Saturday, May 18, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
I ran out of prompts so I went with 'big right toe' for this morning and 'sausage inna bun' for tomorrow.
I put a nail in my brt Sunday evening but as of my foot doctor appointment last night with Dr Hopkins I seem to be doing good.
I want to try some stupid triangle and tetrahedron tricks this weekend, bossed around by the dot and cross products.
I think I should get on with Ben's story. I know it ends well, I like these characters, but I am a stickler for realism and it ends...
Write the GD outline, you have one and a journey based plot and put your big fat very large consumer pants on, dongma?! 8-P
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Triangle subdivision
Make some landmass shapes inside an interrupted sinusoidal map. Place points in the rectangle and let the page figure the peeled orange bit out, including the curve of the peel? For now, use the point picked to make a PR#.
This morning's prompt is 'candy bar', and I'm out of prompts again! 8-P
Brickwork could be thought of as rows of bricks offset by half a length, cut down, etc.
Each brick in a column gets offset sideways to overlap row by row.
My quick and dirty 'equilateral' triangles are quads offset by row or by column and subdivided by the shortest diagonal. Won't be exact, but it will be 'good enough'.
I've been making some sinusoidal world maps with a diamond grid of diamond quads subdivided into triangle pairs and further subd six ways and grouped by original vertices; gives me an irregular bunch of twelve sided 'not-hexagons'.
***
"KitKat?" Tom offered Brenda a candy bar, which she took.
"Are they still any good?!"
"Let's see."
"I'm the guinea pig?" Brenda was smiling.
"Hey, I could keep them to myself..."
"Let's just open one and share the love." She nodded to Ben and Carol, who had joined them in the store room after blocking off the hallway. The rest of the place was not yet cleared out and the hard learned procedure was to presume danger and block for it.
Tom shrugged and tore his open, breaking the kitkat into four sticks. As it happened, there was a little 'bloom', but the chocolate was still good and the wafer hadn't gone stale.
"When it's gone, it's gone," Carol said, and shamelessly licked the residue of the inner wrapper.
"Mom!" Tom was faintly scandalized.
"Back to it, peeps," Ben and Brenda said together, and they all laughed.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Orange you glad I came back to this? 8-P
Make some landmass shapes inside an interrupted sinusoidal map. Place points in the rectangle and let the page figure the peeled orange bit out, including the curve of the peel? For now, use the point picked to make a PR#.
I made sure to watch the season finale, now the series finale, of NCIS Hawaii with Mom tonight. It was the end of a globetrotting two parter and meant to be a season cliffhanger with the return of Maggie Shaw which now will hopefully get worked into what may be the final season of the original. They will want the actors to do guest appearances, at least bring Sam and Tennant to the original series...
I am a little shocked but support Tennant's ruthless streak, as I feel she helped to engineer the prisoner's escape and subsequent death; it felt a bit like execution, shot while holding the medical examiner with a scalpel to her throat. Sloppy or ruthless or a mix of all three?
But Maggie Shaw is the anti-Gibbs and was always coming back later in the show. I firmly believe Sam was on the island to monitor Tennant and wait for Shaw.
This morning's prompt is 'mayor'.
***
Madeline is the owner of the two dogs and the cat from last week. The animals were a test, after Madeline decided to risk it. The four have been taken to a place under guard, and that rubbed Brenda wrong, because of the group who originally put Ben and Brenda on the road.
***
"Are you the mayor of this sorry little settlement?" Brenda asked.
"As it happens, yes."
Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
This morning's prompt is 'asteroid hobbit hole'. I'm going to have a time working that into the zpocalypse...
There was an dirty icy asteroid, and in this dirty icy asteroid was a hobbit hole... And in this dirty icy asteroid hobbit hole was a standard human who thought of himself as a hobbit. He liked his creature comforts and his micro gee garden and he supposed he liked people, in small doses.
Very small doses.
Just now he had visitors, old friends and reasonably close relatives, come visit on his 111st birthday as it happened, and this was decidedly not a small dose of humanity.
He was playing host and it was damaging his calm.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
This morning's prompt is 'calico'.
I lo- like calico, orange and gray tiger stripe cats. I think I did a great job with this one.
***
(Yesterday's bit)
Tom dropped back with Ben. "Brenda said to give you a heads up, there's a dog..."
"Leading us?"
Tom looked really young, for once, because he was, and finally spit out, "Begging..."
Ben was about to say something about how they didn't take in strays and instantly reconsidered it. Instead he asked, "I suppose Brenda suggested-"
"No!"
"Don't be squeamish, kid," although the idea would have revolted Ben before one became two then four stomachs to fill.
"Besides, it's a Pekinese."
Ben was frankly shocked. "How?!"
"I don't know, but, ah maybe we can ask that doberman over there, no sudden moves, she looks mean."
"She?"
"Pretty sure."
Ben heard a noise and looked down, a few feet from their, well, feet.
"And that's a calico," Tom said. He sounded sneakily happy, Ben thought grumpily.
"At least it's not stupid and trusting..." Ben said as it rubbed up against Tom's pant leg. The cat looked smugly up at Ben. Ben glared at the cat and Tom in turn.
"No!"
"What?! I didn't ask-"
"Brenda will never..."
Ben became aware of an approaching asthmatic wheezing, and turned to see Carol, Tom's mother, managing to carry the Pekinese and totter along on her crutch. She was a one legged force of nature. Brenda walked with her but broke away to meet a nosy undead American and provide him with grace.
(I know there's a quick (?) story here and I need to finish one for my self respect and for my birthday last Friday)
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Convex Hull, again
I grabbed this convex hull code from this past summer. The immediate goal is to set up a small 'sector' in a 10 lyr cube.
Please input a seed or click Random!
The page needs a number from which to generate some pseudo-random numbers.
Galactic Coordinates
This morning's prompt is 'doberman'.
"Leading us?"
Tom looked really young, for once, because he was, and finally spit out, "Begging..."
Ben was about to say something about how they didn't take in strays and instantly reconsidered it. Instead he asked, "I suppose Brenda suggested-"
"No!"
"Don't be squeamish, kid," although the idea would have revolted Ben before one became two then four stomachs to fill.
"Besides, it's a Pekinese."
Ben was frankly shocked. "How?!"
"I don't know, but, ah maybe we can ask that doberman over there, no sudden moves, she looks mean."
"She?"
"Pretty sure."
Monday, April 29, 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
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