"condensed the logs from yearly to monthly" wait i just noticed this was backwards. good god i need to proofread harder
Condensed the logs from yearly to monthly pages. No update on actual Site Content- man, I've got to quit wasting all my free time on them content delivery treadmills
thinking maybe i should elaborate on BOOK now that it's released? i feel weird having the only lengthy "review" on here be for a mashup/youtube video soundtrack album i've barely thought of since i listened to it. eh, it was worth it to advertise jan Misali, they make good videos. on that note, haha, you hear about the legal situation that Caramelldansen video might could be brewing up?? heheh yeah, isn't it funny that wait shit i'm sidetracked
Back to BOOK- my first impression listening to it was "i like this but also this was unaccountably strange even for a TMBG album and also I'm vaguely disappointed." Subsequent listens cleared up the disappointment, thankfully, and familiarity dispelled some of the perception of "weirdness." I still get why the album didn't quite gel at first, though. The first two songs both end on non-lyrical vocals, which feels pretty rare for the Johns, and the mixing and production feels slightly rough at times, or at least inconsistent. (especially the vocals... hey what's up with the fade at 2:33 in Less Than One) The musical style teeters between more conventional soft- or alt- rock, pastiches I can't place, and previously unheard experiments, breaking from their recent style.
Nonetheless! Good songs, and I stand by my earlier "hell yeah!" Lemme just ramble out some thoughts I had in no particular order (setting aside the first five preview tracks):
Marty Beller did great work on here!! Don't ask me where in particular, i forgot. In general, i think this album has the weakest lyrical material out of all their major post-DAS 2015 releases, which is funny considering the whole book conceit. Quit the Circus has a killer opening line, though, and nothing is really terrible. Speaking of Quit the Circus- is there a bit of Mink Car in there? Is there a bit of "I Can't Hide From My Mind" in Lord Snowdon too?? Hmmm... "Darling, the Dose" is a Good pastiche track, even if Flans's vocals are a bit wonky, public opinion is weird. Brontosaurus is great melodically but the backing lyrics can fall awkwardly on their melody. Actually, the more I listen, the less I can hear it... Moonbeam Rays was underserved by the recording and I didn't warm to it until they put out the video version. Love the rhythm, winding melody, and especially saxophone on Wait Actually Yeah No. (Is it a saxophone? I can't tell instruments apart haha) Drown The Clown has a rare direct political lyric from Linnell and I KNOW he said it wasn't meant as such in an interview but darn it John you can't write a song that essentially says 'social media spats are cultural window dressing that drains attention and energy from, among other problems, climate change' and say it isn't political. Less Than One goes hard.
If you read this all for some reason, don't come at me for my terrible taste and opinions. Or maybe do that. I would like to argue about TMBG, actually. Ok, goodbye!
new TMBG album arrived today! i am bound by oath not to publish my detailed thoughts on it here at this time, so i'll condense them to a "hell yeah!"
finally fixed the positioning on the labels for the flex windows earlier today... apparently phantom whitespace was causing the problem the whole time. that seems to be a common trend in html. whose freakin idea was it to have whitespace between tags in the code render as a space on the page anyway??
i've put up some photos from the hike i took two weekends ago; lots of mushrooms in this set! i feel like the photo log has been severely under-populated with fungus until this point
spooky month approaches. time to almost entirely forget it's happening because i'm too busy with schoolwork
changed element corners from rounded to chamfered. will now launch into the scratch project recreation thing i mentioned in may or whenever
perspective tool, now dubbed the "flattener," available for your responsible use on the World Wide Web at URL [SITE DOMAIN]/etc/flattener
work on the perspective tool continues swimmingly. i realized i was going to have to calculate the perspective matrix anyway on account of having to determine point positions rather than only transform an image. having found a godsend of a stackoverflow answer i was able to reimplement a perspective transform without glfx.js using css, which is nice because that script hasn't been maintained in eight years and sometimes spontaneously crashes.
