Scratch Pad: Killer, Scavengers, Fretboard

I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. I take weekends and evenings off social media. 

▰ I thought it was funny that the billionaire in Fincher’s The Killer wears a Sub Pop t-shirt, but wondered if it shoulda coulda been Wax Trax! since he lives in Chicago.

▰ Hey, Apple Reminders added a “relative” date to the system, so I no longer need to manually update the date that defines my “Tomorrow” list. (I truly, for over a year, did this every morning.)

▰ I really enjoy reading books on my Kindle, but organizing virtual books isn’t much less time consuming than managing a large physical book collection

▰ Scavengers Reign episodes 1 – 6: Wow, there’s a lot of great sound in this TV series.

Scavengers Reign episode 7: Hey, let’s have the robot improvise a duet with one of the characters.

Scavengers Reign episode 8: Now let’s give one of the characters an audio recorder …

▰ Using Wikipedia to find a photo to accompany a field recording means selecting a Creative Commons image and then realizing that the Wikipedian who uploaded it was one of the inventors of the optical mouse and wrote a book titled Human and Machine Hearing: Extracting Meaning from Sound

▰ It’s 2023, and SoundCloud still caps the number of accounts you can follow to 2000 while providing no tools to root out accounts that have gone inactive.

Related:

Q: It’s 2023, so are people even using SoundCloud?

A: Yes they are.

▰ I generally try to practice guitar by looking at my fretboard as little as I possibly can. Finger-picking is the first thing I’ve done with guitar where it’s just plain better for me to not look at the fretboard. Watching my right hand when I’m picking is a bit like asking a centipede how it manages to walk.

▰ Honk if you’re waiting for the rain

▰ It’s that time of the year when I count how many weeks until the last Disquiet Junto project of this year and the first of next year, since they’re always specific projects (“journal” and “ice,” respectively). And there’s the anniversary of Disquiet.com, which turns a ripe 27 years of age on December 13.

▰ If you go back in time and see young me, let him know there’s this gadget in the future you can read comics on and listen to music on simultaneously