Album art for Colour Green by Sibylle Baier
I highly recommend the whole album, but if you only listen to one song, check out Forget About

- Like Pink Moon, this is an album with just guitar and voice (with the exception of the strings on the last track). + Like Pink Moon, this is an album with just guitar and voice (with the exception of the strings on the last track). Once again we have an example of a great songwriter building a whole world with just these two elements. For me, the world she builds is characterized by a pervasive lightness that belies the richness and depth of every song. The sound is always just floating by unobtrusively, never actively grabbing or forcing engagement from the listener. diff --git a/journal/completion.html b/journal/completion.html index b67b3d9..9f3658b 100644 --- a/journal/completion.html +++ b/journal/completion.html @@ -22,12 +22,14 @@

Abysmal project completion rate

- I had the idea recently to transcribe the Tetris CD-i soundtrack by Jim Andron for piano. + I had the idea recently to transcribe the Tetris CD-i soundtrack by Jim Andron for piano. I could have fun playing through the songs and then share the enjoyment by putting the scores online. If I do end up finishing this side project, I’ll post about it here.

- + Screenshot from Tetris CD-i: a monolith with Tetris on it in a meadow, with a mountain in the background
The whole Tetris CD-i game has incredible vibes, by the way

@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@

If I were to set a goal for myself, I think I’d like to become someone who can choose whether to complete a given project or not, and stick to that. I know not all projects are for completing, but I would like to be able to say “yes, this matters enough to me”, and do what I had to to make it happen. - This year I’m making progress with setting & achieving daily goals. + This year I’m making progress with setting & achieving daily goals. Maybe there’s a way to take that ability to commit and apply it to some of my old projects.

Do you have some abandoned or on-hold projects? diff --git a/journal/cram.html b/journal/cram.html index 0f92c14..25a6811 100644 --- a/journal/cram.html +++ b/journal/cram.html @@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ During the winter, I kind of go “hibernation mode” & I’m more hesitant to disrupt my daily rhythm. But if I go too long just on autopilot things deteriorate mood-wise, so I know it will be good for me to get out.

- + Hibernating bear

Working from home, I have a lot fewer time constraints than I used to while in school. There just aren’t that many things I have to worry about being on-time for, and all my meetings are right in the same place I always am. diff --git a/journal/custard.html b/journal/custard.html index e24a691..e62ac3c 100644 --- a/journal/custard.html +++ b/journal/custard.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

This weekend, I wanted to try making custard. - My parents have a sous vide machine. + My parents have a sous vide machine. They’re good for making custard because they can get food to a very even temperature and never overheat it.

The first batch I based on the recipe my mom uses for making crème brûlée with the sous vide. @@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ After it was cooked, thought it would be fun to chill it by putting it in a snow bank.

- + A jar of chocolate custard sitting in a snow bank
This is the second batch. I was looking forward to this being the best custard ever made and to sharing my “gome custard” recipe with you on here. diff --git a/journal/dark-matter.html b/journal/dark-matter.html index 5349806..ff82c87 100644 --- a/journal/dark-matter.html +++ b/journal/dark-matter.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

Last.fm dark matter

- I enjoy being able to keep track of what music I listen to with my last.fm account. + I enjoy being able to keep track of what music I listen to with my last.fm account. After you’ve used it for a while you can get a lot of nice data about your listening habits. I wish more of my friends had accounts so I could follow what they listen to.

@@ -32,21 +32,23 @@ Anyway, I do listen to some music off of Spotify, and unfortunately, this listening is not reflected in my last.fm data. So I thought I might share some of my favorite music I have to go off Spotify to enjoy.

- + Album art for Blue by Joni Mitchell; Tetris CD-i box art, to represent the soundtrack by Jim Andron, and album art for Strawberry Fields by Mushroom Village

Joni Mitchell

- I mentioned Joni Mitchell previously as one of my favorite singers, and when she was on Spotify I listened to her a lot on there. + I mentioned Joni Mitchell previously as one of my favorite singers, and when she was on Spotify I listened to her a lot on there. Unfortunately, her music was removed from Spotify soon after I started my last.fm account, so she’s sorely underrepresented on there. But I love her songwriting & singing, and I wish I listened to her more often. - My favorite album by her is currently Blue. + My favorite album by her is currently Blue. Some of my favorite songs by her include - Chelsea Morning, - Help Me, and - Carey. + Chelsea Morning, + Help Me, and + Carey.

Tetris CD-i soundtrack by Jim Andron

- I listen to this one on YouTube* from time to time. + I listen to this one on YouTube* from time to time. I knew immediately when I found this one that it was something special. I was blown away at the time to discover there was a Tetris game released for a console I had never heard of that was this vibey. The soundtrack goes perfect with the blissful proto-vaporwave visuals of the game world, as you play Tetris on monoliths placed in various scenic locations. @@ -57,10 +59,10 @@ Comfy synth is a microgenre based on dungeon synth, which itself is a microgenre that uses retro synthesizer sounds to create an 80’s-inspired dark fantasy aesthetic. Comfy synth is like the lighter side of that same aesthetic, more out of a story-book than a D&D campaign. The album art and track titles are always twee or nostalgic, and the music follows up in the same vein. - I originally learned about it through this Bandcamp Daily post, + I originally learned about it through this Bandcamp Daily post, which is a great place to start if you’re interested. - My favorite comfy synth artist is probably Mushroom Village, with Snowy Hill House in a close second. - Tiny Mouse and Grandma’s Cottage both deserve honorable mentions, especially for their more recent output. + My favorite comfy synth artist is probably Mushroom Village, with Snowy Hill House in a close second. + Tiny Mouse and Grandma’s Cottage both deserve honorable mentions, especially for their more recent output.

