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booked to speak in negative one day

14:38 Wednesday 09 May 2018 JST

I am not sure how all this works, but I plan to join Soness's Get Booked to Speak in a Week class starting tomorrow. So that means between tomorrow and the week after, I should get booked to speak. Does it count if I get booked today, before the class starts?

It's not really a speaking engagement, but come on out to Bar GariGari on June 1st for story telling night

mt3 dedicated domain

11:57 Wednesday 09 May 2018 JST

Hey Nathan

I am making a marble track, a.k.a. rolling ball track, similar to this
one I made several years ago, visible here https://mt2.robnugen.com/

This time, however, I am not just making the track, I am also making a
stop action animation of some characters making the track.  Clips of
the video so far are here https://mt3s.robnugen.com in a playlist.
(No audio nor background yet; that is a whole other project (I asked
you about Blender before))

The project is about 5% finished, and has taken a year to get this
far.  I don't have many followers yet, but I would like to have a
domain dedicated to the site while I build and document the whole
thing.

So basically, I want to make a site for the content visible here
https://mt3.robnugen.com/, but with branding specific to Marble Track
3, not Thunder Rabbit.

I think I "just" need a Hugo theme; I am using Hugo (static site
generator) to make the current site, including blog, photos, and
embedded Youtube videos.  I write pages in markdown format, using YAML
format for the frontmatter(1) (meta data: title, date, tags)

From this example source file
https://bitbucket.org/thunderrabbit/robnugen-journal-entries/raw/master/2018/05/02mt3-retested-large-marble.md

Hugo creates
https://new.robnugen.com/journal/2018/05/02/mt3-retested-large-marble/

I want to keep using that markdown + YAML format so I do not have to
disrupt my current workflow too much.

Here is my current theme https://github.com/thunderrabbit/purehugo-tr

How do we go about pricing such a thing?  I would be happy to include
a link to your site as designer.

   See you soon!
   - Rob

(1) https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/#front-matter-formats

21:35 Sunday 13 May 2018 JST

no reply yet

15:56 Monday 28 May 2018 JST

Still none. I wrote to Jackie.

mt3 plans

10:25 Wednesday 09 May 2018 JST

I am in the middle of making the marble splitter work for small marbles.

The manager has just glued one rail into place and will glue the inner rail next.

Next, the manager will:

• glue inner rail for small track
• test the too small marble (which will fail)
• eject too small marble
• test a correctly-sized small marble

At the same time, Reversable Guy (RG) will place the other splitter top rail. Only problem is holding it in place before there are supports for it.

Reversable Guy will:

• Lift the rail
• Get help from Pinky
• Call in some brown worms to act as supports
• Have Green Cutter(*) cut support

pieces to size and glue them in place.

Pinky will:

• help RG with the rail
• install some kind of berm for the large marble

Square head guy will:

• come back with the large marble
• help Pinky with the berm OR/and
• push the large marble up the ramp

(*) He is Green Cutter for no reason other than he is completely green, and he is the cutter. There are no other cutters (yet) on the set

Other things to be done:

• add berm to catch small marbles (near same place as the berm Pink

will add)

• add curved rail which will guide medium sized marble off the

small/medium splitter

• add small marble track extending clockwise from top of the three-way splitter
• using curvable bamboo skewers, add medium+large marble track extending the other way from top of the

three-way splitter

• carefully measure the circumfrence of the stage and calculate the

slope of the outer upper curved track so it will be just the right height when it loops all the way around.

• low-key add some ramps within the inside track which will double as

holders for this outer track.

After writing the above, I think I should create a removable ring track to be a stand-in for the actual track. That way the inner track will know exactly how high/low it needs to be a different places.

And now I think I am about ready to get a domain specifically for this project. Not sure how to have Hugo grab exactly one set of tags to make entries though. Is it too much trouble to maintain two different sets of entries? Can I do hardlinks in OS X?