ScratchPad: SoundCloud, Sun Studio, Jamuary

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. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days 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.

▰ SoundCloud is reportedly for sale for one billion dollars (US). If the roughly 2,000 subscribers to the Disquiet Junto email announcement list each ponies up a half million, we could buy SoundCloud and make it a Junto-only playground. Let’s get on that.

▰ Remembering that tour of Sun Studio I took 20-plus years ago where the guide explained that some of the beloved echo in the recordings was the result of being in the hall just outside the bathroom

▰ The calendar is confusing. Firmwarebruary should precede Jamuary.

▰ It is quite possible I have gone 48 hours without misplacing my AirPods

▰ I got an extra copy of Eli Fieldsteel’s excellent new book, SuperCollider for the Creative Musician. I’ll be giving it away to a lucky reader at random in an issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter sometime between today’s issue and next Tuesday’s. Subscribe at thisweekinsound.substack.com.

▰ I don’t track my activity closely, but I do look back each morning at how many miles my phone, an iPhone 13, has inferred that I walked the day prior. It’s weird I have to pull this up on my phone because I can’t do so on my laptop, since so many other apps are cross-platform.

▰ Made it to 2024 without ’em, but I finally am picking up some USB-C cables that have USB Type B, USB Mini, and USB Micro ends. Using adapters has gotten ridiculously complex.

▰ Only way the final episode of Monarch’s first season coulda been better is if everyone who met the team upon their return was an ape

▰ The birds have gone bonkers this evening. It’s like corvid Gwar karaoke up and down the block.

Again, my current social media locations are listed here.