The true story of how I spent 4 months trying to make a waffle is now up!

Making animations for my videos has gotten SO much better since I stopped trying to be extra professional by using the professional tools, and realized I could do all the design work in Inkscape (which I love) and just use Illustrator (which I despise) to convert it to a format After Effects (which I tolerate) will import.

@trevorflowers Hell, I'd just be happy if CAD packages could add draft reliably.

After re-imaging the Pi Zero about a dozen times, I finally have the HyperPixel Square display working! Next I have to get the alternate I2C interface working, alternate because this display is sitting on the normal one. (Or find some other way of letting it read the state of the 11 buttons and 6 punch card bits, I don't actually care how.)

The second and final dial of the day, this one in the far less toxic (to the best of my knowledge) Webster Park in Ballard. A nice little bronze equatorial that really makes its alignment with the Earth's axis explicit. This makes about 12 km for the day, and I won't deny I'm feeling it a bit in my right hip. Time to head home and work on the script for the custom waffle plate video.

More sundial trekking today, first to the top of the prettiest not-quite-a-Superfund site around, Gas Work Park. This is a fun, if visually cluttered analemmatic sundial, where you serve as the gnomon as long as you stand in the right place (Most people weren't, as far as I could see, probably because it's so visually cluttered.) It also serves as a canonically great place to fly a kite and get a great view of downtown.

Image descs aren't working on my app atm, so:

A complicated art installation set into a large concrete pad at the top of a grassy hill, made of textured/colored concrete and cast bronze inserts.

Fish's shadow pointing just shy of the 2 (PST) marker, taken at 3:11 (PDT).

A gorgeous view of downtown Seattle across Lake Union on a cloudless day. Boats are out on the lake, people are picnicking on the side of the grassy hill stretching down to the water, and the Space Needle is visible to the right.

It's official, I'll be one of the speakers at Ignite Seattle #48 on May 22. I've done a couple ignite-style talks with the Long Now, but this will be my first actual Ignite talk! 5 minutes total, with a slide advancing automatically every 15 seconds. Tickets are available now, if you want to see me condense the entire Ten Hundred keyboard project into 300 seconds of terror:

Just a moment...

(www.tickettailor.com)

Well, that took longer than I was hoping, and a lot more tilting of the plate back and forth because waffles are not precision-leveled surfaces. But it was, actually, pretty meditative!

omg omg omg

Still tearing in half, but MUCH better. I'll let it go a minute longer next.