Good morning all! What are you working on? A project, a personal goal, even working on getting through the day.

I’m working on a Christmas EP with my dear, dear friend Ryan. We’ve been in a band since high school, Hurly Burly and the Volcanic Fallout, and it’s time to release a follow up to Hurly Burly for the Holidays.

I’m also working on our next CassettesFor.Me release, which, spoilers, will be Michael Cera Palin!! It’s their back catalog, and utterly phenomenal. We’ll do a blog blitz soon!

If you want your music released in a cassette subscription service, hit me up with some links!

I have a million other projects, including writing some new songs for the Doctor Deathray band, https://doctordeathray.Bandcamp.com and we’ve got practice Saturday.

I know I’ve got more to do. I’ve got to finish mixing the last artist from our Put On a Show series, and book our new In Your Living Room - In Space series.

Ok. That’s enough that I can think of at this moment. I’m sure @ajroach42 can help me remember more later.

51 Miles From Nowhere, by Doctor Deathray

10 track album

Doctor Deathray

@DoctorDeathray

Short term: nailing down a Beatles solo.

Long term: working on a book about traveling medicine shows of yesteryear.

@rjblaskiewicz always love a good solo! Which song? And I’m assuming a Harrison solo?

And I’m super, super interested in that book! Please keep me up to date!

@DoctorDeathray

It's George's solo in All My Loving. Not super complicated, but if I lose my way or hesitate for a fraction of a second the whole thing derails. I'm in a faculty band at my school and we want to cover it. I'm the only guitarist (for now) so I do John's quick rhythm and George's solo.

@DoctorDeathray I have about four papers to write in 5 days, then my first semester of grad school is officially over. ^^; so I'll be holed up most of the day in a coffee shop.
@68km THAT’S SO MANY PAPERS. You got this, though! Congrats on the first semester of grad school!!!

@DoctorDeathray yeah my brain made me let them pile up! But my professors have been very kind and I am not stressed about it!!

Thanks for the encouragement! I hope your day is awesome today :)

@DoctorDeathray I would really like to get a song out today, but it will be a struggle.
@ob1quixote sometimes struggles happen! Work toward it, but don’t beat yourself up if it doesn’t pan out quite yet

@DoctorDeathray I just finished scoring the next episode of the Houdini serial I'm releasing next week.

I'm about to start editing the next episode of Expedition Sasquatch which also gets released next week.

Then I'm going to record some bits for @jandrews for the episode of Jupiter's Ghost releasing this month, and just generally start writing/recording/assembling some other bits for Jupiter's Ghost to be released in the coming weeks.

I'm working on a Jupiter's Ghost novella too, but I don't know if it will ever see the light of day.

At some point I have to start filming this weeks news for #NewEllijayTelevision, it's a big one, between the fire in blue ridge, the escaped kangaroo, Open enrollment, and Kissinger.

I'm working on #aurelisles today. I might put some more time in to the #mBBS today. We're trying to blend up a new espresso roast for the coffee shop. Our latest attempt was close, but didn't hit the mark.

@DoctorDeathray plus I'm involved in all the things you mentioned. Marketing MCP, getting Put on a Show out, figuring out In Your Living Room, releasing Cassettes for me, running a toy store, and an antique mall, selling VHS tapes.

I'm trying to get the Makerspace to stop losing money, and figure out how to pay myself a wage, and maybe even stop losing money on my father.

You know, all the things that go along with all that.

@ajroach42 you’re the busiest person I know, that’s for sure! I’m handling what I know to, but let me know if/how I can help more! I’m amazed at what you accomplish, and I’m very proud to call you a dear friend.
@DoctorDeathray Getting some stuff done to prepare for our youngest's birthday party this weekend.
@DoctorDeathray Helping my Spanish artist friend edit the English text for his next project & trying to finish "This Cassette Kills Fascists" in time for Analog Revolution to unleash it upon the land.
@SrRochardBunson I love it!
@DoctorDeathray It'skeeping me going in these interesting times.


