adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

HDMI just feels so bad — the cables always feel loose in their ports yet are difficult to get in, as if somethings going to break if i push too hard. and then they flake out, needing a little wiggle or tilt to start working again. icky.

@niclake oh yeah? i’ll have to look that up. messing with it is easy and fun, but getting specific results is harder (playing wise and knowing how to tweak the modelling) so i’m def gonna be looking for technique details.

this guy shows how to reproduce the dune soundtrack so gonna attempt that soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnb-Ie6-0Sw

after years of wanting one, bought a used roli seaboard off a local reverb guy, and it is so fun to mess around with!

@levisan the others besides != i’m not even sure i would interpret as ≠

@levisan on mac i just hit option-= to get the real ≠, but if i was writing to coders (or myself about code) i might use !=

can you imagine if notion had a major data loss issue? just had a hiccup where my last month of worklogs weren’t loading on the calendar… and the panic!

maybe i will start to periodically export for peace of mind.

@levisan positive way to frame it for the "old fogies" (which is what i interpreted "mature" meant really, as a polite ephemism)

listening to: https://pca.st/episode/d3d7b568-f8c5-4a68-928e-206d4fdc8205

steve albini's 5 perfect albums, (according to austin kleon) — apple playlist: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/production-steve-albini/pl.u-d2b0Z5ZIPg9Nk

@NanoRaptor @JennyFluff with time-release, watch out for long term symptoms of sleep deprivation etc. i switched from regular ritalin (which i’d taken for years) to vyvanse + dex a few years back and it was great (much better than rit) for a few months, but then slowly i started getting audio hallucinations + paranoia. thankfully they faded after switching back to “inferior” ritalin!

you guys know brain worms are not particularly rare, right? there’s a non-zero chance you yourself have had one, especially if you ever ate food prepared by ppl who ever go to tropical countries. tapeworm and hookworm are super common culprits, but others too

found an old photo of myself from back when we were recording the false heroics “salvation navy” album. i miss that cardigan!

@levisan a motto to live by!

moodboard 2024-05-07 5:37pm

@mike i wouldnt choose it, for sure! thankfully the team i do web dev/IT work for recently switched from asana to notion! i've been running a notion kanban in parallel to whatever other software my teams have used to keep things straight for myself for ~6yr now, so i'm a happy clam

guess my photo of the dosa didn’t get uploaded somehow. check out this big ol fella!

@mike asana’s not great, but it’s far from the worst! i speak as someone who has been on teams using everything from wrike to teamwork projects to jira to airtable

4 foot dosa @ rangoli for my sister’s birthday — pretty good!

how communists made unbreakable glass (and perhaps predictably, couldnt sell it in the west because it wasnt disposable enough): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvBpjCOBu0