# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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low fidelity != low consideration
I'll take a bit of Spring now, thanks
lmdb looks like it might make a wonderful embedded replacement for redis in astrid instruments!
I've never had a punch-tape style label maker before. This is super fun. Labels for everything!
Radbound Mens' Three Pieces for Upper Partial Tones is very enjoyable on tape. Ever so slight wow and flutter bubbles nicely onto the surface of the long tones.
Hm, I just realized I probably need to finish the piano roll before I can finish 3walks...
Very nice having a working cassette player again. I'm in a virtual jungle of lawnmowers with Coppice's Bypass Ideal tape. #nowplaying
Sam Scranton's new album _Body Pillow_ lives up to its name. Giving it a big hug again this morning. #nowplaying
The temp forecast here for the next 48 hours looks like a straight line. It'll be hovering a few degrees above freezing, day and night, just fluctuating by a degree or two. Odd.
The Rolling Stones doing Sympathy for the Devil always makes me think of slow panning studio shots interspersed with young people holding machine guns. Good job, Godard.
New Helado Negro day!! #nowplaying
lab notebook lab notebook lab notebook!
It's like USB ports with python's datetime module and linux's timedatectl. Never type the right one first!
The Vivaldi CD playing at my parent's house has been skipping constantly on loop for the last couple hours. It's very nice. Nobody seems to have noticed.
spearing from a dark house
prepare yourself for the moon-ship journey... journey on the moon-ship...
Archie Shepp! I haven't come back to this in a while. There's something that feels like the day is underway in this record. Those opening warbly tones into the pulse-world and beyond stroll along.
Today's a hydrophone dunking day
I kinda wish tmux a would just create a new session if there's no session already to attach to. I probably do that once a day.
What ho! I've got nothing to say.
I really like it when a project gets down to simple bugs. Off by one errors, typos, this sort of thing. They're frustrating to uncover, but the feeling of sanity when the problem is no great mystery is pretty nice.
Windows open, internet off
Hmmmmm, I haven't been posting here much this year. Seems to be the same for everyone I'm following. Did everyone move to the fediverse? I'm @erik@erik if anyone is reading. (But I think I'll keep posting here now & then, because it's fun.)
After tomorrow I'm taking a work vacation and I'm putting my computers away, disconnecting the modem and the phone to read and screw around on the trombone for a few days. I'm soooo excited about this.
I've been getting tinnitus a lot more than usual recently. I think it's just stress. Noticed just now that it was gone, and I opened up HN and it started up again. So, maybe time for a break from that sinkhole too.
The parks department is having the city attorney draft an agreement so I can go record the sounds of fish under ice. I'm kind of amazed they're actually being very cool about it.
How on earth does anyone make life work?
So many times in my life, I run away. I'm only just beginning to recognize this and consider the impact it's had. No wonder...
My mom has, since the 90s referred to seat heaters (in a car) as heat seaters. I now regard this as the correct designation.
The best social media is probably no social media.
The fediverse was fun while it lasted. Thanks for all the good memories.
The snow has stuck for good
One delight after another
There's a little bit of driftwood sticking its nose just above the surface making its way down the river in front of me. I like to imagine there's a little creature (perhaps a squirrel, or a small vole) with scuba gear having a nice morning swim.
Dang, tmux can be configured to work pretty much exactly like dwm... maybe I'll extend this text-mode vacation longer than planned. Using fbterm with tmux configured like dwm (https://github.com/oliverlew-dotfiles for inspiration!) is pretty comfy. (And super fast, I always forget how much faster it feels to type into the framebuffer more directly.)
Going on a text-mode vacation
The scope of unicode is so cool
A frost advisory already! I'm not ready to be inside all the time again...
So collllld today. Hope autumn isn't already over here!
I left my hotspot at home today... and discovered that the park actually has wifi all this time. I just assumed all the networks were restricted for nearby businesses, but the local ISP has a very cheap ($10/month or ad hoc for cheaper) service available -- all around town, too. This is very useful to know for planning sound installations for next year. I've been thinking about how best to embed some microphones that could be shared with the installation around town, this makes it doable without making a special network!
Oh yes I did just send an AppImage app to a bud. Said bud *opened said AppImage* (with only minimal forewarning and pre-instruction) and *ran said AppImage* and ALL WAS WELL. (We're both linux users so that made it easy.)
Yes! My friend is interested in discussing The Practice of Programming as we read it together. Hopefully more friends forthcoming via peer pressure. ;-) I just finished the first chapter this afternoon. There's a recommendation to not use #define for numerical constants, and use const instead (except for array bounds -- which, I don't think is a problem post-c99?) which I don't totally understand. Using something with strict and well-known types versus something that could be truncated or promoted if not careful makes sense I guess, but the book never goes into specifics as to why they don't like #define for numerical constants.