Do you have a last.fm account? Do you do most of your music listening on one app? diff --git a/journal/dialogue.html b/journal/dialogue.html index fd3725e..1652069 100644 --- a/journal/dialogue.html +++ b/journal/dialogue.html @@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ Carlo Gesualdo, for example, did not invent the Italian madrigal, but he arguably wrote some of the best of the period, because he had a whole century’s worth of material behind him. Between his mastery of counterpoint and harmony of the time and his deep understanding of the form, he was able to bring this genre to new heights near the end of its relevancy.

- + Carlo Gesualdo hanging out with the guy from the album art of Untrue by Burial

Once a genre reaches this decadent stage, its core ideas have played out, and there’s not really new ground to cover with them. At this point, the genre dies, or some new ideas come along and keep it going, possibly spawning off new genres. diff --git a/journal/dry-spell.html b/journal/dry-spell.html index 8108526..f72b39b 100644 --- a/journal/dry-spell.html +++ b/journal/dry-spell.html @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Two years in, I was spending far more time writing, arranging, and performing music than I was on programming, so I decided it made sense to switch. My time in college was probably my most prolific so far. - I dedicated time almost every day to composing choral music and arranging for my a cappella group. + I dedicated time almost every day to composing choral music and arranging for my a cappella group.

After graduating, I wanted to continue being a composer, but I didn’t see a straightforward path to doing that full-time that appealed to me. So I went back to school for a computer science degree, knowing I could make money with it & hopefully keep composing. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

-
Photo credit: Mostafa Meraji
+
Photo credit: Mostafa Meraji

I don’t think the problem is having less time to spend on composing. diff --git a/journal/exploration.html b/journal/exploration.html index 0e2452c..4ede5e8 100644 --- a/journal/exploration.html +++ b/journal/exploration.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

How I like to play

- Previously I wrote about the aesthetic of Hollow Knight, an all-time favorite game of mine. + Previously I wrote about the aesthetic of Hollow Knight, an all-time favorite game of mine. I am not a particularly active gamer, and I rarely look forward to upcoming games, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is one I am genuinely exicted for. I try not to read or think about it too much, because I want to go into the game mostly blind. But from what I can tell, I think the team is really going to outdo themselves, and I can’t wait for it to drop. diff --git a/journal/expression.html b/journal/expression.html index 2c41852..398efd3 100644 --- a/journal/expression.html +++ b/journal/expression.html @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@

-
Photo credit: Andreas Tille
+
Photo credit: Andreas Tille

The first type is how the music makes use of the space of possibilities available. diff --git a/journal/fireplaces.html b/journal/fireplaces.html index ef40d9e..1642f25 100644 --- a/journal/fireplaces.html +++ b/journal/fireplaces.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

My brother and I went to the library the other week. - While there, I looked through an interior design book titled The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the Present. + While there, I looked through an interior design book titled The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the Present. The excellent photography in the book is by Richard Powers.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. @@ -45,20 +45,20 @@ These spaces have no need for the function of a fireplace, but the form of one is useful as an aesthetic focal point even without the function. The irony of including something that looks like a fireplace in a building that has no need for one and couldn’t possibly be heated by one is very funny to me.

- There are some good examples of fireplace jokes on Richard Powers’ website. + There are some good examples of fireplace jokes on Richard Powers’ website. I can’t include them inline with the article without infringing on his copyright, so I’ll just list links to them here:

And here are a few more I found on Architectural Digest:

What do you think of these fireplace jokes? Do you know of any other good fireplace jokes? diff --git a/journal/food-chain.html b/journal/food-chain.html index 2bea962..6a5aeda 100644 --- a/journal/food-chain.html +++ b/journal/food-chain.html @@ -34,10 +34,10 @@

-
Photo credit: Jpbrigand
+
Photo credit: Jpbrigand

- Thinking more about regenerative agriculture this week, I started wondering about what I could grow in my region. + Thinking more about regenerative agriculture this week, I started wondering about what I could grow in my region. I live in zone 4, which is a colder zone, but I could grow potatoes, allia like onion and garlic, and various pulses, which could form a good basis for a home-grown diet. Many fruits, veggies, and herbs can be grown here over the summer too. Mushrooms you can grow pretty much anywhere, and I love mushrooms, so that would be great to figure out. diff --git a/journal/ghost-kitchens.html b/journal/ghost-kitchens.html index fd6f8e4..ba1c5ea 100644 --- a/journal/ghost-kitchens.html +++ b/journal/ghost-kitchens.html @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@

-
Photo credit: Mack Male
+
Photo credit: Mack Male

As I said before, I never use delivery apps, so none of this really affects me directly for the time being. diff --git a/journal/goals.html b/journal/goals.html index d70ae4f..8481721 100644 --- a/journal/goals.html +++ b/journal/goals.html @@ -49,12 +49,12 @@

  • regular quiet time, where I mainly do nothing
  • working out regularly
  • regular journaling and recording of my daily activities
    • -
  • various monthly and year-long goals, including reading a book monthly, learning 500 German vocab words, and identifying 50 trees
    • +
  • various monthly and year-long goals, including reading a book monthly, learning 500 German vocab words, and identifying 50 trees

    • One important element of my new attempt at building habits is tracking them. - Every week, I make a little booklet with my goals printed on it, + Every week, I make a little booklet with my goals printed on it, and I check them off as I complete them. Having something tangible sitting on my desk helps return my focus to my goals on days I would be likely to forget them.

