March 26, 2024
Definitely NOT torture...
In contrast to the serious disappointment the last episode of Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari was, the last episode of Hime-sama Goumon No Jikan Desu ended on an absolutely hilarious note with a parody of the Isekai genre. It's been a long time since something made me laugh as thoroughly as that.
I have to apologize for my doubts at the beginning after reading the first story in the Manga. It may have started as basically a 4-Koma joke anime, but it grew into something really wonderful.
And it said it would be continued at the end. Then again, so did the wedding ring story.
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March 24, 2024
Big Tree Tech, for hanging things from....
Suddenly reminded why I didn't mind giving my my software career so much.
I installed the new main board for my Ender 3 printer (Big Tree Tech SKR Mini E3 v 3.0, with Microprobe), and it needed firmware installed. However being a Chinese company, the stuff they have at GitHub isn't exactly well documented. I probably flashed the firmware from various versions a dozen times. (Some versions couldn't even read the MicroSD card!).
I've got it working and printing out my phone case. It's nice that it's virtually silent now except for the fans. But it's doing some odd shit too. Like deploying the probe in the middle of the print. I had to unscrew it and move it out of the way before it yanked itself off!
In any case, if I wanted to fix the configuration, I needed to download and install Visual Studio Code, a couple of plug ins, the actual source repository for Marlin (the firmware in almost all printers), run a test compile, download the configuration for the board I'm actually using, try to compile that.... notice the word Try.
This is the shit I hate, trying to track down compiler errors, I don't even know what's significant, and there was something about two different libraries with the same name, a message to pick one, and no ability to do so before it went flying on. Then a list of other errors, and suddenly it's downloading Python, which still doesn't help.
Drilling holes in airplanes is so much simpler, even if the management suite makes you want to strangle them.
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March 17, 2024
Ring thing episode 10.
Man, they are running out the clock on picking up the final wife.
They've been telegraphing for a couple of episodes now that the Dwarves, or their successors in the Earth kingdom are missing. And when our party finally arrives on site at a city that could certainly never be supported by its treacherous access, it is indeed empty. Even worse, it seems the demon lord has gathered enough negativity from the rings he sent out that he's already resurrected and is at full power while our feckless hero is still down by a wife.
Then, to my surprise, just as the evil troops are going to crush our heroes like a tidal wave, Gramps opens the portal back to our world and sends everyone else through.
It occurs to me that this might be where our technologically inclined Dwarves might be hanging out. But that can wait while everyone tries out Krystals' bras, which don't fit any of the other girls.
Priorities, don't you know.
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March 10, 2024
Worlds fastest camera drone
If only Wonderduck could have been alive to see this:
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March 03, 2024
Spring Season
So going through next season on Anime Charts, I've got too many possibilities. So I'd like to hear your thoughts. Links to the show pages that include the promotional videos and show descriptions.
Mushoku Tensei Ⅱ: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Cour
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12251
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 3
KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! 3
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11233
Kaijuu 8-gou
KAIJU No.8
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11352
Lv2 kara Cheat datta Motoyuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life
Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12375
Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?
An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11578
Re:Monster
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12334
Sentai Daishikkaku
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11714
URUSEI YATSURA (2022) 2nd Season
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11333
Tonari no Youkai-san
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11169
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12251
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 3
KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! 3
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11233
Kaijuu 8-gou
KAIJU No.8
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11352
Lv2 kara Cheat datta Motoyuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life
Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12375
Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?
An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11578
Re:Monster
https://www.livechart.me/anime/12334
Sentai Daishikkaku
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11714
URUSEI YATSURA (2022) 2nd Season
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11333
Tonari no Youkai-san
https://www.livechart.me/anime/11169
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February 23, 2024
Those Desks
Since I keep mentioning those desks. Finally dug the pictures out of the camera. These are actually LESS messy now than at this point, when I was still getting things organized. You can see why the before picture was not conducive to productivity, although I actually DID get a fair amount of writing done that way. Note the white printer stand that got placed BEHIND Desk 2 to stack the printers. (And I moved one of those drawer units.)
This is the before. It's amazing I got anything done like this.
The desks are actually cleaner and a bit more organized since these pictures were taken. The bins under Desk 2 are full of audio and data cables, and printing supplies are in the one under Desk 3. The dining room table is ALMOST clean. Still some printing remnants there to sort through.
Hidden behind Desk 3 is the damaged desktop, which I can press into service if I want, possibly on those end tables my Dad built (With the speakers on them). The "Bridge" has been rendered into its component parts on the woodpile in the shop, as was the (not shown) DVD shelf that used to be where 1 and 2 are. Also not shown is the stack of 3 old Macs and 2 old PCs. Still deciding what to do with those. The coffee table is pushed closer to the bookcases, and is still cluttered for now, but getting better. There's an amazing amount of open floorspace now, which will get even better once I do something with the old computers.
