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As usual, I’m the only vegan at work. However there is this guy who thinks I’m missing out because life is apparently about bacon. I told him pigs are friends, not food. He also asks about why I don’t do dairy and eggs and I told him there was no time to get into it at work. If he really wanted to know there are plenty of good documentaries and books.

But since he pestered me I gave him the short answers. I don’t breastfeed because I’m an adult and eggs come from vaginas and I don’t like vaginas.

This is the first video of Caitlyn Jenner I have ever seen. I remember seeing the magazine cover years ago but never cared because I didn’t even know who Bruce Jenner was. I don’t watch tv or care about celebrities in general.

However I will say this. When a famous athlete who is the very example of what society thinks a man is still doesn’t feel like a man, it’s a lesson to everyone.

I have observed that the social value of a man is measured in his strength and money. People objectify men in a different way than women but it’s still wrong.

So when a strong rich man turns into a woman, society goes mad. They don’t know how to fit this into their beliefs about how the world works. That’s why I’m a fan of Caitlyn, for that reason alone. Thanks for making people think.

I’m working on a new image format. I’m pretty sure the layout of the format is final. It has all the features of my BBM format but uses a new header which allows for comments because the 4 bytes at address 0x0C are the pointer to the pixel data. This means literally anything could be between the header and the data. In this example a small comment of the name of the format: “Binary Pixel Map”. These screenshots show the equivalent PBM file and the checkerboard that it looks like.

The goal of this format is to be able to eventually support any type of image whether monochrome, grayscale, or full color RGB. The code needs work but if I made a good conversion tool people would see why my format is superior to several others with the exception of compression because I don’t know how that works yet, but I do have a book on it.

I learned something about the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It runs Linux ELF executables that were compiled for Linux. It’s possible to write a program with this system and create something that would run on a 64 bit Linux operating system assuming it also had an Intel CPU.

The one restriction is that the WSL can’t run GUI apps and is limited to console only. That’s not a real problem for me since I don’t have the skill for that anyway, yet.

But the fact that Microsoft allows installing Ubuntu Linux inside Windows and the environment runs faster than using a PC emulator means that I now have an additional method of compiling C programs and could produce Linux versions.

I don’t yet have something ready to publish but I thought of an idea. I could have something that asked a user the details of what kind of checkerboard they wanted. It has 4 variables they could choose.

Image Width

Image Height

Square Size

First color

Second color

I normally set these variables within a C program and recompile whenever I feel like making something. But the concept is simple enough that all it requires is a few scanf calls to request input from a user.

I wrote new functions tonight. I made a big function that automatically writes the PBM,PGM, or PPM formats depending on whether the bits per pixel is 1,2,4,8,3,6,12, or 24. All other values fail. However these allow me to create PNG files the same as I could with the pam format with the pngtopng tool. I also wrote a function that can XOR every pixel in an image with a color.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/chastity-checkerboard/files/releases/tar/bbm-8-4-2019.tar/download