To become a Divoom Ambassador you’d need 5000+ followers on social media, and regularly engage with your followers. I don’t qualify, not even by a long shot. I will try to grow my follower count, but doubt I’ll ever reach 5000+ with my pixel art. I’m now at 10 on Bluesky, 4991 to go 😬

Here is a process video of the sketch I did of the dragon from Bubble Bobble, and next the 64 x 64 pixel art animation of said sketch.

I must say that the current MB blogging system has become worse than before. For instance, if you edit a shortpost the enclosed image will be placed outside the text and if edited the image will be duplicated. Also, the shortcut to my account only includes one blog not all blogs. An ugly mess!

Round and round they go. Wherever they land we’ll never know. They keep on flying from door to door. And quite soon there will be even more. It’s maddening, makes you cry. Because all they do is fly and fly and never die. 🪰

Since it’s inspired by his self-portrait, I call this one “Vincent.”

Currently reading: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 📚

Finished reading, for the second time: The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) by C.S. Lewis 📚

I’ve made a page for my Pixoo64 pixel art. I didn’t get to add even half of the 280 images, because Microblog’s interface for adding images and putting them into a collection is rather cumbersome and error-prone for me. So, expect a slow and careful addition of new images over the next few weeks.

I wonder if I have to deal with age verification with an account created on 5 March 2006, so before Google bought YouTube in November that year. I hope not, but since AI logic is involved, I’m not so sure.

A non-host read advertisement in a podcast means an instant unsubscribe, however much I enjoyed the show so far.

Oh my!

I keep asking myself, why do I do this to myself at my age? My race results aren’t near to what they were only a year ago, because of reasons. Then I have to remind myself that it’s my health I’m dealing with. Staying fit doesn’t come on its own, and race results aren’t everything.

Heads are going to roll. No idea why.

To get accustomed to some rough terrain in my half marathon race in September, I’ll run my 73 minutes run at base tempo on similar oneven footpaths coming Wednesday (see map). It won’t be as brutal as the Kustloop, but I suppose it’s a better preparation than only training on asphalt.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was written by C.S. Lewis in 1950, which is 75 years ago. Good enough reason for me to be rereading the entire book series The Chronicles of Narnia. I already read The Magician’s Nephew before going to sleep in the past weeks.

Content piracy is on the rise, and Disney+ had a 4 billion loss. I think those two things are related through something called subscription fatigue. If you make it harder to watch content, and (young) people have less discretionary income, guess what they’ll do? It’s not hard to guess.

Serving smoothies endlessly on my Pixoo-64 64 x 64 pixel art frame. Drawn in Procreate on an iPad.

I’ll be running my own half marathon race, because the half marathon race later today has been neutered to a 15 km run (not race) because of the sudden heat. I’ll leave as soon as Maahir has eaten his veterinarian cat food in a few minutes from when I’m posting this message.

It looks like my race next Sunday will be canceled due to high temperatures. I asked to the organizers if runners could run on their own and get credit for it, as in run your own race during the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t expect a response, but I had to try. I can see the potential problems.

Finished reading: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 📚