#crazy project with python

[rambrandt-the-painter]

Ngl having a big project makes me go to bed like "idk how I can keep working on this project I hate this project it's driving me crazy" and then I wake up and im like "8 more hours in the python and krita mines please"

[goodluckclove]

Your Eccentric Older Brother Has A New Artist to Suggest (Free Surrealist Musical/Comedy Albums)

Hey, fucko. What's up?

No, I'm fine. I mean - it's whatever. I'm just...I don't know. It's whatever. It's good. Stop looking at me like that.

Oh, mom and dad told you to be extra nice to me because I'm depressed? I don't know, man. I don't know, man. I don't think that means you have to talk to me like I'm grandma's old-ass dog. I wouldn't call that nice. Makes me worry that I'm about to be put down.

I - you can stay. No, I'm not busy. I'm just listening to - oh, you heard?

I mean, it's not music. It has music. But, uh...okay, so just sit down and I'll tell you about it.

So it's this guy called The Minute Hour. It's one guy, and maybe five albums and a bunch of other little bits and bobs and stuff over, like, ten years. There's music, but it's mainly short-form sketches. Like Monty Python, but specifically the albums.

Yes, they made Monty Python albums. Albums of the sketches. It's like radio theater, you know?

Don't give me that look. Shut the fuck up. I know you aren't talking but shut the fuck up. I get it, liking British humor makes me seem like a specific kind of shitty guy. This guy's American, okay? Happy now? He's American, he's not from the 70s, if he probably is at least aware of the same types of dank memes as you are. Fucking hell.

Fucking hell. Sorry. Ignore me. Don't ignore me, though. Keep listening.

So this guy does short form sketches and sort of like - absurdist monologues. Some of them have been animated and they are really great and a particular kind of chaotic. I personally love the energy of comedy albums - not only Monty Python, but also That Mitchell and Webb Sound. Maybe I'm nostalgic for it because I used to listen to them a lot growing up. I don't care. It kicks ass.

The Minute Hour is one of those things that's underground enough that you can't easily access it. Only one of the actual albums are on Spotify. This is like one of the ultimate niche, hidden gems, and more people should know about it. The guy is a seriously brilliant artist and an even better collaborator with other crazy alternative creators. He also seems to be a little mentally ill - he's either going through psychosis right now or building up hype for a new project, it's hard to tell.

But left-of-center artists, right? People who bring something new to the table and create communities of intensely passionate people. And you can download all of his work for free on his website. I did it already, man. It's fine. It's great, actually. Physical media is cool. I saw that post you reblogged saying that, it's time to put your money where your mouth is.

Anyways. I don't know. It's not important, it -

You want to listen with me?

Uh. Yeah! Yeah, that's - yeah. I'll just start this over. No, fuck it, I don't care. If you're going to do it you should do it right.

I was eating Cheese-Its do you want some?

cool.

[harrisonstories]

So here's something interesting...

The Beatles Derek Taylor Never-Before-Heard Collection of Lost Beatles Recordings: Including the 1967 Kenwood Sessions and John Lennon Private Recordings

This is the track listing from the description:

Tape 1: Unheard Beatles Sgt Pepper Rehearsals from Kenwood late 66 early 67

Run time is 56 minutes, songs include:

Revolution #9, mainly John in many accents, George can be heard, Paul too, Ringo one time, Terry Doran is also heard being interviewed by John, Terry Doran was ‘The Man From The Motor Trade’ on Sgt Pepper, every identical animal sound effect from Good Morning Good Morning is featured throughout, probably pre-dates Pepper and John has the sound effects saved, cockerel, hens, sheep, horse, pigs, cat, dogs etc, the very ones used on Pepper. Sitar drones almost all the way through by George, Piano backdrop also

Track Listing:

That much Control

Monte Carlo rally sound effects Terry Doran is Jack Brabham Formula 1 racer

Cat Feeding Services (Monty Python esque sketch)

A million miles away, John Indian accent Beatles far east tours in 66

Crazy banjo song, JL bellows

I’m aware of the situation monologue

Swing your partners

Lennon.McCartney complaining about the heat

John and George shouting over a very loud backing track

John/Paul counting in 123 testing, JL turns it into a poem.

Dear Prudence very early demo John wrote it way before 1968

British Police are pigs, in an Indian accent

Tape 2: George Harrison With the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Jimmy Page.

15 tracks, 59 minutes George with his Thames Valley muso friends, Jimmy Page, Jon Lord, Joe Brown, Sam Brown, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band (Neil Innes, Legs Larry Smith, Vivian Stanshall) Alvin Lee, all songs written by the Bonzos and George, all recorded at FP.

Track Listing:

George into talk while playing guitar, introducing a new song

Brazil take 1 written for the Handmade films project Brazil (never went to production)

Brazil take 2

Brazil Take 3

Sooty Goes to Hawaii

Mandalay monologue for handmade films production of the same name

Sooty Goes to Hawaii #2

Sooty Goes to Hawaii #3

Operatic Aria sung by Georges father-in-law and Olivia Harrisons dad Zeke Harrison, I doubt that Olivia has heard this

Bullshot theme song for Handmade films completed production.

Hare Krishna chant by everyone

Chant 2

While my Guitar Gently weeps with Jimmy Page on guitar

Same with Alvin Lee on guitar

if I Needed Someone

Tape 3: George with Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band band, all co-written 25.30 mins, 16 tracks

Track Listing:

Intro Legs Larry Smith

Do You Remember

Nothing Ever Changes

Urban Spaceman

Isle of Money (I Love Money)

Can you Groove (George)

There’s a Bright Golden Boil on my Penis

I Like Cesar

Misery Farm

Julie

Danda

When You Gotta Poop

Now You’re Asleep

Telling me The End

Viv Has Gone to Heaven

Mandalay Monologue #2

Tape 4: John Interviews Yoko 1969

Recorded by John in 1969, 45 minutes, John questions Yoko’s motives for being with him, discusses very personal matters, very revealing.

Tape 5: Yoko with Dr. Artur Janov

Yoko’s Primal Scream therapy 1 hr 40 mins, of very personal therapy, Yoko discusses John, music and very personal issues including John’s friendship with George.

