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weeknotes 19: floorp
it is the season of ending and decay and i really do not want it to be.
and why he ourple i have switched from Firefox to Floorp.
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weeknotes 18: intrinsic field subtractor
last monday was a day of travelling, didn’t get chance to write that week’s notes. today is a day of travelling, but i messed up the train times and have an hour of downtime in a cafe in Buxton. for simplicity’s sake i’m calling these “last week” and “this week” despite monday. it’s just as well, this week’s entry is fairly short.
the dermatologist(s) referred me for UV phototherapy. the first session was on the wednesday last week, at the Bermondsey Wing of Guy’s Hospital, which has great vibes in an 80s shopping centre atrium kind of way. it turned out was just a patch test of sorts: the nurse had a small handheld UV gun that fired a window pane pattern of ten beams of UV in increasing strength on my back, and a briefing on what to expect from the phototherapy itself, which left me with more questions than answers, and too much anxiety to ask them.
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weeknotes 17: drift limits
let’s get the not particularly humble brag out of the way:
i spent friday afternoon driving supercars around a track.
not these ones tbh. i was too excited and forgot to be taking photos or video of the actual cars or driving so for christmas my parents got me a Virgin Experiences voucher to go abseil down the big red spindly sculpture thing in Olympic Park. except when i tried to book it it was was no longer available. i was able to exchange the voucher for another Experience, and looking down the list it was like:
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weeknotes 16: loose fruit
i fixed the rss feed url, you’re welcome all you rss nerds.
i left my fan at the studio on friday. today was the hottest day of the year. i was surprised by the rain but at least surely it would make the heat more bearable. did it fuck
i had an angry couple of days on wednesday and thursday. i don’t know why. i’m sorry everyone, you didn’t deserve it.
good news: my work private health insurance covers shooting me in the face with lasers to the tune of twelve and a half grand. bad news: they have some specific laser shooty face people who are not the people who have been shooting me in the face with lasers for the last five years. i will miss you
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weeknotes 15: ten boroughs
i write this on the train home from the choir. we got back from camping this afternoon. i have been in ten london boroughs today, that feels like a record. please let me sleep now.
busy week: moving a cat cage from streatham hill to wandsworth road; meeting a new catsitter Haasje who is the loveliest and made sure kettricken loved her too by the end of the weekend; moving andy and piers’s camping gear from wandsworth road to nunhead.
and then camping. we’re getting it down to a fine art. our tent goes fwoomp, it takes literally two minutes to put up fully. i can turn a bag of logs and a box of matches into a campfire. the replacement stainless steel mesh i put eyelets in for the portable bbq works great. i’m pretty sure i have a phobia of wasps.
they’re shipping some Curves by rail just over there.
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weeknotes 14: angel oak
in summer the choir apparently scatters to the four winds. monday there were about ten of us, and the person teaching To The Moon And Back wasn’t one of them. we just sat on the floor and ran through basically our entire setlist. a lot if which i don’t know yet! really gonna have to learn them before our gig in october.
so a friend worked on Deadpool & Wolverine. her partner couldn‘t make it to the cast & crew screening, so she put a message out on our Discord. sorry folks, i am More Online Than You,
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weeknotes 13: five dermatologists
oh wow it’s actually joever, didn’t see that coming.
we’ve been trying to diagnose a Weird Problem at work, the kind you’d see in breathless Medium posts or SCP containment reports. me, Ivo and Rowan had each spent a few days trying to understand what was going on before getting burnt out, and the CDN support engineers were clueless.
on tuesday i got everyone together around the breakout area table in the office, trying out stupid things like editing the CDN config live to add more logging and point it to a temporary app i wrote and deployed in five minutes to log full request details we weren’t getting from the CDN logs themselves. by the end of the day things were pointing to the WAF as the culprit. the next day we narrowed it down with the help of a WAF support engineer to the WAF’s CDN loop detection (crucially not the CDN’s CDN loop detection, which we’d already configured our way around).
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weeknotes 12: savage garden
let’s just pretend I’ve been doing these the whole time and don’t have to recap the last checks notes two years
after a disastrous few weeks at the choir trying to learn No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Donna Summer feat Barbra Streisand (weird disco key changes, stupidly wide range, way too much funk rhythm) we moved onto To The Moon And Back by Savage Garden. it’s a lot of fun! we got through most of it in one session, we’ll probably finish tonight?
i’m really starting to get comfortable with my singing voice, it’s a great feeling. even just warming up and singing something once a week makes a huge difference. ASYMPTOTES vocals when
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how IN PROGRESS was made
IN PROGRESS is the new album by ASYMPTOTES (me), out now on 972276 Records DK. here’s how each track just barely came together.
BLOOD BLISTERS
this track actually started out around 2014 with a cracked copy of Ableton Live 9 and even less idea of what i was doing. it was called
Read more…Red Kiteand it was basically a Four Tet knockoff using the jangly bits and whurmp bass you hear in the final track. i would play it in a loop in Session view and sit there going “okay now what” until i quit Ableton disheartened.
