RafaelFajardo

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…

It’s monday october 31, 2022. The height of spooky season, and the dawn of the days of remembrance in Mexico. I wonder when christendom selected it as the days for all saints and all souls. was it perhaps during the 1500s? The Mexican dia de muertos has a relationship with the Monarch Butterfly migration. It…

the purchase of twitter by Elon Musk was effected last night. the number of tweets about twitter on my timeline have been increasing since his first overture. at the dawning of twitter, when it was possible to read the “firehose” — the raw real-time timeline of posts — the majority of the tweets were about…

activities so far today: I sewed the copy of one of this year’s DO NOT PRESS books that is made for Scott H’s birthday. I used a pamphlet stitch pattern I put El otoño del patriarca back on my ear phones. I re-jogged the remaining 3+4 books in the two editions and re-placed them in…

Throughout October and November it has become an annual rite to set one or more small books into type. I do this to remember and honor my love of making books. This morning I remembered that I’m also preparing to teach in January, so my sabbatical mind is interrupted. Yesterday I finished the one I…

I’ve spent the last few days, weekend hours included, on my pi-top running Scribus, Font Manager, and Mousepad while typesetting something to share with colleagues this year from Do Not Press. Not teasers and no spoilers. Dingbats, and symbol fonts are more difficult to find if I want to avoid Dafont and Font Squirrel. Sigh.

I spent the day prepping the Pi-Top, adding typefaces. It’s a slow process, feels like 1986 all over again. I’ve been gathering the liner notes on the typefaces into a text document to have locally. Also, it’s been laundry day.

Last night at dinner Karin asked me how the game, Nemo’s Helper, is going. I told her about consulting with Diego on fetch quests and detailed the one that I’ve imagined so far. I mentioned to Karin the critique that I found suggesting heroes don’t do mundane task. I feel the need to contest that…

Karin got home last night and is back to work today. Today’s agenda includes the text about/by Ulises Carrión entitled Dear reader. Don’t read. I also have to watch the Artbound episode on Love & Rockets and the brothers Hernandez. I should also vet the media that emanated from my stay at Anderson Ranch before…

the trip to Anderson Ranch Arts Center (ARAC) was finite and so I could enumerate the days as a way to track my activities. The trip coincided with a sabbatical from teaching at the University of Denver. For emotional reasons I would count the beginning of the sabbatical as July 1, 2022. This would embed…