Tape 6: “One From The Nursery” Unreleased John Ono Lennon Album

John and Kyoko Cox Tittenhurst Park

Run time is 47 minutes

4 tracks

Lots of John talking and playing acoustic guitar (sounds like his J60E) recorded at Christmas time, Various songs stand out, all written by John & Kyoko

John, I Love You

I Wish You Were my Father.

[marta-diablo]

Remembering The Mighty Boosh Through The Lens Of Actor And Photographer Dave Brown

“Come with us now on a journey through time and space,” I heard for the fifth time during a recent binge of the beloved BBC comedy series The Mighty Boosh. The televisual project, which stars creators Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt in various workplaces, is how most fans will remember the Boosh, but the legendary comedy troupe scaled the pages of books, the retro realm of radio and the live stage too.

Like Monty Python, the Boosh thrived on surrealism, but while the former made lengthy strides in religious satire and social commentary, the latter specialised in pop culture references, scaly man fish, talking naan bread and virtually anything Fielding and Barratt could conjure from the colourful cauldron of their unfiltered psyches. Ever awoken from a strange dream and decided not to tell the story? “No, it’s too weird,” you might think. Thankfully, the Boosh never held back.

On the topic of naan bread, I’d like to introduce you to today’s featured photographer, Dave Brown. As well as sporting gorilla garb for his role as Bollo, Brown played several other minor characters, including the deadly Black Frost and, of course, an anthropomorphic naan. While coordinating crimps and marshalling the mayhem as the troupe’s self-confessed “organised control freak”, Brown was never far from his camera. Much to our benefit, he took thousands of photos, documenting the Mighty Boosh’s meteoric journey to the big screen and beyond.

Last week, I had the great pleasure of chatting with Brown to sort through his extensive photography collection and discuss his time as a member of the Mighty Boosh. “I was at university with Noel,” he began, revealing how the Boosh came about in the 1990s. “We lived together at uni and, before I specialised in graphic design, in the course that we did, I was Noel’s partner. He was the copywriter, and I was an art director. We used to write various things and do crazy shit that always got horrendous marks, but actually turned out to be way ahead of its time because it was so ridiculous.”

“We used to be into comedy; Noel always wanted to be a comedian,” he continued. “We were basically comedy trainspotters. And there was a comedy club near where we were in Buckinghamshire called Hellfire Comedy Club. We’d been to see everyone, Kevin Eldon and Harry Hill – all of the greats of that era. Julian was on that bill as a comedian, and me, Noel and Nige [Coan; he and his partner Ivana Zorn conducted the animation for The Mighty Boosh] went to see him do the stand-up and then chatted to him after.”

The students became well-acquainted with Barratt, who told Fielding he had won the Daily Telegraph open mic award. Inspired, Fielding also entered the open mic competition, and there began his first foray into Britain’s comedy underworld. “When [Noel] did that, me and Nige kind of shadowed him through the whole journey, which was extremely stressful. I think Frankie Boyle won it, and I don’t think they have a second place, but I think Noel pretty much came in second.”

Energised by the open mic success, Fielding became involved with the Edinburgh festival alongside Chris Addison, Julian Barratt and Frankie Boyle, among others and eventually began working on the first incarnation of the Mighty Boosh stage show with Julian. “They started realising they were kindred spirits and started writing together,” Brown remembered. “They did Mighty Boosh, which was the first live show. They had met Rich Fulcher while doing a sketch called Unnatural Acts. They liked him and asked Rich to be the zookeeper in their first live show, which won the Perrier Newcomer Award.”

The troupe began to take shape in the late 1990s, a time when Brown was working a steady job as a graphic designer. “I was just living with Noel in Hackney, mucking about and helping them out and getting involved in that Monday night stuff [at the Hen & Chickens theatre in Highbury & Islington], playing music dressed up as different shit. Then I went to Australia to work,” he told me. “When I came back from Australia, [Fielding and Barratt] were writing their third live Edinburgh show [Auto Boosh] and wanted a third person in it because they wanted to do various characters and wanted two people on stage while the other changed into different characters. So they asked me, and I agreed to do that.”

Following the success of Auto Boosh in 2000, Fielding and Barratt were commissioned to partake in a six-part radio series, The Boosh. The show aired in October 2001 on BBC Radio 4 and served as a golden gateway to their popular television adaption, The Mighty Boosh, which aired on BBC Three for three series between 2004 and 2007. “My job varied from helping out with props and playing stupid characters when they needed,” Brown said of his role on the set of the TV show. “I was quite influential in the live direction of it and them two [Noel and Barratt], I was a therapist between those two most of the time [laughs].”

With a fine cast including Brown, Fulcher, Michael Fielding (Noel’s brother), Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry, Barratt and Fielding created a world unlike any other that gave fans a chance to escape. It could be hard to fathom how this silly world of surrealism could offer anything beyond laughter and release; however, in 2020, Netflix removed The Mighty Boosh from its catalogue, citing the use of blackface in episodes like ‘The Spirit of Jazz’ and ‘Jungle’.

‘Auto Boosh’ at Edinburgh Fringe 2001

BBC Radio Show 2001

As we touched upon this delicate topic, Brown recalled the show’s censorship as a particularly distressing period for the Mighty Boosh group. While Netflix cancelled the show, the BBC decided to keep it on iPlayer, instead issuing a warning that needs to be accepted before proceeding to the stream. “I love the fact that the BBC stood by us; Netflix just pulled us,” Brown said. “You know, you gotta tread so carefully. I’d hate to think that we ever offended anyone. I think most of our characters were so fantastical and based on surrealism and fantasy, based on our heroes. And everything was a celebration of those heroes and of a surrealist, fantastical, dreamlike child angle on all of that. So when you get accused of something so dark, it really hurts; we were all really hurt by it.”

“We always made sure that everything we did was based on fun, humour and silliness and never wanted to offend, upset or alienate anyone,” he continued. “We had so many people [fans] who felt like they were on the fringes of society all getting together because of their love of the Boosh. And we’d have people sending us letters saying, ‘I was suicidal’ or ‘I was being bullied, then I got together with this Boosh community. You’ve saved my life – you’ve improved my life’. We were always getting beautiful letters and feedback from fans. To then hear that we were getting cancelled for being inappropriate, it was like a double-edged sword where you go, ‘OK, times have changed, and we would never write that stuff now.’ But at the same time, there was never any malice.”

