Welcome to my notes toots bleets section. What's a bleet? Well, it's a complex series of grunts, gargles and mumbles. Its my microblog, a place where I can blast out a quick post, something that wouldn't necessarily need a larger blog entry. A brief thought, a dumb comment, a joke, meme, animated gif or the like, all very much fair game here.
I've also archived my twitter account, since that website is dead. I've deployed that archive to the web as a way to cross reference some of my game reviews and writing.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Author: Tom Robbins
Year Published: 1976
Genre: fiction
Rating: |
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues is a book that I’ve had on my shelf since picking it up from a thrift store around 15 years ago. I saw the movie years ago, and I only remembered two things: Uma Thurman and big thumbs. I’m happy I finally made time to read this - alongside of me Catrena listened to the audio book - and when we finished, we watched the movie. I’ve never read a book that broke the fourth wall quite in the same way as Cowgirls, author Robbins really knows how to walk around a point, bringing in any possible topic as circumstance, but he does it with such wonderfully flowery run-on sentences that it almost doesn’t matter what he’s talking about. As a writer, his confidence to ramble on about a topic is legendary, and his long-form metaphors unrivaled. This book has some dated language and talks about whooping cranes too much, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. To spend anytime with the legendary hitchhiker Sissy Hankshaw is worth any toll the road has to offer. Having finished this book, its apparent before we took up together she slowly extended her big beautiful digits at us and we did what anyone would do, we slowed down and hitched her a ride.
I started a list in apple notes today, 2025 Things Read and I felt silly because I could be doing this on the website. I’m not looking to write long-form book reviews, but I could use a section to put some thoughts out here and there. For instance I finished Even Cowgirls Get The Blues today then Catrena and I watched the movie (which I loved). I could use a space to pen out a few quick thoughts. Maybe that’s what this is for, my bleets.
I could throw them up and say “Book!” and make them part of a series and then they would look special in the feed, and get collected into a series. Hmm…
Stickers came in from slapco! I’m excited to be able to hand these out to other photographers or video game nerds or people who hate the corporate internet.
I started to tweak the css for the image gallery plug-ins I made and i’m starting to realize why people use pre-written libraries for this. There is a seemingly infinite amount of scenarios you need to take into account. I’m following the “you can’t please everyone” philosophy and trying to keep things tidy without going crazy. I haven’t poked at this since I got up and running and in that time (what 2 months, maybe?) I feel I’ve learned enough that going back to this CSS and can quickly see the mistakes that were made.
I wanted to make some stickers or something for the website and I think I just made the best thing ever.
So I wrote that blog post the other day all about the next steps for the site, a to-do list for my next steps and I go ahead and do something completely different. Say hello to the updated /galleries. Something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time, but hadn’t gotten around to, I’ve changed the way the gallery list looks, making it more about the photography, and giving it a unique look. Check it out!
Some site updates coming out today. RSS feed is live! Give it a shot, all you weary netizens, subscribe to me. I’ve added a statement on AI usage, a temporary blog-roll page which I’m going to tinker with, all while I’m still chugging away at Yakuza, planning a wedding and watching the world burn.
Hi Gracie, thanks for giving me the kick in the pants to get my RSS feed up and running. It’s a top priority soon.
Oh man I just got back a roll of film I shot with my Olympus XA2 and it’s gorgeous. I was enjoying the XA, but I may be falling in love the XA2.
Man I’m having a … what’s the opposite of a love affair? Hate affair? I’m having a hate affair with Apple recently. The last thing they did I approved of was making the update M-chip macbook pros with HDMI out, no touchbar and SD card readers built in. That was the last good decision that company made.
