I’ve been reading a lot of fans-translated Chinese webnovels recently.
Think “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” but in book form.
Some of the translation can be hit or miss, but the footnotes can be quite enlightening on ancient Chinese culture/customs.
Category: Microblog
To lighten the mood…
I know this sounds weird after the previous post, but while some people (justifiably) need the severity of this situation drilled into their heads, others need to chill out and focus less on the bad shit in the world.
Because there’s a lot of that out there, and if you spend the whole day scouring the internet looking for posts to justify your, “The End is Nigh” rant, you’ll just make yourself, and everyone around you, miserable.
So have common sense and show general decency: stay at home (if you can), maintain physical distancing (you can still be social online), and have a (respectful) chuckle at all the memes.
Here's a problem: a lily pad grows in an otherwise empty pond. The lily pad produces a new pad every day, the same size as the original. They both reproduce the next day, so that on the first day there is one lily pad; the second day, two; the third day, four; and so on. The pond is completely covered with lily pads by the thirtieth day. On what day did lily pads cover half the pond? If you don't immediately realise it was the twenty-ninth day, you are not equipped to deal with the exponential growth of COVID-19.
It’s not a long read, and it’s worth reading. The first few paragraphs might not interest many people – especially those outside of Australia, but 1/3 in is where the interesting things happen.
Finally got around to pulling my NAS apart to upgrade the RAM.
More photos from the same eSports bar
Of course they have streaming booths… 😓
Oh, and it wasn’t obvious in the prev post but they have booths in the tavern for you to play console games with friends.
New eSports bar, Fortress, opened in Melbourne last week.
They just opened last Friday and now they’ll be closed for the next month or so b/c of the Coronavirus. Let’s hope they don’t fold before they even had a chance to truly open.
Following on the heels of my previous post, I’ll also be joining this year’s Camp Nano.
With everyone staying at home for the next few weeks – and maybe longer – this may be a good time to get some writing done.
I keep forgetting to mention that I’m starting a novelisation of a Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition game I’m playing.
You can find it here: https://vtm.sleepyowl.ink
There’s currently an intro and two sessions – it takes more effort than I would have thought to novelise a game.
I plan to link the RSS feed to my micro.blog account, so if you read my blog primarily through MB, then you’ll see it there too.
Haha, I enjoyed today’s Slack app update notes.
Random question: clasp your hands together, fingers entwined, like how some people pray before going to bed…
(Do it before reading the actual question, I don’t want this to influence your actions)
Which thumb is on top (ie. closer to you)? Left or right?