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January 2023

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o what a time to be alive..

• highlights from the month of January 2023
  • including but not limited to:
    • what i’ve been listening to
    • what i’ve watched
    • what i’ve read
    • what i’ve worked on
    • links of interest

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• current interests:
  • getting in to Python again
  • riding bikes

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• listening:

  • Toàn - Histós Lusis (2017)

  • Aphex Twin Ambient Mix

  • Eek A Mouse - Mouse A Mania (1988)

  • CAN - Little Star

  • Black Dice - Mr. Impossible (2012)

  • Bilboa Green - Bilboa Green (2021)

  • Moondog - Moondog 2 (1971)

    • coffee beans, you the vandal, pastoral

  • Baldor and the Euclidean Functions - Meditation Bells (2022)

  • LTJ Bukem Featuring MC Conrad - Progression Sessions 1 (1998)

  • Galaxie 500 - Today (1988)

  • Codeine - The White Birch (1994)

  • Chip Wickham - Cloud 10 (2022)

  • K. Leimer – Installation View (1983)

  • Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (2022)

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)

  • múm - finally we are no one (2002)

  • podcasts

    • Sonic Symbolism - Volta, Biophilia, Post, and
      • Vespertine
        • music for small speakers and compressed digital formats
          • made for laptops, on a laptop
        • mystical, cryptic, warm, erotic
        • has to have a microscopic, insect sound, whisper song
    • 99 Percent Invisible - The Divided Dial
    • many more…

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• reading:
  • How Do AIs’ Political Opinions Change As They Get Smarter And Better-Trained?
  • Amazon is ending AmazonSmile donation program
  • The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
  • Please Sell My Personal Information

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• watching:
  • Incantation (2022)
  • Wrong Turn (2020)
  • Saint Vincent (2014)
  • Men (2022)
  • John and the Hole (2021)
  • I Melted 1000 Cans into a Guitar()
  • Nothing, Forever - ai generated Seinfeld
  • Lessons in Musical Instrument Design from Star Trek

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• projects:
  • completed:
    • small shop table w/ casters
    • Panasonic Sport 1000 cleanup
    • Did my first round of volunteer work for NASA’s Exoplanet Watch
      • more details on the program here

        

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• misc..
  • calculateur - measuring the time ahead
    • “Using the number 1000 as a reference is precise enough for everyday use and relatable when referring to specific parts of the day. Midnight is 1000 (displayed as “NEW”), noon 500, and teatime 333. Even though it is technically a countdown it is not perceived like that, since checking the time usually happens at a glance, not continuously. The displayed number represents all the time we can still use, before we get another 1000 decimal minutes.”
    • example page (js)
    • browser extension
  • wikipedia got a UI update!

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• recommended:
  • If you have a tenor guitar, use it. If not, take some string off your normal guitar (less is more, ya know) and play around with tunings and chord shapes. What does a major scale sound like in this new tuning, what about a triad you play often? How can you use open strings to accentuate what you are learning?
  • Dish-washing liquid works wonders on clogged toilets…
  • poison ivy quiz

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