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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Thinking I haven't binged on The Who in ages. So here we go. There's something about spending time with albums you've listened to thousands of times, you know every word, every now, every beat, every voice fluctuation, so it's just a part of you.

jellyfin music player on an 8 inch Android tablet playing The Who's Who Are You.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I was thinking about ordering some small strong magnets. Then I was about to throw away some old mobile phone mounts I haven't used in years and realized they have magnets in them. Was able to easily open them up and got a nice set of eight 3/8" magnets. very strong.

8 small round magnets stuck together as a cylinder, on some graph paper.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Did another sketch in yesterday's style this morning. A bit more planned out, but still some glitches. I like where these are going. Learning a lot. Hand control is really improving. And doing them is quite meditative, and addicting - which tells me I'm on the right path.

a weave like pattern of parallel lines going in different directions. black ink on white paper.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

yesterday I was feeling pretty dejected about drawing and skipped a day. Today I was randomly doodling during a meeting and came up with a thing I liked. Tonight I created this. Still just a sketch, but I really liked its potential.

line art sketch. lots of parallel lines going different directions, over- and underlapping in a crazy patchwork pattern.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I'll just put this one over here with the other stickers.

field notes notebook in a leather cover with a pen in a pen loop. stickers on it -

conference badge "flash on the beach - Keith peters - speaker"

pink peace symbol

stylized skull

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

In a fit of inspiration, I scanned this 17 year old conference badge, shrunk it to about 2x3 inches, and printed a sheet of them on sticker paper. Now I have a bunch of new stickers to put on... I don't know what, but I made my own day just now. :)

a sheet of stickers of the conference badge described in the previous post

9 cut out stickers of the conference badge described in the previous post

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I've had many speaker badges over the years. This one I will keep forever

speaker badge. younger photo of myself in black and white on top of uk flag. text in ransom note or "never mind the bullocks" style overlay
flash on the beach
keith peters
speaker

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

hex columns, inspired by a hand-drawn sketch from last week

hundreds of hexagonal columns of random heights, rendered in solid shades of gray in a isometric-like view.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Half decent phone camera shot of Mount Hood.

large peaked mountain in the distance, hazy blue, foreground trees and orchards, darker green.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

One of the best reasons to go to Portland, OR. Powells opens at 10am. There were a couple dozen people waiting at the door. You don't see that at a Barnes and Nobles.

Building and sign: Powell's Books. Used and New Books

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

No, but I'm not going to answer you.

text message from a number I don't recognize saying, "do you know who I am?"

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Wandered upon a still life with a bowl, fish, plastic fork, tennis ball and empty can of Vienna sausages.

bowl, fish, plastic fork, tennis ball and empty can of Vienna sausages arranged on a log

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#inktober2026 day 4, a day late. More texture studies. Don't like them all, but learning with each thing I do that I don't like

a 3x3 grid with different pen and ink textures in each cell.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#inktober2026 day 3. No prompts. A structure for exploring crosshatch values. It's occurred to me, not for the first time, that it'd be interesting to generate some designs algorithmically and then render them by hand. Did not do that here, but throwing that idea on the list.

3d hexagon columns shades with crosshatched pen and ink.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#inktober2026 no prompt. I feel bad that I seem to be the only one ignoring the prompts. Oh well.

a series of random circles that look a bit like they were cut out of a surface revealing a texture on the layer below, said texture bring wavy lines.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#inktober2026 day 1. Not following prompts. Focusing on creating textures for a while, then might move on to values.

a grid of bars rendered with curved lines. in black ink on white paper

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So, I was in an art supply store today. And... yeah, I bought another mechanical pencil. :(

a silver colored metallic mechanical pencil.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I wonder if these technical pens are suitable for tattoo usage.

About this item
Not suitable for tattoo usage
Contents: 3 isograph pens, 1 Tikky burgundy 0.5, 4 ink cartridges
The Isograph has a refillable ink reservoir. Its patented push-on sleeve makes for easy access to the ink helix for fast cleaning
Its push on sleeve makes for easy access to the ink helix for fast cleaning
Not suitable for tattoo usage

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Some texture exercises. Funny. While taking this picture, my phone interpreted some portion of it as a bar code. Looked like a phone number. Then it lost it and I could not get it to see that again.

5 horizontal strips of pen and ink textures.
vertical lines at different intervals
random patches of randomly angled parallel lines
a weave pattern of alternating horizontal and vertical lines
larger areas of randomly angled parallel wavy lines
a scribbled pattern with varying areas of value

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

ooh, my Internet radio has an update. That's actually great to see.

