A few more random drawings from my sketchbook. Most of these are in pencil or ballpoint pen, but there’s also one pair in pigment markers, and my first experiment with watercolor. The weird radial streaking on the watercolor background is an artifact of my scanner. Continue reading
I’ve been doing a lot of drawing recently, and thought I might post a few new pictures. Then I realized that I haven’t posted any drawings of my own here at all. So here are some pictures from my old blog.
These are just random scans from my sketchbook. They’re a mix of pencil, ballpoint pen, and pigment marker. Continue reading
I’m playing Grand Theft Auto V right now on my Xbox 360. Sure, it’s a violent and sexist story about some bad people and their criminal activities. I’m fine with that – it’s a fantasy for adults, and I take it the same way I take Scarface, Boardwalk Empire, or even The Sopranos. It’s an exaggerated world to visit, not a realistic guide for how to live life.
OK, with that out of the way, here are some ways I’ve found to quickly level up each character to 100% in all skills.
Warming: SPOILERS AHEAD! I’m not giving away anything about the story or the plot – heck, I’m only a short way into it myself. But I like to get “ahead” of games, in the sense that if gathering up skills will help me play, then I want those skills right away. Then I never have to stop the flow of the game just to go work on those skills. So my goal was to get all my characters up to 100% on all their skills as fast as I could. There are lots of online guides for leveling up, so I’ll focus on the ones that gave me the most trouble. Continue reading
I bought a couple of new big hard drives, and decided it was time to re-organize all of my computer’s disks. I have 3 hard drives inside my Mac Pro, and nine (yes, nine!) hard drives sitting on a nearby table. Most of these disks are partitioned into multiple smaller regions. I have so much storage because I want every partition to have a local backup (in addition to backups from Backblaze, an automatic cloud backup service I pay for). So each internal drive has a corresponding backup partition on one of the external drives, and each external partition also has a backup (the backups get updated automatically every night in the wee hours by a program called SuperDuper). This organization works well for me because I need some partitions to be fast, some to be secured, and so on.
Moving everything around properly was risky, because if I messed it up I could lose both my original and backup data. To reduce the risk, I wrote a Processing program to let me first simulate (and debug) the re-organizing process, and then provide a step-by-step guide for actually moving stuff around.