Weeknotes: 2025-W13
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Summary
A good and varied week.
On the “maker” side of things - my second woodworking class just started, and I got additional certification classes done at Seattle Makers so I should be able to get some work done at the maker space soon.
Early spring vibes starting to show up in Seattle, wore shorts on a walk, and got back into my forest/lake walk and took a ton of photos of blossoms and ducks.
Discovered paper marbling and Suminagashi from my YouTube watching and went all the way down that rabbit hole…
Photos
(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)
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Enjoying
- Reading:
- Celestial Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries #4) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
- Delectable Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries #5) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
- Bountiful Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries #6) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
- None of these are going to win any awards, but something of a palette cleanser.
- The Witches of Holloway Road by Iris Beaglehole
- Watching:
- 📺🏃 Yellowjackets season 1 (★★★★☆)
- Continuing my “light” horror TV series watching after From.
- 📺🏃 Yellowjackets season 2 (★★★★☆)
- More than satisfactory progress
- 📺🏃 Fallen season 1 (★★☆☆☆)
- As somewhat expected, doesn’t quite turn out worth watching.
- 📺📅 Reacher season 3 (★★★☆☆)
- Overall, it works, but I don’t feel it introduces anything new, and doesn’t maintain the peril/threat/thrill enough.
- 📺🏃 Yellowjackets season 1 (★★★★☆)
- Playing:
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- So far, so good. Still early mid-game, so expect to get a decent sense soon.
- Cracking the Cryptic
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Newly discovered
Paper marbling
I actually entered the rabbit hole from a Suminagashi video, but quickly discovered Ebru and other forms of paper marbling.
Rajiv Surendra’s beginner’s guide video is my pick for introducing the concept, and he has an excellent follow-up where he visits Florence for instruction and guidance from a professional marbler:
Recommended
boxes.py
boxes.py is an Open Source box (and more) generator written in Python used for laser cutting. I just got an introduction to laser cutting and certification to use the laser cutter at Seattle Makers, so I’ve been exploring various things to cut.
The Most Famous Algorithm In Computer Graphics - Acerola
An introduction to noise, building up to improved Perlin noise.
Sudoku pick: “One Of My Favourite Puzzles In Months!” - Cracking the Cryptic
An entropic line variant with a minor twist, not too hard, fairly straightforward (and fairly short) solve by Simon. (As usual, use chapter marks to skip to the rules section…)