    diff --git a/journal/graveyard-1.html b/journal/graveyard-1.html index c8a822d..87a2a28 100644 --- a/journal/graveyard-1.html +++ b/journal/graveyard-1.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

    My game graveyard, part one

    - Yesterday, I posted about how I start so many side projects and finish so few. + Yesterday, I posted about how I start so many side projects and finish so few. Today, I wanted to follow up with a review of just some of the projects I haven’t managed to complete so far, a tour of my “side project graveyard”. I quickly realized I would have enough to say about each project for its own separate post. So to keep the scope limited for today, I’m just going to focus on video games I’ve made or wanted to make. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@

    Tungolcweorn

    - A top-down “galaxy crawler”, where you play as a legendary, planet-sized, planet-eating monster called the Tungolcweorn, Old English for “planet grinder”. + A top-down “galaxy crawler”, where you play as a legendary, planet-sized, planet-eating monster called the Tungolcweorn, Old English for “planet grinder”. The monster, which would look something like a round anglerfish made of volcanoes, flies around solar systems, eating up planets and absorbing energy from them. You would have to contend with space-faring civilizations of varying sizes trying to defend their home planets and resources. At the same time, I wanted the game to have a sort of medieval mythical theme to it, a mix of sci-fi and fantasy. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@

    Standing Wave

    - A musical tower defense game inspired by the flash game GemCraft. + A musical tower defense game inspired by the flash game GemCraft. Each tower would emit a single musical pitch, but in order to do damage to passing enemies, you would need multiple towers to create certain combinations of pitches (e.g., a major chord). Different combinations would do different amounts of damage, and the game would require some musical background and reasoning to play well. I built a little bit of this one, but dropped it due to insufficient knowledge of Godot. diff --git a/journal/graveyard-2.html b/journal/graveyard-2.html index 384039c..f82fdbf 100644 --- a/journal/graveyard-2.html +++ b/journal/graveyard-2.html @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@

    My game graveyard, part two

    - Last week I wrote a post about how I have so many unfinished projects. - Then I wrote part one of this series, where I looked at some video game ideas I had abandoned. + Last week I wrote a post about how I have so many unfinished projects. + Then I wrote part one of this series, where I looked at some video game ideas I had abandoned. Today I’ll look at more.

    Duelin’ Poohs

    - A crap game I hacked together while I was trying to learn to use MonoGame. - Two players play on a shared keyboard (I have fond childhood memories of this control scheme) as two differently colored versions of Winnie the Pooh: Sad Pooh and Blue Pooh. + A crap game I hacked together while I was trying to learn to use MonoGame. + Two players play on a shared keyboard (I have fond childhood memories of this control scheme) as two differently colored versions of Winnie the Pooh: Sad Pooh and Blue Pooh.

    Each Pooh can shoot little pellets at the other, which will cause the struck Pooh to briefly grow in size. Each Pooh also has a two buttons to slowly grow and shrink the size of the opposing Pooh. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Like Vernal Luncheon, Duelin’ Poohs features an original soundtrack, this time composed expressly for the game. I cannot fathom how I could augment or improve this game in any respect. It’s strangely fun for about 10 minutes (your mileage may vary). - I consider it my only finished game (not counting all my childhood GameMaker games… which are a story for another time). + I consider it my only finished game (not counting all my childhood GameMaker games… which are a story for another time).

    @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@

    Pareidolia

    This one was ambitious. - Around the time I had this idea, I was getting into the YouTube channel Game Maker's Toolkit. - GMTK covers fascinating game design topics such as how games generate novel content, an interest of mine at the time. - I had recently played Hollow Knight, which became one of my all-time favorite games. - GMTK had an excellent video detailing the world design of Super Metroid, a major inspiration for Hollow Knight. + Around the time I had this idea, I was getting into the YouTube channel Game Maker's Toolkit. + GMTK covers fascinating game design topics such as how games generate novel content, an interest of mine at the time. + I had recently played Hollow Knight, which became one of my all-time favorite games. + GMTK had an excellent video detailing the world design of Super Metroid, a major inspiration for Hollow Knight.

    All this conspired to make me want to create a game of my own that took place in an open 2D world like Hollow Knight or Super Metroid, but where everything was procedurally generated. The world, the game areas, the NPCs, the enemies, the bosses, the powerups, even the textures of the walls would be procedurally generated. diff --git a/journal/graveyard-3.html b/journal/graveyard-3.html index 798211a..c692728 100644 --- a/journal/graveyard-3.html +++ b/journal/graveyard-3.html @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@

    Game graveyard averted

    - After observing how many projects I abandon, I wrote a couple posts cataloging my abandoned game projects. + After observing how many projects I abandon, I wrote a couple posts cataloging my abandoned game projects. One of the games I referred to as “Untitled Rhythm Game”, and it was for a game jam featuring the Game Boy Advance. - The same group is currently putting on a GBA Winter Jam, so I was interested in trying to make something for it again. + The same group is currently putting on a GBA Winter Jam, so I was interested in trying to make something for it again.

