Something of a todo list

Writing this on a flight to Japan, and I’ve been thinking for some time that I really should have some kind of to-do list, some set of projects and things to work on.

Because it’s me and I am incapable of commitment, this takes the form of a set of ideas for things to do more than anything else. Stuff I want to work on, and maybe I will.

Concrete goose

Well, I do have a house, and I do think a low-poly goose would look really good in front of it. Especially if it had outfits. Since I don’t have a 3d printer in Japan, I probably wouldn’t actually try to make the goose this trip, but learning to model it would be a good start.

Blog

Like, come on, it’s been practically a year. This is probably top priority. The primary blocker is the JS image gallery stuff. Comments would be nice to have. A logo would be nice, but is definitely not required at this stage. Let’s try to commit to getting the blog done this trip.

MPD music system

I am really tired of itunes. The basic thing I want is more reliability or at least debugability. A better UI would be nice, although I’m not holding my breath for that one. Ability to have a “now playing” remote display. Control from a phone app, maybe.

Misskey install

Self-explanatory. Also depends on getting a logo put together, though. My plan is to run an instance on Amazon lightsail, maybe with a forwarder using the present nginx server.

Buying a huge pile of doujinshi

Heritage art form. I seriously and non-ironically plan to go to like 3 events and also hit a bunch of shops, because of course I do. Honestly this probably shouldn’t be on the list, because it’s more like my default behavior than something I need to remind myself to do. On the other hand, shipping myself a couple of m-bags does sound at least somewhat useful.

Finishing the album cover selection tool / more TLMC script stuff

This one’s really close to being done, and I do have to process the unsorted “temp version” from the beginning of this year. And I might have some more physical albums to add.

Japanese sentence diagram TeX

Also a thing I’ve been meaning to work on for years, also simple. (I mean, not that I actually know TeX, but the principle is pretty simple and well-understood.) Incidentally, the point of that is for flashcards, and with Fedora’s dropping Anki, I should find another flashcard program. Mnemosyne?

That seems like a prety good list. Of course, the odds are that I’ll ignore it completely, opting instead to wander around and be touristy, or else work on something not in the list at all.