You’re not. A genius.
You’re not. A genius.
Innisar
As I come to the end of my informal vacation, I reflect on the workflows and procedures I’ve developed to improve my productivity. I used to worry that I’d collapse into a shapeless blob without the structure provided by regular corporate employment. I’ve been practicing sculpture and casting techniques to keep myself occupied while I recover from oral surgery. It’s a nice break but I’m slowly recharging my creative batteries for a final push on my iPhone game. Just now I was reading TVTropes.org and the webcomic Questionable Content when Safari crashed. Surprisingly, my serenity was only disturbed for a moment. The ripples have spread and the pool is again calm.
I’d just woken up from a nap. You see, yesterday, when eating some almonds, I cracked my tooth. To be honest, I’d already lost a part of a filing and half-expected something like this to happen for the last six weeks. I know I should have had it looked at. In fact, I even added an iCal event set for the beginning of April to set a dentist’s appointment. I just sort of blocked it out of my mind. Anyway, I bit down on the almond and felt a deeply disturbing CRACK as the weakened molar gave way. Frankly I was surprised that it didn’t really hurt. By then it was 4pm and too late to call a dentist so I drove to the nearest CVS drugstore and bought an emergency filling repair it. You know the kind with that putty? It seemed like a good idea to get an extra one too, so I did. When I got home I packed it in around the hole. Ironically, it made the area less sensitive to cold although the slight taste of the epoxy made me a little nauseous. Today I looked up some dentists on Google and got an appointment on the very first try. Lucky! Long story short: Extraction. Codeine. Nap. Wake. Safari. Crash.
Defense against Distraction:
- Remove the physical
- Capture stray ideas
- Prioritize all tasks
- Work onramps
Know your symbols, kids!
Bob Lob
Spiderman bot, why not?
Suck it Astrology. Astronomy RULES.
“This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. (March 8, 2004)”
I try to make icons for every program I write, even if it’s just a test app. Starting top left clockwise: A timer app, a game menu tester, a 3d character animation test, and a triangulation plotter. Older originals are 512 x 512 and I do newer art at 1024 x 1024.
Took me a second… Then, “ah!”
Collision detection using circles. It’s sorta like this.
I wrote a hundred short essays (40,000 words). Here they are, where size equals frequency.