    The catch with this jam is that you just have to make a title screen, and the rest of the game is optional. I thought this would be somewhat more feasible than me putting together an entire game myself. diff --git a/journal/health.html b/journal/health.html index 5cbbb72..934af56 100644 --- a/journal/health.html +++ b/journal/health.html @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han)
    +
    Photo credit: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han)

    The tricky part is, these habits build on each other in both directions. diff --git a/journal/hivemind.html b/journal/hivemind.html index 2c9152a..5e506c5 100644 --- a/journal/hivemind.html +++ b/journal/hivemind.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    Hivemind-facilitating software

    - Yesterday, I watched this video about the airline industry’s outdated logistics software. + Yesterday, I watched this video about the airline industry’s outdated logistics software. Southwest Airlines uses this tool called SkySolver to route their flights and work around delays and cancellations, and it’s old & rickety and caused this major cancellation-chain meltdown over the holiday season last year.

    While watching, I found myself thinking, could there be a system that allowed humans to do a task like this efficiently? @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Buddy Venturanza
    +
    Photo credit: Buddy Venturanza

    This all reminded me of a note to myself I recorded last April: “Are there hivemind-facilitating tools?” diff --git a/journal/img/dark-matter.webp b/journal/img/dark_matter.webp similarity index 100% rename from journal/img/dark-matter.webp rename to journal/img/dark_matter.webp diff --git a/journal/incorrect.html b/journal/incorrect.html index 3a4be1c..759abcd 100644 --- a/journal/incorrect.html +++ b/journal/incorrect.html @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Emőke Dénes
    +
    Photo credit: Emőke Dénes

    When you need to avoid being wrong, but you also want to talk all the time, you end up becoming very pedantic. diff --git a/journal/journaling.html b/journal/journaling.html index fa5e55b..0e246fd 100644 --- a/journal/journaling.html +++ b/journal/journaling.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

    In last Friday’s speedpost, I promised a post about the band Lamp, one of my favorite discoveries of last year (technically 2021, but it was late 2021). - My feelings about Lamp’s music are colored by nostalgia of the type I wrote about in my nostalgia post. + My feelings about Lamp’s music are colored by nostalgia of the type I wrote about in my nostalgia post. I had a really vibrant experience of life at the time I started listening to them, and it resonates in me again whenever I listen to them.

    I think Lamp’s music is well-suited to this nostalgia. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@

    -
    My favorite albums are ゆめ (Yume), 恋人へ (Koibito e) (pictured), and 木洩陽通りにて (Komorebi Doori Nite)
    +
    My favorite albums are ゆめ (Yume), 恋人へ (Koibito e) (pictured), and 木洩陽通りにて (Komorebi Doori Nite)

    Lamp’s music is a really good fit with the joy and hope I was feeling at the time I first listened to them. diff --git a/journal/just-intonation-3.html b/journal/just-intonation-3.html index e9bb2e9..b9f2163 100644 --- a/journal/just-intonation-3.html +++ b/journal/just-intonation-3.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

    Just intonation: building intervals

    - The just intonation series is back! + The just intonation series is back! Before I start, I have a quick observation that I forgot to mention in the last post on the topic. So far, we have only looked at a single interval, the octave, derived from the ratio 2:1. So let’s continue up the harmonic series and see what else we can find. diff --git a/journal/just-intonation-4.html b/journal/just-intonation-4.html index 615f4b3..81d5fc5 100644 --- a/journal/just-intonation-4.html +++ b/journal/just-intonation-4.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    Just intonation redux

    - This just intonation series has been somewhat tortured so far. + This just intonation series has been somewhat tortured so far. I feel like I have a good grasp on this stuff, but clearly explaining it eludes me. I want people who only have a little music theory experience to be able to grasp what makes it so cool and different from the conventional system. But I’m getting bogged down trying to cover all the necessary background knowledge, and I’m struggling to synthesize the details well. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: HorsePunchKid
    +
    Photo credit: HorsePunchKid

    Elucidanda @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@

    “Large” intervals

    - Last time I found it difficult to talk about the intervals being introduced by different multiples of a base frequency. + Last time I found it difficult to talk about the intervals being introduced by different multiples of a base frequency. I want to talk about things like how ×3 introduces the “quality” of a perfect fifth, which you can’t get just by multiplying by twos.

    But ×3 is actually an octave plus a perfect fifth (a perfect fifth is ×3/2, i.e., ×3 minus an octave). diff --git a/journal/just-intonation-5.html b/journal/just-intonation-5.html index fc0d303..de09f9a 100644 --- a/journal/just-intonation-5.html +++ b/journal/just-intonation-5.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

    Writing about just intonation is so hard, and I’m pretty sure most of my audience doesn’t care about it, and yet I must keep doing it! - In the last just intonation post, I shared a table of intervals for the major scale in just intonation. + In the last just intonation post, I shared a table of intervals for the major scale in just intonation. Today we’ll look at the just intonation equivalents of all twelve tones in a similar fashion. Before the table, here’s some groundwork.

    Interval Quality

    @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: HorsePunchKid
    +
    Photo credit: HorsePunchKid

    Multiple intervals for a single name

    Traditional interval names such as “major second” or “augmented fourth” don’t always map cleanly to specific intervals. diff --git a/journal/just-intonation.html b/journal/just-intonation.html index 3e986e9..44a0f85 100644 --- a/journal/just-intonation.html +++ b/journal/just-intonation.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

    Just intonation is a subject in music theory I find really fascinating. - When I make the bookmark section of my site, I’d like to devote a nice big page to explaining how I think about it. + When I make the bookmark section of my site, I’d like to devote a nice big page to explaining how I think about it. For now, I might lay some groundwork with one or a few posts. The term “just intonation” refers to systems of musical tuning where pitches are arranged according to integer ratios, generally simple ones. To understand what this means better, let’s examine the concept of the musical interval. @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ By contrast, just intonation opens things up by allowing for any ratio as an interval, rather than a limited set of intervals based on discrete half notes. This unlocks a whole menagerie of exotic intervals and a theoretically unlimited set of possible pitches. To a musician who only knows the fenced-in pasture of the 12-tone system, this offer of a new horizon is enticing, but few have taken it up. - The string quartets of Ben Johnston are a great starting place if you’re curious to hear what’s possible between the notes. + The string quartets of Ben Johnston are a great starting place if you’re curious to hear what’s possible between the notes.

