Mykie Frankenstein πŸŽƒπŸ¦‡πŸ•ΈοΈ

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I build guitars and make music about monsters and spooky creeps. Kind of goth, kind of western.

I'm migrating from https://mastodon.social/@mykie and my old posts can be viewed there.

LocationColorado
Website/Linkshttps://frankenstein.country
Bandcamphttps://mykiefrankenstein.bandcamp.com

If you use American Family Insurance here in the states, you might want to consider freezing your credit.

Apparently they got absolutely destroyed with a hack about 10 days ago and haven’t been bothered to notify their customers yet.

The only way I found out was by googling after I noticed my payment from a week ago has still yet to debit.

Best assume they lost everything to bad actors, friends.

The problem with writing a western monster opera is that you can't just sit down and grind out the songs on an instrument. Takes planning. Need a plot, themes, characters to associate with those themes/instruments. This might take a year πŸ˜†
Is there a hidden setting somewhere to make images in the timeline squish into the smaller 16:9 rectangle again? I don't care for tall images taking up so much space in the timeline.

Shoot. Next album might end up being a western monster opera

Edit for more context: I'm working on this long-form song again. The goal is something 10+ minutes that goes through several movements/moods. It's shaping up to be a "story so far" kind of thing. I can either rein it in or embrace that and make an album of it.

Started playing the new mario game with my wife last. Didn't know she'd never played one of the 2d ones until she said "why the heck am I so short now?"

It's gonna be so much fun

Wife and I spent the weekend up in Colorado’s wine country for our anniversary. Really enjoyed vacationing somewhere rural. It’s a whole lot more comfortable when places I go to remind me of home. Just swap the corn and cattle for peaches and grapes.

I just published Part 1 of my E-ink Display Project series. I don't generally write full tutorials, but I made an exception here, because the manufacturer documentation on even getting started with the display is lacking.

Topics covered: installing the right Python modules, installing the display drivers, the Python functions that make the display work, and a small example program that will display an image to your e-ink display.

Next time we're going to do the part I actually really enjoy: using Pillow to make fun things to send to the display.

https://blog.vampirefriday.org/2023/10/22/7-color-e-ink-projects-part-1-a-brief-tutorial/

7-Color E-Ink Projects Part 1: A Brief Tutorial – Vampire Friday

Listening to Jack Off Jill, reading JTHM, and trying to convince myself that social media and cell phones didn't destroy the world.
Started writing something of a follow-up to "Walk the Earth". Just some left over ideas, mostly. It'll likely only result in a single long song. I'm using the opportunity to challenge myself with song writing, see if I can't learn something new. I want it to do everything the album did and more.

I've started blogging about my projects with the 7-color e-ink display.

The first post is just an introduction to how easy it is to interface with it using Python, especially compared to the old 3-color screen I was using before.

Next time I'll be picking a specific project and detailing how it works. But which project should I cover?

https://blog.vampirefriday.org/2023/10/17/using-the-waveshare-7-color-e-paper-display/

Using the Waveshare 7-Color E-Paper Display – Vampire Friday