- RT @duncanirschick: GECKSKIN® is live on Kickstarter now: Unleash the reusable gripping magic of the gecko.: https://t.co/cMKUdpPv1d 2018-06-27
- RT @jerbotnet: Spent the last 4 years learning/loving Blender. It's capabilities and ease of use never cease to amaze me. I modeled, rigged… 2018-04-09
- Streams of fantasy moving into Amazon. https://t.co/SuFg0IMsLY 2018-04-06
- RT @amandapalmer: "i am loyal to only one god".
-long post i wrote over the weekend trying to summarize my feelings about the current patr… 2017-12-11 - RT @pahlkadot: This essay by @umairh says what I was trying to say in my @medium piece the other day, but differently. https://t.co/KKSb5d5… 2017-12-11
- sudo hp-setup -i : all I need to do (if that) to get things working with my HP #scanner and #printer. 2017-04-14
- Reviewing the list of features in this 3D Coat demo. Incredible digital sculpting too. #modeling #animation : https://t.co/olqSWwazRf 2016-10-03
- Watched "Pear Cider and Cigarettes" and I'm smiling. https://t.co/JpiWTYy4Kt 2016-10-03
- DNA hacking seems to have made a major leap forward.
https://t.co/TWyoXFnMP5 2016-07-26 - RT @bugmeyer: The Book of Watchers @kickstarter is now live! https://t.co/ipQkjmYoxk https://t.co/zBR4UnXzuX 2016-07-25
- Keith Loutit – Many words to describe this work, but I'll start with "stunning". https://t.co/6TE1Rq3tCA 2016-06-12
Gotta be Houdini.
- Animation on self-esteem. #psychology https://t.co/ksl3WbUmP5 2016-06-06
Hey Mom,
Just now, I was looking at the calendar and realizing that tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary since I last saw you. It was the last time I was able to hug you. The goodbye was more rushed than I would have liked, but we stretched the moment out as much as we could. I had to rush off to use the printers at FedEx before they closed. Time.
Like that day, today I’m running around collecting and printing documents. Putting together the final pieces of paperwork for the largest (volume wise) document I have ever created, much larger than the few pages we tried to print at your house.
That last night in Michigan was a Wednesday. I remember being quite frustrated when your printer wasn’t working. I apologized to you for being so childish about it. You said that it was OK that I was upset, and you said that you knew I wasn’t upset with you. I was relieved, but apologized again anyway. In some subtle way, I regretted during a moment where I could let go. When you saw that, you subtly let me know that it wasn’t necessary to beat myself up about it. I remember you freeing me from that thought. It was a subtle thing, but I still cherish that example of forgiveness.
I was about to drive across the country. I remember feeling good about us and our ability to move through that extremely frustrating moment. Both us noticing it in the other, then giving them silent permission to let it go. Broken computer accessories are good at creating frustrations, which is only amplified when I’m in a rush. That was awesome, Mom.
You’ve taught me a lot. I want you/me/us to know that I’ve being doing what I can to find the gifts in your absence. It really doesn’t feel like you are “gone”, but I know something has significantly changed. There are gaps in my life that I will have to make my own paths for. I can no longer find you outside of myself.
This past weekend, I was having dinner with an old friend of mine who I met over a decade ago, in Vancouver. I met him again in Toronto about 6 years later, and now recently, in Edmonton. We’re apparently subconsciously following each other around the country. Epic Two-Finger Pushup Dave. One day I’m going to accidentally call him “Bruce”.
Anyhow, as Dave and I ate through piles of fish, we spoke of you. At one point, we both became very quiet, then silent. Dave looked into my face and said, “I can see her right now. I see her looking at me. She’s wonderful.” I felt as he saw. Powerful silent moment.
You were the initial inspiration for this blog. I wanted to record my travels and discoveries. Perhaps it was a just a way of yelling, “Here I am!” Published in a form that doesn’t set an expectation for a response. The travel blog then morphed into an online technical study journal.
This website no longer serves any of these purposes very well. I require something more minimal and more flexible than WordPress. I dig text files. Ok, I’m getting technical again.