And one of the best features is that now no lights are directly reflecting off of the screen.
And one of the best features is that now no lights are directly reflecting off of the screen.
WAY Before:
Originally, My AV setup spanned that whole bay window. Note the CRT TV and PlayStation. Grandma's old armchair and sofa with the decaying rayon fabric are long gone now. You can also see the DVD shelf I mentioned, except back then it was all VHS! Barely visible was a companion that filled the space under the bridge. Those date all the way back to my apartment in Vancouver. (The end tables, coffee table, and the sofa and armchair were given to me when I moved to my first apartment in Herndon VA).
I also built this stand when I first bought a large format Epson printer to go with my first digital camera: The Amazing 1.8 Megapixel Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 (which saved on floppies). The large format UMax scanner on the top eventually seized up, and the replacement had a noisy power supply that resulted in banding across the image. The LaserWriter 12/640 PS would probably still work but it's got a chunk of paper wedged somewhere in the infeed where you can't get it out without some major surgery. The Mac had a second hard drive, a 27 gig IBM that died hard and took all my email from before 2010 and lots of other good stuff with it. The original 4 gig still works. Or I assume so, I haven't powered it up in a year, and that was to try and save everything left to a 32 Gig USB stick (although that doesn't work for anything with a resource fork). There's also a Magneto-Optical drive and a CD-Rom burner. I wonder what ancient treasures I can find on those.
The desk is one I built an even longer time ago. It was one of two wings for a corner desk unit I never finished that would have gone in the den of my old house in Vancouver (WA). It was going to have an edge made of Ash around the sides, that's why it's rabbeted.
The Mac, a PowerPC 8600/300, had RCA video inputs, that's what the VCR was for. I could watch TV while reading Usenet. And yes, that's a modem next to it. It used to have Apple's 850AV monitor, which was a whopping 21", but FLAT, with built in color correction and stereo speakers. It was actually worth repairing once when the power supply went. Once.
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February 20, 2024
Most Wholesome Torture Ever
Hime-sama Goumon no Jikan desu Episode 7
Goumon means torture, right? That's my vocabulary lesson this season. But they very advisedly have it in scare quotes in the title. Really, with all the food and other treats, it should be Temptation instead.
This time the Beast Master brought some kitties. But they're insidious! The princess is kneeling on the floor with a cat on her lap, and her legs fall asleep, but she dare not move, it might wake up the cat!
But the rest of the episode is an outing, to go to the Demon Lord's Daughter's pre-school Field Day. How utterly wholesome!
And the Demon Lord's wife isn't so hard on the eyes either.
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February 18, 2024
Max can haz box!
You can even see a little of the new desks in these. But the best part is, the TV tray with the school desk top on it that I had been using as my desk has been turned into a desk return, and I put a box on it, which Max begs to be picked up and put in. He can watch what I'm doing and get pets and scritches easily.
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February 16, 2024
Shotcut Audio
It is possible to edit an audio track in Shotcut. The place where it gets tricky is getting it back out again. It is not in the export submenu. If you dig, there's a Audio properties panel that has a menu button on the bottom of it that will let you save the audio clip. But if you accidentally close the panel, it can be hard to get back.
Maybe it would be simpler just to reinstall Audacity.
(The Use Case: Using MediaHuman's YouTube to MP3 downloader on a music video, and trimming off the intro, and useless stuff off the end like three year old concert announcements.)
Maybe it would be simpler just to reinstall Audacity.
(The Use Case: Using MediaHuman's YouTube to MP3 downloader on a music video, and trimming off the intro, and useless stuff off the end like three year old concert announcements.)
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February 11, 2024
Yuusha, Yamemasu
I've actually been really good this season at keeping up with everything I are watching, so on the weekend, I get some progress on the back catalog. In this case I finished off Yuusha, Yamemasu or, "I'm quitting heroing". What started off as the hero, shunned by the humanity he saved, going over to the demon army to offer his services took a very different turn as it finally came out that he was a living bioweapon 3000 years old, with an indelible program to protect humanity, but then a feeling of purposelessness when he brought peace. He knew from observing Echidna when he defeated her invasion, and from working for her in disguise, that the Demon Queen was actually a good ruler and could make peace between the demon and human worlds. So his power core ("Philosopher's stone") would be in good hands and used to uplift the demon world once he forced her and her generals to kill him. Otherwise he might find himself compelled to nearly destroy the world just to imperil it again so he could follow his program to save it.
So yikes, he's got a suicide plan, but he can't just do it himself. Of course, he's made such good friends of them all, they can't really do it until he really forces their hands. And just when they have him laid out after a two episode battle, they come up with a disgustingly facile solution to his order, and everything is good again.
Then I discovered I only had the first half of the OVA, but I found the other half, which just has the main cast go to a haunted onsen resort.
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