Blog posts December 2022 - February 2023

23/2/2023
Plume Valley by Windows96 has been in my YouTube recommended for a while and last night I decided to listen to it for the first time. I thought it was just one song but it's actually a whole album and it's AMAZING. It perfectly encapsulates the vibe and musical style of the original Donkey Kong Country games, which I love. I'm listening to it again right now and all I can do is describe it as peaceful, dream-like, and perfect. I love vaporwave music and have listened to other songs by Windows96, but I had never heard any of the songs here before. I have the video embed below that you can click on and listen to here or on YouTube.

21/2/2023
These are some awesome pictures of Nintendo World in New York City, USA I found around. I think it's from 2005-ish, looks pretty cool.

Click on them to see the full size image, the style here is so cool.

15/2/2023
I did not mention, but yesterday was 33 years since the 'Pale Blue Dot' photograph was taken, on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1. After completing its mission of leaving the Solar System, Voyager 1 was turned around and took one last photograph of Earth across a limitless expanse of space, six billion kilometers and thousands of hours of work away.
Reflecting on this image, astronomer Carl Sagan said;

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives...every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."


Click to enlarge and you will be able to see the Earth, only a pixel.

14/2/2023
Today was St. Valentine's day. It was a fine day, but at the end of it all I'm not feeling my best when I consider the significance of this day for most. I didn't really do much today, just normal things, and I spent some extra time in the library. When I got home I was very happy and dancing around because I was listening to my favorite music. I spent the rest of the day at my computer. My parents gave me a Valentine's gift during dinner, which I was surprised and delighted by, because it seemed like a really uncharacteristic thing for them to do. But the thing is, I don't really feel like I should have this. It just feels kind of wrong for my parents to know how desperately alone I am, and it feels wrong that I should have something like this. I've never had a 'Valentine', I've never dated anyone, but somehow having something that symbolizes love is strangely off-putting, and I'm not sure what I should do with this. It is chocolate, so I will probably eat it tomorrow or something, but I considered giving it to someone at school because I just did not want to have it. I should probably listen to my music again.