yesterday and today I began learning from – watching – the YouTube tutorial by ClearCode on pyGame (camel-case mine, they use all lower case). The tutorial is four hours long and so is a commitment. because I cant do things the straightforward way, I opt to use the Mu python learning environment on my pi-top…

my desk is built from tubular steel shelving that I bought at the container store over the last twenty years. I have kept my desk on wheels/casters. I’ve also kept many of my other shelving units on casters. I like to be able to reconfigure my workspace as the current project demands. First we (re)shape…

today is Veterans Day. Yesterday afternoon I created a new template for Scribus so I can fit a 3″ x 5.5″ page onto a 4.25″ x 5.5″ one. I honored the ~15mm printer margin available to my Epson 4800 so I can place page numbers and running heads in such a way as to fit…

either in my sleep or while making the bed. I have to add daily exercise to my routine. I’m in a hurry to get to my coffee and to the studio, I need to exercise so that I can make work longer into the future. The version of p5.js used by Kris DB in their…

last night I stitched the first proof of micro- and nano- role playing games. I shared my findings on social media after taking some documentary images. today I reviewed some online tutorials for creating Space Invaders in P5.js to prepare for a possible collaboration with Eric G. I found a very helpful one from a…

by Friday of last week it began to feel like this diary practice was more about obsession and less about discipline. Or rather that the discipline was making it harder to follow my bliss(es). The accounting was costing too much, becoming the activity itself. This hasn’t been helped by witnessing the changes on the microblogging…

I sat down to read a few more pages from My Cocaine Museum. The prose on page 16 is hallucinatory. I’m struck by the reliance on European thinkers to attempt to make sense. In addition to Walter Benjamin and William Burroughs, Taussig calls upon Reichl-Dolmatoff and Goethe. This is a very Teutonic collection. I’m also…

Activities: Play Return to Monkey Island for a couple of hours to get deeper into fetch quests. The storyteller sub-quest (side quest?) prompts broader map navigation, more so than skill acquisition. It is necessary for earning access to an artifact that may/will become necessary later to retrieve an additional artifact. Map navigation revealed clues to…

This morning I did a quick web search for coca habitat. The two biggest hits came from the US DOJ and the US DEA. I shouldn’t have been surprised. I spent a couple of hours ordering the necessary materials for my classes that begin in January. I need to ensure that we can add typefaces…

Yesterday I played some more Return to Monkey Island to warm myself back up to game-making. I played some more this morning before sitting down to finish my ballot. I ran into a logic error on my part again. An item that I needed to collect was plainly visible, and I had interacted with it…