    Are you familiar with just intonation? Are you familiar with equal temperament? diff --git a/journal/listening.html b/journal/listening.html index 85be1af..b36ef6e 100644 --- a/journal/listening.html +++ b/journal/listening.html @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@

    Listening to more and more music

    - I track music I listen to and enjoy on Rate Your Music. - There’s a link to my RYM account on my socials page. + I track music I listen to and enjoy on Rate Your Music. + There’s a link to my RYM account on my socials page. It’s a lot of fun to keep a catalog of music you like and a record of your opinions, and RYM makes that easy.

    One of the many useful features of Rate Your Music is the ability to add tags to albums. diff --git a/journal/local-culture-2.html b/journal/local-culture-2.html index fb0d865..22aa198 100644 --- a/journal/local-culture-2.html +++ b/journal/local-culture-2.html @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Hugo
    +
    Photo credit: Hugo

    By contrast, smaller cities and towns do not necessarily have these narratives surrounding them. diff --git a/journal/long-winter.html b/journal/long-winter.html index 90cec7f..c310a85 100644 --- a/journal/long-winter.html +++ b/journal/long-winter.html @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@

    I’ve written several posts now about winter in this region, since that is the season we’re going through right now. - Some of the topics were optimistic, like my appreciation for snow or how I can still go for a nice walk in cold temperatures. - I’ve also written about the unpleasant emotional effects harsh winter can have on a person. + Some of the topics were optimistic, like my appreciation for snow or how I can still go for a nice walk in cold temperatures. + I’ve also written about the unpleasant emotional effects harsh winter can have on a person. Well, it’s time to return to the topic yet again.

    Last time was near the beginning of the winter, when the bitter cold was just setting in. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Larry Koester
    +
    Photo credit: Larry Koester

    But, inevitably, the sub-zero (sub –17°C) temperatures return, and the snow returns, and the clouds return, and the wind returns. diff --git a/journal/lyrics.html b/journal/lyrics.html index a14e194..1c4b5fe 100644 --- a/journal/lyrics.html +++ b/journal/lyrics.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    What do I think about lyrics?

    - I’ve written five1 2 3 4 5 posts now about my relationships with different albums. + I’ve written five1 2 3 4 5 posts now about my relationships with different albums. They’re not really album reviews, but in each one, I tried to describe what I love about the music at least a little. Something I noticed yesterday, though, is that I have not once mentioned the lyrics of any of these albums.

    @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

    -
    I consider Adrianne Lenker to be an example of a great contemporary lyricist.
    Photo credit: Paul Hudson
    +
    I consider Adrianne Lenker to be an example of a great contemporary lyricist.
    Photo credit: Paul Hudson

    Just because I don’t pay much attention to lyrics (at least initially) doesn’t mean they don’t factor into my enjoyment of music. diff --git a/journal/nostalgia.html b/journal/nostalgia.html index 9780906..73d5bd1 100644 --- a/journal/nostalgia.html +++ b/journal/nostalgia.html @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Kurttarvis
    +
    Photo credit: Kurttarvis

    Every period of life has a related period of “first nostalgia”, the time when you first notice that period’s unique feeling. diff --git a/journal/paramotor.html b/journal/paramotor.html index ed3fd96..bea8384 100644 --- a/journal/paramotor.html +++ b/journal/paramotor.html @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Toni Castillo Quero
    +
    Photo credit: Toni Castillo Quero

    That aside, the paramotor seems to have all the things you’d want in a personal flight system. diff --git a/journal/postcard.html b/journal/postcard.html index f130f40..0f11ad2 100644 --- a/journal/postcard.html +++ b/journal/postcard.html @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@

  • Flower piglet. Basically just very adorable. If I had this one, I would pat its head every night before bedtime.

    • They had some other interesting ones, and a good number of horrendous gnomes. - A couple of the gnomes were almost my style, but I’m not really in the market for gnomes right now anyway (I have Barvis Mikey Holth). + A couple of the gnomes were almost my style, but I’m not really in the market for gnomes right now anyway (I have Barvis Mikey Holth). The ones in the collage above were probably my favorites, save for one last statue that totally enchanted me:

    diff --git a/journal/preparation.html b/journal/preparation.html index 43b8bb9..2cd8c2e 100644 --- a/journal/preparation.html +++ b/journal/preparation.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    Preparing to write a new piece

    - Previously I wrote about getting back into writing choral music. + Previously I wrote about getting back into writing choral music. The piece I was working on is now wrapped up and delivered, so now it’s time for me to start thinking about my second commission of the year. I was pretty excited to receive this one. I like the choir I’m writing for, I think the text I’m setting is cool, and there will be ample opportunity to get creative with it and try some new things. diff --git a/journal/ratioscore.html b/journal/ratioscore.html index eb16f1b..c7d4c93 100644 --- a/journal/ratioscore.html +++ b/journal/ratioscore.html @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Michael Müller-Hillebrand
    +
    Photo credit: Michael Müller-Hillebrand

    I’ve wanted to get more into just intonation before, but I had limited tools, and I found it prohibitively difficult to produce JI audio. diff --git a/journal/regenerative.html b/journal/regenerative.html index 1dc443b..ea2a3eb 100644 --- a/journal/regenerative.html +++ b/journal/regenerative.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The concepts behind them appeal to me for a number of reasons. Sometimes I think about what it would be like if I were to buy some land and make a go of it working the earth.

