someone who's doing some things
Finally got back to using processing again today, and what’s more I actually got a few old sketches running on my Android phone which was a lot of fun. I’m really impressed with how processing for Android converts sketches for the web into something that works well on a small screen.
I’m hoping to not only keep the momentum going with this but also try to make something useful with processing hopefully. We’ll just have to see how that goes. For now it is great to be back making something again.
This weekend I’ve managed to get some time to listen to more Dr Who audio CDs which is great. I started off with Scapegoat from season 3 of the 8th Doctor stories.
Scapegoat is a standard Dr Who story. What do I mean by that? Well, there’s no story arc that it is part of, there’s no real links to any creatures in the Who universe, it is just a story. In a way I like that, and in another I don’t.
On the one hand it is good just to get a simple story out there and hear it and that’s it. On the other hand I do like the big story arc and so when there’s a story that doesn’t really move it on it can feel like it doesn’t contribute to the season as a whole. Having said all of that it was a good story and I did like it.
I can’t believe that the ZX81 is 30 years old! That’s amazing. I had many happy hours with mine all those years ago. It was a huge amount of fun to program and play with.
I’ve been reading Newton Poetry for a while now and have been sitting on the fence about getting myself a newton. The main reason is that I know it will be another piece of hardware that hardly ever gets used and that I feel guilty about buying.
The trouble is that I still really want to get one, and reading Newton Poetry doesn’t help at all!
I haven’t had a flexidisc for years now. It is great to just have one again.
I bought the DVD of this and it arrived today. I haven’t seen this since it was on TV! Just great to see it again.
I’m listening to Harry Enfield play Dirk Gently in the dramatised audiobook at the moment. I didn’t have a proper point of reference for the character or story as my only introduction to it was via the BBC version that came out before Christmas last year.
I decided to give the audiobook a go and so far I’m not disappointed. The story is what I would expect from Douglas Adams, and it has made me chuckle a few times too. That is when I’m not getting lost in it.
Still it is quite fun and it has a good cast too.
I think that I probably have too many plans and ideas. My list of things to do, try, and investigate seems to grow routinely and never reduce.
Sometimes I wonder if I should just give up on some ideas and plans, but when I come to it I just can’t.
That probably accounts for why things don’t get done. So is it better to have too big a list or to give up on things? I’m not sure.
I’ve started reading a book on Automator and AppleScript in what may be a vain attempt to automate some the things I do manually every day. I’ve no idea how or if it will work, but I thought it was worth a shot.
Of course the minute I started reading it I couldn’t think of anything that I wanted to automate. That’s normal I guess. But I’m hoping that at some point it will prove useful and be a time saver.
I’ll see how I get on. Sadly there seems to be no way to automate reading the book. I think that’s something of a failure!
I am Ashley Elsdon 