sudofox's journal

Austin Burk's journal, where I share little snippets of my writing, code, and dreams.

Entries from 2015-01-01 to 1 year

Reflections on, and things to consider about, Republic Wireless

I got my first cell phone the day I graduated from high school, in June of 2014. It was a 1st-gen Motorola Moto G with Republic Wireless. At first it started out alright, but it quickly slowed down. This model didn't have 4G, either. Memor…

Some notes about Flipnote Hatena's .nbf background format

We're working on the nbf top-screen background format used on Flipnote Hatena. We're making some progress. The nbf files appear to be composed of three sections. Hatena seems to have reused what I call the ugomenu format; which is also use…

Update on Stolen DSi

My Nintendo DSi was stolen several weeks ago. I've given up hoping it'll be turned in to Lansing Community College Public Safety and will be putting up STOLEN posters soon offering a reward upon return. I'm done fooling around hoping someo…

Cat Thoughts

It's a commonly known fact that when people keep us as pets, they feed us a dry thing that keeps us alive, but tastes like crap. This is called, "cat food". Obviously, we eat a bit when the humans are around, but when they aren't? Crack op…

Miidonia (Part 1 of many) by Austin Burk (Sudofox)

I've been writing a story, called MIIDONIA. If you like it, please follow me on Miiverse! I'll post it here, too. In order to view it with the proper formatting, you have to see it on Miiverse; the embedded posts remove line breaks. Thanks…

What's for lunch, March 9th

Today I made onion soup for lunch. I prepared four cups of thinly sliced onions, four cups of water, a half tablespoon of flower, a half teaspoon of sugar, three tablespoons of butter, and bought a loaf of French bread at the store; and ma…

What's for dinner, March 6th

I made spaghetti and meatballs today. It turned out very well. Yum!

Thoughts

There's a pretty girl sitting next to me on the bus but she's looking at her phone.そこにバスに私の隣に座っているかわいい女の子ですが、彼女は彼女の電話を見ている. I should've said Hi when she first got on but now I've missed my chance. 彼…

What's for dinner, February 22nd.

I made dinner today. Thank you id:hatenalunch for the idea of onion corn chowder. The meal Onion corn chowderI made a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, a little celery, and homemade croutons. I didn't have any croutons, so I decided…

Apology to Hatena Haiku

We all make bad choices from time to time, and sometimes we make choices that are simply stupid. I have made such a choice by deciding to try to get people to use Hatena services :( 私たちは皆、時々間違った選択をし、時には我々は、単純に愚…

Adding Hatena Star to Sudomemo

Hatena Star is being integrated into Sudomemo! It will be completely separate from the Sudomemo star system, but may allow for commenting on Flipnotes from the desktop website. The desktop site has also had some changes to make it more fri…

Which one of three is the real Husky Hat?

Valentine cat

Good morning my floofy kittyYou're warm and fuzzy and niceQuit licking my face please I don't have a valentine so you'll have to do I'll get you cat snacks and tuna too No no no that does not mean you can kiss me quit that it tickles I lov…

The lion roars

Aaaaiee!! I have woken the lion!!私はライオンを目覚めてきた!"WHY HAVE YOU DISTURBED MY SLUMBER??"「なぜあなたは私の眠りを邪魔持っている??!?」 "GO, NOW BEFORE I MAKE A MEAL OF YOU!!"「私はあなたの食事を作る前に、今行く!!! 」

Husky Hat Tech Yak bugs

Today, Yik Yak made some changes that messed up my Michigan Tech Yik Yak livestream site, http://nmu.edu.pl/yak. I was able to make it work again, but for some unknown reason, it only works when running the API requests through Fiddler Web…

Oops, forgot to post to my blog yesterday

I've been trying to post everyday, but sometimes that doesn't work out. I was busy doing homework yesterday.

Announcing the Sudomemo 3DFlipnote Tool!

Now, the moment you've all been waiting for: I'm proud to announce the Sudomemo 3DFlipnote Tool!It can be found here: http://www.sudomemo.net/3DFTool We've been working hard on figuring out the Flipnote Studio 3D Flipnote format! While we …

Coming Soon: 3DFlipnote File Reader

Flipnote 3D File Information

Ron

This article should be translated into Japanese soon. I apologize for any inconvenience in the meantime.I met a guy called Ron at the bus stop today. Older gent, was a truck driver for years. We talked for a few minutes about Haslett and w…

A new experience with copyright (著作権と新しい経験)

This article will be translated into Japanese tomorrow. この記事では、日本の明日に変換されます。On the website I run, called Sudomemo, people post Flipbook animations, called Flipnotes, from their Nintendo DSis. Sometimes people have issue…

Fluorescent Rocks

Here is a comparison of fluorescent rocks under normal light vs. a ultraviolet ("black ") light. これは、UV光対通常の光で蛍光岩の比較である。 A lot of the fluorescing rocks come from the town of Franklin, New Jersey, USA (" the Fluorescent…

Newspaper cat

This is my cat. He enjoys reading his newspaper. これは私のねこです。 彼は, 新聞を読んで楽しんでいます。The comics section is especially interesting today. 今日では、漫画セクションはとても面白いです。

I still really want a shirt like this.

Maybe not that color.

Hatena Haiku woes

@jkondo @hatenapr Please fix Haiku! Most of us are blocked and it's very hard to use! pic.twitter.com/i8wjIeQXBH— Austin Burk (@Sudomemo) January 29, 2015 Sadly, English Hatena Haiku shut down. Some of us have moved to the Japanese version…

Regarding scale.

Dynamically appending stylesheets for a single-stylesheet environment (Apache, PHP)

Challenge: Flipnote Studio only supports using one external stylesheet link and I don't want to have to modify every stylesheet to add custom styling. My solution: Execute CSS as PHP! In the .htaccess for the DSi CSS folder: <FilesMatch ".css$"> AddType appli</filesmatch>…

The forest's affection

Above: My own forest refuge, a beautiful pine forest in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, from which I drew to make the setting. Someone asked that I write something about a forest, or perhaps love. The age-old maze of pines and firs and needles is …

Moving to Hatena Blog

Starting today, I will use Hatena Blog. I really like Hatena, and although they can't acknowledge or reply to me in any way (I believe that it is for legal reasons, or perhaps to discourage me), I want to thank them for creating such a won…