Minor Pleasures (2 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

Just dedicated an afternoon for the first time in a couple of decades to wandering around the national gallery. Forgot just how much stuff there is there. Some of the portraits in the portrait competition section are superb.

Also noteworthy how murky many of the paintings are. Do I remember that there is or was someone on thumped whose partner is an art restorer?

National museum today. it's gas how much smaller a space it is, compared to the gallery. joined a walking tour, not recommended; it's a whistle stop tour through a bunch of the more high profile exhibits and is mainly aimed at people with little or no knowledge of irish history but is so broad in scope it misses out loads.

 

[ann post]

Starting into planning my new* recording studio. Been months of not having a second for music and wee bit of daylight starting to show now. Already have a crappy 2 channel interface - gonna build around that for phase 1 and then when shortfalls present themselves i'll upgrade to a grown up one.


*I did a list of what i want to cover the stuff i want to mess with, I have most of it, just not the space setout to use it.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

This is a fuzz pedal I built from a kit years ago. Does the fat 60s/70s fuzz sound very very well, but a bit of a one trick pony. At some point I added switchable clipping sections (ge diodes) which just gave me more fat fuzz. I clipped a single wire this morning which means the pedal now switches between ‘stock’ fuzz, and no clipping section -the latter which interestingly gives me a half decent 80/90s hard rock distortion

 

[ernesto]

Starting into planning my new* recording studio. Been months of not having a second for music and wee bit of daylight starting to show now. Already have a crappy 2 channel interface - gonna build around that for phase 1 and then when shortfalls present themselves i'll upgrade to a grown up one.


*I did a list of what i want to cover the stuff i want to mess with, I have most of it, just not the space setout to use it.

Starting into planning my new* recording studio. Been months of not having a second for music and wee bit of daylight starting to show now. Already have a crappy 2 channel interface - gonna build around that for phase 1 and then when shortfalls present themselves i'll upgrade to a grown up one.


*I did a list of what i want to cover the stuff i want to mess with, I have most of it, just not the space setout to use it.

I'll probably be looking to offload a multi input FireWire rack interface in a few months time when I get the new one working

 

[ann post]

I'll probably be looking to offload a multi input FireWire rack interface in a few months time when I get the new one working

I'm kinda tied to USB as there are a number of laptops and things involved here that do different things. I dont like USB but I gotta cover work stuff aswell

 

[therealjohnny]

Shaky is back. And he is not happy.

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[chris d]

Posting so Jeffrey can get a hat.

 

[seanc]

Finished work early. Then accidentally drank eight pints. Now it's time to go to the pub.

 

[Anthony]

Deleted 50GB of data.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Deleted 50GB of data.

Nice work


Been trying to delete shit out of my Google storage like that king in the legend trying to beat back the waves

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I like listening to reviews of films I have no interest in seeing.
That's most new films basically.

 

[GO]

Shaky is back. And he is not happy.

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I love this song.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I like listening to reviews of films I have no interest in seeing.
That's most new films basically.

If there's a book I want to read, I'll read a bunch of reviews and magazine coverage of it.
Then go on Youtube and watch the author give bookshop readings and interviews and Q&As etc
Then I don't feel I really need to read the book - that I've got most of what I would have already
Mostly because I am cheap and also lazy

This works best with non-fiction obviously

 

[Kermit McDermott]

If there's a book I want to read, I'll read a bunch of reviews and magazine coverage of it.
Then go on Youtube and watch the author give bookshop readings and interviews and Q&As etc
Then I don't feel I really need to read the book - that I've got most of what I would have already
Mostly because I am cheap and also lazy

This works best with non-fiction obviously

Pure laziness

 

[Deadmanposting]

Pure laziness

reading a whole book is really fecking hard
for me anyways

 

[nuke terrorist]

reading a whole book is really fecking hard
for me anyways

my ability to read a whole book has all but gone.
I find concentration required really hard - ever notice the amount of words I leave out sentences?
I doubt I will ever even try to read a novel again.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I'm the same. I used to read a lot of books but just got out of the habit.
I've only read a handful in the last 15 years.

 

[egg_]

I re-read Steninbeck's Cannery Row there lately and it was fucking glorious

edit: also short, which is great

 

[Unicron]

Lads, if you stopped reading and don't wear glasses, consider getting your eyes tested.

I thought I'd lost the love for it, but it turns out that my eyes just weren't up to their old standard.

 

[therealjohnny]

I love this song.

A friend who is 99% metaller likes it too, saying it reminds him of The Mission