Brown added: “We weren’t dressing up or doing voices to alienate a particular race or particular section of society. But if we did offend anyone or if anyone watches it now and is offended, then that’s really sad, and we’re sorry.”

Towards the end of our conversation, I was keen to ask the question on all fans’ lips: “Have we seen the end of the Mighty Boosh?”

“All of us are still very close,” Brown affirmed. “We talk to each other all the time. I talk to Noel more than anyone else, but still, Julian was down here a couple of weekends ago. You know, life becomes life. Most of us have got children now. Rich has now moved from America to Richmond. We all meet up occasionally. We met up before Christmas at a Kim Noble gig, which was incredible.”

“We have a massive following in Australia; hence, this gallery have contacted me and asked me to put these exhibitions on. I was like, ‘Does anyone give a shit anymore?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, it’s massive!’ So there was always talk of doing a reunion show or something. But it’s a hard one, you know – I try and think of Noel squeezing back into it. It would have to be relevant to the time. I don’t know how it would be or what it would be, or whether it be as a band.”

Brown then revealed that, beyond the group’s near-constant musical references and sonic tangents in the various live and TV episodes, they had actually put a lot of work into an album. “We went to Electric Lady Studios in New York and recorded a whole album,” he revealed. “Like 25 tracks properly produced in one of the best Studios in New York, and it never got released because of disputes between the American representatives and English representatives. And Noel and Julian had a meltdown over that.”

As well as their huge following in Australia, The Mighty Boosh aired in the US on Adult Swim and dredged a cult following. “A cult following over there is like ten times bigger than a popular following over here,” Brown said.

They weren’t totally aware of the scale of their influence across the Atlantic until they visited on a DJ tour. “We went to New York and LA and did the big Comic Con in San Diego, and it was just fucking insane,” Brown remembered. “The following was mental. We went to the Bowery Ballroom in New York, and we were just meant to be doing a DJ set. But we ended up doing a bit of a live ad-lib thing, finding costumes and stuff because it was sold out. There were queues like four blocks down the road trying to get in, and the Roxy was the same.”

Below, we present a collection of photographs from Brown’s colossal archive, some of which you may recognise; others have been shared exclusively for his feature. The photographs are arranged chronologically, mapping out The Mighty Boosh’s epic journey from 1997 to 2013.

Dave Brown’s Photographic Journey With The Mighty Boosh:

Show at Hen & Chickens in Highbury & Islington 1997

‘The Mighty Boosh’ at Edinburgh Fringe 1998

‘Arctic Boosh’ at Edinburgh Fringe 2000

‘Auto Boosh’ at Edinburgh Fringe 2001 

‘Auto Boosh’ in Melbourne, Australia 2001

BBC TV Pilot 2003

BBC TV Pilot 2003

BBC TV Series 1 Rehearsals 2004 

BBC TV Series 1 2004

BBC TV Series 2 2005

Live Tour Rehearsals 2006

Dave’s selfie in Bollo eye makeup for the first live show in York 2006

Live Tour 2006

BBC TV Series 3 Filming 2007 

Live Tour Rehearsals 2008 

Live Tour 2008 

Creating Live Tour Artwork 2008

Boosh Festival 2008 

USA Promo Tour Comic Con 2009 

Recording album in USA 2011

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[bufomancer]

Your post about the ranking of your preference for keeping small animals really piqued my interest since degus were your top pick, ive always seen them recommended as a great small animal with a slightly less short lifespan, but I was interested in asking why they're your favorite if you don't mind? :)

Firstly: they’re sooooooooooooo cute

I frequently describe them as a mix between chinchillas and gerbils. They come from similar environments to chinchillas and have similar care needs (hay at all times, very limited diet, no plastic) BUT crucially they’re not nearly as heat sensitive because they don’t have that insane thick fur.

They remind me behaviorally a little more of gerbils than chinchillas but maybe I’m projecting. One thing I love about gerbils is that they have like, this crazy zest for life. Every gerbil ever is so happy to be a gerbil. Being a gerbil is the best. I know that’s a little anthropomorphizing but it’s the best way I can think to explain it. I find degus to be a little sillier than chinchillas. My foster chinnies have been less curious about me than my degus have been, even when my degus were brand new to me.

They have a longer lifespan than many rodents- 4 of my 5 degus are 6.5 years old, and they average close to 10. But not as long as chinchillas, who average 15 but can live to 30… I worry about lifespans that long in case my situation changes drastically. 3 decades is a long ass time. Granted, my ball python might live to 60, but I didn’t get that snake on purpose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some people say degus are rat software running on chinchilla hardware. I kind of get where they’re coming from? Though my degus are less interested in free roam compared to rats and also are much less interested in being picked up. They LOVE getting their nightly peanut-in-the-shell. They get so excited. They let me pet them briefly and pick them up briefly. They’re wheel maniacs and must have a good wheel at all times. They love their weekly sandbath.

I’m just so enchanted by them lol

I will say, mine are kind of in the middle for temperament. Some people have really cuddly interactive friendly degus, and some people have bitey mean little goos. Mine are just kind of average for temperament. So keep in mind that there is a pretty wide range for niceness so ask a lot of questions from any breeder, rescue, or individual you’re considering getting degus from to assess temperament if that is important to you!

[the-joking-nerd248]

Programs get so spooky when you start using specific hex values as your constants

so because i am a crazy person i resently decided to try and learn how to use driver api's to use the GPU in python without any pipped libraires. in going down this rabbit hole i have disvored that these api's take some constants as specific hex values to indicate different meanings. and it feels so spooky to just use magic numbers pulled from the ether

This has all been in service of being able to run shit like openGL in vanilla with no added libraries ArcGIS Pro so that i could develop a toolbox that could be shared and it would run on anyone's project right out the gate.

so here is a rotating cube as an arcgis toolbox

[izicodes]

Saturday 29th July 2023

Oh my goodness, July went and gone by so fast! Thought it was the 1st just yesterday - crazy! Anyhoo, I wanted to update you on what I've been doing recently!

