Cappy @CaptainUnderpants@retro.social

keytars can be.... good? 🤔

...

... idk. 🤷

OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR ambition!

In this article about making computer games on a commadore amiga https://boingboing.net/2018/02/05/making-computer-games-from-scr.html, ROB BESCHIZZA uses the phrase "Frustratingly limited, yet wildly malliable" to refer to vintage computers.

And hoo-boy! That phrase leaves me with so much to say.

Modern computers ar the opposite. They have more power than we can reasonably comprehend. And they are frustratingly rigid.

OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR idea for a blockchain startup!

Have we talked much about Django Reinhardt? He was born today in 1910.

Dude was one of the most talented guitarists to ever live. He elevated the instrument. He's still considered among the most important Jazz Musicians of all time.

And, get this, he couldn't move two of the four fingers on his fret hand.

He's one of the most famous guitarists of the 20th century, and he could only use two fingers on his fret hand.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rfw

Alright, last batch of music from Django Reinhardt.

Here is a selection of 78RPM records he cut, available from Archive.org

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Django+Reinhardt%22&and[]=mediatype%3A%22audio%22&and[]=subject%3A%2278rpm%22

For a portion of my life, Django was Jazz. Especially when I was a kid, Jazz started with Django, stopped at Brubeck, and didn't have a whole heck of a lot in between.

I've broadened my horizons since then, but Django is still pretty special for me.

So Happy Birthday, Django.

Back to Media!

This time, we're talking about some music. Specifically, Django Reinhardt.

Here's a thread about why I care about him: https://retro.social/@ajroach42/99402470504683209

Here are his entries in the Niven Jazz Archive: https://archive.org/details/Django_Reinhardt_Tape_1_1935-1937

https://archive.org/details/Django_Reinhardt_Tape_2_1938-1953

All 22 recordings he made in 1936:
https://archive.org/details/DjangoReinhardt1935-1936

And his 78s https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Django+Reinhardt%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype:%22audio%22&and%5B%5D=subject:%2278rpm%22

- DIY Media School
Eventually, I want to start a series of blog posts or videos or whatever highlighting production techniques, equipment, etc.

There's a lot of *secret knowledge* in the world of media production. There's stuff you're just supposed to know, and there's stuff that you're only supposed to be able to learn through very specific channels, and if we don't teach both of those things, DIY media will continue to be out of reach.

Hi Folks, my good friend @CaptainUnderpants is looking to #selfpublish a #book of #photography

Who are your favorite #POD/#PrintOnDemand houses for full color/odd sized work?

It's freezing in Tacoma

a week or so ago I wrote a mail to a podcast I like, telling them I think they're great.
In their latest episode they mentioned that they were very happy to have received a fan mail. Like 1 fan mail.
I thought my message would just be one of many.
So anyway, if you can, tell creators you like that you like what they do, they might not hear it as much as you'd think. :)

I have removed Facebook from my phone, and replaced it with mastodon. I logged out from my office and my personal work machine, changed the password to something complicated and only store that on my desktop.

I have replaced visiting ~10 websites + tumblr with visiting my ttrss installation, although I’d still like to find three or four more to add to the stream.

I still need to work out a better workflow for blogging, but by and large I’m pretty happy with this workflow.

The beautiful saiga may look like it’s from another galaxy, but it’s actually one of Earth’s oldest living species, having existed abundantly in the time of the sabertooth tiger; it’s range spanning from the British Isles to Alaska. But we may see it’s demise in our lifetime thanks to illegal hunting, climate change, and disease. There were over a million in the ‘90s. There numbers have ben reduced to less than 50,000 since then. Long live the ancient #saiga.

https://www.fws.gov/international/animals/saiga-antelope.html

on further inspection it looks like there *are* recordings of slayer performing Christmas carols, and they aren't listed as "sleigher" and honestly i'm disappointed...

Staying alive as radical praxis

HOW DO I KEEP MY HATS ON MY HEAD YOU ASK?

WHY IT'S SIMPLE, WITH A CAPS LOCK.

Podcast episode is recorded! Finally! I've done some basic production, and I'm sending it off to @CaptainUnderpants to review.

While I'm waiting on Lil' Ry to drive back home, I'll get to work on the website overhaul necessitated by the podcast.

I think it came out pretty well, and I'm excited to get it in front of people. [sooner now than before]

Vice's publication Motherboard says that "To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet" and will start publishing articles on how to set up decentralized internet infrastructure and start your own ISP.

That's going way beyond traditional journalism. That's really awesome!
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks