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Typing from the Back Porch
Commenting on the banal November 2021 is almost over. In some ways it seems like March 2020 just got here. Back then, not that I knew it at the time, but I was finishing up a gig at a small town newspaper. Part of the reason it was wrapping up was due to COVID-19, part of it was due to a mystery illness that was probably COVID-19, and part of it was stubbornness that kept me at my desk when I couldn’t do the work.
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Fractal Mountains in Pygame
A fractal mountain, 1987 style. Sorry, no, the generator doesn’t use a CRT shader just yet.
During the 2020 shutdowns, I decided to revive a really old interest of mine. Back in the 1980s when I was just a kid, my parents subscribed me to Compute! Magazine. For the folks who didn’t have the pleasure of living through those times or didn’t have a computer back then, software would be distributed as source code in books and magazines; the folks at home would have to type in the program to see it run.
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September sunset
A couple of nights ago I was walking between buildings and just happened to catch this thunderhead at dusk. My phone’s not got the best camera ever, but in terms of beauty, the visuals and the rest of the weather were in sync that night.
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