▢ Still working on my WPF self-study! Made buttons from the C# rather than the XAML code

▢ Python practice for my Computer Science course on Codecademy

▢ Might start planning my project on Saint Jerome because I want to build something for his feast day in September! Excited!

That's all! Happy to see other people posting their updates on their programming! Keep up the good work and give yourself credit for the effort you're putting! 🤗💗✨

[simlicious]

Am I a programmer?

I've spent the last weeks developing an actual little app using Python...

It all started with a Let's Play of Subnautica I saw on YouTube. Since Subnautica is one of my all-time favorite games, I got the itch to dive back in (pun intended). I play with tons of mods, so I had to check for a lot of updates and also juggle different versions since the last Subnautica update broke a lot of the older mods. So after some back and forth, I decided to remain on the older version for now. Great! But then I noticed that because of that back and forth and uninstalling mods, all my mods were reinitialized, and that meant trouble for one of my favorite mods, Autosort Lockers. The mod adds automatic resource sorting inside the game, which is super handy. But it was built to only work with the game's resources, not modded items. It does offer config files though. So when I last used the mod, I painstakingly edited the configs and added all modded items, which took hours. And now, I accidentally messed them up and was supposed to redo all of that. The thought filled me with dread. So I asked ChatGPT, which I have grown quite fond of recently, to help me. Why did I ask ChatGPT? Well, I need to go a bit further back in time to explain that.

One day, not too long ago, I asked ChatGPT to reformat a long list. ChatGPT said, "Apologies, I cannot process such a long list. Here's a Python script, here's how to install Python, copy the script, run it and it will do what you want." I thought ChatGPT was crazy, surely that would never work!? Nut I was curious and also a little desperate so I did install Python and ran the script and ... it did what I wanted. I was stunned. Could I use ChatGPT to write code for me? Apparently, the answer was yes. So I spent a lot of time directing it, add this, add that, and I noticed that it was not at all as easy as I thought. ChatGPT removed code when it felt like it, and the longer it got the more it messed up. But also the more time I spent copying/pasting Python code, the more I understood. Sometimes, I would just ask "What exactly does this bit do?", and ChatGPT patiently gave me answers. Running the Python code from the command prompt got tedious very quickly though. I asked: "Can't you make a button for me that I can click??" To my surprise, ChatGPT said: "Sure, let's make a gui." And that was it, the moment I fell in love with Python. So I made a few attempts at this and that, most only half-finished because the project got too ambitious for the little knowledge I had.

I heard about an AI especially made for writing code: Github's Copilot. I decided I had to try that. Since it only worked in real programmer's tools, I installed Visual Studio Code. Now I really felt like a programmer, using fancy tools! And Copilot made things easier, much easier. It did not delete all kinds of code like regular ChatGPT. It was even more helpful. I was super motivated and got to work on my "Autosort Lockers Filter Update Helper" since Python is very well suited for automating stuff. Because several config files were involved, and several values needed to be loaded, converted, compared, merged, loooked up, reformatted, and saved into multiple files, it was quite the undertaking, but I am at a point where most of the logic actually works and I have a real program with real buttons that I can click on. I made a program that actually works with my very limited coding knowledge! It would not have been possible without the help of AI. My patience and long hours paid off. Can I call myself a programmer yet? I'm not sure, since the code was written mostly by AI, not me personally. But I can confidently call myself the director and mastermind behind it 😎 and I actually want to learn more about Python so I can one-day code stuff myself without needing AI to do it for me. Here is a picture of it (I am proud of those blue buttons 😊): I've spent the last weeks developing an actual little app using Python. It all started with a Let's Play of Subnautica I saw on YouTube. Since Subnautica is one of my all-time favorite games, I got the itch to dive back in (pun intended). I play with tons of mods, so I had to check for a lot of updates and also juggle different versions since the last Subnautica update broke a lot of the older mods. So after some back and forth, I decided to remain on the older version for now. But then I noticed that because of that back and forth and uninstalling mods, all my mods were reinitialized, and that meant trouble for one of my favorite mods, Autosort Lockers. The mod adds automatic resource sorting inside the game, which is super handy. But it was built to only work with the game's resources, not modded items. It does offer config files though. So when I last used the mod, I painstakingly edited the configs and added all modded items, which took hours. And now, I accidentally messed them up and was supposed to redo all of that. The thought filled me with dread. So I asked ChatGPT, which I have grown quite fond of recently, to help me. Why did I ask ChatGPT? Well, I need to go a bit further back in time to explain that.

One day, not too long ago, I asked ChatGPT to reformat a long list. ChatGPT said, "Apologies, I cannot process such a long list. Here's a Python script, here's how to install Python, copy the script, run it and it will do what you want." I thought ChatGPT was crazy, surely that would never work!? Nut I was curious and also a little desperate so I did install Python and ran the script and ... it did what I wanted. I was stunned. Could I use ChatGPT to write code for me? Apparently, the answer was yes. So I spent a lot of time directing it, add this, add that, and I noticed that it was not at all as easy as I thought. ChatGPT removed code when it felt like it, and the longer it got the more it messed up. But also the more time I spent copying/pasting Python code, the more I understood. Sometimes, I would just ask "What exactly does this bit do?", and ChatGPT patiently gave me answers. Running the Python code from the command prompt got tedious very quickly though. I asked: "Can't you make a button for me that I can click??" To my surprise, ChatGPT said: "Sure, let's make a gui." And that was it, the moment I fell in love with Python. So I made a few attempts at this and that, most only half-finished because the project got too ambitious for the little knowledge I had. I heard about an AI especially made for writing code: Github's Copilot. I decided I had to try that. Since it only worked in real programmer's tools, I installed Visual Studio Code. Now I really felt like a programmer, using fancy tools! And Copilot made things easier, much easier. It did not delete all kinds of code like regular ChatGPT. It was even more helpful. I was super motivated and got to work on my "Autosort Lockers Filter Update Helper" since Python is very well suited for automating stuff. Because several config files were involved, and several values needed to be loaded, converted, compared, merged, loooked up, reformatted, and saved into multiple files, it was quite the undertaking, but I am at a point where most of the logic actually works and I have a real program with real buttons that I can click on. I made a program that actually works with my very limited coding knowledge! It would not have been possible without the help of AI. My patience and long hours paid off. Can I call myself a programmer yet? I'm not sure, since the code was written mostly by AI, not me personally. But I can confidently call myself the director and mastermind behind it 😎 and I actually want to learn more about Python so I can one-day code stuff myself without needing AI to do it for me. Here is a picture of it (I am proud of those blue buttons 😊):

...and the configs the app updated:

The app is not in a publishable state and I guess I would need to do far more tests and let someone who can actually code Python look it over before I would feel comfortable sharing it with anyone else, but it feels incredible to have pulled off something like this. I just wanted to share this accomplishment with someone!

