A Project A Month… Fizzling?

Hey Greg, you say. Why does that image look like Colin Mochrie trying to perform a Vulcan mind meld on himself? Well, I went over...

Broke my brain with a simple regex

Today I spent WAY too much time debugging why I was getting an empty string from a string replace operation to pull spaces, dashes, and...

A Project A Month, That’s All We Ask

Remember the old slogan for Blue Diamond Almonds? “A can a week, that’s all we ask.” I do. Since I started my new productivity hack,...

Should I Own The eBooks I Buy?

If you buy a physical book at Barnes & Noble, you don’t have to go back to your local Barnes & Noble to read it....

My first song… sort of

Now that I have some training in music theory and working with FL Studio under my belt, I started working on taking one of my...

Leaving Facebook is hard…

It’s been 23 days since I submitted my requests to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. I just have to hold out and not log on for...

2024: A Musical Odyssey

As I’ve noted before, I’m also taking music classes. As a demonstration of a concept in Music Theory, the teacher played Also Sprach Zarathustra. I’m...

Pick Your Nose

I’m taking a Udemy class in vector drawing characters for animation. The class is about drawing characters like those from “Dexter’s Laboratory” or “The Fairly...

Today I learned (TIL) #1

Today I learned “We all live with a very awesome dog” can be sung to the chorus of “Yellow Submarine.” Photo of a cairn terrier...

Was I visited by a ghost?

I’m might have been visited by a ghost last night. I hope I was. Here’s the backstory. In my community college days, my best friend...

Drawing Class Progress

I’m taking a class in creating cartoon characters for animation with Inkscape. I’ve gotten through the eyes, ears, noses, and mouths tutorials, but head and...

Advanced “Hello World!” in Lua

I started learning Lua today. It’s used to script extensions and automations in the Moho animation software I’m considering. Since I forgot my earbuds, I...