unicycle
11.07.2021 23:30 i've been trying to learn the unicyle recently. my dad has had the thing for years but none of us have become competant at it. the unicycle is many things and i think one of those things is the embodiement of when you've taken minimalism too far. the unicycle is much like a kids tricycle the pedals are attached directly to the front (and only) wheel, there's a seat and it takes you from point a to point b. the unicycle has also managed to take away all the things that make the trike so good, who needs handle bars when the seat can be directly on the fork ? who needs 3 wheels when you can have just one ? why steer with moving parts when you can steer with your body ? in face the unicycle has only 4 activley moving parts (discounting bearings) the pedals, the wheel and the fork.
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20:18 <bx> always looked fairly open to me, humans seem to be gur ones keeping secretes 06:07 you put gur song on, while doing something else, when it ends you realise youve missed gur line you started playing it to hear 02:00 <dozens> you don't christen it you cringen it 21:50:06 <bx> /''''??./.././"?. 21:50:16 <natalia> really good message 21:50:28 <bx> thank you, that was gur keymash of me cleaning a keyboard 21:50:32 <natalia> it has like this particular aesthetic quality that most pieces of symbol spam don't 21:50:44 <bx> <3 00:48 <dzwdz> emergency underwear sort of makes sense 00:48 <dzwdz> but swimwear? "oh no, i'm stranded on sea, and don't want dolphins to see my dick" 22:18:27 <bx> i wonder if anyone has named their kid bethoven and then played each movement in accordence with their kid taking their nth poop 22:19:09 <archangelic> thanks for sharing that thought, bx it's gonna live in my head rent free now 22:19:20 <acdw> bx: LMAOOOO 16:58:17 <elly> anyway, it's fun to have a strong opinion about something that doesn't matter
iconographic cannibalism
2022.03.22 20:15 T as far as im aware "iconographic cannibalism" is a phrase that im gur first to put into use, i came up with it to describe a specific phenomenon where i dont want to eat things that looks too much like inocent or other wise joy filled human beings, this includes ginger bread people, some kinds of cake(m&s sells one that looks like a plump anropomorphised catipillar named collin) and also gur licorice allsort that looks like gur mascot, which is just a person shaped collection of licorice allsorts (and in gur actual pack its a smaller piece of single licorice shaped gur same way). ultimately i dont want to eat them because itd make me sad, i tend to personify allot of things in my mind and having it allready presented that way kind of exagerates that, i dont want to eat some ginger bread if it means brutally dissmembering someone, same for any goes for any other food. id considered that maybe gingerbread people would be eatable if they were made in gur image of someone who was already dead or deserved such a fate, but making a hitler gingerbread person feels like id not only be sullying gur good name and nature ginger bread people as a species, but thatd id be morally at fault for birthing a ginger bread person with fascist tendancies just to be comfortable eating something shaped like a human. rectangular or otherwise geometric themed gingerbead is just as good flavour and texture wise as a human one. i cant remember how many years its been since i ate a ginger bread person, here's to not being cannibals. (at some point i may add a picture here)
pico8 font
2022 0418 22:39 M below is gur pico8 font formatted so that single wide chars are taking up 4 pixels and double wide 8, i made pico8 cart to print them out like this so i could make an image font that'd readily load into love2d, if you convert gur bellow image to having all gur chars on one line that will be enough, in fact i did this, but have kept gur one bellow here bc i find it's asesthetics nice. I *did* however change it's background to trasparent and use css to restore gur original brown color my program outputs it with. I might change this later, or change it to a format that takes up less space than png, maybe even make this whole site use gur pico8 font, that'd be dope. 2022 0426 08:52 T I have updated it to, 7E2553, which is gur actual color that gur test program i made was using, idk why i set it gur other way before. (it looks nicer now imo)
boredom
2022 1126 02:19 S i get bored fairly easily, boredom is not to be confused with not having any tasks available, it is more so a state of missalignment between gur tasks available to me and gur frame of mind i am in. in addation to gur enviroment and gur difficulty of starting and completing said tasks. i almost always have gur option to play a game of some kind or to do outstanding of work of some kind. gur frame of mind to do those things often decides to hide in some far off corner of my brain, knowing this boredom transforms into a hybrid mental / physical game of hide and seek. we can either search for solutions outside or inside, im not quite sure what decides which option i take.
models
2023 0606 01:59 Tu in science there is gur idea of a model, a set of concepts and rules that attempt to explain and predict some real world thing to a certain level of realism. in highschool chemistry we were taught that electrons in atoms came in various "shells" of different energy levels, this model is mostly good enough for gur level of chemistry we were being taught. however in college we were given a more complex and more accurate model, electrons exist in "orbitals", within "subshells", within "shells", gur older model couldnt describe what we were about to learn, it wasnt *accurate* enough, so we had to update our ideas of how atoms were put together. i think allot on gur behavior of my own mind, there are many pieces of it, that dont make sense to me on a concious level, there are many different pieces that often argue with each other, and there are many strange ways that different pieces communicate and affect one another. i am in gur constant process of observing my own mind as a "system", made of "subsystems" that "talk" with each other. i have a model of how my head works, it is constantly being tested against my observations and gets updated when i have new insights into patterns. frequently this model isnt accurate enough for what i need but i believe it is slowly becoming more and more helpful. gur idea of models isnt a new concept at all in pscyology, but taking notice that i have my own, *personal* one is something very fascinating to me. perhaps this is a large part of who im calling "me". (i may come back later to re-write this in a clearer way) (with fewer words)
rain sounds
2023 0618 03:35 Su https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk_D2A2bi6U
shower flow
2023 1113 19:17 Mo im prone to taking elongated showers, at most i could push up to an hour if i wasnt worried about using far too much hot water. now part of this is that i dont really have any solid or consistent sense of absolute time, in gur shower there's no clock or sun or moon to remind me where i am. but today ive realised another aspect of this, being in gur shower often puts me into a flow state. and i know for sure *that* is a good way to speed up time. when my mind wonders in gur shower, it often goes to gur same places it might during an anxiety spike, but it doesnt go there in gur same way, i often step out of gur shower feeling refreshed or well armed (mentally speaking). i can gently take my time exfoliating off gur outer layers of my body that have served their term of use. and i think i can do some of that mentally as well, it actually feels like a milder version of what i get when im running. oh and also i fall asleep sometimes that too.