Excuse me, what time is it now?

"Excuse me, what time is it now?" This' one of the toughest questions I have ever been asked. Yeah, that's especially true when we haven't invent watches or clocks on this lovely Planet, yet. Well, it's no longer an issue any more. After days and days of hard working, our R&D team (in fact it's a complex computational matrix installed in our only-PC on the planet) has finally invented a creative device to show the flow of time on Nekotopia. And it is my pleasure to announce to you this advanced time-measuring machines called PeriodMeter 1.0!!


Ever heard of sundial (on Earth)? Our PeriodMeter 1.0 does the same, but with more innovative and attractive features! Sundial measures time by shadow under sun-light, our PeriodMeter 1.0 shows different period on Nekotopia by tracking the rotation of the planet! That's cool, isn't it? By tracing the rotational angle, the meter will scroll itself simutaneously and shows you the current period of the day ! Rather than using shadow as an indicator like sundial, the meter actually demonstrates with well-drawn pictures for ease of understanding as well. Hopefully we can teach our children, if any on Nekotopia, about the concept of time much easier!



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I was thinking to show you the blue print of the design, yet I am afraid it is too difficult for far-Earth-inhabitant to understand our great intelligence, I have attached an instruction of using the PeriodMeter 1.0 for you instead.


The product is currently on-sale on Nekotopia, you may come along to the R&D HQ, simply the only-building with electrical wire connected, and get one for yourself and your famiily. Anyhow, currently we do not accept order from the far-Earth. I know there are quite a numbers of mailing services, like DHL, Fedex, or whatever-you-name-it, on Earth, you should better seek for their assistance in getting this product if you really want it.

Oh one more thing, the meter shows the period on Nekotopia only. Not the far-Earth. Sorry for my dearest far-Earth friends.


Cheers.
Your Almighty Creator from the Helpful Customer Service

Okay, let's take it SERIOUSLY.

Hi there, this is the author of the blog (yeah, the Real One on Earth). =)


This is the first entry I type as Myself, and, in this entry and the entries with the same label, there will be no more "Your Almighty Creator", instead, its creator. Yeah, that's Me.


Nekotopia was an idea that I have had for years, and is finally "visualized". The goal of this project is three-folded:

1) Find somewhere-else that is fancy enough for blogging my boring-and-repeating-and-sometime-meaningless daily life events. (I used Xanga btw.)

2) Instead of a "dead" blog, somehow the blog itself is "alive".

3) It should be a place for storage of my "random" artwork. (they are "random" because they won't be created if I have no inspiration anyway.)


Before playing Spore (you know, the DRM-cursed game from EA), I have no idea to design the blog with a theme of a Planet. Yet after the inspiration, it seems that it is a very good theme to bring the blog to live. Here's the "mapping" between the theme and the ideas/issues above.

a) The blog is designed as a planet which stimulate days & nights cycle, weather & climate changes, living creatures, even planet rotation & orbitting (thus the days and seasons), in a "virtual" way. Thus the blog looks alive. (pt.2)

b) Instead of scripting-oriented design, the blog focuses primarily the art-works with the usage of newbie-level programming skills for necessary effect. With the help of the theme, my design found its ground, and become the source of inspiration. (pt.3)

c) With a little help of role-playing entries, the blog is designed as a far-away planet with living creature(s), who observes lives on Earth continuously. Obvious enough, one of their observing subject is Me (on Earth). Thus my daily-life entries, without breaking the coherent of the theme of blog much. (pt.1)


The blog is thus created with partial storying-telling and realistic -tuned entries. I hope you won't be confused by the organization of this blog, I just want you to enjoy what you can enjoy most: me enjoys my dairy, my girlfriend enjoys my dairy (yeah, that's girls), my friends (may) enjoy my dairy, but my Dearest Cacual Blog Reader, yes You, can enjoy the virtual reality of the Planet Nekotopia.


Oh, I tend to type lengthy entries. =P
I better stop here, and I will demonstrate more ideas behind the creation of the blog.


Cheers,
Dickson W.

Sunrise, sunset, and the complete day cycle

Skelneko, the currently only creature on the planet, enjoys watching "sequences of pictures in motion" (or simply called "film") of Earth. Isn't Nekotopa far away from that blue-planet? How can it do that? Does it have long-sighted? Well, as a professional Creator, I am afraid I can't disclose my clients' privacy, yet (at least not now. XD). Anyhow, this little one does love the moment when the actor and actress are romancing under the beautiful sunset or sunrise, and he did propose to me about his wants in experience somethings similar.

"I feel lonely." It prayed in one of the nights. (Yeah I "listen" to prays as well.)

Well, although I feel sorry for him, I have no actual plan or schedule to give/bring/create him a soul-mate to spend time with... But, as the sunset and sunrise are part of the plan, I design to advance the schedule a bit, so that the creatures can at least enjoy the beauty of the nature.

Here's the new cycle of different periods in a day that you may experience when visiting Nekotopia.




Having Skelneko as the only creature on the planet is cruel? Nay, I am just busy anyway.


Cheers.
Your Almighty Creator

Day and Night (when Planet starts its rotation...)

After hours of fine configuration of the Planet physical behavior, it can now rotate similar to the far-away-blue-planet called "Earth". And thus, finally, we now have days and nights in our Planet Nekotopia! Bravo!

In terms of Earth timing unit, our Planet takes 8 Earth-hours to have a complete rotation, meaning that it takes 8 hours on Earth to finish a day on Nekotopia. Currently both day-time and night-time share same amount of Earth-hours, i.e. it takes 4 Earth-hours to switch from day to night and vice versa. It's lovely, isn't it?

Oh, for those who don't understand. or just don't want to understand astronomy, here's a duty-shift schedule memo distributed "internally":




So now the Planet inhabitants can have chance to say "Good Morning" and "Good Evening" to each other, what's next? Hm.... how about a beautiful Sunrise / Sunset for them to enjoy, or maybe a snow-covered Winter for them to go skiing, or some rainy day so that the plants will not be thirsted or even dehydrated?

Anyhow, you know, painting the sky is simply too tiresome for a new Creator like me. The God-on-Earth took a rest at the seventh day of the Earth creation, well, I think I shall do the same on my third day then.


Cheers,
Your Almight Creator

Hello, World !

Planet Nekotopia is now born !!

While "The Creator" is still busy for the painting of the night sky and the colors tuning for sunrises, how about you leave a comment here for the only-and-lonely adorable creature, Skelneko, who is fishing at the beach, in this lovely planet?


Cheers.
Your Almighty Creator.