[starleska]

Ok, spill the beans about this Mad Mod blorbo of yours. Gimme the details

aaaaaaaa!!!!!! oh my gosh yes yes yes thank you for the opportunity i would love to gush about him - and hopefully get some other people interested 🙈🙈🙈 prepare for an infodump!!!

this is Mad Mod, real name Neil Richards: a brilliant, stylish villain, and an iconic enemy of the Teen Titans!! now, Mad Mod's been around for a while, first appearing in Teen Titans #7 as a fashion designer-turned-smuggler working on Carnaby Street, and later with a more hipster design in the New 52 DC comics. however, the version you'll see me yelling about most (and i think that most are familiar with) is the Mad Mod from the 2003 animated Teen Titans show (see above) 💖

Mad Mod is very much emblematic of his name: he's a crazy British bad guy whose aesthetic, interests and personality are influenced by 60's Mod culture. he speaks with a pronounced Cockney accent (voiced by Malcolm McDowell, who you may know as Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange), dresses in trim, fashionable, Mod-style suits and other outfits (e.g., military parkas), and is an extreme Anglophile: believing British culture and values (ostensibly Mod culture, but also Britain and/or England as a monolith) are superior to others. his original beef with the Teen Titans is their lack of manners: Mad Mod believes them to be poorly behaved, and in need of 'teaching' and 'correcting' (please make no assumptions about me or my taste from this 🙈).

i think Mad Mod is fascinating for a lot of reasons, with the first being his incredible technological capabilities. you see, Mad Mod is not technically the young man you see in the image above: he's actually well past middle-age, but is capable of constructing high-tech illusions using gadgets, robots and screens (shown to be controlled using his ruby-topped cane, which he is quite proficient with!). in Teen Titans, Mad Mod is first shown projecting this younger version of himself as a hologram in a constructed, confusing labyrinth which mimics a school. behind the scenes, Mad Mod - physically an old man - is using this younger version as an avatar to torment the Teen Titans. however, later on Mad Mod devises a technology which allows him to steal youth from other people. in the episode Revolution, Mad Mod steals Robin's youth, reverting his own physical form to a younger version - confirming that the Mad Mod we see in his debut episode is how he looked when he was younger: the skinny, suited redhead with the pretty smile 😉

a lot of people will remember Mad Mod for one thing: the hypnosis. a big gimmick of Mad Mod's is his use of custom-built hypnoscreens: large screens which play repetitive spirals intended to hypnotise and/or brainwash the observer. his goals expand beyond just trying to hypnotise the Teen Titans into being more well-behaved; he later attempts to brainwash them and the entirety of Jump City into believing the American Revolution never happened, and that he is actually their English king. with regards to his love of Britain and England, Mad Mod is...not particularly well-adjusted, and i'm saying that as a Brit 🙈💖

a lot of people are very taken by the unique design of Mad Mod's episodes - specifically his chase sequences, which contain fun references to popular British culture (like Monty Python and The Beatles). taken to be an avant-garde extension of the giant illusions he builds, Mad Mod's style borrows a good deal from 60's pop art, and uses stark, black-and-white imagery with noticeably different rendering than other characters and backgrounds. it's honestly really cool!!! you may recognise a similar art style used in Across the Spider-Verse with Spider-Punk, AKA Hobie Brown 🔥

everything about Mad Mod is explicitly British (particularly English), but his view of Britishness and correct behaviour is both out-dated and extraordinarily narrow. i theorise this is because he never quite reconciled with growing older and the Mod subculture going out of style...he's obsessed with regaining his youth, and despite being The Most British Thing Since Austin Powers, he continues to live in America and push a very odd, caricatured idea of Britishness onto other people that is unique to his worldview. as Cyborg sums up neatly, "Man, I bet even real British people don't like you!"

but, all of that lore aside - you came to know why Mad Mod is my latest blorbo!!! well...just look at him 🥴 he's capital e 'Evil' with a penchant for tying people up and absolutely no respect for other people's personal space 🥺💖 he also has that attractive combo of being abrasive and degrading, whilst also being soft and elegant. not to mention he's a total goofball;;; there's nothing i love more than a villain who's having a great time, and he is having a blast 🙈

you know this guy is Tumblr Sexyman material too: the suits, the cane-twirling, the crazy powers...who cares that he's actually a grandpa? sexualising old men is a national sport on this website 😂 on a physical level he hits a lot of beats for me...gangly, bespectacled (with tinted lenses!!!!!), ginger and crooked teeth??? man 😳😳😳 it doesn't help that i've already had a handful of f/os who are meant to represent a specific decade/style/etc, one of whom is literally Austin Powers;;; my taste is terrible, but consistent 😂😂 all in all, please visualise little cartoon hearts coming off my icon whenever you see me posting about this freak 🥰🥰🥰 if you're a lover of silly villains too, the DCAU is a great place to look!! shout out to my pal @iriso-page for sending the fateful ask that triggered my fixation in a cascade 🙈 thanks so much for sending this in - hopefully this causes a couple other people to check him out too 😉

