Three Little Birds, Bob Marley
#commissionearned
The FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Apple TV trailer.
I know that FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH is an Apple TV movie. It’s also a Guy Ritchie movie, so yeah: I’m gonna watch it. I also admit to being curious as to just how much Ritchie liked NATIONAL TREASURE.
#commissionearned
Kind of mixed feelings, right now.
On the one hand, I dislike tariffs*. On the other hand, I don’t like how the gaming and independent fiction industries talked themselves into using products and services from the People’s Republic of China, despite the fact that the PRC’s supply chain is corrupt and unreliable at best, uses wink-and-a-nudge slave labor at worst, is run by people who are ideologically opposed to several core principles of Western society, and is about as ecologically friendly as a guy spraying out chlorofluorocarbons from his extra-leaded gasoline-powered mobile throne while directing a Soviet-era hydroelectric project.
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My one exception to April Fools Day shenanigans.
When somebody comes up with a joke product that would actually work. That’s always cool.
My fortunate art accident.
I was making an animated gif for my Patreon banner (we’re past the proof-of-concept stage, and now I’m just tweaking it), and this popped up at one point of the process. I thought Affinity Photo could handle a gif, and it turns out that it cannot:
…I kind of like it, though?
‘What’s Simple is True.’
My adventures in gif.
I have spent the afternoon and evening trying and failing to figure out how to make a gif for my Patreon front banner*. I am either old, or this is harder than it looks. Or I am old, and this is harder than it looks. That’s always a possibility.
Moe Lane
*Although I did fix it so that the resolution was good, and you could see that I wrote a book. So that’s a win.
I am doing a LOT of infrastructure work today.
Changes to the appearance and structure of the Patreon, editing work for the Fermi Resolution worldbook, and other non-sexy, but useful things. If you have opinions about any of that, feel free to speak up. I’m cleaning up stuff anyway!
Yeah, I got nothing.
Except for my annual pledge that I won’t be doing anything for April Fools’ Day tomorrow. I’ve got nothing against that tradition, I just don’t follow it anymore. I dunno why.