found a webgl library called glfx.js which implements a perspective transform exactly how my project requires. looks like i don't have to do any of the hard work, heh heh
Working on the perspective-compensating measurement tool again- or at least the parts of it that don't actually involve perspective transformation, for the moment.
new TARDIS console renders are up at /etc/dw/console.html, along with an overview of the entire TARDIS console lineage
hello, i'm still alive! been busier in meatspace than expected this summer and i am glad for that. the mk ii tardis console model is probably going to get finished this month, but i doubt any of my declared summer project ideas actually will. oh well. in other site news, maybe i'll add a representation of my music collection to the music tab. lately i have been very enamored with the now slightly old-fashioned idea of owning rather than streaming audio, and as such offering only a youtube embed system to peruse the music i enjoy feels somewhat unsavory.
good bye
saw the first red milkweed beetle of the season! love those lil guys
was without internet on my laptop for a week and restarted work on the next tardis console model. may be postponing the niche project nobody cares about and that i barely understand until i finish this
progress report:
progress is slow!!!!
been a while, again. i did some things to the website in the last several days that i didn't bother to log here: i added a roundel background to the TARDIS console page, and switched the font to embedded Courier Prime.
it pains me to say this but i hadn't actually checked to see if anybody had already made a "perspective measurement tool". as it turns out, there are some examples out there. none of them are exactly what i pictured, so i'll keep the project going (although i've made minimal progress so far...)
ok bye again
i just watched worthikids' new animation and i could not have asked for a better way to end the month! his technique is perfected, the design work is adorable, and the voice actors (to my non-japanese-understanding ears) knocked it out of the park.
back on the topic of "linear time progressing": it's about a week and a half til i can start working on projects for the website again.
if i do get Ardour and start trying to make music again, please remind me to start with covers and not try composing and immediately hit a wall again, thank you
wow, "o my heart" is a very good album!! i sure was screwing up by not listening to mother mother all this time
is fixed :-)
uh oh, looks like i don't know how to embed fonts
another full-site update today- not a redesign as floated earlier (decided i like the current style for now), but mostly just a switch away from the google font API. in the process, i seem to have fixed that inconsistency between the label class height in ubuntu and windows. or, well, ubuntu started looking like windows- no guarantee at the moment that windows hasn't changed.
gee, wish i had forgotten it was homestuck day today
on another note, did you know that that picture of neil the rat has the same date (april 13 2006) as neil cicierega's first youtube upload? a bizarre coincidence, or deliberate plant by neil himself? could the rat be yet another pawn in cicierega's memetic designs?
vaccine
hello! just felt i should pop in here for the end of the month. end of month review sort of thing. yeah.
plans established: four. wait, scratch that, three, i'm not compiling ardour (does this one count as a plan? it's not really website "content"). i read the dependencies list and BOY HOWDY AM I JUST GOING TO BUY IT. free software is nice and all but supporting projects is also very good. don't expect any music to come out of this DAW acquisition, though. i'm still very inexperienced (bad) at composition- i've got maybe two undeveloped fragments at the moment i might try to arrage and stick on bandcamp so i'm no longer a filthy domain parker.
actual site updates will resume in a month or so, i hope. goodbye
ok, adding yet another project to the "unlikely to be realized" backlog: js ports of my favorite Scratch games, on account of the 3.0 update broke everything. i've thought about it for years, but scratch is a silly website from my silly past so i never got serious about the idea. and yet, i have a legal right to do this (scratch projects are automatically CC licensed) and a (rather weak) moral imperative, if the preservation of internet culture is to be considered a good in and of itself.
i am going to be so busy once i have free time again. haha, that's a joke, i waste all my free time because i don't have motivation to finish anything i start. but who knows? maybe things can be different now.
