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8r4d
River Valley Trails | ↻ 1½ years
River Valley Trails | ↻ 1½ years
8r4d
My normal Sunday #running adventures were precluded by everyone else’s absences, so instead I went off on a solo trek and did a little bit of trail in the #rivervalley and snow. I clocked out a six klick run with only about one of those klicks in the trails, but that single track was enough to get my heart racing and my winter vibes in check.
gamerdad
Turing et al. | ↻ 1½ years
Turing et al. | ↻ 1½ years
gamerdad
As we dawdle into the final days of 2024 I have vowed as a kind of New Year’s resolution to read more books. That might not mean starting more books, mind, as much as finishing more books that I have already started. Either way, I started this one a couple weeks back and have been reading all about how a 1980s philosopher tries to explain modern computing architecture as he build up to what I presume is a thesis in the nature of the conscious mind and of by way how that relates to artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics.
Reading complex explanations of maths and algorithms and Turing Machines right before bed is a real challenge tho, I gotta say.
The nature of the conscious mind has been of particular interest to me because there is a narrative thread in my novel that ties directly back to this concept. In the story (spoiler alert) a forest is subject to alien mutation influences and begins to experience a kind of accelerated transmission of signals in its roots leading to a kind of primitive consciousness that communicates and interacts with the human characters. All that means is that I have been thinking a lot about what consciousness is, how to simplify it for a story, and what it says about the universe in which as i’m writing said story.
All of this is pretty heavy for bedtime.
Reading complex explanations of maths and algorithms and Turing Machines right before bed is a real challenge tho, I gotta say.
The nature of the conscious mind has been of particular interest to me because there is a narrative thread in my novel that ties directly back to this concept. In the story (spoiler alert) a forest is subject to alien mutation influences and begins to experience a kind of accelerated transmission of signals in its roots leading to a kind of primitive consciousness that communicates and interacts with the human characters. All that means is that I have been thinking a lot about what consciousness is, how to simplify it for a story, and what it says about the universe in which as i’m writing said story.
All of this is pretty heavy for bedtime.
8r4d
Home | ↻ 1½ years
Home | ↻ 1½ years
8r4d
Not quite a week but this 2000 piece #jigsaw is kicking our butts. We’ve got the easy parts done, at least…
8r4d
Whyte Avenue | ↻ 1½ years
Whyte Avenue | ↻ 1½ years
8r4d
The Kid and I made a trek up to #whyteavenue this afternoon because she had a #book itch that needed scratching and I was up for a walk.
The place was pretty quiet for the day after boxing day, and we didn’t spend very much money, terrible #shopping drones that were are, but it was a nice December day for some local colour.
The place was pretty quiet for the day after boxing day, and we didn’t spend very much money, terrible #shopping drones that were are, but it was a nice December day for some local colour.
gamerdad
Holiday Farming | ↻ 1½ years
Holiday Farming | ↻ 1½ years
gamerdad
We are mid-holidays as I write this and I have been trying to avoid spending the entire winter break sitting on the couch virtual farming.
That said, between the cold and my health I have logged enough hours in my faux farm to approach the loop of one full year in game. My BIL who also plays this silly game asked me about game bugs the other day, and specifically that he had heard that there was just so many damn bugs in this game. I had told him I’d encountered virtually none.
Oops. Rookie mistake.
Everyone knows that you don’t jinx yourself like that.
As it turns out the harvest season finally rolled around and everyone’s spinach crop was coming in, and a few contracts popped into my contract list. I can harvest spinach, I thought to myself.
I took one spinach contract, got it started, and then went back for a second.
The contracts were for two different fields, but oddly they both loaned me the exact same equipment setup and both had the exact same delivery location. Harvest spinach, load it in a truck, and drive it to location X.
The first contract was naturally the first to have a full load ready to go, so I filled my truck and merrily drove off to the mill.
I found the unload spot, hit the button to tip the truck, and away went the spinach from contract number one.
