rezmason @rezmason@merveilles.town

Moving this to Merveilles.town:

#introduction

I'm a NY-born Oakland resident who programs for game companies to survive. I teach Scratch to kids at our town's video game museum.

In my free time I used #Flash a lot, then #Haxe, and now a lot of modern #JavaScript. I port things as a way to preserve ideas. I have a loving wife and 2 cats.

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#webgl #threejs #pasta #halloween #science #wordplay #gpl #matrix #macintosh #darkwave , uuuuh, #antifa #kielbasa #netneutrality #humanity #flan #pasta

Daaaaaaaaamn son!

I'm lucky to have both these creatures around me and my wife at all times. I also really wish that one of them hadn't scratched up my arms in terror at the vet that one time, and then covered the whole the room in liquid feces.

My beefy cat is a certified asshole who craves attention. I'm convinced that every bad habit he ever adopted remains in his repertoire, waiting for the right conditions for him to resort to. When my wife has a bad day, he rushes to her side to cheer her up, which is honestly very endearing. Also he shredded her favorite chair.

Dexterity: 3
Personality: asshole
Lives: 9
Worst toilet moment: climbed up the hamper & called us over to watch him pee on our clothes

My tiny cat (runt munchkin, smaller than a loaf of bread) is afraid of everything and always will be, but she's grown to overcome her fears. She also likes to projectile vomit from high places, which increases her AOE. She never meows, so now I have a lifelong mission to encourage her to meow, as if I don't have plenty of other shit I gotta do.

Dexterity: 4
Personality: cat
Lives: 8
Worst toilet moment: hid for days in a cupboard and then shat in it

Tonight I replaced my cats' robot-rake litter tray with a new one, and have a cat-pee-odor headache a mile wide. I probably broke the Geneva convention on myself just now.

Let's be honest: cats are disgusting, vile pests, that turn dirty smelly pellets into other dirty smelly pellets, damage furniture, interrupt video calls and vomit on all our important things. Humanity's shared history with cats has been a gargantuan misstep.

I also love them tremendously.

@rek I just got to the part of your (excellent) log where @neauoire tried following a bird toward wind, without running it past you. And I totally get it. In the past, bad times led me to make similar judgment calls, desperate Faustian bargains where I expected the world to throw me a bone for extracting a glimmer of sense from its bullshit, and "everyone will thank me later". Egg on my face every damn time! 😅

I'm glad things took a tern for the better. 🌈

@rek @neauoire I mean I can't stress this enough, please make the time you need to recover, because, holy shit, buddies 😨

@rek @neauoire christ on toast, you two (and Pino) have been through so much. Until your future updates, I won't know your naval plans, but I hope calm and peaceful waters are in store for you.

Also I'm very glad you're encountering some hospitable people in Victoria. I'm also glad you had people you could reach via radio from time to time on your journey.

@rek @neauoire I'm 30% through your ship log, it's very well written, also I haven't exhaled in minutes

For context, this is the ident for a public tv/radio station out of Boston that's also an educational foundation, who've contributed a lot of content to school programs over the years and are longtime producers of NOVA

Forgive me if I've mentioned this before, but do any other Merveillians in the US hear this when they see @cblgh's handle on Mastodon? 😁

https://youtu.be/Ys7pub-ld-U

@rek @neauoire Welcome to, uh, the quarantimes! Is there anything this Oakland resident can do to help with those groceries in BC? You may be a thousand miles away, but compared to where you've been, it feels like you're just a couple towns away. 😁