#life

As they say, today I learned that Lego Duplo and regular Lego are compatible with each other. It’s a metaphor for growing up.

If someone tells you that video games are bad for you or just waste your time, that’s not entirely true. It all depends on the game and on you.

No matter what knowledge or skills I think about, Morrowind initiated or provided the impetus for the development of many of them. This is because I was passionate about modding for this game for a long time, and now I am developing a project dedicated to it with screenshots.

Programming, 3D graphics, raster and vector graphics, music, website development, writing, social media management, printing, linguistics, biology, sociology, history… I’m sure I’ve forgotten something. And this experience is still with me; it continues to grow and helps me both in my work and in my creative pursuits.

Happy birthday, Great Game! And thank you.

Bye, last year. Goodbye, last year’s calendar with Statham, which was one of the sources of inspiration for the Morrowind Screenshots calendar. Hello, unknown future. Happy New Year to everyone!

A week after the start of the sale of calendars, I would like to summarize the interim results. Most of the first edition has been sold out, with only a few pieces remaining. Some calendars have already reached their recipients. The most difficult thing at this stage is to make cursors and pack calendars, especially when there are a lot of orders at once. And sending by mail is the most inconvenient because of the work schedule, queues and technical problems. The rest of the delivery services are clever. Sending abroad increases the cost of the calendar three times due to duties and commissions. But I am pleased that in general I was able to give the opportunity to order a calendar from abroad. One of them has already gone to Latvia - I am watching his fate with trepidation. Two more calendars were taken by the subscriber personally - it was a short but pleasant meeting. Now that everything is in order, I can breathe a little. It seems that the idea with the calendars was successful.

I had a creative vacation. But not a vacation for creativity, but rather a vacation from creativity. That is, if you call my pet projects creativity. It’s just that at some point I felt that I needed to take a break and return to everything later, with a fresh head. And now I feel that it’s time to continue.

There is such a term in programming as legacy code. It’s when a piece of code is poorly written or outdated, but you still have to work with it and write just as bad code next to it, because rewriting everything takes too long. Today, having started to expand the old barn at the country house, I realized that the barn is crooked and the extension will also have to be crooked, otherwise it will not be possible to connect them together. So I learned what legacy is in the real world.

Today there was a funny case. I picked up the car after the repair, arrived home, and they call from the car service: “Our auto mechanic can not remember whether he tightened the nut or not. Please come back, otherwise he won’t sleep at night.” I had to go back. It seems that the nut really was not tightened. Now everyone will sleep peacefully.

One day, I went outside, looked up at the sky, and froze. There was something very familiar and native in these shades. This is the sky from Morrowind! For comparison, here is one of my screenshots with a similar sky. It’s a pity that in reality you couldn’t see everything to the horizon.

Recently I came across an unusual section of the sidewalk. Outside, the temperature was above zero, and some of the tiles thawed, while others did not. My theory is that white tiles don’t heat up as much in the sun as dark ones, so they thaw out more slowly.

Singing a lullaby in Finnish - unlocked

Using “The Prince of Darkness’s Ball” as a lullaby - unlocked

Friends, does anyone have an easel for stand-up painting available to rent for one day?

I dreamed the funniest dream of my life: you close your eyes, and there it says “System on Service” @tproger

I had an extra #dream about a water polo match in a forest, where a giant robot arm starts attacking the children from the stands… #WhatThe

And what could it mean to dream a new version of Tywin Lannister’s death, by poisoning… #GoT #GameOfThrones #Dream

Sleep is an illusion, the alarm clock reminds you. A long, deep sleep…

An IT person’s bag: a netbook, a tablet and a kilogram of coffee.

The soul finds no peace. Summer has only just begun, and the rain has already reminded me how great it is in autumn.

And the winter is something else! :)

It’s amusing when, in the pattern on the curtains you’ve seen a thousand times, you suddenly start seeing animals, birds and strange faces of Buddhist gods.