All the stuff I bought for Sunday night & Monday last week, along that grocery shopping adventure I wrote about—it turned out I’d bought so much stuff that it almost lasted the entire week. 'Twas all healthy stuff tho! :-) Otherwise, not a lot has happened. I’ve been cruising along sketching scenes for my follow-up novel, answering questions from my students, most of whom habitually message me on Discord in the middle of the night or on weekends, and try not to despair each time I read the news. Business as usual, more or less—only without that avalanche of lectures I got buried under during this term’s first three months.
Among the things I did was publishing a blog post on the topic of Stellar Populations at my Voidpunk Universe site, and—yet another!—linked-list item at my secret level just drafts about Wordle’s graphic representation on social media, and how you can connect that to Townscaper now and convert your Wordle tweets into the cutest buildings.
On Flickr, I uploaded a new album with photographs I took in Berlin last year, Berlin I: Allied Museum (15 images), and there’s one new photo on Glass from Yeouido Park in Seoul, South Korea. And of course there are several new images at my primary IG account betweendrafts, and some new stuff on pulp and Golden Age fantasy, sf, and horror at my IG account voidpunkverse, all with a lot of commentary.
In video game news, while Panic’s Playdate gaming console is still delayed (preorder groups 1 and 2, to which I luckily belong, are slated now for “early 2022”), the Playdate Pulp game making tool is now in public beta. Looks nifty! Can’t wait to try it out. (And yes, there was this other big event last week where one colossal shit company bought another colossal shit company, news at eleven.) And in game recommendation news, as I had some trouble with migraines last week, I’ve yet to finish Last Stop: Station 66.
Now, for your entertainment: here’s a clip that you do not want to miss: Keanu Reeves answering “The Colbert Questionert” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I could watch him for hours. And then there’s Mitchriz’s stunning, incredible Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice speedrun—blindfolded, in just over two hours. It was for Awesome Games Done Quick’s 2022 Cancer Donation Drive, which brought in $3.5 million dollars, and counting. (Donations are still open.) And, to conclude, here’s Mart Virkus’s evergreen comic about “every video call ever,” in case you missed it in 2020.
Cheers! (Now back to scene-sketching.)
J.
Among the things I did was publishing a blog post on the topic of Stellar Populations at my Voidpunk Universe site, and—yet another!—linked-list item at my secret level just drafts about Wordle’s graphic representation on social media, and how you can connect that to Townscaper now and convert your Wordle tweets into the cutest buildings.
On Flickr, I uploaded a new album with photographs I took in Berlin last year, Berlin I: Allied Museum (15 images), and there’s one new photo on Glass from Yeouido Park in Seoul, South Korea. And of course there are several new images at my primary IG account betweendrafts, and some new stuff on pulp and Golden Age fantasy, sf, and horror at my IG account voidpunkverse, all with a lot of commentary.
In video game news, while Panic’s Playdate gaming console is still delayed (preorder groups 1 and 2, to which I luckily belong, are slated now for “early 2022”), the Playdate Pulp game making tool is now in public beta. Looks nifty! Can’t wait to try it out. (And yes, there was this other big event last week where one colossal shit company bought another colossal shit company, news at eleven.) And in game recommendation news, as I had some trouble with migraines last week, I’ve yet to finish Last Stop: Station 66.
Now, for your entertainment: here’s a clip that you do not want to miss: Keanu Reeves answering “The Colbert Questionert” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I could watch him for hours. And then there’s Mitchriz’s stunning, incredible Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice speedrun—blindfolded, in just over two hours. It was for Awesome Games Done Quick’s 2022 Cancer Donation Drive, which brought in $3.5 million dollars, and counting. (Donations are still open.) And, to conclude, here’s Mart Virkus’s evergreen comic about “every video call ever,” in case you missed it in 2020.
Cheers! (Now back to scene-sketching.)
J.