yep it was, i looked it up at the time

making a video game is like doing both at once

should have gone for a run or something to burn it all off

locked in too hard today, need to un-lock in so i can sleep

calculus was a mistake

(this photo isn't from today but there was a ship out there today very much like this)

a photo of a large ship off the California coast in a hazy evening light

i live close enough to a navy base that sometimes on the drive home it's like "there's a star destroyer out there again"

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

ok, second coffee, then maybe i can think

My first big poetry publication came out today!! Check it out! Poems about racism and Barack Obama and musical theater, aka the stuff I talk about on here all time! And read the whole issue, it is full of amazing stuff.

https://anmly.org/ap42/christopher-leigh-silverberg/

THE SPARROW is a really, really excellent sci-fi book. A fantastic exploration of first contact with the Other as well as faith in a dark and broken world. (Warning: It's dark. But it is SO worth the read if that's not a dealbreaker for you.)

I don't think I'd leave it off. It shows you can work as part of a big team and deliver on work reliably, which would be useful skills for most of that sort of thing. Gov jobs are very "you have to check every box" but as long as you also check every box, I'd include other stuff too

Picture of a sunset in the western sky with hills & mountains in the foreground. There are 2 lonely power poles in the lower center, seeming to frame the crescent moon, Venus, and multiple stars in the darkening skies in the rest of the photo.

From my home to yours -

Have a good evening & a week that is kind to you.

Today was one of those special days where a local tells you about a secret spot and the next day you hike back to a giant brick ruin in the shape of an Uncharted level and you climb/hop/scramble all over it holding a nikon n80 w/zoom lens and late that night your body is 44 and was the entire time

The Sparrow isn't really a thriller, though it is very tense. Hard to really compare the two!

(these are not a tonal match, I am warning you up front. But The Sparrow grappled a lot with language and behavior in a way I kind of wanted PHM to take a little more seriously)

project hail mary (movie version) was very enjoyable. If you liked the idea but are interested in another serious take on that type of first contact story, you may enjoy Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" (book)

hell yeah

i know running blueprint assist on the circulatory system would go crazy

I think about this all the time

just takes time and effort!

gnocchi... my beloved.....

related fact is i am eating leftover risotto for lunch

Digital painting. A Dreamcatcher readies his equipment in a city backstreet

Dreamcatcher

cool fact is you can just eat risotto whenever you want

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

A man with a mullet and a mustache glowers, saying "you best get goin'" He is wearing a trucker hat that says "keep honking, I'm building a gun big enough to pierce the heavens and knock God from His throne. If He made us in His image, then He must be a fragile and scared thing, and I aim to do Him the kindness He will not do me."

Keep Honking

Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

Moon and Venus beautiful tonight

(the nine inch noize version of The Warning is excellent)