I'm entering the endgame of the novel I'm writing. It's exciting as all the threads that I've woven are promising to weave together. I don't know what it will be like to edit this but it feels exciting to be at this point.
Out of the top ten book list the one with the fewest words is "Hitchhiker's". If I can beat the word count on that book I'll feel pretty validated.
I'm in Die Hard. The Movie: The Play again at the Powerhouse in Brisbane. Starting around the 10th of December. I'll be the disembodied voice.
Thinking about whether it's too late to have an opus.
When I was young I learned about the Dodo bird. It was comical and extinct. I didn't really understand the implications of that. I was so enthused by stories of the supernatural. Stories of dinosaurs in lost worlds and exotic creatures and places that man had not yet found. Eventually I was able to comprehend the more practical implications of extinction and it filled me with a sense of enormous loss. Extinction is forever. A yawning gaping hole inside me that threatened to swallow me whole.
It was too much to bear and it was with great relief that I accepted something very beautiful about the nature of time. Everything passes, but the concept of "now" is only really of importance to those experiencing it. In a top down view everything that has existed is just as important and locked in time as everything that is yet to come.
Like a crystal growing. If a flaw appears it will grow for a while and then resolve. This flaw is locked in the crystal. If a creature could only see a slice of that crystal it doesn't stop the fact that the flaw exists in another part of the crystal. The universe is a lovely static phenomenon if looked at in a four dimensional space and I take great consolation from that.
Though I suspect the Dodo does not.
Making meat pie mix turns out to be pretty easy. Making pie bases? Lots of work. Wrapping pie mix in puff pastry? Super easy. Guess what I've been making.
My work has been quieter than usual (thanks COVID) but while my income has been a trickle I have had time to pursue some other projects. I've written some more chapters of my story. I've written a TV pilot. And I've done some coding stuff including a comment section for my podcast and a Laravel Blade package that is one of the neatest things I've done.
Sadly, no one has yet downloaded it, but at least it's brilliant for me.
T-shirt weather!
I was never really interested in 4K. If media isn't interesting enough in low-res, more pixels aren't going to make it better. 8K just seems like needless "pix swinging". I do find it amusing though that I have found one use for 8K that intrigues me.
CRT emulation is very hard to do on an LED screen, but new filters are getting closer to replicating the effect of photons firing at you. To get the best effect though the density of pixels that 8K gives you is the best way to do this. The only way to really create the CRT effect is an absurd amount of tech.
Well, one of two ways.
https://www.retrorgb.com/retrotink5x-new-scanline-features.html
Pixel Dailies
Fan Art
Mortalizer 2
Spectrumizer
Mortalizer
CGA Extender
Repalettes
Convert to EGA