Oh, did I tell you that I put all of the demos for TCKF into a playlist, even though I now have a to-do list of tweaks?
😅

Listen to This Cassette Kills Fascists, a playlist by ArtFED on
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/d1ZfZ
This Cassette Kills Fascists T*KF buy #ArtFED

The demos of the upcoming creative commons and public domain antifascist audio collage album by ArtFED y friends. https://ko-fi.com/resistanceinternational

SoundCloud
@DoctorDeathray Helping my Spanish artist friend edit the English text for his next project & trying to finish "This Cassette Kills Fascists" in time for Analog Revolution to unleash it upon the land.
@DoctorDeathray Helping my Spanish artist friend edit the English text for his next project & trying to finish "This Cassette Kills Fascists" in time for Analog Revolution to unleash it upon the land.
@DoctorDeathray Dirt, concrete, steel, and strife!

@DoctorDeathray Just finished a PC swap/upgrade. Working on getting the kids' holiday situation sorted out, as far as spoiling them rotten goes.

Also, I'm trying to figure out how to not avoid cleaning the bathroom. I hates it, I do.

@SkipfordJ best of luck with the bathroom! And congrats on the PC upgrade!
@DoctorDeathray Thanks! Next project is a backup server for the house, which involves some questionable ethernet running.
@DoctorDeathray I'll most likely end up working on my tool for inspecting and (eventually) building android APKs. I've managed to parse the DEX bytecode and my next step is to generate a DEX file from a custom assembly language. I'm writing this all in #zig, which is a bit of a moving target atm, so I need to go back to some of my code for other formats and make sure its working
@desttinghim I did not understand most of that, which had me incredibly impressed! Excited for your projects!!!
@DoctorDeathray ah sorry  its a pretty technical project so it can be difficult for me to explain. The basic gist is I'm making a tool for making android apps from scratch. My goal is to create an alternative to using the official Android SDK for my own use
@DoctorDeathray working on automating some tasks in our scheduler program. 🤓 😎
@pyutaros oooo fancy! I love some automation
@DoctorDeathray I'll love it when I get it to work. 😂
@DoctorDeathray A fun Masters Graphic Design project - data visualisation/typography.
@BonehouseWasps oooo I do a lot of data visualization in my day job, so that sounds extra neat to me

@DoctorDeathray Me too - not usually anything so... charged.

My course leader advised we pick a large data set and go from there.

Did you know that the Washington Post has a downloadable and very detailed spreadsheet of all the lies Trump told while in office? Well, neither did I and now my brain is broken. 😆

@BonehouseWasps I can only imagine the size of that sheet!!!

@DoctorDeathray 30,573 lies - in public at least.

And in case you're wondering, they just about fit on an A0 sheet of paper at 1.3pt Helvetica type.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/

Analysis | Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years

A four-year Fact Checker project comes to an end.

The Washington Post

@DoctorDeathray
Not much to write home about. The most important and also most boring is on-going weight-lifting and physical therapy to regain some of the functions I lost after a car accident a few years ago.

In the garden, we're working on a long-term dry-stack rock wall project. Also a more permanent keep-the-doggos-in fence.

I'm trying to work through the Make: Electronics book but it's slow-going and I only seem to make head-way in fits and starts.

I really like hearing about what you and the Ellijay folks are up to.

@cthululemon I need to do PT for my shoulder again. It’s gotten rough. Good on you for working on it!

@DoctorDeathray @jalcine

Great question! Learning about RedGate data-masking software, so we can take actual customer data (with the customers' permission) containing actual human data and masking it with fake human data (names, addresses, ids, etc.) so we can use it for development, testing and demos without spraying protected info around too much.

@tarheel @jalcine very cool! Very clever idea

@DoctorDeathray @jalcine

Yay, gov't regs. 🙂 W/out them, we probably wouldn't spend the effort.