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  I was trying to think of a small flat plastic tile that to hide board game reveal-tokens under to protect them from patina/wear (for something like Afrika Tähti), and 2x2 flat LEGO tiles might work? 10=1$ tho. Round or square. Could probably work for bulking up print&play military game units too. Another idea is using "fleas" from that dexterity game, but those come in different colours. Coins/dimes usually have irrelevant heraldry and revealing patina. Small slottabases usual...

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  I was musing a bit about bicycles a while back, and how far back in time they could conceivably have been feasible and practically useful (i.e. earlier than 1820). I was imagining the difficulty of making it lightweight with pedals, rubber tires, a comfy seat, etc. Would need good roads too. Well, maybe doesn't really need all that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukudu A regular bicycle might be less practical in some ways. Maintenance. Cargo capacity.

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  I just remembered that time I tried to play a Metroid Prime game and there was a trudging tutorial level and boss. I didn't make it past the boss. It was one of those invulnerable ones with regenerating shield blobs to deactivate and then you have to do a specific secret thing otherwise you get stuck in an infinite loop. I prefer when my bosses just take missiles into their brain and go skRWEEEee! thankyouverymuch.

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  Wrote this for my F.Gordon-like story. Didn't steal from anywhere. — "I pledge allegiance to the banner of lightning, and to the Empire for which it stands; to the world under our God's chosen, Zing the mighty — its immortal heart who gives liberty and justice to us all; to the noble strife, as I endure tears at the graves of our patriots. Yes, I pledge my allegiance, and I pledge my blood to Mongorica, to its soil, to this world of the free — may God shed his grace on...

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  I was thinking of some scenarios for a story and just realized that I've apparently never thought about the possibility of childbirth in a modern prison and the dilemma it imposes. Do you imprison the baby too? Apparently so in some places.

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  Was there a game before The Matrix that used time slow down as a power up? Max Payne came out 2 years later. I'm thinking an arcade shoot 'em up might have. There were plenty of games with time freeze or just sprite slowdowns of course, but bullet time?

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  Painted a figure *with* my cat.

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  Game idea, maybe stupid: Tic-tac-toe, large grid but with some random noise (a boulder landscape tossed onto the board) blocking some cells. Win by getting 4 in a row. The loser gets one final "revenge move" and lose if they can't also get 4, but win if they can. This means the first/leading player actually has to make blocking moves which perhaps shifts the dynamic back and forth and also disrupts the landscape. Played a game against myself. Went on for a while, but...

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  I guess since I distance check stars as they are created to prevent near overlaps, I can make each star store/remember a neighbour or two or three, and save a few clock cycles during constellation gen. This has to be iterated & reconstructed backwards though, since the second star placed is only aware of the first, whilst the last star placed definitely knows its nearest neighbour.

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  Like, they do all these unique models, but it's all specific poses and not as useful as seeing more of the world, I think. There are 61 models in the box incl. 3 vehicles. Some ork sprues are doubled. Original 2e box had 80 (20 SM, 20+40 orks) iirc. I'd make it like 5 characters then a basic squad of mostly cloned guys: 5+5 SM, 5+5 IG, 5 SoB, 5 Eldar, 5 Tau, 5+5+5 Ork, 5+5 Nid, 5 Necron. And some cardboard walls. Then they skirmish a bit in various configurations (some scenarios perha...

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  Found the audiobook of Flash Gordon - The Lion Men of Mongo on archive: https://archive.org/details/FlashGordon-TheLionMenOfMongo-Mp3Audio The Swedish version drops bits of description, yet adds the part where we get a view of the surface via the preoccupied and self-assured Zarkov.

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  I plopped in my Jason and the Argonauts DVD and was surprised to see Patrick Troughton (aka my fav Doctor) in the intro credits. He plays Phineas who has his food stolen by the harpies. Almost unrecognizable. Slightly related, Troughton has a bunch of sons and grandsons with the exact same nose, eyebags and mouth corners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wqTpayAKBs&t=3m

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  Found some '70s / '80s books up in the attic. # 1. The Lion Men of Mongo. # 4. The Time Trap of Ming XIII. # 5. The Witch Queen of Mongo. # 2. The Plague of Sound. # 3. The Space Circus. Seems I missed out of the other 6. Maybe they were never translated. The Alice in Wonderland one is weird because it reads like Bollywood dialog with English randomly sprinkled in. Appears to be some kind of teaching method. 1955. The Gallivants is one of those fictional fantasy society pict...

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  Sigh. Put my laptop to sleep, realizing 1 second later that I hadn't saved the last 2 hours of work in my text document. Linux Mint has like a 1% chance of not waking up after sleep and of course it does it this time. Document gone. Documents gone, as I had tabs open. Wouldn't happen in Mac Textedit that autosaves. Should I attempt to reconstruct, or just abandon the project altogether? Edit: Abandon. I really hate trying and failing to redo difficult to remember work.

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  I call this the eclectic shelf. This sets it apart from the random shelf, the jumbled shelf, please clean me shelf, and books that can't fit standing normally shelf. The most read book is the AMOS Pro user manual. The least read books are the thick ones that aren't science fiction--these just look good on the shelf if someone sees them. I wish I had copies of all all the Hal Clement and Simak stuff I read in the library as a wee lad.

