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I worked out some arpeggios that I *think* will work well as part of a guitar solo. The thing is, I can’t play them up to speed yet. To de-risk me practicing them and not actually sounding good, I prototyped it in MIDI, and it does sound decent.Comments
However, there is still the chance it does not sound right on guitar after all that. This feels incredibly product development like. This is why it’s better to be able to just shred shit out like the pros. -
I thought this Wily photo was pretty good Photography.Comments
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This grass wedge is fantastic. The interior’s really sterile like a lot of modern architecture, but as a whole, it’s very close to being a present-day Bag End.Comments
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I was out on the playground willingly talking about grilling and things a neighbor could do with their front yard. My Hank Hill-ization continues.Comments
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35-minute run, 12 pull-ups. It was incredibly refreshing. The Christmas Film is cleared from my brain! Though Christmas this year wasn’t much different from the rest of the days, so I’m not sure why a film developed.Comments
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This religious ceremony in Arrow of God is a reenactment of a story from the tribe’s religion:Comments
As he approached the centre of the market place Ezeulu reenacted the First Coming of Ulu and how each of the four Days put obstacles in his way.
“At that time, when lizards were still in ones and twos, the whole people assembled and chose me to carry their new deity. I said to them:
“ ‘Who am I to carry this fire on my hare head? A man who knows that his anus is small does not swallow an udala seed.’
“They said to me:
“‘Fear not. The man who sends a child to catch a shrew will also give him water to wash his hand.’
“I said: ‘So be it. ’
This feels exactly like the spirit quests in King of Dragon Pass. I wonder if its designers or Greg Stafford has read Chinua Achebe or if it is a common trope in polytheistic religious practice. -
Started reading All Men Are Brothers with the guy. It’s a bit of a risk because I haven’t finished it myself. It starts out fun, though. I forgot about the Prime Kicker.Comments
Kao Ch’iu knocked his head on the ground at this and he said, “What sort of a person is this poor creature to dare to shake his foot with that of the great Prince?”
“Here is a man whose name is Ch’i Yuin Shê,” answered Prince Tuan. “His nickname is The Prime Kicker. Now you kick the ball with him! It does not matter.” -
I wrote a song and left a space in for a guitar solo. Naturally, I can’t come up with anything now. As it goes.Comments
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I’m probably being dense here, but I don’t get how Magic Link auth is that different from emailing passwords. They expire but can still be intercepted while going from mail server to mail server. What am I missing?Comments
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Mario Kart AR is a good way to see what it’s like under your couch.Comments
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From Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God:Comments
My purpose in these paragraphs is limited to impressing on all Political Officers working among the tribes who lack Natural Rulers the vital necess1ty of developing without any further delay an effecrive system of “indirect rule” based on native institutions.
In the story, this is a letter from a regional British governor.
To many colonial nations native administration means government by white men. You are all aware that H.M.G. considers this policy as mistaken. In place of the alternative of governing directly through Administrative Officers there is the other method of trying while we endeavour to purge the native system of its abuses to build a higher civilization upon the soundly rooted native stock that had its foundation in the hearts and minds and thoughts of the people and therefore on which we can more easily build, moulding it and establishing it into lines consonant with modern ideas and higher standards, and yet all the time enlisting the real force 0f
the spirit 0f the people, instead of killing all that out and trying to start afresh.
I first heard the phrase “hearts and minds” from American military leaders during the Afghanistan invasion and occupation. Unconsciously, I thought it originated from that time.
Arrow of God is fictional, but it was written in the 1960s and is set in the late 19th century. It’s possible that Achebe coincidentally came up with the same phrasing, but I think it likely that this is a very old phrase used by colonizers. - Comments
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I started listening to the Longform episode with Ed Yong. 1) I had no idea he was British. I remember his Twitter username being edyong209, so I assumed he was from Stockton, California like Nate Diaz. 2) He basically points out that scientists, who I think of as having saved us in the pandemic, fucked up. And it’s true. Despite getting us a vaccine, academia loads then with all sorts of perverse incentives.Comments
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It’s possibly the last time I can run outside for a while, so I did a 21-minute run in the dark and 13 pull-ups.Comments
I thought the bike paths would be clear, and they mostly were, but the puddles from the melt spanned the whole path in places, so I did have to run through the snow. Fortunately, my shoes have plenty of time to dry. -
Hey, I started a survey about solo project tracking. I started to make a tool for myself to track my projects, but I got curious about how other people plan and track their stuff. So, if you do solo projects, please fill out the survey!Comments