Author: Peter Jones

The Wif is done with the quarter. It’s time to get down to brass tacks. Time to finish my desk. Setup my camera on a tripod. Maybe a spare phone on a timer. Build shit. Let’s do this!
Yah!

I wonder if I could up my fantasy football (and other sports) just by processing Twitter feeds. Especially given only 140 characters, it shouldn’t be too hard to go through all 32 had offices and fifty odd players. Probably start by looking for similar hash-tags and then compare with their fantasy scoring.
To clarify: I don’t believe this is a unique idea. I’m sure someone else has already done it. I’m sure someone else’s results will surpass my own.

To actually do something, I usually require a reason. I am a lazy person and I abhor work for the sake of work itself. I’ve known I really should learn Python at some point, but never had a good purpose. The thing that really struck me at in my one MIT book is the use of state machines to break down a problem into really small bits of code.
Entirely for fun I guess who the winners each weak are in the NFL. My record sucks. I usually do better than 0.500 but compared to other people, I show my obvious lack of knowledge. I’m cool with that. It’s fun. I was thinking though. As the impetus for better coding, why not look at my picks.
I’m figuring start by making a spreadsheet of every season game. Have all my data, or at least the ability to add it in later. Ooh 80, I could totally make it better. I don’t do any real work. I could have my script make its own tweaking after giving the data and rough handlers. It needs to know that one game affects two different teams. These teams both played in one stadium, giving only one team home field advantage, both both are affected by the weather in separate and distinct ways, not only for the teams, but the field itself.
So I have my raw data that it can mangle to its hearts content, and then complex data like the weather.
Right. Let’s do this.

I failed to mention something. The desk will continue to evolve organically. Not actually organically of course. Spare carbon based molecules won’t be getting added. Instead, as I get more excess parts, they’ll be bolted on. For now, I need one last piece of structural metal and I’m calling it done. A couple clamps, maybe a tool rack and it’ll start becoming.
The importance of a desk is minor, the importance of it being a precursor to other projects is immeasurable.
Having a vision is breathing new life into it. I’m seeing it set up with a automatic camera to photograph it at set intervals. Time lapse devolution of a work space.
One of the issues that was bugging me was the dead space. What what if I glued pages from books over the top, like a papier-mache skin, throwing lights behind it to make the words glow out.

I’m still trying to finish my latest desk. I’m pretty sure I just ran into a wall on the inspiration. I had a thought, a vision, but not a reason. Without reason, any project is just another pile of clutter. With reason, and the project can finish itself.
So there I am. My desk is upside down, and just waiting for the next piece of scrap metal. The thing is, I just had no why.
Originally, just the hollowed out shelf of electronics, crudely pounded and bolted together, it now has a purpose. I’m drying it add being the home office equivalent of a space hulk from Warhammer 40k. I’m going to take what I have, turn it upright and priced to add more. More pieces, more power, more chaos. It will be a desk into itself.

Finally applied power to it. It looks like my computer doesn’t want to share internet. I have to figure out why. I’m currently thinking if how I’ll implement my emerged floor duster. I’ve been thinking of setting Teddy up for version one. If I give him a head mounted range sensor, he should be able to wander around, looking for edges. My biggest concern was stairs, but then I realized, if he reaches stairs the range will go from static to crazy large almost instantly. Thanks geometry!

Got to trying a firmware update. No dice. Tried again. It wanted me to update Synapse. I’m trying that now. Its difficult not to describe software developers, that I’ve never met, in a fair and partial way when this is the software that the hardware provider turns out. Its not that I think they’re all a bunch of idiots, but maybe its quality control. Maybe its marketing. No matter what,m while I love the keyboard, the driver/software package is horrific.

It seems to be working now. For how long?

Have a single image upload option, when an image I’d uploaded to the theme, it copies the old background, adds the new image in. This provides for an easy revert option, probably have ways to actually revert rather than just manually. Also, save each image uploaded individually. Between that and the desktop surface, probably a couple variables, have a reroll function.

I was going to call this post meta but realized id’s not really. Meta is more of having a post about a post, which despite the introductory paragraph, this is not.
This is about the theme of the website going forward. Not like purpose but appearance. I’m all about my controlled randomness. It’s was actually that about me that really made me start wondering about my own mental state. I would, especially during social circumstances, stop, think, and then do something really sideways. Given the choice I’ve time of waiting for a locksmith at my work place in the boonies of Carnation, I stopped. I thought. Lightly jumped into the back of my pickup truck. Good puddle they might want to back up, and kicked the back window out. Carefully. It wasn’t anger, it wasn’t particularly the best idea, I just had better things to do. And by better, I mean get gone. I was hanging out at the mall in the early morning with my friend who worked there. It was my birthday and I had nothing better to do. I realized I needed to vacate, so I did. There was a thought process, just nothing that makes sense in a Euclidean world. That’s enough extemporizing for now.
I want a website that’s changing, mutating. I want it to be consistent. I want it to be a them that’s usable by others. I want it to be unique to the individual.
In my youth, when I was a different me, wanted it to be an infinite gallery the viewer would go through like an old Scooby Doo background. The programming of this, without using flash our JavaScript seemed improbable. In my middling years I was imagining a coffee stained, blood and ink stained page from the journal of a Lovecraftian investigator. Almost impossible to look good without having defined length posts or hackery. Oh yeah, the entire them has to be non-destructive and on the fly. I want everything to keep appearance completely seperate from content.
I’m imaging a work table, texture selectable or replaceable. I’m the theme settings, have an upload option, where you upload individual pages to build a montage for the background. Each one is randomly scattered onto the table, as a mirror image, with a low contrast setting. Probably add a small drop shadow, and a tilt. Adding a page blank option would be dope as well. Obviously this would be a stretch goal. Create a page blank, ie thematically correct with the rest of your pages. It takes one of the posts you did, rasterizes it on top with a cliff diffusion mirrored and what not.
I can do this. I think.