[virtualgirladvance]

hi! im applying to college soon and ive always wanted to do human sciences, but recently ive switched one of my subjects to CS and decided i want to do something more objective and math-y. i think having a degree related to computers will give me more time to think about the field i want to work in. this decision was a bit impulsive and tbh you played a big role in sparking my interest and making computing seem accessible. in general i feel like ive always been interested in it (my dad knows a lot), but ive just never considered it a real opportunity that i would ever be able to do. Rn i feel like all cis guys built their own computers since they were 11 and would have an advantage over me (in this country unis require you to show personal engagement and skill relating to the course you apply for). i wonder if you have any opinions on whether its even worth to do computer-related stuff in uni if i dont have any real knowledge about it besides "useful in life", how poorly will i be treated in the field as a trans guy, and if you have some suggestions on the topics and materials i can study to improve my knowledge

honestly even if you dont go fully into CS just having a course or two will help you get started in doing really useful things in whatever direction you end up going. the amount of times i hear someone becoming crazy useful just because they know some basic scripting or something is amazing.

i put my own computer together in highschool and beyond know what parts are in a pc and how to install an operating system it didnt really help at all in uni. if you have time and the interest look into maybe doing a basic programming course or a bridging course. having a few basic projects to show youre interested and willing to work on it looks really good to applications i imagine(schools here are just entrance on grades so I dont for sure but ive heard good things)

honestly uni is most just exploring stuff to help you figure out what you vibe with enough to peruse, its really common to change degrees part way through cause locking into a field of study in your teens is just not fun

as for the cis dude dominance yeah i got nothing, i know plenty of not cis guys doing well and some putting up with bs for it. if you enjoy the field then do it, going to be putting up with shitty people regardless so might as well do something you enjoy/are interested in.

ive been out of the loop on what are good starting resources but honestly finding an intro course/tutorial on C or python seems like a good way to get a taste for it. hopefully others can add some recommendations

hope you have luck and fun in whatever choice you make, i know its a tough decision to make so props to you for reaching out

[kaiasky]

I would welcome more thought-out opinions below.

[anandansoo]

How Data Science is Saving Lives in the Medical Industry (And How You Can Be a Part of It)

When you say doctors and nurses, you probably think of stethoscopes and hospital beds, right? But did you know there is a behind-the-scenes hero? It's called data science, and it is making a huge difference in making healthcare smarter, faster, and safer.

Let's take a look at how data science is revolutionizing our method of treating patients — and how getting it (even via Kochi data science training) can set you up to be at the forefront of that revolution.

What is Healthcare Data Science? In short, data science is something like a superpower for doctors and hospitals. It allows them to collect masses of health data — drug, lab tests, or patient history, say — and make something meaningful out of it.

The silver lining: doctors don't have to take an educated guess anymore. Data science can tell them trends in symptoms of a patient and suggest what to test or treat next. Practical Applications of Data Science to Medicine Some actual examples are presented below:

Forecasting Diseases Earlier

Data science can forecast whether someone is going to become ill in the future — even before he or she is going to become sick. For instance, through the use of health records, scientists can identify who is at highest risk of developing diabetes or heart disease and provide them with advice on how to be healthier.

Personalized Medicine

All patients are not the same. Some require more of a drug, and others require less. Data science enables physicians to design personalized treatment plans that are made to measure for each patient.

Speedier Diagnoses

Physicians sometimes have to review hundreds of x-rays or blood test results. Data science can enable them to identify issues such as tumors or infections quicker, aided by AI (artificial intelligence).

Running Hospitals More Efficiently

Hospitals are crazy environments. Data science aids in coordinating activities such as the rotation of personnel, medication stocking, and wait times for patients — so they all happen more efficiently.

Why You Should Care (Even If You’re Not a Doctor) By learning data science, you can help create tools that make healthcare better for everyone.

And if you live in Kerala, there’s good news: you can now learn this skill with data science training in Kochi.

How to Get Started

In a typical data science course, you’ll learn:

How to understand health data

How to use tools like Python and Excel

How to create smart reports and dashboards

How to build models that help predict or solve medical problems

Some training centers even focus on real healthcare projects — so you’ll be solving real issues while you learn.

Final Thought: You Could Help Save Lives With Data

The next big breakthrough in medicine might not come from a hospital — it might come from a computer. With data science, we can detect diseases earlier, treat people better, and make hospitals work smarter.

So if you’ve ever dreamed of doing meaningful work, now’s your chance. With data science training in Kochi, you can be part of the future of healthcare — one line of code at a time.

[sizzlinglightsoul]

Funniest Books With Comedy: A Reading List for Every Mood

Sometimes, all you need is a good laugh—and what better place to find one than between the pages of a great book? Whether you're dealing with the blues, feeling quirky, or just in the mood for some ridiculous fun, there's a comedy read that fits your vibe perfectly.

We've put together a reading list of the funniest books with comedy, tailored to different moods. Whether you're after clever wit, chaotic misadventures, or heartwarming humour, you'll find something here to make you chuckle, snort, or laugh uncontrollably.

😄 Feeling Light and Playful? Try These

1. "Bridget Jones’s Diary" by Helen Fielding

If you're in the mood for breezy, lovable chaos, this British rom-com classic delivers. Bridget's awkward missteps, diary entries, and relatable insecurities will have you giggling from start to finish.

Mood Match: Perfect for lazy afternoons and rom-com lovers who want a side of sass.

2. "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan

A comedy of manners wrapped in fashion, family feuds, and wild wealth. This book is a glamorous escape and a hilarious peek into an over-the-top world.

Mood Match: Ideal for when you want a juicy, glitzy escape with razor-sharp humour.

🤪 Feeling Silly and Absurd? Go for These

3. "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

A must-read for anyone who loves absurd sci-fi comedy. With its deadpan delivery and nonsensical situations, it’s like Monty Python meets space travel.

Mood Match: Great for fans of dry British humour and cosmic nonsense.

4. "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

An angel and a demon join forces to stop the apocalypse. That alone should tell you how offbeat and clever this book is.

Mood Match: When you're in the mood for satire, sarcasm, and celestial chaos.

😬 Feeling Awkward or Cringey? Embrace It

5. "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" by Gail Honeyman

It’s not a traditional comedy, but Eleanor’s social missteps and unintentional wit provide touching and sometimes laugh-out-loud moments.

Mood Match: When you want humour mixed with heart and healing.

6. "Hyperbole and a Half" by Allie Brosh

A hilarious combination of comics and storytelling that captures mental health, childhood, and awkward adulthood in the most relatable way possible.