    - Sometimes I get really sick of sitting in front of a computer for my full-time job. + Sometimes I get really sick of sitting in front of a computer for my full-time job. At times like this, I wish I could do something a little more active and interactive throughout the day. So the idea of getting out in the fresh air and working in nature sounds pretty nice.

    @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
    Photo credit: Chris Evans

    - I’ve also written before about wishing for a tangible workplace of my own, a place organized according to the needs of my work. + I’ve also written before about wishing for a tangible workplace of my own, a place organized according to the needs of my work. When you live on and work a plot of land, you’re not only responsible for cultivating the plants there, you’re responsible for cultivating the sense of the place itself. You build structures on it, you plan and organize it according to your needs, and the particulars of the land grow deeper in meaning to you over time.

    diff --git a/journal/reset.html b/journal/reset.html index a7b6312..f970c5c 100644 --- a/journal/reset.html +++ b/journal/reset.html @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: 이태수
    +
    Photo credit: 이태수

    While sick, I spent most of my waking time on my phone or playing Breath of the Wild. diff --git a/journal/rhombic-dodecahedron.html b/journal/rhombic-dodecahedron.html index c52e820..5e608cc 100644 --- a/journal/rhombic-dodecahedron.html +++ b/journal/rhombic-dodecahedron.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ With most other mathematical subjects, the material is so in-depth that most of it goes above the head of a layperson. That’s also true with geometry, but at least there are fun pictures to look at.

    - One of my favorite shapes I ever discovered on Wikipedia is the rhombic dodecahedron. + One of my favorite shapes I ever discovered on Wikipedia is the rhombic dodecahedron. Twelve was my favorite number as a kid, and it has twelve faces. The faces are all identical but not made of regular polygons, which I believe makes it unique among convex polyhedra (but I’m not 100% sure on that). It has a satisfying level of complexity but it’s easily recognizable. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    -
    Image credit: Andrew Kepert
    +
    Image credit: Andrew Kepert

    At some point when playing Minecraft, I had the idea to try building using repeating tessellating units. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@

    -
    Image credit: TED-43
    +
    Image credit: TED-43

    So I went into Minecraft and built out a few examples, trying to get a version of the shape with a good relative size and ease of building. @@ -84,9 +84,9 @@

    - Bonus image: I stumbled on this while writing Friday’s post. + Bonus image: I stumbled on this while writing Friday’s post. It’s a much better demonstration of how rhombic dodecahedra tessellate, so I thought I’d include it here after the fact.
    - Image credit: TED-43 + Image credit: TED-43
    diff --git a/journal/screens.html b/journal/screens.html index 9b8fc60..6e8c359 100644 --- a/journal/screens.html +++ b/journal/screens.html @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Andy Farrington
    According to the title, this goldfinch is dazed, which I can relate to right now.
    +
    Photo credit: Andy Farrington
    According to the title, this goldfinch is dazed, which I can relate to right now.

    When it’s too cold to go outside (although it’s good to remember that it rarely truly is), it’s easy to gravitate towards the computer even during free time where you wouldn’t have to be on it. diff --git a/journal/singing.html b/journal/singing.html index 903572b..8671047 100644 --- a/journal/singing.html +++ b/journal/singing.html @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ However, I also kind of blame recorded music for ruining singing.

    Now, by a certain standard, singing might be arguably doing better than ever. - We have the opportunity to listen to the best of the best voices through recorded music. + We have the opportunity to listen to the best of the best voices through recorded music. And every great singer goes on to inspire more people to pursue singing, leading to more and more great singers.

    The problem here is that singing is almost exclusively conceived in the popular consciousness as something performed. @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Let’s sing more drinking songs in bars, more lullabies to our children, more senseless tunes in the shower. Let the average quality of singing go down and the total amount of singing done go up.

    - In my college choir, we sang the song I Have Had Singing by Ron Jeffers. + In my college choir, we sang the song I Have Had Singing by Ron Jeffers. My director would end our Spring tour concerts with this song, encouraging the audience to bring more singing into their daily life. The song is based on the words of an old English ploughman remembering the singing he had in his own daily life:

    diff --git a/journal/songs-from-philadelphia.html b/journal/songs-from-philadelphia.html index 0c12a6d..9b28ac4 100644 --- a/journal/songs-from-philadelphia.html +++ b/journal/songs-from-philadelphia.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    My relationship with Songs From Philadelphia

    - Like It’s a Good Life Honey If You Don’t Grow Weary, this is an album I don’t expect many people to have heard of. + Like It’s a Good Life Honey If You Don’t Grow Weary, this is an album I don’t expect many people to have heard of. My brother found it back in maybe 2008 on CD Baby or something, through some daily promotion.

    It’s a release from 2000 by The John Conahan Group, an era of music that had otherwise completely escaped my notice, seeing as I was just a little gome then. diff --git a/journal/spring.html b/journal/spring.html index f046257..8a3c44e 100644 --- a/journal/spring.html +++ b/journal/spring.html @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

    - Spring Flight by Charles Beck (source) + Spring Flight by Charles Beck (source)

    diff --git a/journal/tarkovsky.html b/journal/tarkovsky.html index 810fb35..f21e71c 100644 --- a/journal/tarkovsky.html +++ b/journal/tarkovsky.html @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ But I did read about another film of his that I’d like to see. It’s called Solaris and it’s an adaptation of a science fiction story of the same name by Stanisław Lem.

