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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off, picked up.
- Helped with an emergency change of clothes and a shower. Was too harsh about the guy taking too long with getting dressed because it's a thing I'm really tired of talking about. I apologized, and we decided to try a certain hand signal when it's time to be serious and to use timers for the sub-parts of getting dressed.
- Did two hours of client work.
- Watched some of lectures 4b and 5 from the Puckette course.
- Did not make my homework sound exactly like a Hammond organ, but learned about how they worked and about influencing timbres by adjusting the amplitudes of partials.
- Returned 20 books to the library.
- "Helped" with some homework, AKA asked him to write some words down. I think really easy homework is sometimes nice and helps with confidence.
- Went to electronic music study group. We talked about `clone`, checked out homeworks, which were fun to hear, and as usual, talked about the deadly Linux-Jack-Zoom triangle. I think we're kind of patch/synthesis-literate now? It's easier to understand additive synthesis and Pure Data than it is to know how to play audio through Jack over Zoom.

8-minute run, 12 pull-ups.

I almost turned this mixtape on when the intro to Rappers R. N. Dainja said that all wack rappers were advised to turn it off.

Dag, just learned that Ableton bought Cycling '74 (the company that makes Max/MSP) in 2017. I don't know why I'm surprised. Nothing successful can stay unbought and avoid being eventually shut down or ruined.

Next, Apple should buy Ableton.

I listened back to last night’s piece. Yeah, it’s riff salad. But it’s salvageable.

Earlier this week, I spent a lot of time trying to use some combination of `tabdump`, `text fromlist`, `text get`, and `write` in Pure Data to be able to write the contents of an array to a text file. I'm not really sure it's possible, which is hard to accept.

So, modifying `tabdump` (which is an external written in C) is going to be my fastest way to log intermediate signals at specific blocks, which is what I need to be able to do an apples-to-apples comparison with the C++ version of this patch.

Tiny victory: I compiled a Pure Data external with my print message hacked in there and successfully loaded it to a patch. The hardest part was getting Pure Data to load the external, not the compiling or building which is actually really smooth.

Broadly speaking, the “historical” approach taken in I789—1790 faced one major obstacle: how to establish the “contractual” origin of any particular right.
Provided one went far enough, perhaps several centuries, back in time, it was obvious to everyone that violence played a part in the acquisition of most seigneurial rights, which stemmed from conquest and serfdom. If one followed this logic to the end, it was clear that the very idea of a contractual origin of property rights was pure fiction. For revolutionary legislators, most of whom were bourgeois property owners or at any rate people less destitute than the masses, the goal was more modest: namely, to strike a reasonable compromise that would reestablish society on a stable foundation without undermining property rights in general. They feared that any other approach would lead straight to chaos, to say nothing of threatening their own property rights.

A thing I didn’t know (because I have a Midwest American education in which we didn’t learn much about the French Revolution, except that it happened): The revolutionaries were rich people, what we would now call “New Money.”

38-minute run, 12 pull-ups. I took the flat route because, hey, it’s Sunday.

Katt started working out on the weekends, and it occurred to me that I could also do that and have to pack less in during the week. While I was at my last job, I really wanted an obligation-free weekend because I hated the weekdays so much (plus, I wanted to break up the workday), but I realized don’t care as much about that now.

The Ninjago comics are surprisingly not as terrible as they should be, but I’m oldmad that there’s no acknowledgement anywhere of its usage of the TMNT template.

Piketty:

Indeed, the Church’s efforts to conceptualize and formalize economic and financial laws were especially necessary in ternary Christian societies because the clerical class existed not as a hereditary class but only as an abstract perpetual organization (somewhat like modern foundations, capitalist corporations, and state administrations). In Hinduism and Islam there was certainly no shortage of temples and pious foundations, but these were controlled by powerful hereditary clerical classes. Power over ecclesiastical property thus depended more on personal and family networks than in Christian society, so that there was less need to codify and formalize economic and financial relationships.

So, in a way, the celibacy requirements of the church were sort of egalitarian, in that they prevented in from being dominated by particular families that had accumulated power over the years. (Of course, this was pushed upon the clergy by the nobility, whose powerful families wanted to continue to accumulate power and wealth.) But it contributed to the creation of these eternal entities that themselves hoard power and wealth.

And today, these entities are used by the modern equivalent of the noble families (e.g. the Sacklers) to hoard and protect power and wealth.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off, picked up. I had to do most of that with the car because it was raining so hard. Parking was slightly easier than normal somehow, at least.
- Exhumed and partly cleaned up the Ghost Crab Workshop web site and got an SSL cert for it. I've thought before about redesigning it, but since that desigis a full ten years old, it doesn't look as dated as it did five years ago. I do need to improve the readability of the logo and get rid of more old-ass projects, though.
- Got an IBAN number, redid my invoice.
- Had lunch with a friend, who went on a midwest tour. Apparently, Milwaukee is a happening place now, and Minneapolis is really tense.
- Today's object removed from the house: the old stroller bundle. But while at Goodwill, I also picked up five tapes. Finding: Kitaro is actually kinda good!
- Cleaned the couch, table, and countertops.
- Made dinner.
- I think I found a way to dynamically create subpatches in Pure Data, which I need for a piece I'd like to make. Seems like it's a hack involving using Pure Data's internal messaging system. It's very weird that this is so hard to search for.
- I'm trying to log arrays to text files in Pure Data. I know how to write to a text file, but I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to convert a signal to a bunch of numbers in a message because the textfile object accepts input via messages. It's possible (and horrible) that writing a Pure Data extension in C may be the best way to do this.

Me: [plays guitar to pass time while the guy finishes dinner, which sometimes takes an hour]

The guy: You should make that into a song!

Me: That is already a song. It’s called Raining Blood.

13 pull-ups. I meant to run today, but there has been much rain. I did run a little on the way to lunch, though.

Sitting on a couch drinking coffee on a rainy day is just extremely good.

After I dropped the guy off, I passed by an old man in a yellow raincoat who was walking slowly. He was startled and looked really freaked out.

I said, “Oh, sorry. Just passing by.”

He squinted at me and said “Yeah.”

What are things like for this old man? I’d have interviewed him if I had known how.