Isn’t it a beautiful small house? I don’t know if I’d live in a layout like this. It sure looks wonderful from the street though. Natural cross-ventilation, hello!
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Author: harold
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Rough
They put a new coat of asphalt on my boulevard and before doing so, they have to make it rough, as in this picture. I probably lost 3 months worth of tires driving on this. Whatever.
I’m straight up not having a good time with this Windows 11. They are dedicated to kill backward compatibility and I think that’s not going to go well, especially with a chip shortage. Especially with inflation. Especially with billions of older machines and older software working just fine, if not running on Windows 10/11.
It circles back to “we need to slow our roll with consumption and be smarter about this e-waste”. Not sure people selling computers and operating systems like that, but our planet sure does.
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Dear Amazon driver,
I’m not mad at you. You were supposed to deliver the thing yesterday. The product arrived today. The product was bent.
I’m not mad at you. You might be fourteen, trying to save for your future or current student loans.
I unbent the product. It’s a little crooked, I will be fine.
I’m not going to report it, make a scene, rate you -987 or demand a refund or a return. I understand that it’s a nightmare out there, delivering packages.
I hope you’re well. Drive safe and next time be careful, hoe.
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Idea (hear me out)
Derek is so right! Here’s his reasoning:
If I buy a book in one format, it doesn’t seem fair to pay full price to get it in another format. That would be paying twice for the same content.
Let’s separate these two things:
- Contents: the words in a book
- Delivery: the ways to get the words into your brain: paper, audio, PDF, HTML, etc.
What we really want is to buy the contents, not delivery.
With so many different devices now, it seems fair that if you buy the contents of a book, it should include all formats of delivery. EPUB, MP3, Kindle, M4B, PDF, HTML, or whatever new formats may come in the future.
Today you want to read silently by the fire. Tomorrow you want to listen while you drive. In ten years, you want to read it again on your new device. This should all be included when you buy a book.
That gave me an idea: what if device manufacturers were doing the same? Say you buy a phone but instead of getting a new one in 18 months through your carrier, you just get lifetime support. That is, the manufacturer does everything it can to make the device last. Changing parts one by one if/when they wear out, for a small fee.
Imagine how much savings we would be doing. Imagine phones that last at least five years. Imagine the staggering amount of rare minerals, toxic sludge, sweat and blood that we would save from spilling all over this planet.
We NEED to consume less. Smarter. Let’s go.
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Bad Sleep SZN
August 28 2021, 4:52pm ~ still going.
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GODSPEED by Davonte Jolly
This is one of the best skateboarding video ever. It came out last year but I only watched it early this summer.
I watched it a few times. Times 10.
It’s so perfectly iconic. The music, the editing, the camaraderie, the tricks, the styles.
I could go on.
The skateboard company behind that vid is valley-based Illegal Civ, which has been very active on YouTube.
Y’all have to sponsor Noe Solis. His part like all of them, is so dope.
And there again, I watched it again. Davonte, you’re the man brother. Thank you, thank you.
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Playful Production Process
My good friend Richard has a book out!
Learn how to achieve a happier and healthier game development process by connecting the creative aspects of game design with techniques for effective project management.
Award-winning game designer Richard Lemarchand (Uncharted series) shares lessons he’s learned over the course of his 20+ year career creating videogames. This book covers the videogame production process from start to finish, giving the reader strategies to plan appropriately and avoid the uncontrolled overwork known as “crunch”.
Game design is at the forefront of production, any production. Game development is so convoluted and almost unique each time a game is created that processes to achieve a vision while not dying doing so, are very much appreciated! Those resources are rare.
Richard has the knowledge, experience and talent to write it all down and I can’t wait to read it.
You can preorder here.
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I didn’t know but I knew
When I clicked on a button and Google said “we’ll attempt to..” I knew I would get that Overstock email until I die.
If I have a tombstone, I’m pretty sure Overstock will find a way to get their freaking sale engraved on it.
Unrelated but it looks like autocorrect is getting worse, how is that possible after 15 iterations of an OS? I don’t know. Let’s breathe.
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Candace and Chicago
The Chicago Sky won their first WNBA title last weekend. Candace Parker is from Chicago and had just landed on the team roster last season after a few years with the Los Angeles Sparks.
It’s a great story. The WNBA playoffs this year were amazing. Shout out to miss Copper who was so relentless the entire series.
Yup, the WNBA was fully vaccinated by the end of May while the NBA still isn’t yet. Almost 60,000 people died from COVID-19 last month in America (only 8,000 died in June).
Something something women get stuff done.
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Wii Oui
“Rest assured, you will have it before Christmas.”
I was relieved. I had never been anxious about buying something in advance because I had never done it before. But this time, I had no choice.
To get the Nintendo Wii for my little sister, I had to be aggressive on my buying intent. Determined, I had entered the store on a preorder MISSION.
The Wii. 2006.
Man, it was c r a z y.
I’m not sure I can remember a bigger, worldwide online hype for anything before. Nintendo had done a master class in marketing here. If I remember correctly, they only had had a teaser about the new controller, but basically nothing else. At that time, I was working on a Wii game and a friend was gameplay programmer on it. I had had access to “project Revolution” six months prior to its official sale.
I miss the Wii. I miss its controllers. I miss our collective imagination around what those controllers could do (narrator: sadly, not much). I miss the ability to play with both hands with the width I want.
The core concept –all about gameplay, and to hell with HD- was _very_ refreshing. We just had basically spent 15 years running after the latest tech. More CPUs. More 3D. More esoteric words that don’t mean that the game will be fun. The Wii (and the DS) just dragon punched the hell out of this paradigm.
The music. How my god, the Wii channel and Wii Sports. It was so addicting and so chill. Everything said “just have fun, and relax”.
I had never played video games with my parents before, and I never played video games with my parents after. The Wii was that much of a change. In six years, they sold 100 million of those. This is still Nintendo’s best-selling machine ever and one of the fastest selling tech product ever.
The console was supposed to play older Nintendo games, was going to change how we make games, making games for a broader audience, etc. Unfortunately, those points rapidly fell off the cliff of reality: half-baked features, the Wii being just a little too underpowered for many games that could have been ported to, the buying power of the core 18-30 dudes market. All those variables eventually came back to bite Nintendo in the butt.
But before that? I saw the ocean. I saw it. It was amazing. Thank you, Mr. Iwata (president of Nintendo at the time, who pushed for a broader video game landscape, and passed away in 2015)