stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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  On 9/4/2018 at 4:34 AM, Stickfigger said:

What are you using now as a content aggregator?

 

Re: Data... the page on Google where it shows you your location history is terrifying. I remember looking back and seeing walks we did in 2014 through Tokyo etc. Also, it also became quite apparent that i frequently went a longer way home to stop by a bottle shop, and outside of my travel to and from work, i lived a sedentary lifestyle. Terrifying indeed.

it's an secrete.

yeah, location history is terrifying. I sent a friend the link to his own one which he didn't realise existed and he immediately flipped out. Google is an ongoing concern, but I have more faith in them than others, at this point. while they could conceivably be pressured by governments into divulging personal records in specific situations (e.g. terrorism incident), I think they're less in bed with dodgy commercial interests or other unsavoury 3rd parties than, say, tha Zucc.

edit: you can disable location tracking/history, I'm pretty sure. I've kept it on cos I actually use it to look up things every now and then.

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:52 AM, Stickfigger said:

 

You're missing the Radiohead Wanker pathway

 

Twitter is the best content aggregator imo... keeps the posts short by design, gets to the point quick, minimal ammount of bs as far as social networks go

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:37 AM, zaphod said:

 

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:00 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Do most people have a goth phase??!

 

(sorry, probably something subjective I'm missing lol, just makig sure I can add "goth phase" to my excel spreadsheet of phases I missed". 

 

there are maybe four paths to idm.

 

"goth" -> industrial -> idm (i got into aphex through nin and nothing records)

autism (it sounds like my video games and i see norse gods fighting in the sky when i listen to drukqs)

mortal kombat soundtrack -> the prodigy "funky shit on the event horizon soundtrack"/pi soundtrack/matrix soundtrack -> idm (lesser autism)

and then there's being british, which means you're probably around fifty years old and went to raves in the eighties, but most of these people are dead.

 

I think I got into IDM via ambient music. Like Autechre and Boards of Canada being mentioned in the ambient forums (or news goups..) and Aphex played in Chill Out Zone.

I think there is also the path for people who think they appear intelligent if  they listen to something that is being called intelligent. Same with the "progressive" genres.

Rented a small studio space for super cheap but now I have no idea what to do with all the extra space in the living room. Moved the couch to an optimal listening position but now there's this weird bit of room leftover behind it. fml  

Definitely had a heavy goth phase but moved on to multicoloured nail polish pretty quickly. By then aphex was already deeply embedded within me and my life. So deeply. Embedded. Within. 

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:37 AM, zaphod said:

 

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:00 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Do most people have a goth phase??!

 

(sorry, probably something subjective I'm missing lol, just makig sure I can add "goth phase" to my excel spreadsheet of phases I missed". 

 

there are maybe four paths to idm.

 

"goth" -> industrial -> idm (i got into aphex through nin and nothing records)

autism (it sounds like my video games and i see norse gods fighting in the sky when i listen to drukqs)

mortal kombat soundtrack -> the prodigy "funky shit on the event horizon soundtrack"/pi soundtrack/matrix soundtrack -> idm (lesser autism)

and then there's being british, which means you're probably around fifty years old and went to raves in the eighties, but most of these people are dead.

 

I think I'm paths #2 and #3. 

I've learned so much the last few pages. 

  On 9/4/2018 at 5:10 AM, tneuvm said:

 

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:52 AM, Stickfigger said:

 

You're missing the Radiohead Wanker pathway

 

  On 9/4/2018 at 5:34 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:37 AM, zaphod said:

 

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:00 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Do most people have a goth phase??!

 

(sorry, probably something subjective I'm missing lol, just makig sure I can add "goth phase" to my excel spreadsheet of phases I missed".

there are maybe four paths to idm.

 

"goth" -> industrial -> idm (i got into aphex through nin and nothing records)

autism (it sounds like my video games and i see norse gods fighting in the sky when i listen to drukqs)

mortal kombat soundtrack -> the prodigy "funky shit on the event horizon soundtrack"/pi soundtrack/matrix soundtrack -> idm (lesser autism)

and then there's being british, which means you're probably around fifty years old and went to raves in the eighties, but most of these people are dead.

I think I'm paths #2 and #3.

 

 

I've learned so much the last few pages.

2 and 4 / Virtually dead.

