a website about my video games. I think
I don’t know if I will get that done but, it seems like it would be fun.
I watched some of a video about making music with pharo where I learned about supercollider.
And I watched a minute or so of a video about making music with pharo.
And I am sure there is a way to make music with machine learning.
So hopefully I will make something. It probably won’t be good but, it will be something new for me to learn .
But, I was watching a course on cobol. I eventually stopped watching the course. But, I think I still want to learn cobol.
I like that cobol is a language from the 1950’s. I like that it has history. Not that I know much of its history.
I had a hard time understanding cobol and how a program was structured. But, I think I could get the hang of it if I kept at it.
Though I don’t know exactly what I would do with cobol if I learned it well. I don’t know what I would do with any programming language if I learned it well probably be surprised that I stuck with a programming language long enough to learn it well. And make video games.
about myself or maybe I think it would make me feel happier.
Maybe I think I would like using computers more if I were a good programmer. But, there must be great programmers that don’t like computers, who don’t feel good about themselves, who wished that had chosen some other profession besides programming a computer.
So being a better programmer would probably not make me like computers better or feel better about myself or do much of anything except allow me to get a job as a programmer.
But, I am sure I think well if I were a better programmer I would enjoy everything more, flowers would smell better, the sun would look better, bird sounds would be more stunning.
I suppose I wanted to program in the first place to make games, and then I learned about machine learning. And I like that to.
Though I don’t think I wanted to learn how to program to make myself feel better or that it would make me feel better about myself.
And if I never become a passable programmer its not the end of the world. There are lots of things to do in the world.
I wonder if I would regret it if I never become a good programmer. Probably not. There are other things that I like better than programming.
Such as cooking, gardening, astronomy, learning about world war 2, drawing, making music.
So I don’t know what I am getting at in this post. Maybe its that I want to stop thinking that programming is a magical pill that when I get good at it my life will suddenly be so much better.
I looked in the image menu and did not see anything to reside an image. So I watched part of tutorial. Then I looked in the image menu and saw resize canvas and scale image to new size.
So I tried resize canvas and that certainly did not do what I wanted it to. Then I tried scale image to new size and that was what I was looking to do.
So now I know how to crop, erase, and resize an image or a canvas. At this read I will be a krita power user in maybe 500 years give or take 10 years.
Here is is in action:
I won it in a book giveaway. I knew I won the book but, I had no idea I would be getting the bird call with it so it was a cool surprise.
I had no idea what it was at first then I saw that it said bird call on the box. I did not know how it worked until someone showed me. Sure it does saw twist but, I had no idea what to do.
So I liked it up online and saw that there were videos about it. I watched the above video. One thing that puzzled me is what the red capsule thing is. Its replacement resin.
In the video he shows some tricks on ways to use the bird call.
So now I have a reason to pay more attention to bird calls. So I can recreate them with my bird call.
Also what surprised me about the bird call is that someone made bird calls at all. I knew that people made duck calls but, had no idea anyone made a bird call. Well ducks are birds. But, I am sure you know what I am getting at.
So now there is something new for me to learn about.
about it. I have watched a few tutorial videos, but I don’t use vim all that much so usually I forget what I learned.
So maybe this year I will learn vim or just give up and figure I did not want to learn how to use the program after all.
I suppose I think its cool all the text commands, and the 2 modes that vim has. I don’t think I have ever tired to learn vi. But, I suppose that vi and vim are the same.
So I will see what happens this year.
I am following along with a short 2d soccer game tutorial and since the tutorial is for godot 3 I am using godot 3.5LTS to follow along.
I made a soccer field and a soccer ball on leonardo.ai and will use those assets in the game. I set up the walls and made the player the godot icon. The player can move left and right now.
I am not sure when I set up the soccer ball if it will collide with the walls so I will have to wait and see.
This is the first time I have worked in godot in 2024. I want to work in godot a lot more for the rest of this year.
I can’t remember that last thing I cooked in an oven. It was probably pizza. So I can’t wait to finally cook something.
The idea of making my way through as many cookbooks as I can and making everything in them gets me excited.
I am sure I have written about this before. I would rather travel the world by cooking dishes from a cook book that traveling there physically.
I suppose you could say I want to be adventurous when it comes to food. And I am not adventurous when it comes to physically traveling.
I remember I learned how to make pizza by watching it made on a cooking show. I am not sure what the show was called.
For years after that I used to love making pizza. Usually on the pizza would be sauce, cheddar, or Monterey Jack cheese, white cap mushrooms, pepperoni or Canadian Bacon, green peppers.
I remember we used to have a metal pizza pan with holes in it. And for awhile I even had a pizza cutter wheel.
One thing I learned from making pizza dough is to never putting garlic in with the yeast and water and let the dough rise. That was awful. I only made that mistake once. The garlic and yeast are like oil and water they don’t mix.
The garlic goes on top of the pizza dough. I don’t think I tried kneading garlic in the dough after it had already risen but, before I rolled out the dough to put on the toppings.
Making pizza is fun. I should make pizza again someday.
My dell laptops keyboard does not work all the time so on my other laptop I installed xvkbd. Then I wondered how to I start it. So I typed xvkbd in a shell. And it started. And I typed some letters. I was all excited.
Then I realized that if my keyboard does not work on my dell computer that I can’t set the date and time and boot order for my laptop. So I could only boot into slacko 5.7. And I don’t have xvkbd installed on that operating system.
I need to set the time and date and boot order for the bios because the battery for the bios is dead and I don’t want to replace it.
Oh, well at least I know that puppy linux has a virtual keyboard I can sue.
I have wanted to learn how to memorize a deck of card with the pao system ever since I first read remember it by Nelson Dellis.
I have written down the pao for playing cards and numbers. I have done a little memorizing of the playing card pao but, no memorization of the number pao.
And since I am not getting any younger this has got to be the year that I get memorizing a deck of playing cards done. It seems so cool that one day I could memorize the order of a deck of playing cards. I have got to do that.
The memory techniques in the book seem so fun. And want to improve my memory. My memory won’t improve it self so this year I will get to work on improving my memory.
Playing cards here I come.
Spaghetti Code Arcade 