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  1. ↪ Tantek Çelik: Japan airport security is basically pre-2001 (sans theater) * keep shoes & jacket on * metal detector Unlike: American airport security * remove hoodie, jacket, etc. * slower and more radiative millimeter/backscatter I went through both Tokyo/Haneda and Chitose airport security this week. Haneda's security was also ok with using a single tray for liquids, devices, laptop, coins etc. for their x-ray machiens, in contrast to U.S. airport security requiring separate trays for each laptop, and any liquids or anything else. I can only conclude that the TSA's extra procedures and expensive radar devices are a waste of time & resources, no more than a perpetuation of a culture of fear since 2001. I remain hopeful that the TSA will eventually adopt measures similar to Japanese airports and return to just using metal detectors.

    @t sounds about right, see also https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/ blog written by a former TSA employee, debunks a lot of TSA practise as nonsense. I’ve found European airports to vary, e.g. some want shoes off, every electronic device in it’s own tray, some don’t care. When traveling with the gurdy I’ve had reactions ranging from highly suspicious with swabs being taken, to people not caring, or wanting to hear it played purely out of curiosity.

  2. ↪ Roopa Gulati: Wish I could have been there - nothing beats British apples. https://twitter.com/SybilKapoor/status/656405338015535104

    @roopagulati German apples aren’t too bad either — there was recently a mobile apple press in town, so we collected ~100kg of apples and pears from the region and had them pressed into 80 litres of delicious apple juice!

  7. ↪ 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.

  8. ↪ 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.

  9. ↪ 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 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 :/

  10. ↪ 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.

  12. ↪ Emil Björklund: Thinking so far: accept the webmention, send a signal passing along the URL somehow, model listens to signal, looks up instance and checks.

    @thatEmil Taproot works almost the other way round — a “mentions” module stores incoming mentions, noting their target path after resolving redirects. Then, each content module queries the mentions module for mentions of a particular URL. That way the two are decoupled, and I can keep track of mentions of static URLs and things not represented by a “model”. Haven’t figured out how to handle redirects well yet though.

  14. ↪ Rique Meirelles: @BarnabyWalters hey man! Thanks for the fav. :) how are you? Making many gurdies? cheers

    @Hurdy_Rique greetings! I’m good thanks, haven’t made any gurdies for two years whilst living in Iceland, but I’m moving to Germany in July to start a workshop there. How are you getting on with your new Hilsmann?

  16. ↪ Vicente Parrilla: Also @GNM_Nuernberg, Das Germanische Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Amazing collection of old instruments. Some recorders: pic.twitter.com/eVvb2jHlVx

    @vicenteparrilla nice! I’ve found German and Austrian museums to be some of the best for old instruments. The Deutsches Museum Munich, Technisches Museum Vienna and Vienna museum of ancient instruments are really worth checking out.

  19. ↪ Amy Guy: Hmmm I have a lot of conferences all over continental Europe during May, do I just get an interrail pass and stay away for a month? #travel

    @rhiaro go for it! I did that last summer, it’s inexpensive and loads of fun.

  20. ↪ Kyle Mahan: You are a Hugin master!

    Ha ha, thanks :) The latest versions of Hugin actually make things really easy — I used to be a purist and set all the control points manually, but that automatic cpfind function now works pretty well. Modern phones with panorama features take some of the novelty out of manual stitching, but you can still get much better results this way!