Internet radio display screen saying "Updating, please don't power off..." with a progress bar.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

This laser-cut nested cube given to me by Jared Tarbell in the mid-2000's surfaced yesterday. It's about 1 inch square, and came in a single sheet - separate and put together yourself. Jared was the first person I saw doing this kind of physical stuff with lasers.

laser cut wooden cube. the edges are notched to fit together. there are random circles cut in each face that let you see into the next nested cube.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I need to do something about Start Page search. I'm pretty happy with the results in general but... I do a search. The first link looks right. I move my mouse there and click on it, but in that interval it takes me to do that, a full page of sponsored links […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

startpage search. search term "shows". A full page of sponsored search results. at the bottom of the page is the result that immediately appeared just before the sponsored ones showed up.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Sketching some patterns recently.

2x3 grid of pen and ink posters with pencil shading.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

If you asked me a week ago how many mechanical pencils I had, I probably would have said five or six. Apparently it's a few more than that.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

A classic I've never gotten around to... And probably won't

audio book cover
michael kamp
picture of an evil looking, blood spattered white rabbit
title: crazy cannibalistic coked up rabbit carnage
3 stars
2026 1h 25m English unabridged

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Another one inspired by a zentangle pattern.

a series of bezier curves rendered as a chain of small connected circles with a double line border on each side.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Inspired by a zentangle pattern. Seems simple, but kind of tricky to code though.

black and white curved stripes with random circles overlaid. the circles are rendered with xor so the black parts of the background are white and vice versa.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I want to get one of these photo-engraved headstones, but it's just me making a goofy face.

black polished tombstone with some religious imagery on it. in the center is an engraved photo of a beach with a man fishing and another person sitting in a beach chair.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'll continue down this path for a little bit.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

seen on the company slack. made me grin.

picture of taylor swift. caption:
Taylor swift has 500 songs about guys leaving her and 0 songs about usint the Gram-Schmidt algorithm to decompose matrices into an orthonormal matrix Q and upper triangular matrix R.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I haven't done any creative coding in a long while. I set a goal to post at least four pieces this week. After many minutes staring at a black screen and beginning to get worried, my brain somehow came up with this. I'll take it. #CreativeCode

overlapping concentric circles filled with pastel hues, somewhat randomized, the spectrum moves from lower right to top left.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

this also reminds me of this. the distance human signals have traveled. we are barely noticeable.

image of the galaxy
title: Extent of Human Radio Broadcasts

square in the left side of image, expanded, showing a tiny blue dot labeled "200 light years in diameter"

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I think my package is stuck in a loop.

On the Way

Arrived at USPS Facility

SAINT LOUIS MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER

September 14, 2026 3:03 AM

Departed USPS Facility

SAINT LOUIS MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER

September 14, 2026 1:36 AM

Departed USPS Facility

ST LOUIS MO PACKAGE SORTING CENTER

September 13, 2026 8:12 AM

Arrived at USPS Facility

SAINT LOUIS MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER

September 13, 2026 7:52 AM

Arrived at USPS Facility

ST LOUIS MO PACKAGE SORTING CENTER

September 12, 2026 3:38 AM

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@malte I tend to watch a lot of old movies. The waistlines always make me do a second take.

humphrey bogart with a hat, torch and gun, light colored button down shirt. darker pants, the waistline is very high

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Been cutting logs and splitting firewood for months. This is the big daddy I've been avoiding thinking about. But decided to start confronting it today. Its diameter and its length are both more than double the length of my chainsaw blade. Going to have to take […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

large log with a chainsaw blade held beside it. the blade does not reach the center of the log.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

fixed up my Jellyfin libraries. just took a very long rescan to create the new db. Had to find new cover images for them. Mostly happy with these, but it'll continue to evolve.

thumbnails for jellyfin media server library
films: an old film projector
records: a turntable
tv: an old tv
tapes: a reel to reel tape deck
pictures: a vintage film camera

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Yet another lifer. Black-crowned night heron. Struggled to identify it at first because the adults are white with a black crown and back. Then I saw pictures of juveniles and yup, that's the bird. #eBird #merlin

mottled Brown bird with a pointy break and long skinny legs standing on a log in the water.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I often have a hard time focusing at work and instead of doing the things I decided to do, I find myself wandering into other areas. Been using pen and paper to organize. I got some of these "sign here" type stickers. They really help. I point them to the thing […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

grid notebook with a blue arrow sticker pointing towards some writing

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

some of the questions were insane though... "The wolf is giving birth"??? Has any human actually used this expression? I want to avoid that area.

question 32 of 122
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
sunshower
the wolf is giving birth
the devil is beating his wife
monkey's wedding
fox's wedding
pineapple rain
liquid sun
i have no term or expression for this
other

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Funny, I've seen a few of these questions on mastodon recently. What is your dialect? mydialect.us Some of the questions are giveaways though. What does "the city" mean? Boston. Oh, you must be from around Boston.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

the last example here seems unnecessary.

wikipedia article header

Courtney Love
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the singer. For the band, see Lois Maffeo. For the American football player, see Courtney Love (American football). For the medieval literary term, see Courtly love.

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