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I’m thankful that Dyson is starting to talk. Mostly, he just repeats whatever we say. So of course, I had to take the opportunity to ask him what is best in life.

(If you don’t recognize the quote, it’s from Conan the Barbarian.)

I’ve been spending the last year or so working on a new feature for one of my apps.

That’s not as impressive as it sounds since I only a few minutes here and there to work on iPhone stuff but it’s one that I’m pretty excited about.

Can you guess which app and what the new feature is? (There’s a big hint in the upper left hand corner of the screenshot.)

A couple years ago, I blogged about our ofuro (Japanese bath). It turned out to be one of my more popular posts so when Miki Ebara, a reporter from NHK, started researching into Japanese baths in America, she found my blog post.

One thing led to another and she decided to make a trip out to our home with a small film crew to shoot a short bit at our house. (I suspect Dyson’s cuteness was a factor.)

I don’t know exactly when the segment is going to air (maybe December?), but it looks like we’re going to be on Japanese national TV taking a bath. And yes, Dyson and I are naked in it.

This week, I got to finish up the figure drawing that I started last week. I worked on trying to get the hands and feet right in addition to adding some more detail here and there.

I’m still a bit rusty, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. It helps a lot that the model, Linda, was great. It also helped out to be in a room full of artists who are much more talented than I am, although that can also be a little intimidating.

Last week, one of my customers reported that Holograms was crashing on their iOS 5 device. I couldn’t reproduce the problem, but I did find out that iOS 5 has some issues with parentViewController being replaced with presentingViewController. So I patched that up and issued a minor update, which also improves some memory issues.

So, if you were having memory issues with Holograms, try updating to the latest version.

On a developer note, issuing an update didn’t get me any more sales but I did find out that over a thousand people still have copies of Holograms on their devices, so that was pretty cool.

Now that Dyson is getting a little older and more independent, I don’t need to be around quite as much. So I took the opportunity to get back into figure drawing again this week.

This is a two week pose and each week is a four hour session. It’s been a while since I’ve been to one so I wasn’t sure how it would go, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.