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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Also I have some minor sniffles going on and I'm not sure if I'm just feeling crappy because it's cold or if I'm actually slightly unwell.
Either way, I keep feeling like I just want to crawl under a pile of blankets and try again tomorrow, but I got up and have obtained a cup of coffee so let's see how it goes.
It is the first day of December and I've given up and turned the heating on.
I don't know if it's going to be part of the overall project but one thing I keep toying with is instead of cutting up a piece of 1950s propaganda, maybe leaving it as-is but rescoring the whole film.
I used to have a lot of self-doubt about Rainbow Headcleaner, which stared mostly as a joke, but I really liked the results.
Conceptually, it's "what if you took public domain 1950s educational films and cut them up with the free Apple loops library in Garageband?" and see, it's all legally clear of course, but I used to wonder if I could really consider that this was "my work" because all I really did was edit things, play with effects, tempo ... all sorts of things except (in most cases) actually generate the original noises.
Well all the recent AI bullshit has certainly cured my impostor syndrome in this space, I can tell you.
At least the cover thumbnail image is still valid! Fridge magnets coming soon!


