{"id":55770,"date":"2022-09-28T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=55770"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:34:58","slug":"arac-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/arac-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"ARAC Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

List of activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Last night Harry Teague invited me out for dinner. We went to the Woody Creek Tavern which used to be his local. The tavern has a storied history in the late 20th century as it was also the local for the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Harry described a rarefied and boisterous salon that included physicists, philanthropists, actors, and ranchers in addition to Thompson and Teague — an architect of international renown.<\/li>
  2. At the tavern Harry ran into some folks who once were neighbors and associates from his days living in Woody Creek. They shared a short reminiscence of a trip to Fiji (and\/or Tahiti). One of them had been raised in Fiji, I think his name was Tom. I am probably wrong. Tom had put the President of French Polynesia, who admired the grand Aspen tent, in touch with Harry who had designed the structure. There was want of such a gathering space in Polynesia. Harry and his team were flown out for three weeks for research and charette. They had to follow the path of a great row-boat race — because the president had sponsored a team — as they worked out sketches. I asked Harry if there was some indigenous material that could provide structure. He said “no, we would use steel because it has to withstand a typhoon. I had had a glimmer of guadua, or something like it in my imagination. No such luck.<\/li>
  3. last night I made some exploratory pencil sketches of guadua.<\/li>
  4. Harry asked me to name something about Colombia that he didn’t know. He asked me if they played Pelota in Colombia. I said that they didn’t, and mentioned my surmise that the Darien Gap was a geographical feature that may have stopped the spread southward.<\/li>
  5. Harry mentioned the book Inventing Nature<\/em> and its focus on Alexander von Humboldt. I think I have to add that book to my reading list. Humboldt continues to have an outsized influence on Colombia and the Bolivarian states. Harry mentioned that Humboldt was a mentee of Goethe. I need to look this up. My hours in Leipzig are growing resonance.<\/li>
  6. On our way out of the restaurant I asked Harry if he know about guadua. He said he didn’t. I gave a cursory explanation and realized I need to research more. It’s on the agenda for today to gather some resources.<\/li>
  7. Also on the agenda for today is to learn better how to create, manage, and manipulate variables in Bitsy. Variables are a crucial programming element for keeping track of inventory items which are, in turn, necessary for fetch quests.<\/li>
  8. Another agenda item for soon is to change the theme on this blog. I think it no longer fulfills the needs I have. Its limitations are being foregrounded over its virtues.<\/li>
  9. Guadua:
    1. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guadua <\/li>
    2. https:\/\/bambusa.es\/en\/characteristics-of-bamboo\/guadua-bamboo\/<\/li>
    3. https:\/\/www.guaduabamboo.com\/blog\/guadua-species-list <\/li>
    4. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GRc3TxL1sn8 <\/li><\/ol><\/li>
    5. Variables:
      1. https:\/\/ayolland.itch.io\/trevor\/devlog\/29520\/bitsy-variables-a-tutorial<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
      2. Made draft itch.io page for Nemo’s Helper<\/li>
      3. realized “8,000 Feet Above The Sea” should be incorporated to help anchor the resonance with Verne.<\/li>
      4. met with Olivia who shared with me the curriculum. It is in its final state so only big errors may be fixed.<\/li>
      5. made itch page for Nemo’s Helper public and submitted to Unidos game jam. I wanted to go through the whole process so I know where the holes are. I need to make a cover image.<\/li>
      6. translated pencils sketches of guadua to Bitsy items and assigned values to various thicknesses. <\/li>
      7. still a long way to go for interactions and mechanics.<\/li>
      8. have remembered Cafetales and Caucho and Cacao, which haven’t been added.<\/li>
      9. Brain is addled so I’m calling it a day. 3:00 pm.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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