I last spoke to you on the phone, two weeks before you passed. You knew I was happy and living in peace. You didn’t sound so optimistic about your own surroundings. However, I supposed it’s safe to say that you are in a better place now.
No clue what that means exactly… but I’m guessing it doesn’t include blog posts.
<3
Jer
P.S. I saw on your computer that all your recent photos were adjusted using GIMP instead of Photoshop. I didn’t know you were liking that program!! It made me smile to see all those open-source-created image files on your PC hard drive. Nice one, Mom.
- I wanna play with this! https://t.co/BEYAGhjCf9 2016-05-29
- How your movements can heal your brain | Joaquin Farias | TEDx – #body #psychology https://t.co/mOsSUhYi57 2016-05-26
- Movement heals. Dance is even better. https://t.co/zXDFoWjxtU 2016-05-25
- LED kinetic sculpture mimics motion capture trackers of a walk cycle. #animation https://t.co/AkFq3ArA59 2016-05-23
- Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit includes a list of 9 tools.
https://t.co/dywjzyy0yH 2016-05-22 - How Smartphone Light Affects Your Brain & Body (Infographic) | Collective-Evolution – https://t.co/ZN5GcaJQcX 2016-05-22
- Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays – https://t.co/oWIKVklNs3 2016-05-22
- Tiny home project aims to stabilize neighborhood to help Detroit homeless | – @urbanbotplay https://t.co/FKVrjljjNx 2016-05-22
- Instead of selling stuff… sell performance. #recycle https://t.co/025nQtN7nG 2016-05-16
- Monsterous Discrepancies – #anxiety #comic https://t.co/yTKejmuVx8 2016-05-12
- Photos of the Female Form Dressed Only in Light (NSFW) – #projection https://t.co/QFyY2EERwL 2016-05-05
- In radio we call moments like this "dead air". #bluescreenofdeath #yeg via @urbanbotplay https://t.co/TtTpf8HVoS 2016-05-04
- Not a movie. https://t.co/3qD7DR9G0v 2016-05-04
- Uninstalling the "tracker" in Gnome Ubuntu has giving me a new computer. #performance – https://t.co/4SfDkRQPBK 2016-04-30
- "Depression relapse prevention with mindfulness therapy 'on par' with drugs, review shows" :
https://t.co/dn0eKTYGOx 2016-04-28
- Experimental autism treatment causes immediate change… in all aspects of his life. https://t.co/YdE0sWTywZ 2016-04-20
- "Publishers acquire this research free of charge, & retain the copyrights, even though the public funded the work" : https://t.co/IzlMIfkb6G 2016-04-20
- "I want to hear the cat purring, not the sound of the fans in the computer" – Linux Torvalds, Linux & GIT creator : https://t.co/cufiw9GXVE 2016-04-09
- Guide To Writing Great Emails That Win You Clients – #communication – https://t.co/AdQx9dMYDx 2016-03-31
- On natural vision. “When you are not looking and everything is seen.” – Feldenkrais Nature – https://t.co/VoPsSRhWBJ 2016-03-31
- Giant time-sucking video games are bad for you and bad for gaming – https://t.co/yTur21IEJO 2016-03-27
- Blender 2.77 new feature list demonstrated by @cgmastersnet : https://t.co/Zj5Dn1Czy5 2016-03-25
- A conspiracy is making up a story to reduce the difficulty experienced in ambiguity. 1 hr 20 min talk w/ @BreneBrown https://t.co/7qoaVIXxaf 2016-03-25
- News anchor Dan Harris speaks on meditation. –
https://t.co/oLU8RIe3TQ 2016-03-22 - "The advertising world can be very seductive."
https://t.co/1EMKjljkGy 2016-03-17 - “Don’t be a butt in a seat and don’t hire butts for seats” #bottomup : https://t.co/X4F4ImeAPM 2016-03-17
- Alternative to layered EXRs in Blender? This addon for render layer passes from @loochmunz is going to save me. #b3d https://t.co/5YXblykQvY 2016-03-17
- Tried the layered EXR thing, but the idea broke when I had to re-render only one of the layers. Can't over-write only a portion of an EXR? 2016-03-17
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