Mood Match: Perfect for when you need a good laugh at life’s messy moments.

😂 Need a Gut-Busting Laugh? These Will Do It

7. "I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual" by Luvvie Ajayi

Witty, bold, and brutally honest. Luvvie’s essays cover everything from pop culture to social justice with sass and smarts.

Mood Match: When you want to laugh and learn at the same time.

8. "My Life as a Goddess" by Guy Branum

A bold, brilliant memoir packed with hilarious insights on politics, pop culture, and being the outsider who’s also the star.

Mood Match: When you want your humour loud, proud, and unapologetically clever.

💛 Craving Feel-Good Laughs? These are Gold

9. "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion

This rom-com follows a socially awkward professor who creates a survey to find the perfect wife—only to be thrown off course by the wildly unsuitable Rosie.

Mood Match: Great for hopeless romantics who love a good geek-chic story.

10. "Where’d You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple

Told through emails, letters, and transcripts, this novel follows the disappearance of an eccentric architect-mom with biting wit and emotional depth.

Mood Match: When you want quirky characters, family drama, and smart laughs.

📚 Bonus: Discover More Humour Online

Can’t get enough? Explore these links for more hilarious reads and quotes:

🔗 Humor Quotes on Scoreven

🔗 Explore More at Scoreven

From witty one-liners to snarky blog posts, there's something for every comedy connoisseur.

Final Thoughts

Reading a funny book is one of the best ways to unwind. Whether you’re curled up in bed, killing time on your commute, or just need a mental refresh, a great comedy read is like instant therapy.

So next time your mood needs a lift, grab a book that matches your vibe and get ready to laugh out loud. After all, as they say: a day without laughter is a day wasted.

Up next: Want to dive into Christmas humor memes or funny quotes about New Year? Stay tuned for more laugh-worthy blog posts!

[inkofamethyst]

April 5, 2025

I've had an idea for an app for a while now. It's based on a notion template that I use but have heavily edited since, and I think it'd be useful for several of the people I've talked to in a finance way and it baffles me that this isn't something I've come across in the three banking apps I've used. Unfortunately, I've never made an app before. I've (obv) done some coding, but I'm no graphic designer, software engineer, any of that. I know there are similar apps on the market, but I think I have ideas that'd make mine distinct based on the ways that I'd customize my notion page even more (which I don't think notion can handle). It's an idea I'd considered building last spring for my coding final project, but of course I gravitated toward """game design""" more (I'm still really proud of that project.. maybe I'll go back to it sometime and make the additions I'd dreamt up). Anyway I really think the app could be useful.. just not sure when I'll have the time to build the skill necessary to make it.

Coding is totally a muscle in that it needs to be regularly strengthened and stretched to properly maintain its efficacy. If replit keeps their 100 days of code available online for free, those could be fun little exercises to work on to build skills (though only in Python... perhaps I could find some other mini-course for other languages (though I had a look at html earlier and maybe that's why I didn't enjoy coding when I first took CS in hs, html looks awful)). Maybe in the fall? My summer is going to already be pretty packed with learning bass and prepping cosplays and moving forward with lab work.

Speaking of the summer, my island-friend's suggestion of keeping a task journal was so good in keeping me motivated to complete things week over week. Now that I've let that practice slide, I'm not nearly as active in lab (possibly partly due to writing my quals). I will get back on top of that, I think. I have a few research-based deadlines coming up that I'll need to hit.

Also speaking of the summer, I just finalized my last month of saving toward my bass guitar fund. That feels so crazy to me. I'm technically a month ahead due to an erroneous calculation a while ago, but still, this is a representation of the end of my second year. And after the last, mmm, week and a hallf/two weeks, I don't feel so intimidated by it anymore.

There was this one girl in my program who would tell me that she always looked at the examination portion of the quals as a wonderful opportunity to have esteemed scientists try to help you excel in your field. I thought she was full of it tbh. But recent weeks have shifted my mindset on it quite rapidly, and maybe I've stopped thinking of it as being so adversarial. Yes, I will prepare as though it is an examination. But I feel good about what I know. And I want to do good science. So I want to improve my ways of thinking. Highkey I'm looking forward to the panel's commentary now??? Who even am I??? Where did that anxious version of me go???

And, for a bit of TMI, my hormone cycles have been fairly regular all my life. Four weeks to the day. The first time I experienced disruptions was during the last semester of college when I was interviewing for graduate school and deciding where would be the best fit. My cycles became irregular or shortened by a week. The second time started during the first semester of grad school, where the same thing happened. Except it didn't stop. I have been irregular or short by a week for almost two years, with the greatest amount of joint pain I've ever felt, in addition to fatigue and brain fog, all more often on a shorter cycle. The only times I magically got relief happened to be when I would travel home for breaks, and they'd magically lengthen to normal again, only to shorten right when I got back to school. This month, I had a normal-length cycle. And I think it's because I've been so insanely stressed that I wouldn't be able to get over this hurdle for literally years and it's only recently just kind of.. melted away.

Today I'm thankful for a normal cycle. And ibuprofen.

That said,

MY STOCKS D:

Okay, there is one more thing to be thankful for. I'm thankful that my father had the literal divine foresight to suggest that I open a second Roth IRA account where I could keep the full year's amount in cash or conservative investments while slowly dripping funds into my aggressive, professionally-managed account over the year. Last year, I put in the whole year's worth at once (due to a policy with another account I have blah blah blah), and had I done that on April 1 this year, I would've been in for a much bigger world of hurt than I currently am.

But I'm not sure when I should start the drip. It's hard to know what's a momentary market freak out and what's a sign of economic collapse, you know? Or maybe it's not hard. Maybe I'm just not educated enough on the matter. But I also don't fully trust pundits who often are just catering to what their audiences want to hear (even if, in the case of liberals maybe, what they want to hear is that this is an awful awful thing and that we're going to enter a depression etc etc). Anyway I guess attempting to time the market is bad as a noob so maybe I'll just drip teeny tiny amounts into my managed account over the next several days. I cannot touch the big amount anyway for the next forty years other than to invest it or let it sit.

