OJTheAviator

I hope this doesn't count as political. The politics is literally background to the real comedy. And now, for the most 2021 screenshot of the year so far:

Dancing birds

Also, nice sky!

Needless to say, I've been taking lots of pictures. Apologies for not reading notifications recently, the forum break has been nice so far but I may become active again at some point! Who knows though.

I'm not dead, just busy. I did make a neat render I wanted to share:

I need to study but I'm absorbed by the saying "righty tighty, lefty loosey". It is nonsensical! If the top of the turning thing is going left, the bottom is going right, and if the bottom is going left, the top is going right! There is no relative translation between the two parts!! One could use the right hand rule, that makes sense. But 'left' and 'right' don't describe rotation!!!

Hot take: Hexagons are the bestagons.

Some of you will probably get it

More rendering! And it loops!

This was inspired by the wireframe trench in Star Wars (1977), eventually I want to build this into some sort of race with wireframe spaceships, that'd be pretty neat. Generally wanting to flesh it out while keeping the aesthetic.

I did some spooky rendering yesterday:

Image overload. To be clear, I didn't do this thinking it looks good, just interesting. Almost comic-book like.

I saw a beautiful Corvette the other day. Lucky I had my camera on me...

I found how they make egg cartons! They just tell the cardboard to form itself into z=sin(x)sin(y)

I just randomly happened upon this shape when doing some Calc 3 homework, completely unintentionally, when I thought "EGG CARTON" and distracted myself from immanently due homework.

I'm not dead. Also, holy crap. Apple just released the iPhone I've been dreaming about for months -- an updated iPhone with the 4s' design! This looks as good as iPhone's aesthetic peak a decade ago... with what looks like some of the best tech out there. I'm no iPhone fanboy -- far from it -- but I'm feeling a little less loyal to my Samsung Galaxy S8 right now.

Well, my new Nikon D610 is serving me well. No tech photos yet, but I do have some birds and butterflies and scenery!

Another field

Birds!

Butterflies

New camera! More features! Video! Time lapse!

Perhaps I'll post photos and other stuff soon.

I made a mistake. If people have suggestions or know people who might, I'd appreciate input.

Heavenly Bovine, that's a lot of notifications!

I guess some have more, but I've got more than I'm used to, that's for sure

I've finally gotten around to taking photos of my laptop...

It's got a pen, housed in the side. Contacts charge it whenever it's docked, so I don't have to worry about replacing batteries.

It folds all the way around. After all, it is named a "Yoga". Writing on the screen is very good. It's fairly responsive, nice feel.

While it's a Yoga, it's also a Thinkpad, as evidenced by the nice Thinkpad logo.

In addition, I can tell it's a Thinkpad by the piece of evidence that is the Trackpoint. I don't use it often, but I kinda like it there.

IO wise, not too shabby. On the left: USB C (non Thunderbolt unfortunately), USB C with Thinkpad dock connector (the dock connector supports Ethernet), USB A, and 3.5mm jack. On the right: power button, micro SD, USB A, full size HDMI, and Kensington lock. The only real downside would be a lack of Thunderbolt, but with all the other IO, I don't really feel a need for it. Plus, it has Intel's Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2x2 AX inside, so I get nearly 600 Mb/s on WiFi.

And lastly, what may be my favorite photo. This photo of a current laptop was taken on a DSLR from about 2005, on a lens from (likely) the '70s. I don't know the details of this lens, but it was my Grandpa's lens from his film SLR. Anyway, for me it sort of spans time in a way most photos don't.

People are sick trying to scam grandparents. My grandma emailed about this Microsoft alert... On her Chomebook. Luckily, she didn't click anything, just restarted it, but still messed up they target these sorts of people. Now I have to go over to block this site and keep it from beeping at her.

I'm now working with a json file that is about half a gigabyte in size. The computer is really chugging.

Firefox alone is using over 9 GB of RAM

Well, it's not about what you have, but how you use it.

Well, I've been using my new laptop so much over the last few hours that I haven't had the chance to take good photos yet. TLDR (too lazy, didn't record), it's amazing. The keyboard is fantastic, as expected. The trackpad is as good as anything else I've used, though not incredible. The screen is sharp and bright, though the bezels do exist. The thing is built like a tank. No real flex anywhere. The touchscreen is good, tablet mode is nice. I've done a little note-taking with it now, and it's pretty good. The stylus is fantastic in my opinion, and docks into the chassis, so it's no bother when I don't need it. It's got Windows Hello facial recognition and a fingerprint scanner. I haven't had the chance to use facial unlock yet, but the fingerprint scanner is a nice touch (pun intended) to unlock quickly. In other words, I'm very happy.