December, huh? The year really got away from me.

Trying our best to still get out even though it’s firmly coat season now. Saw a really excellent improvised murder mystery over at The Second City with friends and had some drinks down in The Drifter.

Mind blown by this Stuff Made Here video of a terrifying robot windmill death camera (sorry, you really just need to watch it). Reminds me of my all-time favorite SIGGRAPH paper Dual Photography, where cameras become lights and lights become cameras and nothing is what it seems.^[1]

Spent Saturday upgrading my Prusa 3D printer to their latest and greatest model, the MK4S. It’s not a trivial process, but pretty incredible in these times of planned obsolescence that they’ll sell you the parts to upgrade going back generations. Next year, I should be able to go all the way to the CORE One, a fully-enclosed model with totally different kinematics. Neat.

The “P” key on my MacBook Pro is slowly dying. I’m sure it’s a 15-minute walk-in fix at the Apple Store, but I’ve been burned too many times with a surprise FedEx roundtrip to some repair center in Texas and not having my primary computer for a week that I keep putting off bringing it in. How much of a roblem could it turn into?

I have become a candle person now, I guess. Do not underestimate the psychic balm of having a small fire nearby.