I can no longer observe surface tension without thinking of “D’Arby the Gambler”, the villain/encounter from Stardust Crusaders, where it serves a key plot role. The OVA treats it as a single episode while the more recent anime uses two on it. I like the brisk pace of the OVA here ( https://youtu.be/DoXR23BMAvU?si=iTZhURK0SZzO0Avi ) but it’s good enough to watch drawn out to two parts if you have Netflix or another way to watch it.

I also played TUNIC over the break. It was really good! I didn’t get absolutely everything on my own (a couple fairy puzzles were hard for me to parse), but most of it I managed. I turned some of my notes into a button

I really like teaching at a college and finding stuff like this that students make and then nobody notices for who knows how long.

Todays project was a “universal remote”.
Two buttons are used to increase/decrease the “code to send” and one button sends that code. This is so I can figure out what IR packets to send the TV I got (Toshiba MW20FP1) which came with no remote, so I can access the menu & fix the image settings. As I scan through the codes I write down what they do and useful ones get hard coded onto the remaining 13 buttons.
The IR LED was salvaged from junk; the rest is from my kid’s inventr.io kit.

Even my ice cream is telling me not to internalize my anxiety.