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Some year indeed.
I'm not sure I can think of a lot redeeming about it, but things are moving forward too fast to stop. Here's to carving out some kind of stable existence in the next one. |
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It's funny -- that wasn't my experience at all, actually. Tended to feel like people went through the same empty rituals to be part of similar groups, no one just did their own thing, etc.
There are some corners where this isn't the case, but for the most part I'm sick of Mastodon and Twitter for similar reasons. I don't want to post from a template or a canon range of topics -- I just want to talk. People don't really do that now -- it's always some kind of status game (often a laughably transparent or empty one). |
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I don't really remember all of mine, but...
-I got some basic FPGA stuff done, but not half as much as I wanted.
-I'm not atrophying money, at least.
-I didn't really get in much better shape, though skating fixed that for a little while.
2019 is probably going to look like:
-Do actual DSP work on these little FPGAs (or some bigger ones...)
-Make some actual music, finally.
-Run at least semi-regularly again.
Pretty standard. I'm happy they aren't identical to last year anyway... |
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Originally posted by Xkeeper
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Since I don't think I mentioned it here, I got a TinyFPGA! Probably not a necessary purchase, but a fun one. The "bootloader" system is a bit clever, even if it doesn't retain configuration through power cycles like the ice40 HX8K evaluation board I already have. Headers and parts for an analog project soon to follow...
What're you gonna do with it? 
Things I want to try right now are...fairly simple: SPI to a bunch of QAM outputs, then interfacing it with an external analog/digital converter and implementing the FFT. The code is about half done for SPI -> QAM -- hopefully not much longer. I know a small synthesizer w/ PWM output is pretty cliche, but I kinda want to do that too. Probably not super exciting on its own, but...
(also for clarification, the analog project is centered around an STM32 board, not the tinyFPGA) |
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"masculine cockiness" is an interesting takeaway from Since I Left You. It makes me uncomfortable too, but for completely different reasons... It still has a pretty strong atmosphere for me I think, but it's not a fun listen anymore. There's definitely a kind of...hubris running through it -- a lot of movies I was dragged to as a kid seemed to have this nauseating assumption the world was only ~incidentally~ doing anyone harm, and I get the same feeling from Since I Left You. I don't know, really... Early solo Tricky I don't see either -- Maxinquaye did not feel like a remotely happy or "confident" album to me tonally, and Nearly God even less so. Not that I'm huge into trip-hop anymore.
Depreciation Guild is nostalgic -- I liked the album that came after In Her Gentle Jaws as a kid. I relistened recently, and while I'm not much for this stuff anymore, it was nice hearing Dream About Me again. Deftones too actually -- I think I can blame hearing 7 Words at 12 or so for all of the super confrontational noise, grindcore etc. I got into later, especially Chino Moreno gasping "Your fucking mind was gone..." in the second verse. It's a pretty terrible track listening now, but it's a funny connection to make.
Not a ton new to report on my end, lots of Fishmans - Long Season again for some reason.
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Don't have the energy for a full post, but wanted to mention two albums:
-Ditto - Texas Electric. This is a bizarre album. I think this track and its cover art should give enough idea...
-Hiroshi Morohashi - Time Note. Inconsistent, but often beautiful soup of techno, downtempo, IDM etc etc (and the cat on the front of the cover is cool). |
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Ok, how about a full one with stuff I missed?
Bloodz Boi & Fotan Laiki - Dong Leng Cha
Sunship - City Life (Minimal Mix) Pretty, wistful UKG I probably don't need to say much about.
László Hortobágyi - Transreplica Meccano. Technically should be something I hate because of all the 80s exoticism, but it's just such a strange distortion of it I find it hard to worry about the original intent.
Fungus & Tongue - Stomach of Moon
The Dead C - Operation of the Sonne. Mordant Heaven is noteworthy in particular, since it's one of the most structured/inviting 90s Dead C tracks besides Love.
I also tried that Machine Girl album from last year. Wasn't huge on it -- I feel like if you're going to start pulling stuff from old rave music like this you a) need to be much more genuinely aggressive than that album was (I know this is an odd complaint for something where most of the vocals are shouting, but...) and b) need to be committed to what made that stuff disorienting/arresting/exciting to listen to on a greater level...
Still waiting for the draining, paranoid 25 minute blast of EBM/acid/noise/no-wave with mic-distorting screams that sound more like fear than anger and dense, treble-heavy, misfiring drum patterns I was hoping for...
Also, the MDK soundtrack, as ripped from my PS1 copy, remains very good.
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| I've never known what "fandom" even means honestly -- I have a lot of interests and hobbies, some of them have something to do with fictional characters, and I share them with some friends. Do I qualify? |
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| I actually tend to stick around 30 mutuals. The problem is more complex than that. |
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| 23 episodes into HunterXHunter. This is probably the most emotionally invested I've been in a shounen show...ever? |
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It's great, and was pretty cheap. |
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Originally posted by Rambly
the national > national emergency being declared to fund trump's border wall
- ive never even listened to the national
- they kinda seem like knock off r.e.m.
- they could suck ass for all i know (im not saying they do, i have no opinion......)
- but they'd probably suck ass less than trum's stupid border wall
- trup...donald trup. hes.....hes....hes, f*UCKING bad!
I listened to High Violet for a bit in early HS, regrettably. Narcissistic WASP self-pity music, from what I remember...
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| DIYing the cable's a great idea! Thanks. I will probably take you up on this, since I'm not paying some idiot on ebay 20 bucks for a cable that's just carrying UART. |
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This blend of Noctilucents and Uli Ki works better than it has any right to.
No time for links other than that, but Asmus Tietchens & David Lee Myers - Flussdichte is solid drone -- David Lee Myers/Arcane Device used homemade electronics to process feedback in a controlled manner, and Asmus Tietchens is a German electronic artist with a very wide range of output I also don't have time to cover here.
Bit of Levon Vincent as well -- fairly famous house artist it should be easy to dig info up on if that's your thing.
School's put a damper on exploration somewhat, but hopefully soon.
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| I'm not sure of anyone I know that doesn't appreciate them on some level, but I do agree there are a billion great kinds of sandwich. I still need to find a place that does a proper banh mi here. This stuff with a lot of anchovies is actually kind of stellar, also. Another thing I tried making that was good here... |
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Desktop motherboard is dead, and I've been stuck programming the same thing for days unable to replace it.
Newfound appreciation for places like Jul that aren't social media and don't require me to maintain a connection to interact with people. Sigh... |
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Originally posted by Rambly
Originally posted by hydra-calm
I listened to High Violet for a bit in early HS, regrettably. Narcissistic WASP self-pity music, from what I remember...
Not a bad insult.
man i don't even like the national but you just strike me as a really hateful, boring person to be around
For...for something like this?
I guess I misread the tone of what you were saying -- I didn't mean it to be taken that strongly. Sorry. |
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| It's still quite useful, 2019 or not. Lots of out of print or otherwise obnoxious to get stuff lives there in OK quality. |
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| 6 seconds doesn't bother me much. I'm concerned for what will happen when it's truly a seamless thing, though. Basically the end of my interaction with speedrunning as a hobby... Though I guess that's not such a horrible thing, the way twitch has poisoned it already. |
