Hymn from a village.

[reddragdiva]

• When using this keyboard, you are required to wear a hat and loose tie and be smoking a cigarette.

• RationalWiki: a short article on Tupac Shakur. Any favourite (citable) conspiracy theories, put 'em in. This week I'm also trying to bring Project Blue Beam up to feature quality.

• My Wikimedia blog: Charles Matthews on the Public Relations problem.

• Rocknerd: So you think you have good ears.

We have a new stray cat! The younger teen adopted an elderly stray, couldn't look after her and has dumped blessed us with her. Her name is Frances, she has cataracts and she's a mean little thing who's thorougly intimidated the idiot youngster that's twice her size. The vet bills have already been horrifying.

arkady has decided to use the hell out of the Wacom tablet and paint thirty pictures in thirty days. See the Tumblr. All are available as prints from the DeviantArt page. BUY A SODDIN' PICTURE. COMMISSIONS ACCEPTED!

Arkady's homebrewed mead is also coming along very nicely. The agave nectar mead in particular is a remarkable success. Cheap and effective. You just need patience.

Listening to too much indushtral. The main difference between Hazell Dean and Front 242 is how much shouting the singer does. The trouble with Absurd Minds is that their entire ambition is to be early '90s Front 242, and they're not that good at it.

Comments

[quiet000001]

The Rocknerd thing was kind of interesting. I haven't done much with music for years but was in a pretty intensive piano program for a while as a kid, and my reaction is "people can't hear the difference? REALLY?"

Which is weird because I don't remember doing terribly well on the one computer game they had where we were supposed to identify the notes by sound. (This was Back In The Day, of course, so the tones sounded very electronic, and that completely threw me off because they just sounded WRONG relative to how I was expecting them to sound, in a way I found particularly unpleasant. I suspect I'd be better able to focus on the actual task involved in the game these days, since we can get computers to produce tones that do not make me go 'that is not a musical note, that is a computer beep!' instinctively.)

[reddragdiva]

Obviously you need more chiptune.