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4/25/2023, 1:35:03 AM

This is Middlesex Fells. The song, not the forest preserve. It was made using a two-second sample I recorded there last weekend, though, along with a version of my graph-controlled granular synth tool that I added a delay feedback loop to. (This is what that ugly character looks like.) This is my response to the Junto prompt to use a field recording and feedback.
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4/24/2023, 6:33:33 PM

I used this medieval crusher today!
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4/24/2023, 11:11:25 AM

Voxel food stalls.
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4/24/2023, 10:26:25 AM

I'm going to complain about another thing disappearing from the internet: The video of GZA speaking to the Black Men's Forum at Harvard in 2011. Save everything you want to see in the future, everyone.
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4/24/2023, 9:56:08 AM

Solid funk Sabbath.
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4/23/2023, 10:44:27 PM

I have a decent start on a space adventure song.
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4/23/2023, 10:13:12 PM

I didn’t have a chance to work on projects at all, but I knew I wouldn’t and thus, I had a peaceful weekend. It’s better than when I think I might, but don’t actually get much time or get much done.
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4/23/2023, 6:22:12 PM

Poaching chicken from frozen: Turns out it’s a bad idea!
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4/23/2023, 1:07:51 PM

I fit three cutting boards and one baking tray in the dishwasher, and when I tested the load by spinning the propeller, it didn’t hit anything.

This propeller is mounted higher than I thought. This is likely the most important discovery of the week. I used to think that if a cutting board wasn’t on the left edge, it would have to be leaned over to avoid hitting the propeller.
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4/22/2023, 7:47:05 PM

It may surprise you that there is an amplitude for a photon to go at speeds faster or slower than the conventional speed, c. The amplitudes for these possibilities are very small compared to the contribution from speed c; in fact, they cancel out when light travels over long distances.
However, when the distances are short…
I am a very basic guy, and in fact, I have never heard this before.
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4/22/2023, 7:41:05 PM

From QED:
The factor by which time is stretched out (to make a 45° angle represent a particle going the speed of light) is called c, and you'll find c's flying around everywhere in Einstein's formulas—they are the result of the unfortunate choice of the second as the unit of time, rather than the time it takes light to go one meter.
This would make these formulas convenient, but I also wonder what it would be like to have a different general standard unit of time, like the light-meter.

Though the light-meter is 0.000000003335641 seconds, so maybe the light-terametre would be more commonly used. If you were going to meet someone in around an hour, you could say that you’d see them in 1.2 light-terametres. But maybe people would plan on meeting in one light-terametre because it’s convenient to say.
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4/22/2023, 5:43:22 PM

The various declarations in Baba Is You induce a lot of incredulous exclamations from eight-year-olds. WATER IS HOT?! BABA IS MELT?!! Big surprises all the time.
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4/22/2023, 5:36:47 PM

Huh, someone tried to buy $20 of tea with my business debit card. I guess it was about time for fraud.
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4/22/2023, 12:30:00 PM

The fried peanuts are good! Unsure they’re really that different from roasted peanuts with warm oil on them, though.
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4/22/2023, 12:06:29 PM

I’m going to pull this off, even though this looks light because I know my bias leans toward burning.
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4/22/2023, 11:50:07 AM

Trying again, with increased seriousness about temperature.
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4/22/2023, 10:47:13 AM

I’d sell this to a stock photo collection if their ML-driven demise wasn’t imminent. This guy was like this for a while.
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4/22/2023, 7:44:22 AM

This portrait lead me to Erich Honecker’s Wikipedia page. I had no idea who he was. He resisted the Nazis until he didn’t, then lead quite the classic ladder-climbing life, concluding with atrocities while trying to keep East Germany together.
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4/21/2023, 8:09:02 PM

PT, 12 pull-ups.
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4/21/2023, 7:13:37 PM

I like that it’s still sizzling. Plenty of superior dark soy sauce influence here.
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4/21/2023, 6:46:04 PM

Well, I burned the peanuts again, but only slightly this time! Oil heats fast.
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4/21/2023, 6:17:52 PM

Superior Dark Soy Sauce is pretty dark! It’s been a while since we’ve had this.
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4/21/2023, 5:05:16 PM

Consumer complaint day! I emailed about:

1. Our fence gate getting stuck.
2. Our compost not getting picked up.

I have very little leverage here, so I’m mentally preparing to just leave bad reviews and be done with it, but at some level, I doubt I can let go of things that easily.
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4/21/2023, 10:25:18 AM

Wow. Once again, the children are highly skilled, and I fear them.
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4/21/2023, 8:44:09 AM

Pigeons 🤝mayo
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