tomita is really good
always been a bit unsure about the site styling. i keep telling myself it's not too garish, but if it is, it's a totally intentional homage to flash sites that used all manner of ugly vectors. anyway, i might thin the borders or dispense with them entirely. also, i might break two molds with one stone and switch from rounded to chamfered corners (probably a bad idea)
again, ETA in the indeterminate future. not too much time to update the site these days!
next project on here will be a larger web app kind of thing: a tool for measuring positions on surfaces in perspective. kind of niche but it might be helpful for anyone making 3D models of buildings or basically anything with rectilinear planes. i've never worked with any of the required math, so the ETA is... sometime before the end of the year, hopefully.
no, that's not correct, i just hadn't gone far enough through the process to hit the paywall. i'll compile it anyway; i'm a linux user, after all, which means i am an expert at trying things i read online until something works. also i should get to bed.
been a while.
looks like Ardour doesn't make you compile the application if you want it free anymore. might have to check it out when i've got time; hopefully it's less of a headache than lmms
so apparently even with the new method, the "lbl" class rests at a different height in ubuntu and windows. that's kinda bizarre considering i'm using the same browser and the new method shouldn't have anything to do with font size. i'm just going to not touch that for a while, and hope the misalignment looks alright to most people
did all those things, sans one, and updated the links page with some more neocities site buttons.
every time i remember that i committed the utterly ineffective phrase "best thing since sliced petscop" to the log without stopping to rethink it, my mood falls just a tiny bit. i promised at the outset not to write log updates above a certain threshold of cringe, but i really should have known myself better. yeah, i know most people don't give a damn if some silly internet person puts the words together inelegantly, but as of now this site is my only "creative" outlet. any problems with it will always live in the back of my mind until i either smush or lampshade them.
ok, better try and write something more befitting of an update log.
todo: update local backup, remove mobile compatibility viewport meta (the site was designed to scale to modern phone widths on its own, albeit without concern to readability), fix the offset on the "lbl" class, tweak playlist system page again, make a long-term todo list
yowza!!! "diminish" is a good web series. best thing since sliced petscop (that joke didn't work). check it out on youtube dot com!
thinking of adding some kind of todo list to the site so i can keep track of my unrealistic creative aspirations
after an embarrassingly long period of hem-hawing over the last remaining details, i have finished the TARDIS console model and put some overly high resolution pictures of it up. and not a moment too soon, for it is time to resume my Education
"new" font just dropped
i am a clumsy and i ahve burnt my mouth on the pizza
often i wonder how many visitors to this site turn the music on
sketchup tardis console is going alright, albeit slowly at the moment because one of the components as drawn by tony farrell on tardis builders appears to be geometrically impossible
incertae sedis dot neocities dot org... now, for the first time in its history, featuring a links page that gives a vague idea of what sorts of websites its links are to
so far i've been spending this year on one of my periodic "make an overly meticulous sketchup model of the peter brachacki tardis console design" spells. maybe once it's finished i'll post screenshots of it here in some kinda doctor who shrine... or maybe i won't bother and will move right on to the "claws of axos" kenneth sharp design again.
for reference to the lay audience: the peter brachacki design is the original one from 1963, used with frequent minor alteration (usually as a result of damage) into 1970. the kenneth sharp design debuted in 1971, and lasted in its original form until the end of jon pertwee's (third doctor's) tenure. both designs are canonically pale green and you are allowed to punch anyone who thinks otherwise in the nose.
(don't actually do that, that would be very rude)
final note: i'm posting this like an hour after i wrote most of it because i got distracted by the question of "who did the redesign when the kenneth sharp prop came back in season 13?", and also other things. the answer is "christine ruscoe", by the way. don't ever stare at tardis consoles too long, kids. you will become obsessive and your dreams will be haunted by hexagonal symmetries and retrofuturist machine interfaces
re: last update. years are indeed an arbitrary division and time has marched us from a horrible set of conditions to an even worse set of conditions here in the ol' US of A. holy fuck.
good bye 2020. i'd say good riddance or somethin but i'm not going to presume smooth sailing from here on