The thing that’s currently pissing me off is there seems to be no way to completely turn off the safari URL bar autocomplete mess they’ve enabled. It’s such a disastrous feature that I’m considering running safari completely in private mode from now on. Say you’ve searched for something in the past. Say that thing was monster hunter wilds benchmark steam deck. This happened when they released the benchmark too and I wanted to confirm that this game would cause your steamdeck to explode and melt down into a tiny ball. Well guess what? Anytime you start to type “monster hu…” into the search bar, monster hunter wilds benchmark steam deck - google search is going to autocomplete. It’s insane! Hey. Have you ever gone to a specific website address on a website you may visit for more than one reason? Lets just say you’ve typed in CyberBuffalo.party/games into your browser URL bar once. now anytime you start typing CyberBuffalo and say you hit enter quickly, you’re headed straight to games, pal. And since they love hiding information behind veils of high design you won’t know that until whatever tld you were trying to reach loads.
It’s a load of horseshit that feels like it was invented specifically to compete with google autocomplete. And there is no way to turn it off without disrupting every form of autocomplete in macOS. Just another absolutely bone-headed decision to make. Look, make bad decisions all you want all day long, just fucking let me turn them off.
I’ve started working on transitioning my professional portfolio site over to hugo and it’s turned out to be more challenging than I originally anticipated. Though I have made some progress in the last few days, I feel I need to step back and reevaluate my approach. Its interesting how in web development there are so many different paths that can take you to the same end result.
“Right to Repair” laws need to take into account the shuttering of the post office. 10-15$ to ship a 2$ part does not equate to being reasonable. I know a lot of companies using blanket shipping options but come on, this part for my espresso machine weight practically nothing and could be tossed into an envelope with a few stamps on it. It’s all part of the same scam. Make public shipping options too expensive, shutter small artists’ business, keep people from being able to fix their stuff, keep people tapped onto the suckling teet of the american capitalism machine blah blah blah.
Small but sizable earthquake today while hunting a tempered rathalos in monster hunter wilds was not the immersive experience I wanted.
Catrena’s watching Rupaul’s dragrace and I finally realized where I recognized Suzie Toots from.
Just a quick note to myself as I’m going to have to come back to this, but I’ve made some interesting improvements to the site over the past few days. First, I took that “quickbleet” automator script and turned into a shell script which actually works a lot better (it’s faster!). Secondly, since I wanted to be able to see a list of most recently updated games pages, I need a way to affect the lastmod property of the frontmatter. See, when checking the changed date at the OS level, it’s not checking the output html file, and it makes sense why it wouldn’t, almost every single index gets updated when you make a change (if you have a latest post or recent tags section, these are always updating). Since when I make a follow-up post for a game I’m writing about, the main index stays the same. So I wrote a bash zsh shell script that does a few things. First, it checks to see which post_#_.md exists. if none, it creates post01.md and add in the simple front matter that I want. Then, it sets the dateas a variable, uses sed to change the lastmod parameter in the front matter of that folders index.md. Nice and simple lol. I’ll share the code and resources when I write this up in a blog post.
Hoo boy! 10:13pm earthquake, shook the whole building and gave us a little rumble. On the third floor of the loft it probably felt more intense than it was but that was a good shake for sure.3.9 out of North Hollywood (I guessed 3.8 near Pasadena)!
My god Apple Intelligence is such an embarrassing product for a company like Apple to be rolling out. Its never been more apparent that we are in this weird place with technology where no matter the product, no matter how bad it is, mediocrity will be pushed on the masses because some guy said so. Its such a dumb place we’re in right now and it really doesn’t feel like we’ll ever get out of it. Recently I was setting up a file for something I’m going to get to CNC’d and I to step back from it because the manual tracing and drawing I did made me question whether I think others will question if this was done by AI. I think this is the first time in my lifetime I truly feel that Pandora’s Box was opened. In other words, you can’t unfuck that pig.
One of the problems with building a website from scratch for yourself is that you spend a lot of time tinkering or fixing it as opposed to just making a fun post. Every time recently that I’ve went to make a post I stop because I’m in the middle of fixing the thing. BUT I can see the light at the end of that tunnel. I’m really getting a solid grasp on this thing and it’s working the way I want it to. I’m pretty happy about that. Now that I’ve got an okay grasp on Hugo, I need to start building a template for my professional website so I can get the fuck off wordpress.
