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Of Course: 2014 Travel Is Still Undecided
So last year was Iceland. That was pretty spur-of-the-moment. We decided in May and went in August. Done. I would love to go back, particularly to see northern and eastern Iceland. This year is up in the air, though. St. Petersburg, Russia is maybe an option, but talks stalled a bit over the break, and I’m a little undecided on traveling with children. Greece or Germany are still appealing. I’d toyed with going on an adventure cruise with Explor Cruises to the Amazon last year, but the prices were nauseating (see the “Voyage to the Heart of the Amazon”) and I didn’t get a great feeling when I spoke with…
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Time Is Not Discrete
I am not feeling New Year’s resolutions this year. When I think, “What do I want to achieve this year?” the list is the same as I am always striving toward: Health (mental, physical, and spiritual), Education (of myself and others), and Creation Those are the things I strive for everyday anyway. What metrics do I need to judge if I’ve really worked “hard enough” or “well enough”? Am I healthier? Do I and those around me have more knowledge and compassion for the world? Have I created something and shared it? I call those sufficient. For the first time ever,
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Iceland: Arrival
It’s August 23rd. After an overnight flight (including my first “visit” to New York), I was blearily standing in Keflavik International Airport with The Runners. One (A.) was there to run a half-marathon, and M. was there for a full marathon. I will never forget that first look at the beauty of Iceland from my plane. The color palette was just… different. Different greens and browns, and lots of black. (One does not just fly in to Reykjavik, apparently, unless you’re already in Iceland or (maybe) the UK. One flies to Keflavik, then buses or drives to Reykjavik.) So I was tired and wired, and it was my first time…
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Ossuary Companion “The Hodge-Podge Transformer” Released
I promise, not every one of my blog posts from now on is going to be about Future Proof, but we’ve released a small companion game/prelude/demo to Ossuary! It’s weird. It’s fun. It’s… salty. Go play “The Hodge-Podge Transformer” while you wait for me to post some Iceland photos. …Yeah, I said it. What, then? You’ve already waited 4 months; what’s one more day?
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Image Generation on Granny Squares
It’s been a while since I’ve done anything significant on my Granny Square Pattern Generator (GSC), and since I’ve already contributed to a game release this week, I figured I hadn’t quite checked enough “public-facing actions” boxes this week until I did some work on GSC. Biggest missing feature (and biggest complaint!) is that blankets weren’t printable. Now they are! Log in with something like Facebook or Twitter, generate a blanket, and save the blanket. When you look at the details of the blanket, you can now get it as a printable image, and toggle between the two styles of seeing the blanket. My next task is to make authentication…