Chris Ainsworth

@driph
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Game designer, tinkerer, and occasional writer. Bird enthusiast.
no wait this is the year I start blogging again athttps://driph.com
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Vivienne Westwood has invented high fashion Star Trek planet native-wear.

#StarTrek #fashion

Worked up the nerve, actual stabbing didnt hurt, but kinda achy now. It's supposed to calibrate for a while and then do its thing.

Can't wait to see it freak out when I eat a tub of ice cream.

Unscrewed the lid, turned it over and exclaimed "fuck that!"
Alcohol, patches, and the stabber thing.

Work is doing a pilot program for glucose monitors, and I'm part of it. Got a box of 9 in the mail, you stab em into you, link to the app, and they measure for 10 days.

#health

It's that time of year again. Apollo 11 launch anniversary is today, and Apollo in Realtime is such a cool archival project! Pairs really nicely with chill lo-fi music.

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Apollo 11 in Real Time

A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

Apollo 11 in Real Time

Why don't birds talk about economic policy?

or ...

what, precisely, has prevented birds from developing intergenerationally-transmissible culture, the way that humans have?

A fascinating essay with an evolutionary theory -- item #12 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read/subscribe here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-36-moon-rice-mountaineering-in-high/

Reminder that Pocket is shutting down tomorrow (July 8). There is still time to export your data. Place a request and they'll email you a link to download your bookmarks as a CSV file (with timestamps!) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-your-pocket-list
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Following another cancellation, I am looking for (remote) contract/freelance work. I am a game urbanist & designer (15 years experience), and can help with:

🏙️ game cities & urban environments
🪐 worldbuilding
🎲 game design & documentation

Contact me @ https://www.game-cities.com/about

#gamedev