NIN/industrial was kind of my way in, in that I started making electronic music inspired by those things... but more melodic and less repetitive.  When my friend heard the music I was working on he said it pretty much sounded like IDM, then burned me a comp CD with Autechre, Plaid and Squarepusher.  Another friend lent me Geogaddi around this time, and I bought Confield.  I had heard the Aphex NIN remixes long before that though, not sure why it didn't open the floodgates much sooner.

FWP - didn't discover IDM until it was on its way out.

got my s9 from tmobile and they sent the wrong size sim card. my iphone se is dead and i have to now go into one of their fucking stores and hope they don't try to charge me for their mistake, which they seem to like doing.

  On 9/7/2018 at 4:31 AM, zaphod said:

got my s9 from tmobile and they sent the wrong size sim card. my iphone se is dead and i have to now go into one of their fucking stores and hope they don't try to charge me for their mistake, which they seem to like doing.

Yeah fuck stores

Drone me my dinner please

I forgot to indicate how hot I wanted my thai food (extra hot), and I believe they decided to go with "mild."  Sad.

you and yek need to exchange meals =(

just applied for a canadian holiday visa with an old pot supply charge, sold my mate a spliff when i was 18. not really sure how thats gonna go. 

I spent 3 hours doubting a mix I did for a commercial that'll be shown in cinemas later this month. The leq(m) measurements were fine, but it seemed awfully loud to me. Turns out Waves' WLM Meter was set to Multi Mono instead of 5.1. I ended up trying out NUGEN's VisLM2 instead. It's good.

Bought a second hand po-33 KO from a Dutch ebay-like site which according to a track & trace service had been delivered last Tuesday. I think the postman is still playing with it. 

  On 9/7/2018 at 10:42 AM, messiaen said:

just applied for a canadian holiday visa with an old pot supply charge, sold my mate a spliff when i was 18. not really sure how thats gonna go. 

Highly unlikely you'd be denied for that.

  On 9/7/2018 at 11:09 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 9/7/2018 at 10:42 AM, messiaen said:

just applied for a canadian holiday visa with an old pot supply charge, sold my mate a spliff when i was 18. not really sure how thats gonna go. 

 

Highly unlikely you'd be denied for that.

 

looks like ive been denied, also flattened by beauracracy. 

had to submit additional documents, but the website flatout refuses to pick up my ETA application and link it to a GCkey so they can tell me what documents. if its documents from my arrest i dont have them anyway. 3 business days for a help request and im flying monday morning. its my own fault for forgetting that im a hardened criminal, id probably have had time to sort all this out if id done it last month. 

Ah yes welcome to the Government of Canada’s wonderful world of IT. Nothing works.

Kale in kimchi. It's this "organic" variety I purchased @ Costco. But none of the Korean restaurants I know in town would ever put fucking kale in their kimchi.

I only want the real deal from now on. No more of this pretentious "organic" bullshit.

  On 9/10/2018 at 7:58 AM, ambermonk said:

Kale in kimchi. It's this "organic" variety I purchased @ Costco. But none of the Korean restaurants I know in town would ever put fucking kale in their kimchi.

 

I only want the real deal from now on. No more of this pretentious "organic" bullshit.

Yeah you should burn that costco down. Abomination.

Sorry for the rant. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of food products Costco gets right. All I'm saying is kale does not belong in kimchi. That's all.

  On 9/4/2018 at 4:37 AM, zaphod said:

there are maybe four paths to idm.

 

"goth" -> industrial -> idm (i got into aphex through nin and nothing records)

autism (it sounds like my video games and i see norse gods fighting in the sky when i listen to drukqs)

mortal kombat soundtrack -> the prodigy "funky shit on the event horizon soundtrack"/pi soundtrack/matrix soundtrack -> idm (lesser autism)

and then there's being british, which means you're probably around fifty years old and went to raves in the eighties, but most of these people are dead.

 

There is also "from bossanova and mongolian throat singing to sitting in a bar outside alone, listening to human chatter and urban noise as one muddled track"

  On 9/10/2018 at 6:53 PM, ambermonk said:

Sorry for the rant. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of food products Costco gets right. All I'm saying is kale does not belong in kimchi. That's all.

Don't be sorry mi amigo. It's a legit fwp.

My current fwp: At work, but really want to rub one out.

Find a coworker you dislike and offer to fix them a coffee.  I think you know where I'm going with this.  Probably say something like "I hope you like cream in your coffee" as you hand it to them, and wink.