I was blown away by the recreation of Alton Tower’s Smiler. Its all pretty much there. I looked at planet coaster at the start of April but it doesn’t run on Linux or the Steambox, sadly.
Month: December 2020
Dec 20: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 20: Diabolo stick suicide
One of the key tricks in the Diabolo world is the suicide.
I kinda skipped over it but in short if you let go of a sticks mid trick its a suicide move.
The stick suicide creates a suicide by crossing the sticks to control the speed of the trick. I have seen someone this trick turned into a infinite stick suicide.
Working with my night owl self
Over the last 9 months I changed by work hours from 1000-1800 to 1100-1900. I use to get up out of bed at 0800, giving myself 2 hours to wake up, shower, have breakfast and get to work on the bike. Generally I would be a sleep about 0100 meaning 6.5-7 hours of sleep.
If you feel like you heard this stuff before, you most likely have, here and here and even here.
Now with the change in work time, I’m sleeping by 0200 and awake just after 1000. Meaning 8 hours of sleep.
I can’t tell you how much better I feel!
Some have asked what if I slept 8 hours but shifted your hours towards the morning?
They misunderstand what it means to be a night owl vs a morning lark. As explained in this business insider. There are big differences.
Staying awake well into the night and having to wake up early for work can be problematic for people who identify as night owls. As the AsapSCIENCE team points out, most societal activities occur between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., putting night owls at risk of sleep deprivation.
Its not something you can not just simply switch. Even more importantly is the direct effect of the time.
At the very beginning of a workday, the difference between morning and night people can be obvious; morning people seem to be getting everything done, while night owls are slow to get going. But that difference may not last.
One hour after waking, early birds and night owls perform equally well in reaction time tests, AsapSCIENCE reports. Ten hours after waking, however, night owls perform significantly better than morning people in similar tests.
I mentioned to colleagues I was recording and editing podcasts at midnight without too much of a problem. Heck I’m writing this blog at midnight right now.I scheduling blogs, microblogs, emails and texts (before I switched back to Google Messages) has been a great way to going unnoticed. Not that I really need to but people always worry when there is a email sent at 0100.
Simple as this, 8 hours of sleep starting at 0130, for me is better quality sleep than going to bed earlier at 000 and waking up earlier at 0800. I have 5 years of sleep data which also points in the same direction.
I’m a night owl and theres little at this stage which is going to change. The pandemic has been good to me on this front.
Dec 19: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 19: Around the arm combo to whip
Another more dynamic view of what I generally call the around the arm combo.
Dec 18: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 18: Long bounce around the head to grind to whip
A much longer version of the bounce around the head to the music in my headphones but with a stick grind and nice little whip
Dec 17: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 17: Orbit to duicide to mini orbit to duicide
Quite a combination of tricks and when its done correctly looks impressive. Its getting at the more difficult end of the scale for me now. Each trick is possible but together its a whole different kettle of fish.
Dec 16: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 16: Falling from orbit catch
Every once in a while a trick goes wrong but there is a alternative/out which saves your butt/style. The orbit catch is perfect for when a orbit comes loose and goes off into the unaware audience or crashes the ground.
Dec 15: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 15: Under leg grind to whip to duicide
Its a impressive trick, the under leg part is quite straight forward when you have the stick grind down. The tricky part is flipping up the diabolo high enough and getting the stick into position for the whip.
Its got to be done pretty quickly and then your pretty much straight into the duicide if you whip the diabolo hard enough and let it follow through.
Dec 14: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 14: Cradle upwrap
Bit of change from the higher octane duicide tricks, here is another cradle.
A simple cats cradle which I tend to create while throwing the diabolo high. You can unwrap the cradle quickly which is handy.
Neurodiversity from all on the board
It was Leena who point me towards this tweet from @allontheboard.
Let’s celebrate the many positive aspects of being neurodiverse and break every stigma. You are not alone.
#Neurodiversity #Neurodiverse #ADHD #Autism #Dyslexia #Dyspraxia #allontheboard
This is so great on so many levels and I recommend reading through the tweet replies.
Dec 13: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 13: Up whip to 360 Duicide
So following the Upwhip and 720 Duicide, Here is the combo and I can’t tell you how much fun and impressive it looks.
The hardest thing is to get it on camera because its ground work then into a explosion in the sky with a high duicide.
High because you really need time to get into position and catch the falling diabolo.
Dec 12: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 12: 720 degree duicide
When I first saw a Duicide, I couldn’t get my head around how daring it was.
I realise I haven’t shown any suicide tricks yet but I had to show this one.
Throw the diabolo and sticks in the air, then catch them before they hit the floor. Very difficult but during the pandemic I have gotten extremely good at it.
This one is a 720 duicide and it looks good in front of the sunset.
I knew the day was coming for my Pixel2
https://mas.to/@cubicgarden/105356319833794257
Google Pixel’s come with 3 years of supported updates, I knew this but it was a shock when I saw the note saying
Regular updates have ended for this device
Although its still night and day from some of the devices I have owned in the past. For example my work Nokia 8 is still stuck with Android 9 (Pie).
World chase tag?
I never knew this was a thing till I saw this video thanks to this Vox interview. Got to say I’m actually impressed with the way it came together and the level of professionalism within the sport.
Dec 11: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 11: The upwhip
If you thought the whip was hard, try the upwhip. Its a difficult trick and puts you in a difficult position for a combo.
I’m learning what I can do with it including a duicide.