Greg Baumbach @DragonIV@octodon.social
pro: he/him.
A truly terrible person who enjoys chocolate chip cookies, plays hockey, drives an irresponsible car, and wrangles data for a living. #resist
Looks like INARA's total worth graph tops out at 4B CR. Methinks I'll find out if it rescales this weekend. :D #EliteDangerous
Marathon bars last a good long time.
🎨 Random art musing incoming!
Access to cheap paper was probably the biggest factor in learning to draw for me.
The department secretary at my Dad's work knew he had a couple of little girls and she used to save all of the old pink and blue xeroxes for him to give to us so we could draw on their backs. (Thank you so much, Lucy!)
Then my dad got a dot matrix printer for his computer at home, and he bought two 5000-sheet boxes of paper for it. I guess he thought he'd go through it as quickly as his office did, but several years later by the time he got his first inkjet we'd only gone through much less than half of the first box.
No one wanted to spend time tearing the little edge strips off the dot matrix paper, so he got new inkjet paper and the 7.5k+ pieces of paper were just sitting in their boxes under the printer desk collecting dust because nobody else wanted them - and I just latched onto that. I used to tear out a bunch of sheets at a time and I'd carry them to school in my folders and draw on them.
Today plain recycled inkjet paper is pretty damn cheap (and I would recommend it to anyone with a bad case of Sketchbook Angst). I still keep a stack around so that I have guilt-free scrap paper and sometimes I still like to sketch on it over using my "proper" sketchbook.
The really great thing about having an abundance of cheap paper when you're learning is that you never have to be afraid you're wasting it, and that can really free your mind.
Hmmm. OK, Elite, I fired you up again....and bought a Fed Vette. Oopsie.
700MR CR later, I think there is much, much engineering to do on this thing.
Broke a mug my wife gave me on our first Christmas as a married couple back in '93. Been using it as my work tea mug, and was just thinking to myself last month, "Jeez, I've had this a long time, I'm amazed I haven't broken it yet."
Nothing like self-fulfilling prophecy!
The saddest part of my recent upgrade to Win 10 has been my playing Minesweeper like a madman.
Hmm, my sort of loud car probably won't win me much goodwill 'round here. :)
OK, summer tires, you can do this.
Trump opened his maw.
There is a non-zero percentage that I will watch the last three episodes of Stranger Things 2 in one sitting tonight.
ST2 ep5: ok, fine, I'm hooked. It was all I could do not to fire up ep6, but I had to watch the Oilers lose another game instead. #timewellspent
ST EP 4. Aaaah, so that's what Dart is!
Yep, I'm really slow on the uptake. :)
Stranger Things isn't gripping me nearly as much so far compared to last season. I blame much of that on familiarity.
Oh well, three episodes in, I'll definitely watch the remaining six.
Hey folks! I'm getting close to done with my game and I'm looking for some beta testers/players. If you're interested....
Boosting is encouraged and appreciated! 💗
#RocketLeague 3v3 competitive team play seems pretty soft this season. Playing on a team with my two kids in the qualifying rounds this weekend, we trashed pretty much each gold ranked team we found, when in the past gold was usually as high as we ranked in the past few seasons.
I'd like to say we've gotten better...but I doubt it. :)
Computer rebuild project tonight--heading over to my old man's place tonight (two hr drive) and work some time-machine magic on his win XP box that I built for him in 2008.
More memory and an SSD to the rescue! And of course, a slightly newer OS. :D
And loads of "Trump is an idiot" chat with him, as I think he hates Trump more than I do. There's hope for him yet!
Here's what's not in my profile:
#computerbuilder
#atheist
#games
#volunteertreasurer
#fixer
#socialanxiety
Let’s play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren’t in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#drummer
#juggler
#writer
#roleplaying
#gamedesign
#retrocomputers
#gtd
This weekend's mission---after the trip to my father's place to upgrade his (gasp!) Win XP machine--will be to garner much Rocket League candy corn. Well, that, and rake the endless supply of leaves.
