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. ...
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 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 was thinking recently about computers, computing and programming. I realised that this year marks forty four years since I bought my first computer, a Dragon 32. I had wanted to get a ZX Spectrum previously, but they were in short supply and so I waited until the Dragon 32 appeared on the market. In 1981 a shipmate of mine who had a ZX80 and had just bought the new ZX81. These were the first personal computers I had seen, tiny plastic boxes with the worst keyboards ever invented. They weren’t that cheap but the build quality certainly felt like it. Plug them into the TV and hook a cassette player load a bit of code and a whole new world opened up before our eyes. ...
Blogging As some may be aware I am quite a quiet fan of blogs and blogging. I like the low profile old school method of posting news information and updates. No big companies in the background milking our content for the advertising cow. Just ordinary people posting their thoughts and ideas. Sometimes mundane, sometimes informative but always human. AI blogging will come I suppose eventually, I think it may already be here in some form, though I haven’t been mithered by it, yet! I won’t be partaking of it in any way shape or form. Someone mentioned in their blog they had stopped using M-Dash ‘’— " punctuation as it is oft used by AI, I have no idea, also no reason not to believe them. ...
Over the last few years I have read and listened to many books. I had kept a list of them on Goodreads site. Then one day in a fit of pique I decided to delete my account and of course the list. However I later decided it was more useful than I had thought at the time, and so opened a new account, reimporting my previously exported list not reimporting or maybe it did, it was hard to tell. ...
March Of Time March is nearly over and European Summer Time is just a few days away, and I haven’t posted on here again. I missed February completely and so I was determined not to fail March. To that end here is a little post about nothing in particular to fill the gap. To be fair though March went by quite quickly, I guess the depressing news cycle helped pass the time with its constant sabre rattling and doom scrolling headlines. Try as I might I find it hard not get caught up in it, mostly in the hope there is some good news and the end of the madness is on the horizon. Of course it isn’t these things go on and on, powered by ego, greed, and stupidity. So no end in sight. ...
Dark Days This year has not got off to a particularly good start, geopolitically at least, and do not worry this is not going to focus on that, it is only the basis for my current state of well-being. I am not one to get involved with online discussions that involve anything much beyond my interest in Computer Graphics and 3D modelling in particular. That is not to say I am happy with what is happening, it is just that, for the sake of sanity, I am avoiding it as much as possible right now. ...