Author: Peter Jones

Got my idea now. Basically a craptastic cipher. Take the text of a book on project Gutenberg, have the character length be agreed upon. Hash the entire book at the interval. Use the hash act as the index. Rolling ciphers all the way through. Build a reading list for more iteration possibility.

So I now have my RePhone, which is great seeing as how I cracked the shit out of my S3. It’s still usable, just not as pretty. Unfortunately, this means it’s go time. Figure I just renewed Virgin, so I have until the month for sure. My S3 still works, so it’s not really pushing on me. But go time.
Is estimate the breakout is:
80% text
15% pictures
5% phone
You’re probably noticing that I didn’t mention during the web. Well, I’m working away from that. That’s why. I want to do shit. Not just read shit. So now the question is what. I guess that doesn’t make sense. Right. Design goals.
Phone-ish size.
Screen I can type on.
Ability to take a shitty picture.
Ability to text the picture.
Battery life is negotiable. As long as I can get, and send, texts after 10 hours of mostly standby, it’s chill.
So I’m thinking, grab a handy SBC, and a bigger LCD, and a touchscreen.
Probably be like a Samsung Note, but four times thicker and heavier. I think I should repurpose the wood from one of my cigar boxes for the case. Probably add a little matching lid to keep the screen from breaking. A stylus so I get more bang for my buck on screen size. I’m not really worried about the screen size, but the screen power consumption.
I should probably start by doing anything with the RePhone, and going from there.

Just read something something something. Well really, I didn’t read it. I think I got through the first life and has an idea of awesome.
Every character is both note and duration, maybe instrument also.
Play books from project Gutenberg.

I use the term on-the-rails a lot. Even I say it, it’s kind of like people are staying on the right path. Usually though, it’s an act.
Example: the other day I saw a couple while walking up to Capitol Hill. These two, almost definitely, had fetal alcohol syndrome. They were looking rough, maybe a little meth, maybe homeless. While neither they nor I initiated any interactions, I didn’t have the flight reflex. I associate this with the fact they each has their own pitbull. I told the Wif later I believed that there dogs helped them stay on-the-rails.
The thing is, a lot of my life I consider to be on rails, and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.

February, Alaska, North

Brainstormed some good shit.
1. Conductive thread and flicker LEDs. Embroider the Wif the Alaskan night sky she remembers the most so during the day it shows the constellations, and at night the stars light up.

Need to ask her about the stars in Alaska.

2. Glass monolith with one way glass film facing the wrong way. Periodically it light LEDs on the inside with the clip of Dave Bowman saying “Stars. It’s full of stars.”

It was midterm madness. I was being quiet, so no major progress. I did get a new bigger better cutting bit for the rotary, so I’ll see how that does going into the cigar boxes.
I also watched some videos on building a plywood fishtank, so on the day I do that, I’m feeling much more ready. I still don’t know if I want to go that route though. Hell, I usually can’t decide if I want an aquarium.
I think my bigger priorities need to be cleaning and clearing room. Then it’s time to consider rearranging, refurnituring. Then add living things. Seems a bit more respectable.
#blessed

I totally don’t have motivation today. I have so little motivation that I vacuumed to procrastinate. Then it got down to business.
I need to remember to charge the drill battery. Better yet, I should get a corded drill that actually had some oomph. So that delayed the shelf, again.
I started dismantling a cigar box. I see how it is now and I have a spare pair. This means that when the first parts box is done, that I’ll be able to make another one to match. This one I’ll make with documentation. I should also get some very small hinges. The poster hinge looks cool, but I don’t feel it’s long term survival. This is going to be leaked until o get a new cutting blade for the rotary. The ones I have are super cheap and couldn’t name the first cut even.
Next is pedometer.

I still can’t decide how the aesthetics are going to look. Terrible sentence by the way. I’m thinking the LEDs, but what about function. I’ll probably demo a shimmering colour field on the Arduino, and get am idea of where to go from there. Hell, I don’t even think I have more than one RGB LED. Also, RGB want in my dictionary?