@axemonkey @dereisenhofer I think the Squier affinity teles are alright, played one to test Squier quality before buying a classic vibe 70s precision bass. know the parts reflect the price, but was struck by easy, consistent action at every fret/string, which is the same with the basses..most important to me.
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lecturing in comms, phd was 'On the rhetorical function of fictional worlds', fool for Parisian swing
@steph @eflegara We touch on some related concepts but mostly to make it accessible quickly it's framed as different kinds of nodes - hub, liaison, bridge, isolate - in the lecture I make a visualisation from data (this semester on talk on twitter about the film The Woman King, as it had just been released), then in the tutorial students make a map of their high school friends network. Wish I could teach a whole unit on it.
@steph @eflegara I get to do one lecture+tutorial on network theory in a unit for communications students, and after that this semester one student voluntarily made a map of all interactions in their tutorial group's discussion forum, which showed interesting clusters.. really had the sense they found it a useful and intuitive theoretical framework
in my sudden relentless search for music I like most from Japan for no particular reason.. Neon Sign Stomp by esoteric jazzy outfit Ego-wrappin', which contains just one or two nods to Tom Waits.
EGO-WRAPPIN' 『Neon Sign Stomp』
@DotMaetrix @CruelPatient wore masks first where I am because late 2019 early 2020 the bushfire smoke was so thick in Canberra. COVID was a surprise ~return to masks months later.
great they're normalised now as when hay fever got bad this year in Spring Pitta masks helped a lot walking with the dog.
COVID cases keep rising here I'll be back to those masks too soon enough. seatbelts also generated hysteria when new.
'the first take' is music without an edit option, good principle - I'd imagine the best guarantor of a faultless take is having played lots of gigs lately - from it, the band I've listened to most lately, Wednesday Campanella.. the device of one take, with new singer, yielded this astonishingly complete and composed result
水曜日のカンパネラ - バッキンガム / THE FIRST TAKE
tried a 38 question online IQ test to see what's in those these days. at end found detailed results would cost $14.95, which I didn't opt for. conclusion my IQ is whatever the result was +5 for not paying, then -15 for doing it in the first place. test: 90% counting and geometry.
#Canberra ambient soundtrack currently is 50% magpie youths squawking at their incredibly patient parents, demanding more snacks. it's incessant, can hear it at home at one end of a trip, and the same from another teen as soon as I get out of the car on campus.
@attentive @hugh thing I like most as I blunder about, making mistakes obviously, is the expected constraint here..probably the best we can do is aim to learn quickly so as to minimise annoyance caused.