check out this entertaining geography game called geoguessr.

it brings back a random image from google maps street view and asks you where it is.

it is surprisingly fun — so give it a try!

both hard drives died in the anatone.net server but have now been replaced with a samsung ssd drive.

it is so diminutive in the server case that it is laughable.

oh, and fast. so fast.

it has a responsive-y layout now and should look better on mobile phones and a little more designed in desktop browsers as well.

plus, i can edit it from my phone now which makes things a little easier for me as well.

i decided to go with bootstrap for the styling and font awesome for the neat vector icons.

it's so much more relaxing when an entire day goes by without some societal yoke being dropped over your shoulders.

obviously, this weight pales in comparison to dealing with the terrible experiences that people have to go through in first person perspective but that is not to say it is an insignificant feeling.

there is so much media in the world and the news outlets are 80 to 100% alarmist and constantly in your face.

it makes me feel like i want to help in some way to make the world a calmer place but there are so many things that you can

• do absolutely nothing about

basically the size of everything that is happening, everywhere, all the time has become cognitively more expensive to cram inside of our heads causing paralysis which varies on the dissonance spectrum from minor to total interference.

basically, we are the frog in the boiling frog metaphor.

...and it's hard to understand why.

beautiful.

my first cello is on the way.

it is a 2000 ivan dunov from sophia, bulgaria purchased off ebay from mike's pawn shop in tallahassee, florida.

update: the cello has arrived but the soundpost and bridge are unset — so unfortunately, i'm not going to be able to hear how it sounds until i get someone qualified to setup. it looks like it's in really good shape though!

update 2: the cello is now at a local walla walla violin luthier and restorer of bows. his name is ernie hartl and he is the proprietor of hartl's bow shop. seems like a really nice guy and he's going to setup the cello soundpost and bridge and restring it for me — as well as rewrap the bow. next week sometime, i'm going to get to hear how this thing sounds and i'm really looking forward to it.

quite randomly, two objects now linked in apparent syncronicity, sophia is the city where i set the story of my android game, roshambomb.

if you have an android device, you should check it out.