What I did in May 2020

[squirmelia]

I created a Teletext page in Animal Crossing, as well as a more standard Teletext page version. (Teletext version: https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?c=3&p=356)

After 8 weeks, I finished Zombies 5K and ran 5K! After concluding I still didn't like running and stopping running for about a week, I then started doing Zombies, Run! Some days I run to Richmond and some days I run to Twickenham.

I went to virtual Maraoke three times and sung songs about video games.

I went to an Ingress First Saturday and recharged some portals and put up green Enlightened bunting around my flat and chatted to people on Zoom.

I went to virtual Ingress Enlightened London drinks.

I went to virtual craft sessions organised by jacquic and made an Animal Crossing gyroid cross-stitch necklace, a Space Invader hama bead hair clip, turned the twisted Lego brick that I 3D printed into a necklace, made some pop-up cards, cross-stitched an Animal Crossing leaf, and made a few collages. I also went to virtual housework sessions organised by jacquic.

I went to a London Retro Computing event and heard Steven Goodwin talk about The Very First Computer Program.

I started attending Sound Art classes again. This time Sound Art 3: Interactivity. I am learning how to use Max.

I connected a Makey-Makey up to Max and wrote a patch so that I could play a tune on a garlic press, colander and a saucepan.

I listened to some of the talks at Wiscon.

I watched demos at the Outline demo party.

I saw Daniel Kitson's The Interminable suicide of Gregory Church. I had forgotten I had seen it some years ago in Oxford, but it was still good.

I played quite a lot of Animal Crossing and visited some people's islands and had people come to visit.

I ate (vegan) black pudding for the first time.

I went for a few walks in nearby parks and amongst the cow parsley.

I stared at pictures of vending machines in Tokyo.

I used the Treetalk website to help me identify trees in the nearby streets and went on a few walks to spot the trees, such as the golden rain tree, the tree of heaven, the Norway maple, and the purple cherry plum.

Comments

[miss_newham]

How did virtual Marioke work? Some friends and I are trying to figure out how to do online karaoke, but we haven't found anything that works yet!

Was vegan black pudding full of the blood of vegans? I'm glad you're still finding new things to eat, blee!