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a random blog about coding, cosplay and whatever else I may find interesting. not updated with any sort of frequency.

Taichi Yagami - Jacket from Digimon Adventure Tri

I've been so exicted for the 15th Anniversary of Digimon Adventure and to see the original digi-destined team in HD.

I had recently finished my cosplay of Taichi from season 1.  Once promotional images started to be released I knew wanted to make a go at the older version of Taichi as well.  I had never made a jacket before, so this would be a new challenge.

Neku Hoodie

Two years ago I made my second hoodie and designed it based on Neku Sakuraba from the DS Game The World Ends with You.  I wore it often, but was never fully happy with it.  Since the fit was a little too big, I wanted to give it another try.

This has been one of my favorite projects as it mixes cosplay and street fashion into something that's wearable everyday.

Code Testing with Flask, unittest and PyQuery

Over the last year I’ve been teaching programming.  The language of choice where i’ve been working is Python (which I had not used very much before going in).  Because of that, I’ve been making it a point to code as many of my personal projects as I can in the language.  Despite a long “love/hate” relationship over the first few months (python was my first language that uses syntactical whitespace), I’ve really grown to love it.

I’ve also become quite fond of the Flask framework for developing web applications.  I love its minimal approach to things, really getting out of …

Invasion of Ocean Beach

The US Navy invaded Ocean Beach on Wednesday and I actually took some time away from work long enough to go check it out.  It really was an impressive site to watch.  If you ever have a Hovercraft landing in your front yard, I recommend you go check it out!