Maybe I should be more concerned, but some part of me has trust that the billionaires to profit from the system the way it is don't want it to collapse. So I feel like it won't. That could be naive. Idk. I've never been the biggest fan of having my chance at a dignified retirement dependent on me investing into capitalism (honestly, it feels like a threat to me), but there's currently no other way that I know of.

[wannacyberwithme]

And so, it begins....

This is the beautiful start of the dumpster fire that is my interests and thought process. Anything computers really. The majority of this blog is gonna document the journey of getting a job in either.... IT, cybersecurity, coding.. probably all of it. And why not do something thats held my interest for the last 25 years. COMPUTERS! My babysitter growing up was every videogame console I could get my hands on and getting 56k dial-up AOL at 12 only fueled my love in technology. I learned what the internet was when it was the wild west.

CRAZY times. To think that I never got into working with computers my whole working career is so surprising. I think I just fell out of love with the one thing gave me everything. I started focusing on art/music/0ther hobbies and the tech world just seemed like a distant past...

WELL, now im back! Just got my CompTIA Sec+ certification and I'm ready to kick bubblegum and chew... wait..

So lets break down my recap for the week:

I revived a dying 2010 macbook pro with Linux Mint in hopes of getting some more experience with the Linux operating system. Back in highschool, I set up a dual boot system with the Fedora Core Linux distro and obviously windows as the other OS. I think at the time I was trying to be one of the "cool" guys (SPOILER: That didn't do anything for me). So I already have a bit of knowledge, now i just gotta put in the time.

Well, I decided that 1 OS was not enough. I threw Ubuntu onto a crappy HP laptop collecting dust so now I have TWO laptops with Linux. Have not touched either laptops...

I watched a crash course in Python. Many times throughout my life I dipped my feet into programming. To be the cool hacker/coder badass. I honestly would consider it my dream job but just never put in the time to learn it. Ive taken many youtube crash courses on a variety of languages. Even taken classes at the college. So I know the basics and just needed a refresher on Python syntax. Got it in the bag now

Watched a few videos on Python keyloggers and wrote(copied) a couple different methods on how to do it. I think i understand the main concept but I wouldn't be able to write it from scratch. Bummer.

Ive been semi-productive so far. I revamped my resume with the help of skynet so it sounds like I'm HUNGRY for that help desk job. Seriously, ChatGPT made me look so good. Just gotta do some homelab stuff and a few projects so I can list it to make me as sultry and desirable as I can be.

The FUTURE

This coming weekend I'm gonna go pick up another computer of mine in Vegas to turn it into a server possibly.

I'll probably do another keylogger tomorrow to get that solid and understand it completely

I'm also thinking about doing another small cybersecurity Udemy course. 15-20-25 hours... ohhhh man, lets do it I guessssss

Thats allllll I got planned for now. This was a doozie of a first post. I promise the other ones wont be as long. Had to play catchup with this one. I stayed up way too late doing this but it was therapeutic. I needed this. No regerts. Okay, goodnight, sleeeep TIGHT

[educationtech]

9 Important Tips for First-Year Engineering Students - Arya College

For B.Tech first-year students, Arya College of Engineering & I.T. which is the best Engineering college in Jaipur says success involves a combination of academic focus, skill development, and social integration. Here's a comprehensive guide to help you navigate your first year:

1. Academics and Skill Development:

Maintain good grades: Good grades are beneficial. Focus on understanding core subjects such as mathematics, physics, computer programming, engineering graphics, and basic engineering principles.

Explore specializations: B.Tech degrees offer various specializations like Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Chemical, Aerospace, and more.

Technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills: B.Tech programs are designed to impart a range of technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills, along with a solid grounding in mathematics and science.

Certification courses: Pursue certification courses to become more employable.

Stay updated: Update yourself with new technology and topics related to core subjects. Open yourself to every opportunity for learning.

2. Extracurricular Activities and Social Life:

Find college friends: During the first few weeks of school, be social, as these people will grow with you and be very influential in your life for the next four years.

Have fun, but don't make choices you will regret: Your first year of college life is when you’re supposed to go crazy, but don’t make choices you’ll regret.

Develop your social skills: Focus on developing your social skills.

3. Projects and Internships:

Projects and internships: Do various projects and internships to showcase on your resume.

4. Mindset and Goals:

Embrace opportunities: Open yourself to every opportunity for learning.

Avoid lagging behind: Work to avoid lagging behind peers in better colleges by developing an amazing skillset.

By focusing on these key areas, B.Tech first-year students can lay a strong foundation for a successful and fulfilling college experience.

What are the best certification courses for a first-year BTech student

For first-year B.Tech students, certification courses can enhance skills and broaden career prospects. Here are some of the best options to consider:

Job-Oriented Courses:

These short-term training programs equip individuals with specific skills and knowledge required for particular job roles or industries. They focus on practical and hands-on learning, making participants job-ready and enhancing their employability.

Specific Certification Courses:

Cybersecurity Certification: Because of the increase in data threats and hackers, there is a high demand for skilled individuals in the field of Cybersecurity. The cybersecurity certification program helps you learn about the nature of cyberattacks, how to recognize online risks, and how to take preventative actions.

Data Science Certification: The increased demand for Big Data skills & technologies introduced certification programs in data science. The course provides learning about the data management technologies such as Hadoop, R, Flume, Sqoop, Machine Learning, Mahout, etc.

Data Analyst: The data analyst certification helps learners develop skills like critical thinking & problem-solving.

Web Designing: B.Tech CSE students with an additional certification in web development have higher chances to be selected as software engineers, UX/UI designers, web designers & web developers.

Full Stack Web Development:

Python Programming:

Artificial Intelligence:

Matrix Algebra for Engineers: This certification emphasizes linear algebra that an engineer should know.

Artificial Intelligence for Robotics: This course covers basic methods in AI such as probabilistic inference, planning, search, localization, tracking, and control, all focusing on robotics.

Technical Report Writing for Engineers: This course introduces the art of technical writing and teaches engineers the techniques to construct impressive engineering reports.

Embedded Systems - Shape The World: Microcontroller Input/ Output: This course will teach you to solve real-world problems using embedded systems