Catch-up on what we've been up to
July 24th 2024
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I feel like too often my posts on gopher feel a little angst-posting 
because, well, I have a tendency to mostly post on here when I'm not 
posting over on fedi.

I'd like to change that and use this like an actual public journal. 

So what have I been up to? Well I finished reading Computers as Theatre 
and wrote up a bunch of notes on it, which I promise I will actually 
turn into a shlog post on rawtext. I'm chewing on Ark of the Possible 
which is a really cool book that gets into applications of 
merleau-ponty's philosophy of the body to animal rights and ethics, 
dealing with issues of a generalized intersubjectivity that she calls 
"interanimality".

I've been learning forth? That's not what I expected to be doing over 
the summer but it's been legitimately fun, a way of breaking out of 
feelings of boredom with programming. I definitely want to do The Thing 
other people have done and make a little forth fantasy computer for 
doing generative art and animation projects. 

I've been learning to draw, too, just pencil and paper. I used to do a 
lot of sketching and little cartoons in my journaling but I stopped like 
ten years ago and I want to get back into it so I'm going through Lynda 
Barry's Making Comics and also just following tutorials online in order 
to learn perspective like, for real, instead of just treating bad 
flatness as my style, mannnn.

I've still been having trouble getting back into music. I think I've 
been too much pressure on myself on that one, putting such significance 
that I can't just improvise and play something for fun anymore.

So, yeah, other than that we've been trying to go and do slightly more 
social things while dealing with the fact that there's a pretty rough 
covid spike here on the west coast right now. We've never stopped 
wearing masks indoors or in-crowds, so we've been doing alright through 
it.

Anyway, so, yeah that's what I've been up to. 

Oh! And you can email me at left_adjoint@inconsistentuniverse.space so 
feel free if you want to talk about anything!