Scratch Pad: Belew, Dissonance, Roden

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.

▰ Kinda wish sleeping laptops snored

▰ Adrian Belew was great as David Byrne for the Remain in Light tribute. I imagine he’ll be at least as good as Adrian Belew.

▰ My guitar teacher, stating what should be patently obvious to me: “So, we can agree this chord is more dissonant.”

Me: “Er, not if you listen to the music I do, apparently.”

▰ Step 1: I use Chrome.

Step 2: For privacy I’ll use Safari. A few things run better in Chrome.

Step 3: Safari’s slow. I try Brave, but it’s not great with sound. I’ll use Safari and Chrome, too.

Step 4: I try Firefox, but I’m too busy to tweak all its privacy stuff. Now I have four browsers going.

▰ I spent the morning scanning documents related to comics I edited in the 1990s, which led to me using an ancient device called a staple remover. For lunch I wanted some lentil soup, and the pull-top broke, so I had to use a can opener. I swear the day won’t end before I am required to fax something.

▰ Just listening to an old Steve Roden album in the car while it rains