My old game was: cold/flu or allergies? You can probably guess the new game. :-) Had some sniffles but I tested negative again so I think it's allergies in the lead right now.
There's an older feller who has been in the park all day today, near the place I've been hanging out. He's got his bike leaned against a tree. Took a nap for a few hours, moved slightly around the tree back into shade, and is having something to eat now. I hope this is me when I'm his age.
There are some very curious squirrels around here. My friend this morning at the park keeps checking to see if I'm looking while he hunts for nuts. It's pretty dang cute.
The buildings downtown have such nice reflections.
I feel like I forgot how to make sentences, but somehow I made it through pitching a very vague idea for a sound installation and concert series at the outdoor beer garden down the street from my apartment. They're interested! Now I'm working on planning the 2023 program. This is exciting, he says glancing over an apartment full of other projects. This is exciting.
I made a new fediverse account (erik@post.hcj.sh) though, knowing me, I'll delete it again soon enough. Nice to check in on what's going on again though!
Salsa goes with everything
haha, I was wondering where the subtle mysterious smell of wet grossness was coming from. it's not me, the table I picked for my park office hours today has a big ole pile of dog poop next to it.
Dang, Christof Kurzmann and Burkhard Stangl are still doing something really special.
The fourier transform and its applications: a bicycle for the ears
I've changed my thinking about cannabis being mostly benign.
Wow, I've had some mysterious issues for weeks now. Applications taking 30-40 seconds to start, weird pipewire crashes... digging around I found some open bug reports for flatpak and xdg-desktop-portal. Sure enough, removing flatpak from my system (don't even remember why it was installed in the first place, probably I was trying something out) has fixed the slow loading issue, and so far no weirdness with pipewire either. For shame, flatpak.
Computer pet names through the years: lewis, laurie, hanno, greta, gorne, brun, ana, george, lake. One of these things is not like the other. :-)
Keith Freund's Constant Comments LP has aged so well.
Amtrak, why? You have funding and now your booking system seems more broken than I've ever experienced.
LOL. I just watched a large bird swoop over an uncovered drydocked yacht (my studio is near such a place) and take a giant poop on it.
All the tests are passing in my computer music software. Pretty sure that's the first time. Better write some more tests.
I really enjoy C. I'm getting C++-curious these days, too. Also: nim! There are so many great languages and the old ones seem to be getting better and better too...
I spent all of last night trying to debug a hardware issue with a fader I'm using on a little arduino project. I still have no idea what I managed to do to it. Ended up swapping it out for a new one which was like 2 minutes of soldering and heatshrink versus hours of frustrated debugging. This stuff just stops me in my tracks, I have no idea how to debug it or when to switch approaches etc. I think this was a learning experience though.
Basic electronics is ... tough. Debugging hardware is crazy difficult for this feller.
Also thinking maybe it's time to add @reply support to my twtxt client... but a little worried that's gonna be too social media-y for me...
I think I'm gonna bring parts of my solenoid project to Milwaukee on my next trip. (That's where the folks who have been helping me with basic electronics stuff reside.) I'm probably going to bring my dorky safety glasses and soldering mask because I know they don't have them. :-p
There is a little spider spinning his little web, but it looks like he is flying. I can sorta see where his web extends in one direction, but not at all in the other. It's like he's climbing on thin air. Amazing work, little dude.
Finding that C idioms I'm using in my computer music are starting to slip into other contexts at my dayjob. I think this is good.
Shifting into a realtime zone these days. I've been working (by intention, because I like it) non-realtime for so long, this is fun. Also I miss improvising with friends. Very much.
Pretty sobering to listen back to a rough cut of an album my band never finished and realize it's not very good. There are good moments, but I remember feeling like we could tweak it a little and call it done. Glad that didn't happen.
I'm getting back into max/msp, which is good. I'm also feeling like I'm getting back into a depression rut, which is not as good. So that's the update.
Long convolutions of bell sounds: yes.
My face is always fixed in a delighted, confused twist when I listen to DOMi & JD BECK.
overworking material is my favorite thing to do, but it's nicest when I can take a handful of steps back and reclaim the earlier threads. sometimes I just need to get it out of my system I think. archaeology like that within a project is one of the nicer aspects of studio magic that I don't always think about.
Covid isolation period, done! I'm going outside forever, see ya.
It's a bit awkward to be a brass player that doesn't usually much care for the sound of brass. At least this is generally the place I arrive when I'm working brass into my music, like I'm doing now.
It's my final day of covid isolation today!
Ryonkt's Troposphere (2012 Twice Removed Records) has become an old friend.
I love hanging out with these little birds in my neighborhood; often puffed up a bit so they look like a perfect sphere, hopping around and chirping at the world. Not taking any shit from anyone.
thank you for your service, little spider
Come on in, the fediverse is fine