damn it, i got sick

i am tired

[contemporary extraterrestrial tv show, negative] we watched the first episode of alien: earth. i found it highly disappointing. no interesting characters. they kind of failed to really develop any characters at all really. aesthetics were decent in parts but mostly only because they were […]

[unicode font support survey - please boost!!] i am working on a project utilizing unicode characters from a wide array of character sets. if you have a sec, pls reply with a screenshot of what you see below, and optionally lmk what OS you're on! please boost ↺ so i can see a variety of […]

one of the down sides of living in a college town is that people ask me all the time if i'm a student. i want to yell "i graduated college in 2014, please stop asking me this" but the people in the office also thought this when they first saw me at the college where i taught a class. so i guess […]

i am reading comet in moominland and i can't stop thinking about animal crossing because there are all these random animals around and they all have different personalities and emotional baggage

we played a show a week ago, i finally got documentation/a blog post online about it :) https://palomakop.tv/blog/2025-09-17_reality-orp-performance-at-ely/

[weird dream snippet] in my dream there was this person who was wearing only a loincloth and had a coat of thin but long hair all over their body. also they had no torso or arms but had their head right above their hipbone. and they were frolicking around in the show with some other folks who […]

one of my biggest successes in life has been making my phone boring

i was gonna make a font for some asemic glyphs but maybe there are enough across all of unicode that i can just make a conlang from unicode characters? working name: unicon. i like how it kind of just looks like i misspelled "unicorn"

hanging out with this guy for the afternoon. looks like i already succeeded in tiring him out

i received a spam text message today that read: "i hope today brings you peace, joy, and beautiful little moments." that is nice, i thought, as i blocked the number.

@palomakop you're 400! In the "idiosyncratic" section :)

i drew out my signal chain for live video with the new better converter situation. i get to leave a whole video mixer i was carrying around just for conversion at home now. maybe i can figure out some kind of little velcro pedalboard situation for the […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

yay! i finally finished v1 of my website's new *links page*: https://palomakop.tv/links/ i feel like there are many links that i am lacking, but now that the overall structure is in place i can add more over time. i am actually kind of embarrassed that i didn't have this up sooner as it's such […]

And here's a video of the flare!

wow! the mystery sprouts are growing so fast. definitely not lemons...

i got a terrible leg cramp last night when i rolled over in bed so i had to roll back over to make it stop. in my half asleep dream logic i thought, "oh, there must be DRM preventing me from using my leg in that position"

got my tools gathered to bring to the makerspace for today's repair cafe

opened up my compost today to find a bunch of mystery sprouts. probably lemon seeds based on my recent food. grabbed a few to let em grow up and find out.

ahh i just spent so long getting rid of the noise in my audio monitoring system

i got a small, native flowering shrub to try and entice pollinators in my backyard. unfortunately it was only about a foot tall and soon got either eaten by the groundhog or weed-whacked by the landlord's workers. hard to tell which, but it was amputated almost to the ground. my boss gave me an […]

after many weeks of ebay trial and error, i finally have stable SDI to component conversion again. YES! now please no more converter deaths for at least 6 months.

damn, that's a nice sticker

i finally had an excuse to use this old style micrometer that my friend gave me. yes, this is a 5.5mm outer barrel. well, i measured 0.217", which is more like 5.51mm. not bad~

also, maybe related, i like these water bottle guys

i just love these bag guys.

yay! i cleaned my sony a6000 sensor at home with dry swabs, and it came out pretty nice. there is still one speck, but it's the least dirty iteration i could get after trying multiple times and both removing and adding specks each time. i still have one swab […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

it makes me so anxious that people i care about are just rotting their brains watching garbage tall videos that might also be AI and they don't even stop to wonder if that's the case. i stopped using mainstream social media before everything started getting tiktok-ified so i really can't relate […]

[long; infrared controller story] in today's unexpectedly successful troubleshooting session, i was trying to get a wifi-controlled infrared transmitter to control a little decorative LED lamp in my house. - the "on" switch works but the "off" switch doesn't. why is that? - probably it's not […]

the puppy at my work is such a dang rascal! adorable but he's a cheeky bastard.

cable management? sounds boring. how about a cable party instead

i made my first broom!

visited this brutalist hotel that now resides in an ikea parking lot in new haven. apparently they renovated it in adherence to the original style and it's supposed to be carbon zero featuring ceiling tiles made of I Can't Believe It's Not Asbestos™

i usually love doing computers but when everything starts breaking i sometimes feel like i've lost confidence that anything will ever work again. honestly, the most surprising thing to me is that things work as well as they do most of the time.

i spent a slightly unhealthy amount of time installing python on this extra kobo i don't use anymore and setting up a little "dashboard" display for my kitchen. it should change to a black background and a different drawing when the sun goes down. will see […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

so far this year i'm at just over 2 bpm (books per month)

adventures of puppy thor

i posted on my blog about a show we played on saturday! https://palomakop.tv/blog/2025-07-22_reality-orp-performance-at-chanorth/ usually i remember to share the link beforehand so people can come to it if they want to. but this time i really forgot to share it anywhere online. i think since […]

i have started off the past few mornings by waking up from long, sprawling, weird dreams and then having to remember what is actually happening in my life, it's very disorienting

being Into Design can really fuck up your life like oh no i can't look at this because i do not like the font

speaker stand en situ! the other one looks the same except it's on top of a bookcase that i did not make andrei said the giant ratchet straps make them look ready for an earthquake. but i didn't want to take any chances

a black vulture landed on a small barn next to me when i was watering my friend's garden. (or it could have been a juvenile turkey vulture but i doubt it.) it was impossible to miss as its big wings flapping were very loud. it sounded like a big chicken […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

how can i leave a negative review of the emergency dentist i went to in my dream

these speaker stands came out nice. i made them to hold my speakers at a nice angle (19º) for ears because they are on a high shelf. the holes are for strapping the speakers down for stability.

a nice fern - playing with macro focus

the new kitchen tabletop is done, pic is too grainy to tell but it's baltic birch plywood with a very smooth matte finish :>

today's journal entry includes some random doodles and diagrams from notebook pages that were bound for the recycling. https://journal.palomakop.tv/post/2025-07-03

if i finish computer work i can have a little sand the new table as a treat

so glad that everyone is having a great vacation and not home fixing their dying, chirping smoke detectors /s i am counting at least 3 going off in my vicinity although there might be more... i guess i have to embrace it as part of returning to city life, in lieu of acorns falling on the roof […]