Your first steps on a creative journey will be shaky, maybe even embarrassing. But the only way to get better is to allow yourself to get better. I have a problem with creativity. It seems that I don’t want to “waste” anything. Sometimes that means my precious free time. Whatever I do with that time…
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Please excuse the mess
I have imported my wordpress.com blog to my own domain here at meanwhileinthefuture.com. Please excuse the mess, I am experimenting with the look and feel. If you have any feedback, you can comment on this post. Thanks!
That worked out nicely
A number of years ago I started this blog and bought the domain meanwhileinthefuture.com. Sadly, I was unable to meaningfully get started with it, and eventually let the domain go. Some time later, I thought about blogging (again) and found that the domain had been bought by some chap who seemed to be using it…
The No Ideas blog post
I didn’t have a blog idea this week. I thought a little bit of following up on last week, but I don’t really have much new to say on the subject. I was leafing through my notebook, a bit of a “Commonplace Book” but a little more journal-like, and found a note about reading David…
Designing stuff is hard.
I’m really good at following directions. Give me a recipe, or building plans, or even just a good hard look at something along with it’s dimensions and I can probably build it (within my skill set, naturally). But designing something from scratch is hard. Going from a rough sketch to actual measurements and assembly methods…
No hot glue? No, hot glue!
I had an idea for a 3D printing project. Of course, being an old-school kind of guy, almost any idea starts out as a sketch (maybe digital, maybe not), but prototypes are probably not going to be digital. Regardless of the medium, a proof of concept can be mocked-up with card stock or cardboard. Now,…
From the archives
I like to thumb through old notepads and scraps that I’ve saved with doodles and drawings. Sometimes, when a drawing hits in a certain way, I copy it into my drawing app (Krita) and recreate it digitally. I don’t have a process to save or recall these doodles, but I find it meditative to thumb…
Down the rabbit hole
Everything went out the window when the SD card arrived. You see, I have a Raspberry Pi server that, among other things, serves up my “personal cloud.” Unfortunately, the SD card that it boots from failed and I had no replacement. I had to steal the one in my 3D printer. Server up and running,…
How do I cram cards into my phone?
A few weeks ago I wrote about the return of 3×5 cards. I’ve seen them trending for the past few years, but using cards to keep notes has been something I’ve dabbled in since I was at least in middle school. I was always fascinated by them. Or perhaps by their potential. Cards are versatile,…
Return of the index cards
This is just a quick post so that I attain my “post every week” goal. I must stop sleeping through my alarms. I was listening to a youtuber enthuse about the utility of index cards in maintaining one’s forward momentum with ongoing (or new) projects. Of course, someone in the comments said that this was…