Dispatches from the Middle Circle

I have designed a new font called LINEAR TENDON… and it may be completely unusable, but it's too late, I already made it! I DARE you to figure out a place to use it! It's licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which pretty much means you can use it anywhere with no fuss. You can download it here!

It has 4 styles which vary how scattered and goopy it is, and has a small handful of alternate glyphs. You can see some of that here.

…and I already did some thinking of where and how it could be used. It's not the easiest to read, but who ever said fonts had to be readable??

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

A third promotional video for the "Patlabor the Case Files" game has been released showing a lot more of the game play. The accompanying press release notes the special edition of the game is still available for pre-order via the Good Smile Online Shop. I don't think it was announced previously, but the game has Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Korean language subtitle options.

Blanca is almost ready to paint (:

Gp02 is close but imma leave it here for now.

This is the first time I ever really sculpted outside of college, around 15 years ago. I'm not all that skilled w 3d media and often found myself very frustrated w not being able to portray the figures in my mind.

It's going a bit better now but I realize maybe air dry is too malleable to a fault: easy to make details but too soft when applying on top of each other so it squishes easily. Even w foil or armature.

I do enjoy making wonky robots w it, so I'll continue until I run out of clay.

Really difficult painting concave surfaces.

I inserted magnets so I can swivel it. Maybe they're a little too small but I wanted to get those jic for gunpla too

His arms are relegated to the dresser until I lock down some artfight stuff, but soon...