@splendorr "LiveJournal... now that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time..." [/Obi-Wan voice]
Short version: I was in two bands in Athens GA in the early 90s, and spent an enormous amount of energy on both of them (especially the first one, although the second one was actually better musically). The first one dissolved due to interpersonal frictions, after I had already sunk $k I didn't have into various pieces of equipment; the second one dissolved due largely, I guess, to the band's main creative force having an alcohol problem.
I still have hours and hours of recordings (practive, live, and self-produced studio) from the first band, and a rehearsal recording from the second one which makes me wish we could have properly recorded some of the material.
Although the first band did five or six gigs, we never got any revenue from it.
(My keyboard time is about to end, but there's some gender-related stuff I'll try to come back to -- topics include: getting married in the hope that that would make me feel better, and the "no girls" policy the leader of the second band wanted to have...)
@splendorr I feel this and totally empathize.
(I have a similar rant I could add, but doanwanna make this all about me.)
@sargoth
🎵
No-one in the world
ever gets what they want
and that is beautiful.
Everybody dies
frustrated and sad,
and that is beautiful.
🎵 -- TMBG
(I dunno about you, but youth culture killed my dog and I don't think it's fair. Dang kids.)
@maxleibman "When God closes a door, He opens a security vulnerability in Windows." -- ancient proverb
hi! recently deleting instagram has super charged my desire to invest in alternative online social spaces!
I’m an incoming assistant professor in computer science at Loyola University Chicago. I study electronic waste and how to build computing tools to improve processes of reducing reusing and recycling computing material 🌱💻
@robpike I'm continuing to write code my way, for my own purposes (for whatever that might be worth).
@mhoye How is this even legal >.<
(If it was only recently made legal, then I withdraw my question; CaaS (Corruption as a Service) is a very hot sector lately.)
Ok Fedi, I'm starting the process of researching solar panels for my barn. I'm a DIY person, so not looking for install recommendations, more interested in what I need to learn in order to do this wisely. Hardware, unexpected gotchas, other things DIY people need to know.
I can build and I am comfortable with electrical work.
So I was bedridden for 16 months, and I've been focusing on getting employed since then. I'm making progress but I'm still up to my ears in debt from being sick for so long, and I'm out of food & rent money.
If you've got a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much!
@alice It feels like sometimes there's more... hopeful intentionality behind it, though. Not sure how to detect that. :-/
@alice I still have no idea how to tell it apart from casual silliness.
Maybe it's different for asexual sapioromantics (or whatever tf I might be)? :blobcatthink:
@JoBlakely This also reminds me of the "you know what you're getting" trope -- as if that somehow was a positive quality when "what you're getting" is clearly awful from start to finish.
Here's a strange situation:
thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.
Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.
If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀
@somecat You are, indeed, absolutely some cat.
Keep being that cat. ^.^
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