Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Update: it’s still running a few days later:

Happy Blade Runner month, y’all

Success!

Now playing with e-ink displays. A few hours of soldering and staring at wiring charts later, I decided to be vain.

The goal of this experiment is to display some data graphs, but might as well have some fun with it first.

(Image credit Falvie, from a really long time ago.)

Turns out I had the leg joycon set up wrong yesterday, so day two was just about the right level of effort.

Yay for not being as out of shape as I thought I was! And for this being a routine I can probably keep.

I can lower the intensity, but I think I’m going to stick with it in small chunks, balanced with using an exercise bike. I kind of need to build endurance again.

Me, from the ground not even ten minutes later: I may have misjudged the intensity of this game a little.

So I bought Ring Fit Adventure for my niece and her family, as an early birthday gift. I also got myself a copy.

Niece: *sets game to low intensity*
Ring Fit Adventure: Here’s 3 reps! Great job!
Niece: Fitness is fun!
Me: This doesn’t look too bad.

... some time later...

Me: Hm, I’ll try the second highest setting.
Ring Fit Adventure: Here’s 30 health bars just for one attack.
Me: oh no

My weekend project: bought a knockoff 3DS (GPD XD Plus), flashed it with Cleanrom, and tried a couple random seeds on it (alttp, oot, metroid prime) successfully. I also cobbled together a serviceable streaming setup for the thing using Android screen sharing.

I wonder if this has value to other folks. It's a major step up from running these off of a phone when I'm not at my desk, that's for sure.

I bought a knock-off 3DS for running emulators that is actually an Android gaming cabinet. This is proudly emblazoned on the back of the box.

I think I get where they were going with it.

A friend and I tested one of their first menus — at discount — when they first popped up in that location. And I guess they figured out how to end the streak.

I hope it continues to work for them.

Among the restaurants that landed there: multiple Thai restaurants of mediocre rapport, one brief attempt at an upscale wine bar, and a pinball-arcade-Americana fusion called Highscore Burgers.

A few months after the burger place folded, it was bought by the protege of a master chef and converted into a “five star” Indian Tapas fusion restaurant called The Guilt Trip. And, years later, it’s still there — now being advertised to me on the back of a bus.

Some of the Renton city busses are advertising a restaurant right next door to my old home, and it’s kind of funny to me.

Back when I was living in an apartment complex on Eastside, there was a small house next door that had been converted into a string of unsuccessful restaurants. A new place would pop up once every couple of months, fold with little warning or fanfare, and then pick up a few weeks later under a new owner. Rinse, repeat. For years.