#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) walk out of a supermarket in a small country town, search through their trolley for a pack of fresh baked cupcakes and gleefully crack it open.
Standing in the morning sun, nibbling on little frosted morsels of happiness.A man (20s?) is strutting down an evening-quiet street with a board game under his arm. (Carcassonne?)
There's important board game business to be done and he's ready for it.
Cicadas click clicking in trees overhead.
A nearby dog woofing a "Who goes there?"A very pregnant woman (20s?) is wandering around Kmart while hugging a giant blue Stitch plushie.
A man (30s?) greets her asking, "Heya cuz! What ya got there?"
She laughs and holds out Stitch, saying, "Hug THIS."
He does and laughs, "Oh yeah! It's mine now!"A man (40s?) in sensible hiking wear with a high tech pair of binoculars is standing at the edge of a river, grinning as he looks at a magnified family of California quail derp-running* chest first across a walking track.
Making little quail noises as quails do.
(Best. Birds. Ever.)A tourist stops at a food truck doing smash burgers and loaded fries in a small country town.
Looking at the menu she says: " YES! You have American mustard!"
The server does a big evil cackle: "AH HA! It's a tourist trap. Ya fell for it."
Laughing, she orders a burger, fries, the lot.(Continued Below)
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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) walk out of a supermarket in a small country town, search through their trolley for a pack of fresh baked cupcakes and gleefully crack it open.
Standing in the morning sun, nibbling on little frosted morsels of happiness.A man (20s?) is strutting down an evening-quiet street with a board game under his arm. (Carcassonne?)
There's important board game business to be done and he's ready for it.
Cicadas click clicking in trees overhead.
A nearby dog woofing a "Who goes there?"A very pregnant woman (20s?) is wandering around Kmart while hugging a giant blue Stitch plushie.
A man (30s?) greets her asking, "Heya cuz! What ya got there?"
She laughs and holds out Stitch, saying, "Hug THIS."
He does and laughs, "Oh yeah! It's mine now!"A man (40s?) in sensible hiking wear with a high tech pair of binoculars is standing at the edge of a river, grinning as he looks at a magnified family of California quail derp-running* chest first across a walking track.
Making little quail noises as quails do.
(Best. Birds. Ever.)A tourist stops at a food truck doing smash burgers and loaded fries in a small country town.
Looking at the menu she says: " YES! You have American mustard!"
The server does a big evil cackle: "AH HA! It's a tourist trap. Ya fell for it."
Laughing, she orders a burger, fries, the lot.(Continued Below)
Any typos spotted in this post are so grateful for all the lovely messages from yesterday. If typos spotted, please remind them them that they've never failed to finish writing a novel no matter the obstacle. Even if they have to do it while roaring into the void, The End gets written. Eventually!
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*I have no other description for how these birds move. I adore them. Just seeing them makes me so, so happy. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here is the bird in question. (They're an introduced species but I still find them rather wonderful.) https://ebird.org/atlasnz/species/calqua
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Any typos spotted in this post are so grateful for all the lovely messages from yesterday. If typos spotted, please remind them them that they've never failed to finish writing a novel no matter the obstacle. Even if they have to do it while roaring into the void, The End gets written. Eventually!
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*I have no other description for how these birds move. I adore them. Just seeing them makes me so, so happy. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here is the bird in question. (They're an introduced species but I still find them rather wonderful.) https://ebird.org/atlasnz/species/calqua
@georgepenney What? That is my state bird. They live in the hills over here. Just imagine that when they bob their empty little heads, they're saying, "Oh yes, George can finish that book, no problem." Quails believe in you!
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Any typos spotted in this post are so grateful for all the lovely messages from yesterday. If typos spotted, please remind them them that they've never failed to finish writing a novel no matter the obstacle. Even if they have to do it while roaring into the void, The End gets written. Eventually!
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*I have no other description for how these birds move. I adore them. Just seeing them makes me so, so happy. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here is the bird in question. (They're an introduced species but I still find them rather wonderful.) https://ebird.org/atlasnz/species/calqua
@georgepenney I love these quail! We've had ferrets, possums, starlings and pīwakawaka get stuck in our bathroom, but I still consider the quail to be the most unexpected encounter, they're usually so shy out here!
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Any typos spotted in this post are so grateful for all the lovely messages from yesterday. If typos spotted, please remind them them that they've never failed to finish writing a novel no matter the obstacle. Even if they have to do it while roaring into the void, The End gets written. Eventually!
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*I have no other description for how these birds move. I adore them. Just seeing them makes me so, so happy. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here is the bird in question. (They're an introduced species but I still find them rather wonderful.) https://ebird.org/atlasnz/species/calqua
@georgepenney Ooh squee it had sound of the #Birdies yay.
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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) walk out of a supermarket in a small country town, search through their trolley for a pack of fresh baked cupcakes and gleefully crack it open.
Standing in the morning sun, nibbling on little frosted morsels of happiness.A man (20s?) is strutting down an evening-quiet street with a board game under his arm. (Carcassonne?)
There's important board game business to be done and he's ready for it.
Cicadas click clicking in trees overhead.
A nearby dog woofing a "Who goes there?"A very pregnant woman (20s?) is wandering around Kmart while hugging a giant blue Stitch plushie.
A man (30s?) greets her asking, "Heya cuz! What ya got there?"
She laughs and holds out Stitch, saying, "Hug THIS."
He does and laughs, "Oh yeah! It's mine now!"A man (40s?) in sensible hiking wear with a high tech pair of binoculars is standing at the edge of a river, grinning as he looks at a magnified family of California quail derp-running* chest first across a walking track.
Making little quail noises as quails do.
(Best. Birds. Ever.)A tourist stops at a food truck doing smash burgers and loaded fries in a small country town.
Looking at the menu she says: " YES! You have American mustard!"
The server does a big evil cackle: "AH HA! It's a tourist trap. Ya fell for it."
Laughing, she orders a burger, fries, the lot.(Continued Below)
@georgepenney I can't decide which I like best the cupcake couple or the plushy people. Why choose, I love them all. 🤗🤗
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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) walk out of a supermarket in a small country town, search through their trolley for a pack of fresh baked cupcakes and gleefully crack it open.
Standing in the morning sun, nibbling on little frosted morsels of happiness.A man (20s?) is strutting down an evening-quiet street with a board game under his arm. (Carcassonne?)
There's important board game business to be done and he's ready for it.
Cicadas click clicking in trees overhead.
A nearby dog woofing a "Who goes there?"A very pregnant woman (20s?) is wandering around Kmart while hugging a giant blue Stitch plushie.
A man (30s?) greets her asking, "Heya cuz! What ya got there?"
She laughs and holds out Stitch, saying, "Hug THIS."
He does and laughs, "Oh yeah! It's mine now!"A man (40s?) in sensible hiking wear with a high tech pair of binoculars is standing at the edge of a river, grinning as he looks at a magnified family of California quail derp-running* chest first across a walking track.
Making little quail noises as quails do.
(Best. Birds. Ever.)A tourist stops at a food truck doing smash burgers and loaded fries in a small country town.
Looking at the menu she says: " YES! You have American mustard!"
The server does a big evil cackle: "AH HA! It's a tourist trap. Ya fell for it."
Laughing, she orders a burger, fries, the lot.(Continued Below)
@georgepenney
I just had to look up where Aotearoa is. And boy is it beautiful! It is very very very far away from here. Good to hear about places like that from you.
Btw, my sons are devout board gamers :) -
#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A couple (80s?) walk out of a supermarket in a small country town, search through their trolley for a pack of fresh baked cupcakes and gleefully crack it open.
Standing in the morning sun, nibbling on little frosted morsels of happiness.A man (20s?) is strutting down an evening-quiet street with a board game under his arm. (Carcassonne?)
There's important board game business to be done and he's ready for it.
Cicadas click clicking in trees overhead.
