The second part of my Christmas gift for myself arrived today; an Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff. Glorious sound!
My other synth is a DSi MoPho, which is monophonic and its modulation matrix is annoying to program but gloriously flexibel.
So far I don’t have any Volcas but several of those where on the table for me when I decided on which synth to buy. The Volca Modular har more of a Buchla approach to things, rather than a Moog style approach to things, right?
@MrHenko I was pretty horrified by the power of Instagram aka Facebook. I had no idea. I think I had already quit by the time I watched the documentary, and it confirmed that decision to quit both.
And that’s probably why I feel especially negative toward the idiots on ”the left”, rather than on ”the right”. The stupidities of ”the right” is fairly simple to ignore. Just don’t read their fringe publications. Ignoring stupidities from ”the left” on the other hand would require me to ignore so much mainstream press.
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A late Christmas present (from me to me) arrived today. It’s a Korg Minilogue XD. I’ve just started playing with it and it sound great.
That looks nice Henrik. I bought a Korg Volca Modular as a present for me from me at Christmas.
Now I’m unwinding from the day by playing some Mario Maker. Though right now I’m probably winding myself back up over this hellish course. (Not the one in the photo.)
Today the film and television students made a tv production of a floor ball game. It was an outside broadcast production, so they had to set up all their gear in the arena. I was there as a handler, for the first time on one of their outside broadcasts. It was quite a lot of fun.
Great find at the supermarket today. Perfect start to the year of buying things on plastic discs.
Today I’ve been at home with the kids. It’s been a “study day” at their preschool, which means that the staff have meetings and courses so the kids need to be at home.
@MrHenko of course not. But I’ve seen a lot of it
Stayed up way too late tonight watching tv. After an episode of Netflix’s Messiah I started watching the Fyre Festival documentary and it was really fascinating. So many tasteless, clueless idiots.
A week or so ago I ordered some electronics stuff that arrived today. Yay! I’ll get back to making the Raspberry Pi music player soon.
As for today it’s been a day of nothing but administrative tasks. The nice part was that I got to work from home which I always try to do at least once a week and it’s a nice change of pace.
It’s gotta be possible to find a movie okay but not great.
@MrHenko Ctrl-Alt-Ignore them all, go see the movie and try to watch it with a fresh mind, and enjoy the parts you like. 🥳👍
@MrHenko Yeah, I think I see what you mean. I’m of no particular political affiliation, but I guess I’m a bit centrist, with some ideas towards both sides, and some completely my own. I try to get my news from independent sources (if some indeed can be called independent), and otherwise I read with those “ah, of course they’ll say that, being one of them”-eyeglasses. It’s tiresome, but I feel I need to get some information. There’s a lot of good info here on micro blog and the connected blogs too.
Was it that the commentary helped in expressing his intentions with the movie, or where they just fun/interesting comments?
@MrHenko So his comments enabled me to understand more of his intentions. I think it was very ambisious. I’m not sure I felt he succeeded. And in that lies some of my issues with the movie I guess.
2020 is the year when I start buying plastic discs again.
@MrHenko thanks. I’ll probably find I introduced a load of new bugs in the background 😂 but it was good to have one hit at it and get it down
Today was another day of mostly administrative work. I did have one two-hour lecture on Mastering Music for Streaming Platforms but other than that I was mainly at my desk.
I did manage to complete scheduling and room booking for the next course that I am in charge of, even though it doesn’t happen until April. That made me happy and I now feel that I have many administrative things under control.
@MrHenko I’ve seen Last Jedi a couple of times. It grew a little on me. Enjoyed it more with director’s commentary though.
@MrHenko So his comments enabled me to understand more of his intentions. I think it was very ambisious. I’m not sure I felt he succeeded. And in that lies some of my issues with the movie I guess.
Today we stayed indoors for the whole day, except for a quick walk that I took in the late afternoon. We’ve done som laundry and general tidying up of stuff and packed for tomorrow, the first proper work and school day of the year for all of us.
@MrHenko Lovely patio and a great shot
At Mall of Scandinavia.
Today we spent some time there after a hotel breakfast and then we headed back home to Sundborn. Overall the trip to Stockholm was nice. Everybody had a good time and it feels good to be back home now.
Today the whole family is in Stockholm. Linn and Iris went to Disney on Ice while Ebbe and me walked around the Globe area before heading for our hotel.
Right now we’re strolling around in Mall of Scandinavia.
Quality Hotel Friends
169 79 Solna
Sverige
This is my office at work. I share it with a colleague but most of the time he’s not there so I get to have it for myself.
Today I spent quite a bit of the work day here. Many small things that needed to be done. Also we tried out some surround sound things for the tv studio which was fun and successful.
First work day of the year. Today was the first proper studio session of the education for a few of the first year students. We/they recorded a kind of Nine Inch Nails sounding thing that I wrote some years ago.
New Year’s Day is Pizza Day in Sweden. It is the day where pizza sales are the highest of the year. This year we made our own.
Happy New Years!
I just 🎞 watched Frozen II with Linn and Iris. It was Iris’ first movie theater experience and she really liked it.
I thought the movie was really good. Maybe not quite as good as the first Frozen but highly entertaining.
Viktigt perspektiv. Vi ser så mycket negativt men på det stora hela går väldigt mycket i rätt riktning.
@MrHenko Veldig oppmuntrende lesning! 😃Men det er også viktig å øke innsatsen med å styrke de som fremdeles er fattige, ellers kan de lett bli tilhengere av ekstremistiske ideologier. 🎈🥳🎊🎉
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petebrown
16 januari, 2020 11:38@MrHenko Drastically reduces cooking time. A potato/broccoli soup I like to make that cooks for 45-60 minutes in a pot on the stove takes less than ten minutes in the Instant Pot.
macgenie
16 januari, 2020 15:57macgenie mentioned this on micro.blog.