Mark B. Tomlinson

I posted this earlier this morning on Mastodon In the middle of the night I have an idea for an over due blog post: let me now cogitate and procrastinate for a while. Stew on it until the idea is overly cooked, inedible and abandoned. Or as is my won't; forgotten as my mind wanders the corridors of global madness and distraction. Let me... Here is what I was thinking about in the night. ...

Some renders of my recent doodle model I made. Did this one over a couple of days due to the distractions of life and the World Cup. Modelled and rendered in Blender. ...

So far this month has been a really hard one heat wise and today we finally have it a little cooler. The weather for northern Europe has been terrible, affecting transport and people in equal measures. Roads have been popping and snow ploughs have been used to spray water to try and save the damage, a new one on me. I have lived in a few hot countries, Spain and Australia included, but they are at least better prepared for the hot normalcy of summer in the high thirties. Up here in Northern Germany not so much. I remember, as a kid in Melbourne, running from outside tap to outside tap to cool my flip-flop shoed hot feet in high summer. In old town Spain the streets were narrow and well shaded plus the pavements were mostly ceramic and so better in the sun than cement or tarmac. ...

June is already half way through and I haven’t posted anything again. I think about it, then forget about it, then think about it briefly, and then, well you get the idea. I have a lot going on outside this little web presence and the usual low key social media posting but that isn’t for today, maybe when it is all sorted I will let you all on in it, though, to be honest, I doubt it. Got to keep some stuff offline and out of the prying eyes of the corporations and their sucking machines. ...

I started with some lined paper and ended up with a little note book. Not an overly complicated model topologically most of the work was in the texturing. Here’s the Wireframe of the mesh: And how it all started:

I needed a new pen Mine ran out of ink, so I decided to make one in Blender as is my wont: Parker pen in blue and steel: Parker pen top clip close up: Parker pen in red and steel: ...

I don’t know how this affects images but I turned on: ShowFullTextinRSS: true I added this line in the config.yaml I really don’t care if it show the full post in the RSS, and personally I like that function when I am brwsing feeds. But please bare with me as I test this feature, until I get images showing as I like…

I made a note: Social Media Posting post in the middle of the night: I have noticed a distinct decline in interactions on Mastodon recently, the last and only social media platform I still use…. and after some feed back and thought I decided I would do a Post: To post here or Mastodon I am now leaning towards posting Notes on here and then linking them over onto my Mastodon. This will allow me more control and I will have them in a nice list and searchable within this Blog. ...

After trying various tips and tricks, I found a solution. There were a lot of older posts claiming you could turn off the RSS in sections frontmater and on in some other. This I found out to be a fallacy, all I managed was to turn it off totally or on totally. The solution does not lay in the frontmater, at least not for me, it lies in the rss.xml file in the themes directory. ...