Contract number two is 23% delivered the message told me.
Um. Hold up.
That was spinach from contract number one.
I turned off the autosaves and tried ending the contract early to reset things, but that only resulted in a huge bill for all the spinach I apparently stole. So revert that.
Aaaaaand sleep on it… my next play session is going to be trying to see what happens when both crops are fully delivered, if either pay out, or if I’m going to be on the hook for a bunch of pilfered spinach.
I guess I have found a bug, after all. Jinx.
That said, between the cold and my health I have logged enough hours in my faux farm to approach the loop of one full year in game. My BIL who also plays this silly game asked me about game bugs the other day, and specifically that he had heard that there was just so many damn bugs in this game. I had told him I’d encountered virtually none.
Oops. Rookie mistake.
Everyone knows that you don’t jinx yourself like that.
As it turns out the harvest season finally rolled around and everyone’s spinach crop was coming in, and a few contracts popped into my contract list. I can harvest spinach, I thought to myself.
I took one spinach contract, got it started, and then went back for a second.
The contracts were for two different fields, but oddly they both loaned me the exact same equipment setup and both had the exact same delivery location. Harvest spinach, load it in a truck, and drive it to location X.
The first contract was naturally the first to have a full load ready to go, so I filled my truck and merrily drove off to the mill.
I found the unload spot, hit the button to tip the truck, and away went the spinach from contract number one.
Contract number two is 23% delivered the message told me.
Um. Hold up.
That was spinach from contract number one.
I turned off the autosaves and tried ending the contract early to reset things, but that only resulted in a huge bill for all the spinach I apparently stole. So revert that.
Aaaaaand sleep on it… my next play session is going to be trying to see what happens when both crops are fully delivered, if either pay out, or if I’m going to be on the hook for a bunch of pilfered spinach.
I guess I have found a bug, after all. Jinx.
castironguy
Kitchen | ↻ 1½ years
Kitchen | ↻ 1½ years
castironguy
Well it looks like two days of effort paid off. The #sourdough for Christmas Eve dinner is ready… and it’s only 8am!
castironguy
Kitchen | ↻ 1½ years
Kitchen | ↻ 1½ years
castironguy
After an overnight proof the Christmas #sourdough is looking like she might be ready for the oven. I picked up this groovy loaf pan a couple weeks ago and so this year’s format is a sandwich-style, like it or not (but it all tastes great whatever shape!)
8r4d
Summerside | ↻ 1½ years
Summerside | ↻ 1½ years
gamerdad
Walking On | ↻ 1½ years
Walking On | ↻ 1½ years
gamerdad
With my changing free time, I reinstalled Death Stranding earlier this weekend (after offloading it about a year ago because of shifting interests in other games) with the intention of playing something besides a perpetual game of Farming Simulator.
Of course when you don’t play a game for a year and your last save point was mid-mission there is the problem of jumping back into things and hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.
I survived.
But just barely.
Tho to be fair I’m still very early in the game and the difficulty is still pretty low as the narrative continues to just barely unravel.
I’m not a huge fan of the story. I mean in these wacky times, rah rah save america—as a Canadian—is like, um, ok. Sure, but jingo-bingo-bam. Who cares?!
The mechanics on the other hand are right up my alley, and the idea of building a persistent techno-ecosystem in the process of playing seems unique and curious enough to call me back to this back catalogue game. At least for a while…
Of course when you don’t play a game for a year and your last save point was mid-mission there is the problem of jumping back into things and hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.
I survived.
But just barely.
Tho to be fair I’m still very early in the game and the difficulty is still pretty low as the narrative continues to just barely unravel.
I’m not a huge fan of the story. I mean in these wacky times, rah rah save america—as a Canadian—is like, um, ok. Sure, but jingo-bingo-bam. Who cares?!
The mechanics on the other hand are right up my alley, and the idea of building a persistent techno-ecosystem in the process of playing seems unique and curious enough to call me back to this back catalogue game. At least for a while…