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gaussian blur convolution kernels

2022-11-28

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I missed yesterday, partly forgot and partly was too tired. The good news is I've got plenty to talk about today! I'm feeling pretty rotten still, sickness wise, but I'm trying to keep a good attitude and hopefully that helps. Free the mind etc.

tried to draw a hippo

Realised I'm running out of time for my New Yorker submission (at least, if I want to make this month, which I do). The drawings need to be simple simple, I did a little work on the hippo yesterday. I've got a book out of the library about Tom Eckersley, it's inspiring me to be more minimal with my drawings.

I also looked over the jokes again, only 3 of 10 are really funny. I'll try for 10, but I think if I can only get 4 or so out then I'll just submit them.

working it all out

I shifted my whiteboard scrawls onto Kinopio, the first time I think I've found it to be properly useful. Every dog has his day.

There's always plenty to do, and always plenty in my mind. Externalising it helps, at least a little. the kinopio app, with all my little projects written down in nodes and arranged

Another step towards externalising I practiced was a budget review. I went through the month of october, all of my outgoings, and catalouged them. It was enlightening, and very helpful, and I wish I'd done it sooner. a blurred out spending review spreadsheet

I decided to blur some of it out, as this is after all online and public, and I don't want to show my entire ass to the world just yet.

I spent far far too long on that blur

I've spent almost an hour now learning not-quite-enough to write an effective sigma 50 gaussian blur kernel in ronin, and I resorted to using ffmpeg to blur the whole thing then the preview app to crop bits into it.

And I'm afraid that's it

I chewed up my time and energy looking into blurs. What have I learnt? It's necessary to use Pompom, or some kind of timer, to pull myself out of a research hole.

last thoughts

I've been wanting to have an app to do timetracking each day, I think I've nearly got an idea of what could work. I want to start using time-blocking too, and then I can compare the two. My manager years ago told me about accountants writing down what they were doing every 10 minutes, I think this is a good idea. It sounds over the top, but the granularity is super helpful at this stage.

listening to

Roomful of Teeth and Amen Discos

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