This is what we should be working towards. There is nothing — not one thing — physically impossible about any of this1. We could do it if we chose to do so. It’d take a couple hundred years, though, and a huge amount of resources. But it could and should be done. And so much more.
Cool
Roll Call
Wow, Miss Gill is a sweetheart. Should be more teachers like that, and they should be paid more. I never thought I’d live in a timeline where teachers would be demonized, yet here we are.
Someone jump in the time machine and fix this shit.
Differently Armed
Damn, that’s cool. That’s about $2 million worth of equipment she’s…wearing? What’s the proper term here? “Has installed?”
“Is using?”
None of that feels quite right. They’re her arms, but they’re not quite like my arms. I like that she doesn’t have them look more natural. There’s nothing wrong with being part robot.
Animoot
That is amazing, but every one of those frames is hand-painted. That scene is 94 seconds long, so that’d be 2,253 frames. 2,253 frames x 30 mins animation etc. per frame = 67,590 minutes. Which is 1,127 hours or just under 47 days.
In other words, that scene alone would’ve taken just under 47 days of animator time to produce1. There’s no way CGI would take that long. A comparable scene with CGI would take a day or two of animator time. Big, big difference.
Reverse the Flow
And as predicted our electricity cost has gone negative:
Pretty handy during a depression I’d say.
Gravity Knows Them Not
Damn that’s some real strength there he’s got. And her athleticism is amazing.
It helps some to be big here as it counteracts her mass moving around. But that’s damn impressive.
Music Mac
Today, I wrote a little application that when I hit a button I’ve placed on the Mac Finder’s toolbar, it opens all the directories where I’ve stored music, sets the volume to my preferred level and opens Strawberry music player.
Pretty slick and didn’t take long.
Splash
Dolphins welcomed NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 after Splashdown.
Drawn by all the hubbub and hullabaloo. But that’d be a cool sight after over 8 months in space.
Bindery
Today, I heard from a friend in the UK who hadn’t been in touch for a while. She said she missed me and that I “understand things effortlessly that most people cannot even think about.”
If that’s not a great damn compliment, I don’t know what it is. It’s not as effortless as it looks, though. Behind that instant intuition is tens of millions of pages of books. It was good to hear from her. She has a damn fine mind herself and is much funnier than I will ever be. She wanted my take on the changed world and the future that lies ahead. I gave it and she said she’ll stay in touch more.
I hope so.
Counting Forwards
I know, it’s great!
Change Shift
So glad the time changed! It’s the best thing since eukaryotic life. Why anyone likes it getting dark at 4PM is beyond me and always will be.
Incursion
Zelensky’s “I need ammunition. Not a ride” after the second Russian invasion is one of the most badass things any living human has said.
I’m pretty brave but I’m gonna be honest: I probably would’ve been on the first plane to Warsaw or London. The odds were not in Ukraine’s favor.
Nook
And to think, we used to be a country.