    - A little while ago, I found Andrei Tarkovsky’s Wikiquote page. + A little while ago, I found Andrei Tarkovsky’s Wikiquote page. I really liked his perspective on art, especially a lot of the things he said in his book Sculpting in Time, so now I want to read that too. To finish this post off, I’ll include a few of my favorites:

    diff --git a/journal/unfinished.html b/journal/unfinished.html index 96c7965..f6122d4 100644 --- a/journal/unfinished.html +++ b/journal/unfinished.html @@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ For each section, I built a simple stub page, with the plan to add the real thing later. The sections are:

      -
    • Journal — a collection of articles, essays, and posts authored by me.
      • -
    • Bookmarks — web pages I want to keep track of and share with others.
      • -
    • Socials — other accounts of mine around the web.
      • +
    • Journal — a collection of articles, essays, and posts authored by me.
      • +
    • Bookmarks — web pages I want to keep track of and share with others.
      • +
    • Socials — other accounts of mine around the web.

    - The socials section was the easiest to build, being just one page, so I got that done first. - It took me a while to get the journal started. + The socials section was the easiest to build, being just one page, so I got that done first. + It took me a while to get the journal started. For a long time I had thought it would be cool to blog a bit, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to share on here. - I wrote my first post last September, just a recipe for how I like to make ramen. + I wrote my first post last September, just a recipe for how I like to make ramen. Then, in December, I started this writing challenge, and the rest is history.

    - So now, the only incomplete section of my site is the bookmarks page. + So now, the only incomplete section of my site is the bookmarks page. Originally, I thought this would just be a simple listing of links I liked & wanted to share. I once tried to gather a list of links I would include from my browser bookmarks, but there weren’t really that many actually worth sharing.

    diff --git a/journal/update.html b/journal/update.html index 48b77a7..2e22637 100644 --- a/journal/update.html +++ b/journal/update.html @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Every HTML file you view here has been hand-edited by me. That’s right: organic, cage-free, free-range HTML. I usually write my posts on my main machine, adding them to the journal index, the RSS feed, and the front page. - Once the changes are ready, I push them to the git repository for gomesite kindly hosted by tildegit. + Once the changes are ready, I push them to the git repository for gomesite kindly hosted by tildegit. Then, I SSH into the Ctrl-C server and pull the updates into the copy of the repo in my public_html folder.

    @@ -39,15 +39,15 @@

    Why do I do things this way? - Isn’t this the wettest way to write a website? + Isn’t this the wettest way to write a website? Well, sure, there’s a lot of boilerplate with the journal now, but when I started building gomepage, the site was so simple there was really nothing that needed generation.

    When I started the writing challenge, I considered setting up a static site generation solution for the journal, since I foresaw the repetition in doing it manually. But when I think about how long it actually takes to set up an SSG, I was not at all sure it would be worth it, even after 100 repetitions. - In the spirit of xkcd, if I were to save myself five minutes 100 times with an SSG, then it would only be worth it if I spent less than 8 hours and 20 minutes on it. + In the spirit of xkcd, if I were to save myself five minutes 100 times with an SSG, then it would only be worth it if I spent less than 8 hours and 20 minutes on it.

    Time optimization aside, I just don’t really want to automate my site. - The only SSG I’ve ever used is Jekyll and while I liked it enough, what I don’t like is the Ruby dependency, because literally nothing else I use is in the Ruby ecosystem. + The only SSG I’ve ever used is Jekyll and while I liked it enough, what I don’t like is the Ruby dependency, because literally nothing else I use is in the Ruby ecosystem. Learning a new system doesn’t sound like much fun right now, either. Even with how error-prone the process is, the repetition is actually kind of nice. It keeps me mindful of how my whole site fits together, which I appreciate. diff --git a/journal/weary.html b/journal/weary.html index 532a2f3..d5a5297 100644 --- a/journal/weary.html +++ b/journal/weary.html @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

    - I first heard Alexa Woodward in a video of her song Darkest Days, shared on the aforementioned subreddit. + I first heard Alexa Woodward in a video of her song Darkest Days, shared on the aforementioned subreddit. It’s a simple arrangement, with just her playing the banjo and singing. Despite the mediocre video quality, her beautiful voice is quite well-recorded. Her voice is what originally got me hooked on the song. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ I listened to this album in high school, then I listened to it during my college years, and I still listen to it now. - It’s become a part of me, much in the same way Illinois has. + It’s become a part of me, much in the same way Illinois has.

    It’s a pretty underrated album, judging by the listening stats on Spotify and the number of ratings on Rate Your Music. Perhaps it’s just the kind of album that will never catch many people’s attention, since it’s not necessarily doing anything bold or new. diff --git a/journal/when-it-rains.html b/journal/when-it-rains.html index 8ed0a08..a9f4bf8 100644 --- a/journal/when-it-rains.html +++ b/journal/when-it-rains.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    When it rains, it pours:
    dry spell revisited

    - Last month, I wrote about how I compose less music than I used to. + Last month, I wrote about how I compose less music than I used to. That thought hung over my head for the whole month, as I tried to muster the motivation to start a new choral piece. In early February, I had received the text for a piece I had been commissioned to write, and the deadline for it was in April. I was dreading starting the piece, and worrying about whether I even had it in me to write any music anymore. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Rob Bertholf
    +
    Photo credit: Rob Bertholf

