It always takes me longer to read a script than I think it will. Gotta start accounting for that.

Cool, the AusGov emergency alert system works.

Me, an intellectual: All models are wrong, but some of them are very useful. Derek Zoolander, forgetting his line: But why male models?

When there’s a cat in the window

Working on an instructional blog post about story structure for features and starting to think it might be multiple articles instead. Hooray!

Overheard a couple of elderly ladies learning about Sam Neill’s death in real time and reminiscing about Death In Brunswick. Jurassic Park is great and all but these ladies knew ball.

I find it so difficult to focus on the things that are going right instead of on the things that aren’t. Anybody got tips that aren’t a form of avoidance or denial?

At least half of the technical problems I’ve ever dealt with in my life weren’t “obstacles that had to be solved for” so much as they were small points of friction that added up. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth smoothing the way first so you can do a bunch of it.

I opened Unity and, for once, nothing broke. So, to get settled in, I did that thing I’d been meaning to do: I updated the settings in my Documents folder so that I could move the project where I want it to be in my file system.

Yeah … I broke it.

I’m a writer, but not in the “I’ll post a well-thought out argument” sense. I’m a writer in the “I’ll find a snappy way to express a bunch of different things at once, which are all true” sense.

Life hack: Whenever you’re tempted to use the words “biased echo chamber”, try using the phrase “people who disagree with me” instead.

They’re biased (they disagree with me). They’re in an echo chamber (they disagree with me).

It’ll keep you on your intellectual toes, all right.

Finally read that formal feedback, after like a month. I’d been worried about the fact that I’d built it up a little in my head, and it wasn’t a complete game-changer but it gave me a few new things to think about, while affirming that in general terms I’m on the right track.

Twitch is finally rolling out Dual-Format streaming. TikTok was way ahead of them on this count, but forced users to go through its proprietary streaming software to use it. Hopefully repurpose.io and other cross-platform solutions will catch up quickly.

🎮📱 Pokémon Champions just launched on mobile, and I’d say it’s significantly better-looking on a phone screen than on the Switch 2. It seems clear it’s designed and optimised as a mobile game first, everything else second.

Communist candidate loses election to digital comedian. L Mao

I’ve got some formal feedback I was waiting for, on a pilot script (first draft). It’s been two weeks and I haven’t read it yet (a timing issue — I knew in advance I’d be flat out). I’m not sure whether I’ll have the chance to get into it before next week, but the anticipation has me in a chokehold.

After the amount of time I’ve spent playing Deep Rock Galactic with the boys over the years, it’d be weird if I didn’t pick up Rogue Core.

Why do I, at the big age of 30+, still forget that this thing I care about is, in fact, a form of work? And that in order to do that work, I need to actually reserve both time and energy for it?

It won’t simply happen! It’s not rest just because I “want” to do it! That’s not how it works!

Guess whose jury duty just got cancelled again?

Going back to my structures (templates, etc.) and being faced with just how quickly I lose sight of my own intentions is … something.