adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

this week we’re selling a special one-time re-run of band tees and hoodies! doing it as a fundraiser in honour of my friend and bandmate michael who died in december after a long battle with cancer. all proceeds go to his wife and 9-yr-old daughter.

if you’re in canada and are able to support, please place your orders here: https://brantfordapparel.ca/collections/mgn-fundraiser

let my ivory subscription lapse to see if i could get used to using ice cubes all the time. made ice cubes feel quite a bit better by tweaking settings, but something just feels right about ivory that i miss! not sure it feels $20 good though. trying to pinpoint what the things are in ice cubes that make its UX inferior, but it does. the icon set and typographical things are part of it, i think.

anyone else get what i’m talking about?

what’re y’all using for mastodon clients these days?

milestone reached: son rans busted through his first snare head (whiplash-style). luckily we live around the corner from a music shop, so we were able to walk over and grab another (more minimalist?) remo powerstroke between snow squalls

as for the power supply, i ordered the weird 4 pin plug for it off mouser and a bench power supply capable of providing the 28v needed. if those successfully power up the unit, i can look into a more permanent arrangement. fingers crossed!

hoping maybe the snapped display base can be repaired with epoxy? if that’s not strong enough i guess someone in california still sells these bases for ~$200 (woof)

going to see if i can get my dad’s old G4 cube + CRT studio display working. has a burned out power supply (he thinks) and one of the monitor’s stand supports is snapped.

you could take this two ways, and they’re probably both true

From: @alfiekohn
https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/111850690746502895

eb even took the time to alphabetically sort the word library for this thing. having teens is great!

new conspiracy theory just dropped (on our fridge)

i’m at the end of knife of dreams if anyone’s curious. that’s the one where mat fulfills prophecy by marrying a girl he barely knows

re-reading the wheel of time book series, and robert jordan sure mentions women reacting to things by “smoothing their skirts” a lot. i’m not sure i’ve ever seen a woman do this in real life

but maybe that’s why the genre for these books is “fantasy”

my haircut lady always postpones our appointments, and it's the best feeling when she does!

latest updates to the "simplify gmail" browser extension are 😚👌 — the bundles, the saved searches, the little touches like not showing attachments in the list unless i'm *looking* for attachments, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM5hVyzRm4Q&t=5s

aut made a cranberry orange “dutch baby” and it’s delicious

tried on some glasses at the antique market and found my new look!

buried my friend and former bandmate michael nicholson on thursday. he had cancer back when we recorded the salvation navy, and was clear of it a decade ago. but it came back with a vengeance.

died last friday at hospice in brantford. left behind a wife and 9 year old child. brutal stuff.

here’s some old photos with both of us! (he’s in the red toque, hugging me from behind in the first one)

in one of my dreams last night, i was talking about playlists with someone using spotify and they asked me if there was such a thing as "apple itunes music" anymore. so i gave a breakdown of spotify vs. apple music. i still remember the specific points i made too. yikes