Ten Points Random

You know what they say: Use your head.

I got a better idea: Use your feet.

I originally built my foot interface for MIDI/gaming applications but I found another great application: image editing.

I was going about filling around some lines with colors in The GIMP, and as I was working I thought, Hey, I keep switching back and forth between the paint tool and the eraser tool pretty often. When I had to switch I either needed to skim through the giant tool pallet to find my new tool, or laboriously, lift my head and chin from my left hand so I could press the appropriate keyboard shortcut.  It got old, but then I thought: Hey, I’ll just use my feet.

So I fired up my AutoHotkey editing skillz and bound a couple of buttons on my foot controller to the paint and erase tools (or rather the keyboard shortcuts for them).  Viola!  Instant speedup.

Now I can waste away my life painting away at pointless things much more quickly!

Also, I bound another couple buttons to undo/redo to help speed up fixing my mistakes.  Now I just need to figure out how to make the tools pressure sensitive using the foot pedals . . .

Edit: I also set Page Up/Page Down to buttons.  Imagine how convenient it is for me to just lean back and read something long, hands free!

So, my DDR pads, you know, the ones my friend and I built from scratch? (Todo, post pages on them.)
Yeah, they broke – again. Okay, one still works fine but the other isn’t. That makes me angry. Pissed. Unhappy.

How much is a Cobalt Flux?

Date completed: 3/1/2009
Details:
My home teaching companion is usually pretty good about scheduling some appointments for the first or second week of the month.  Well, this week he managed to get all but one of our families scheduled ahead of time.  Then we lost a family as things got rearranged and worked another family into the time slot.   Then we have to move an appointment back because someone was ill, so we were able to get the final individual scheduled at the start.  All appointments went through.

That was interesting.

And good.

After playing games like Team Fortress 2, Little Big Planet, and ultimately, Achievement Unlocked, I began to wonder:

What would life be like if it had achievements?

So, I’ve decided that whenever I manage to do something in my life that sounds like it’d be an achievement in a game of some sort or another, I’ll go ahead and post it up.

Is it just me o ram I letting my life get rather boring?