A nearby dog woofing a "Who goes there?"A very pregnant woman (20s?) is wandering around Kmart while hugging a giant blue Stitch plushie.
A man (30s?) greets her asking, "Heya cuz! What ya got there?"
She laughs and holds out Stitch, saying, "Hug THIS."
He does and laughs, "Oh yeah! It's mine now!"A man (40s?) in sensible hiking wear with a high tech pair of binoculars is standing at the edge of a river, grinning as he looks at a magnified family of California quail derp-running* chest first across a walking track.
Making little quail noises as quails do.
(Best. Birds. Ever.)A tourist stops at a food truck doing smash burgers and loaded fries in a small country town.
Looking at the menu she says: " YES! You have American mustard!"
The server does a big evil cackle: "AH HA! It's a tourist trap. Ya fell for it."
Laughing, she orders a burger, fries, the lot.(Continued Below)
@georgepenney *is one of the people cracking open the freshly baked cupcakes, is that very pregnant woman with a plushy hugging it, and is surprisingly, that bottle of American mustard, because I am American and I love mustard*
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Any typos spotted in this post are so grateful for all the lovely messages from yesterday. If typos spotted, please remind them them that they've never failed to finish writing a novel no matter the obstacle. Even if they have to do it while roaring into the void, The End gets written. Eventually!
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*I have no other description for how these birds move. I adore them. Just seeing them makes me so, so happy. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here is the bird in question. (They're an introduced species but I still find them rather wonderful.) https://ebird.org/atlasnz/species/calqua
@georgepenney It's funny to look at that range map and see, yeah, some of California...some of the western part of South America...and New Zealand. All of New Zealand. Boom.
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Any typos spotted in this post are so grateful for all the lovely messages from yesterday. If typos spotted, please remind them them that they've never failed to finish writing a novel no matter the obstacle. Even if they have to do it while roaring into the void, The End gets written. Eventually!
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*I have no other description for how these birds move. I adore them. Just seeing them makes me so, so happy. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here is the bird in question. (They're an introduced species but I still find them rather wonderful.) https://ebird.org/atlasnz/species/calqua
@georgepenney I had to look up the run. Delightful. And fast! Speed-derpers!! https://yewtu.be/HHLOeNT511E?t=36
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@georgepenney Ooh squee it had sound of the #Birdies yay.
@robini71 Did it?! Oh goodness I didn't know they did the sound on the site. That's so cool!
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@robini71 Did it?! Oh goodness I didn't know they did the sound on the site. That's so cool!
@georgepenney @robini71 Quail are adorable! I love seeing their little chicks and my favorite is the noise of warning the lookout makes! To me, the warning cry of the California Quail sounds as if hundreds of soap bubbles are rapidly popping! I call the crest a thinking feather, but the way they run one way and suddenly another, I'm uncertain how much thinking is done.
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Slug Algorithm for On-GPU Rendering of Fonts with Bézier Curves now in Public Domain
The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types of software, but due to its proprietary nature it didn’t see much adoption outside of commercial settings. This has now changed with its author, [Eric Lengyel], releasing it to the public domain without any limitations.
Originally [Eric] had received a software patent in 2019 for the algorithm that would have prevented anyone else from implementing it until the patent’s expiration in 2038. Since 2016 [Eric] and his business have however had in his eyes sufficient benefit from the patent, making it unnecessary to hold on to it any longer and retain such exclusivity.
To help anyone with implementing their own version of the algorithm, there is a GitHub repository containing reference shader implementations with plenty of inline comments that should help anyone with some shader experience get started.
Although pretty niche in the eyes of the average person, the benefits of using on-GPU rendering of elements like fonts are obvious in terms of rendering optimization. With this change open source rendering engines for games and more can finally also use it as well.
Thanks to [Footleg] for the tip.
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@Moosader it's really good too
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We report during the half hour in the evening when birds cannot help but sing. Recently, a few more species have joined the sparrows that kept on chirping through winter. We can only really pick out the blackbirds in the mix. It gets late, and dark, and the birds do not quiet.
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