deathmtn

12 pull-ups. But I also walked for a couple hours around a farm and a grocery store today.

10 burpees, 12 pull-ups. Today’s workout abbreviation excuses: Legs still dead from deadlifts, gotta fit in lunch in the next 30 minutes before I head out to get the guy.

I have been messing with fake vibraphone lately. This Khan Jamal album is making me realize how much more alive it could be, if I either played vibraphone or knew how it worked.

After 20 minutes of thinking that Chrome had some weird scoping behavior, I realized that it wasn't loading the latest code, and in fact, it wouldn't do so until I closed the tab and opened it in a new one.

The Boston School Committee tried to change the distribution of access to the three exam schools (which get a grossly disproportionate amount of funding). The plan was to admit those with the best grades in each zip code, instead of test scores, which richer kids can afford to prepare for specifically, in addition to having generally better educational resources. Those kids often go to private school until it’s time to go to Boston Latin.

A group of White and Asian parents had a shit fit about this and sued. I had just assumed they’d win because the most selfish busybodies always win these local fights. They actually lost!

The bigger overall problem, though, is helping the kids with average or worse grades in each zip code. Giving up on educating kids that aren’t as easy to educate has lead to the current inequities and the weak condition of democracy.

I have this tendency to want audio programming projects to work with all synths and no samples. Besides being "pure" and lightweight, you can potentially come up with sounds no one has ever heard. If you don't really know what you're doing though, you tend to end up with sounds that sound "fake" without being compelling. That's partly why I have this huge psychoacoustics book that I've read 5% of.

I ended up doing something with samples and detuning, which is sort of a compromise between the two. I'm frankly grateful that I have anything at all that sounds OK to me, regardless of synthness.

I hate to say it, but Web Audio is far more performant on Chrome.

A review on Xoth's Bandcamp page pointed out that the XX in Plague Revival 20XX (released in 2019) turned out to be 20.

It’s sort of sad that I keep thinking about this question so much given that I have like 30 songs a quarter of the way done, but I keep thinking about whether or not I should put out music under my actual name or come up with another “band name”.

In a recent interview, Hannes Grossman talked about how he just put out music under his name, and people complained that it didn’t have a “metal” name. And yet, jazz musicians did this all the time, he pointed out.

What effect does it have on the listener? I’m sure people are more excited to listen to a dungeon synth album if it comes from “Old Tower” than from “Joe Gumburger.” But if Old Tower wants to put out a bitpop album, its name could hold things back.

Then again, Gorguts released a revolutionary avant garde album that was as much “New Music” (the genre) as it was death metal. Not only did death metal fans listen to it, a lot of people outside of metal eventually got around to listening to it.

9-minute run, 12 pull-ups.