    One of the key differences between inspired & uninspired writing is actually have something to say. diff --git a/journal/worst-shape.html b/journal/worst-shape.html index 0f2d0db..624ff44 100644 --- a/journal/worst-shape.html +++ b/journal/worst-shape.html @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@

    Great grand stellated polydodecahedron

    -
    Image credit: Robert Webb’s Stella
    +
    Image credit: Robert Webb’s Stella

    We’re starting things off gently with a not-so-terrible shape. @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@

    5-orthoplex

    -
    Image credit: Claudio Rocchini
    +
    Image credit: Claudio Rocchini

    The 5-orthoplex is not such a bad shape on its own. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@

    600-cell, aka hexacosichoron, hexacosihedroid, tetraplex, polytetrahedron, or C600

    -
    Image credit: Robert Webb’s Stella
    +
    Image credit: Robert Webb’s Stella

    We’re back down to four dimensions again, but this one brings a lot of cells to the table, as well as some freaky images. @@ -64,19 +64,19 @@

    -
    Look at it seethe.
    Image credit: Jason Hise
    +
    Look at it seethe.
    Image credit: Jason Hise

    And to top it off, here it is forced through an unseemly chain of projections like the 5-orthoplex:

    -
    There’s way too much going on in the center of this image.
    Image credit: Althepal
    +
    There’s way too much going on in the center of this image.
    Image credit: Althepal

    Crossed square antiprism

    -
    Image credit: Tomruen
    +
    Image credit: Tomruen

    The simplest shape we’ve seen so far, but simply demented. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@

    Boy’s Surface

    -
    Image credit: A13ean
    +
    Image credit: A13ean

    This one gets points for the funny name alone. @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@

    Schwarz H minimal surface (Triply periodic minimal surface)

    -
    Evil baklava. Do not eat.
    Image credit: Anders Sandberg
    +
    Evil baklava. Do not eat.
    Image credit: Anders Sandberg

    Topology really takes the cake for making awful shapes no one ever wanted to look at. diff --git a/journal/writing.html b/journal/writing.html index 0b2cc2e..1f267f4 100644 --- a/journal/writing.html +++ b/journal/writing.html @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@

    -
    Photo credit: Ka23 13
    +
    Photo credit: Ka23 13

    When I did posts daily, it was just a part of my regular routine to get it done. diff --git a/journal/무너지기.html b/journal/무너지기.html index 946fa5a..0e25d33 100644 --- a/journal/무너지기.html +++ b/journal/무너지기.html @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

    My relationship with 무너지기

    - Jacob Collier is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who got famous doing covers on YouTube. + Jacob Collier is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who got famous doing covers on YouTube. His style is based on a lot of complex harmonies and rhythms, and he has a flair for what I like to call “musical effects”. An example of such an effect would be the waterfall effect with the voices at 1:20 in the linked video.

    @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Effects can be really cool and effective at supporting a main musical statement, but when things get too flashy, it starts to feel a little directionless.

    Jacob Collier is not the artist I’m here to write about, but rather 공중도둑 (Mid-Air Thief). - When I was thinking about what initially drew me to the album 무너지기 (Crumbling), though, I remembered the same thing stood out to me: his use of effects. + When I was thinking about what initially drew me to the album 무너지기 (Crumbling), though, I remembered the same thing stood out to me: his use of effects. Mid-Air Thief’s music is full of effects. The music is fundamentally unstable in its texture, with all sorts of sounds of mysterious origin flying in regularly. Often, the overall texture of the instrumental will just swap out completely between measures (though it never feels abrupt). diff --git a/js/statuscafe.js b/js/statuscafe.js index ba519fa..a21fce5 100644 --- a/js/statuscafe.js +++ b/js/statuscafe.js @@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ fetch('https://status.cafe/users/gome/status.json') } document.getElementById('status').classList.add('loaded'); document.getElementById('statuscafe-title').innerHTML = 'My status' - document.getElementById('statuscafe-username').innerHTML = "" + r.author + ' ' + r.face + ' ' + r.timeAgo + document.getElementById('statuscafe-username').innerHTML = "" + r.author + ' ' + r.face + ' ' + r.timeAgo document.getElementById('statuscafe-content').innerHTML = r.content }) diff --git a/library/chat-gpt/js/chat-ui.js b/library/chat-gpt/js/chat-ui.js index eec631d..6fc8749 100644 --- a/library/chat-gpt/js/chat-ui.js +++ b/library/chat-gpt/js/chat-ui.js @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -import gpt from './gpt.js'; +import gpt from './poem-tome.js'; const NBSP = '\x0a'; diff --git a/library/chat-gpt/js/gpt.js b/library/chat-gpt/js/poem-tome.js similarity index 100% rename from library/chat-gpt/js/gpt.js rename to library/chat-gpt/js/poem-tome.js diff --git a/socials/index.html b/socials/index.html index 1b48be0..9bd5cd8 100644 --- a/socials/index.html +++ b/socials/index.html @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Feel free to add or follow me on any of these sites!

    @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Let me know if we have any similar taste in music!

    @@ -43,21 +43,21 @@ Once I get around to adding blog posts here, I will write up some things I learned from watching anime.

    I listen to music a lot, and I knew about Last.fm for a long time, but I only made an account recently. I had a decent idea what I listened to the most, but it’s fun to have some solid data to peruse. Here is a generated chart of what albums I have recently been listening to.

    @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ I also have some stuff in the works I’m just keeping private for now :)

    @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If you have any game reccommendations for me based on what I like, please let me know!

    @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ In any case, I’m on here as well.