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  Experimenting with some rocky edges. Looks too homogeneous though, so I need to come up with some form of tinting.

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  Went over the worn corners and edges with a spoon to flatten them, fixed up with PVA glue, and painted over the damaged areas here and there. Visible up close but not from a distance. Might be even harder to spot if I apply a bit of gloss coat. Though... fixing up books kinda detracts, making them seem less read. Though 2#, I'm not sure how far into these I can last as they're not that engaging and a bit schlocky. Flashy G is possibly public domain this September.

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  Controversy stirs as long time fans of "Rage Against People Who Hurt Kittens" accuse the band of having opinions, many insisting that the band is misrepresenting their own lyrics of "Imprison Them", suggesting that the song is really about imprisoning kittens, and has always been. "Imprison Them! Imprison Them! It's so catchy isn't it? The rest of the lyrics are inaudible or difficult anyways. I've listened to RAPWHK for decade...

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  Massproduced some islands while I had the stuff out. Needs some blend tuning here and there, but serviceable. Wet paint causes base warping in the wood in places where I didn't glue on cross-grain pieces. Masonite is probably better as it has no grain.. though neither has cardboard and it still warps. Beach coasts are too homogeneous. Some should be boulder/rocky or steep cliff shores. Or long beaches. A 1:900 tree shouldn't be too hard to do. A pin in the styrofoam and some flo...

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  My favourite MtG artist back in the day was probably Douglas Schuler. I think he did the right amount of detail for that picture size and never overcomplicated the designs.

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  Made little progress today. Found a plank. Make a bird house? It might need a fan. How to power it? Intermittently during sunlight to save power. I hook up a fan to a 548 driver transistor, calculate base R to 20K. Might get 3K hrs out of 3AA? 30x1 mins per summer day. I build an LDR thing for sunlight detection. Find an ATtiny13A for timing. Install the core. Read the datasheet's watchdog stuff. Upload is flaky but eventually works. Then the chip stops responding T_T Might be USBasp fir...

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  Firefox's page loading bar is just theater. I know my connection is completely cut, but that bar goes like... making progress... making progress... almost done... almooooost... just a little bit left... alright, here's the connection error page.

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  SUPER FOOD SYSTEM Lin Yun woke up. Wow, I have transmigrated. But isn't this a world of starvation of trillions? -"Host, this is the Billion times food return system." Huh, I just place anything into my space, like a rock, and it converts to one billion food items? It worked! This hamburger is great! Yum yum. A-grade wagu beef is GO! Yum yum! Everyone around me sure are starving though. It's a good thing my system is secret so they don't find out. Yum...

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  Alright, I think I overcomplicated this. I wanted a clean binary startup signal for the fan to kick it into motion, so I used a comparator with the LDR (sun sensor). But the LM358 draws power in the mA range, eating battery. So I added a second LDR+tran to switch the whole circuit, but then I was back at the same analog gain problem. Possibly I could stagger the LDRs so sun hits one first. Then tried a IRFZ44N mosfet thingy that might suffice standalone. Whole circuit is now uA range in shade.

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  Square-ish sail rigging. Unsure about colour scheme. No top flag yet. I don't want to do big flags, keeping the scale more realistic, so I maybe I should scan the existing flags and scale down, print out. Hand painting micro stuff might be a bother.

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  Noticed that linux mint was getting a bit laggy. nemo-desktop process was going at full blast. Turns out my laptop CPU was choking in some battery saving mode and plugging power back in fixed it. Except it didn't. nemo-desktop was still a bit of a hog. Maybe it was doing some background maintenance. But I looked around and someone suggested moving desktop icons into folders so I did that and now it's at 0% CPU. As a dev I'm like wut? Desktop runs in immediate mode updat...

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  Decided to do some Man o' War rigging (lateen). First I tried using 0.2mm wire, melting it into the plastic, but this this brave approach brought a ship too close to the sun, and the aft starboard oar section took a damage marker, prompting some repairs. In the end I drilled holes in to the (hollow) hull center, then used thread and glue dots. This also allowed me to tension the ropes by tugging them into greenstuff under the hull. Paintjob needs a bit of touchup as I did it back in...

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  Some progress (not really). Fold, and soak, roll tightly and let dry. When unrolled you get these kind of bulges along the "cloth" seams. However, as soon as you curve the overall shape of the sail in the other direction they mostly flatten out. I think one would have to also curve the roll while it dries to get it to settle with both curves. Maybe roll it up on a thick metal wire and bend that without somehow crinkling. Square sails also bend inward along the corners where...

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  NES Kung Fu (Spartan X I guess) with extra moves and animation would probably be... fun for an hour. Hou hou hou hou B'DONG! C64 Bop'n Rumble had a richer moveset iirc. Good memories playing that on a tiny fuzzy B&W TV.

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  Trying to think of a colour scheme for the little plastic wargalleys. Perhaps putting some gold ornaments on the back? Might necessitate bringing out the greenstuff though. Just realized there's no undead faction like in WHFB. There is in Dreadfleet though, iirc.