Arranging atoms and pressurising air in a variety of manners, such as:
Pronouns: they/he
😂 HA HA HA HA HA no. Absolutely not, Duolingo:
solarference:
@BarnabyWalters awesome! have fun reverse-engineering Three Sisters - happy to give hints if you need them :) -n
@solarference thanks :) Right now I’m most curious about the lyrics — are they from a source, or arranged? I can find many songs with similar structures or names, but none quite the same as yours.
solarference:
@BarnabyWalters which effect was it Barnaby? Saw your patch but couldn't work it out... -n #puredata
@solarference beat slicing sampler, divides the recording up into n chunks and plays them back randomly. There were some bugs in the version I screenshotted (e.g. mistaking sample number for millisecond delay) which are now fixed. I’m currently working on reproducing as much of The Three Sisters as I can figure out from the recording.
Enjoying @seriouseats’ series on pancakes so far! Any chance of a Kaiserschmarrn recipe? Tried making them after visiting Vienna but never quite got them right :(
deray mckesson:
The biker gangs have put out a call for retaliation on the police, who killed some of their members. And still no State of Emergency. Waco.
Reading @deray’s tweets about #whiteOnWhite biker violence in Waco and how it’s being reported, it took me a while to realise that “Waco” is a place, and not a denouncement of these events as “wacko”. Totally applies, esp. to the way the media is reacting :/
Just realised that increasing the dimensions of an element onscreen when it is hovered over creates a “natural”, visual schmitt trigger effect.
Visualising music with a spreadsheet:
Jeb: “It was you, Certrix, wasn’t it. You painted my visor. Again.”
Certrix: “hahahaha”
Gildon: “hahahaha”
EEEEEEVVVIIL genderize.io
There’s some fascinating discussion of absolute pitch in this old article+comment thread on languagelog: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1450
Very excited that the @astro_pi Sense HAT will be up for sale! @briansuda and I imagined a very similar board as our ideal “board with all the things the Pi needs” but never managed to build one.
Roopa Gulati:
Things I learnt last night: the dial on toasters has nowt to do with temperature. It's just a timer. I need to get out more.
@roopagulati any wisdom to impart about what the funny floppy wire things on the top of my toaster are? I have never been able to figure out what they’re supposed to do.
#puredata is so amazing! Recreated one of my favourite @solarference effects in about 20 minutes:
I was going to make a “death and taxonomy” joke but Cat and Girl got there first. No surprises there.
@tommorris strengthening het marriage, and dismantling right wing world views.
Google Translate’s statistical origins show themselves in interesting ways:
I’m 95% certain that the use of “ziehen” and “dem” in the first example rather than “marschieren” and “unseren” is due to “und ziehen mit dem Spaten” being a lyric in Die Moorsoldaten (the peat bog soldiers).
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG https://solarference.bandcamp.com/track/three-sisters
#wikipedia article of the week: List of nontraditional bagpipe usage
Anyone know who the #gurdy player heard but not seen in this Light in Babylon video is?
Suspiciously tidy newstatesman.com page footer — how many of these staff were hired to make the columns line up?
Tom Morris