phooky @phooky@octodon.social

I accidentally summarized it perfectly in a conversation with a friend today: geometry is easy; computational geometry is hard.

my 5 year old just got out of bed to ask me why they didn't put any spaces in a sentence in the back of the book he was reading.

it's because it was a hashtag.

i told him i'd explain it in the morning.

America: Lovecraft or

The parrots are still there.

Green Wood Cemetery for the first time in ages .

Terrific thread on disassembling transformers to reuse the cores and bobbins:
https://twitter.com/RueNahcMohr/status/1450643493055987716

Okay, I've reached the point where I'm understanding CGAL well enough to actually enjoy it instead of just wrestling it

Spent about an hour having to update all my credit card info at various places around the web. Kudos for making this fast and easy go to criterion and bandcamp. Serious side-eye at paypal, which took about three minutes of clicking around, and patreon, whose process was so broken I had to google it, and whose website is so busted it crashed a tab.

model ship of theseus

Advanced Circuits has just been sold to Tempo Automation, which seems... fine? I usually use OSHPark nowadays, but I've still got a soft spot for AC as they were the first place I ordered a PCB from.

Finally got around to wrapping up this #spooktober illustration.

Found a receipt in a book I bought in Ithaca in '98; in a moment of nostalgia looked up the bookstore and found it had closed in '19. Lasted a good long time, I guess.

I have just received a follow-up email from EverythingChopsticks, the online store that sells only chopsticks, to ask if my chopsticks have proved satisfactory. This is only to be expected in this, our off the rails hyperfuture in which every transaction, banal as it may be, begs for our online approval in a desperate bid for survival

Her '76 short, Furies, is also amazing. Reportedly done on newsprint with pastels; I'm guessing Preludes was done in the same way.
https://vimeo.com/305366684

Sara Petty's 1987 short Preludes in Magical Time is just astonishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JufK9r-lEU8

Dreamcore synthwave band called The Secret Life of Walter MIDI

Quick #spooktober noodles.

tfw you realize you've been blocked by someone you admire :/