The world 7 of Super Mario Bros 3, Pipe Land, is actually 3 little islands in the shapes of 3 pipes, reference to Super Mario Bros secret pipes zones. Discovered that few years ago and it still blows my mind.

I'm not sure if I'm even more scared or vaguely grateful that I just barely missed out on "The Empire Strikes Back" to wind up with this instead.

"And in despair, I bowed my head 'There is no peace on earth,' I said. 'For hate is strong, and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men.'"

This video's maybe the best I've seen at directly showing the impact of the flooding out here. This is at the edge of a small town (Duvall) about 15-20 miles northeast of downtown Seattle. Most of what you see flooded here is farmland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BT9...

You know who you are. <3

Looking at AI summaries of things you know is like reading news reports on events or topics you have firsthand experience with, only magnified 1000x.

Seattle(*) is riding the next wave of Little Libraries:

I won't even miss the green bean casserole. Not that there's anything wrong with beans or casseroles, but there are so many better ways of getting tasty veggies at Thanksgiving.

If ever there were a pose begging for a 'draw your OC like this' challenge...

I'm out of practice with these but every now and then I like to indulge. Apologies for the terrible Japanese. 寒くても 雨が降っても 好きな秋

That $130 million private donation to the "troops" sounds like a lot, but there are about 1.2 - 1.3 million men and women in uniform. That $100 each per is going to go a real long way after a month and more of no pay. Besides its illegality, there's no way to get the money to the "troops".

Commit the sin of empathy.

Belated, but hopefully better late than never. A little music for the mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNUl...

Love and appreciation to everyone out there marching today.

Kamen Rider Super-1 (1980) Episode 37

Just learned about AGI-based floors for deductions for charitable giving that were rammed through as part of the OBBBA. This sucks: if you itemize, it makes regular giving to support charities' ongoing needs harder, and it discourages giving to a variety of causes.

Commission for shikoi_no. Thank you!

"Quaternion float rounding error" The long story: www.iracing.com/q-circles-th...

So I may have just been out of the loop on this, but Nintendo released a wheelchair basketball game for Switch 2 using dual-mice controls and, I dunno, it just seems like a cool thing that more people should be aware of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUj...

More programming streaming tonight. It's going to be a bit of a change of pace today: I've got some shapes that need building out, so it's time to dive back into OpenSCAD for some parametric polyhedra! Tune in at 7:30 PDT at twitch.tv/shaterri to watch me try and relearn this odd little language.

No streaming for me tonight — getting a few more things set up. But I'm hoping to resume code streams next Monday!

Happy (belated, it was Saturday) International Red Panda Day! And just remember: all for wah, wah for all...

My reward for clearing out several stands' worth of weeds was some revenge blackberries. I'll take it.

Hey personal lazyweb: does anyone have experience debugging C++ on MacOS? I've been able to build but I'm hitting an apparently well-known bug where LLDB chews up _all_ the memory as soon as you try to display variables. I presume that it's _possible_ to do C++ on Macs but I've had no luck...

One of the few things worse than having a bad day is having a bad day when your friends are all having their own bad days. :/ May tomorrow be better for all of us.

Fox! #fox www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asian groceries are like a cheat code for Philly cheesesteaks. (And yeah, I know that's not the appropriate bread. But we had leftover burger buns and this seemed like a fine application)

Random recommendation for the day: White_Pointer Gaming is a youtube channel that breaks down effects for SNES-generation consoles. I think he does a good job of making things both interesting and accessible. His latest is on Chrono Trigger and it's a good watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLON...

Time to get back on the streaming horse! ...which I guess would be a hippocampus or something? Anyway! I'm going to be doing more coding this evening, starting about 7:30 PM Pacific. Watch me flail my way around React as I take first steps towards building a polyform packer! www.twitch.tv/shaterri

In my defense, I was left unsupervised. (Also I got a stupidly good deal thanks to a strong friend discount. But mostly lack of supervision.)

My 'furthest I've been': N: Edmonton, AB, Canada S: Orlando, FL E: Chatham, MA W: Osaka, Japan

I can hear this in my head and it sounds like the horizontal movement of someone falling down a flight of stairs somehow passing you on the highway.

FURRYMUCK USERS: The memorial service for Tugrik on FurryMuck will be this coming Friday (August 8, 2025) at 9 pm CST (10 EST, 8 MST, 7 PST). Instructions for how to attend are on the Park bulletin board. Please pass the word to all who may be interested.

One of Thomas "Painter of Light" Kinkade's twee Americana paintings was used for DHS propaganda, and his estate went startlingly hard against it

Once more into the breach! Unto the breach? Something like that. :P Going to stream some more graphics and visualization work. Hope to see you there! twitch.tv/shaterri

Glitch wanted to try the new flavor. She is actually getting a tremendous brain freeze from this...

Obligatory: (Also, aieeeee...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3...

I gotta say this: I think people should be fucking around with Steam as hard as they're fucking around with itch if not harder. Itch has basically nothing. Steam's the big-deal store, they have the money and the power. If THEY can be arsed to move, maybe something could get rolling.

One of these days I will figure out that 'stream at 3:00' does not mean 'turn on your computer at 3:00'. Today was not that day. Sorry folks! 3:30ish, hopefully.

More onstream coding this afternoon — I'm going to start up around 3PM PDT at twitch.tv/shaterri .Today I'm planning on setting up some tools for some specific 3d graphics visualization. See folks there, I hope!

Sorry for short notice for anyone who's interested: I think I'm going to try and do some code streaming this evening! Working on some random-sampling helpers for a talk I'm giving at a conference on illustrating mathematics next month. Come hang out at twitch.tv/shaterri starting around 7PM Pacific!

If you see this, post a Marvel Cover you love. After growing up on (a few) years of classic comic-book-y comic book covers, Bill Sienkiewicz's work was a shock to my system.

I think The Day After is well seared into the minds of most of the folks of my generation who watched it as kids...

Amazing photo from the Seattle Times today.

Sometimes the gardening is worth it. Just a bit under a pound, earmarked for pancakes tomorrow morning.

Today's success in adulting: I found the original work order and description for downspout/drainage work we had done on the house almost 15 years ago.

Age verification: my first video game console had five games, period, and you used a switch to flip between them.

This is Myaku Myaku, mascot for the 2025 World's Fair in Osaka. Nothing I could say about it can really compare to just seeing it.

Sometimes I really wish I was better at sucking at things. :/

Today's brunch; the strawberries were courtesy of our garden, picked fresh this morning. These were every bit as tasty as they looked.