Slyvan Swift
@slyvan.bsky.social
Rarely seen in public, and even then, only from behind.
The world is quiet here.
The world is quiet here.
Signs of life: starting to leave the house more than once on a Sunday morning. Starting to go to gigs again. Starting to read new books rather than old ones. Starting to go to different places (looking forward to Brecon in April). Starting to start over again.
March 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Signs of life: starting to leave the house more than once on a Sunday morning. Starting to go to gigs again. Starting to read new books rather than old ones. Starting to go to different places (looking forward to Brecon in April). Starting to start over again.
Deep in the Fens, out of the way of any people, there are secret noises. www.flickr.com/photos/stray...
Winged victory
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January 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Deep in the Fens, out of the way of any people, there are secret noises. www.flickr.com/photos/stray...
Stolen, but so true. Not long left, a few planning days, party, I can make it.
December 3, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Stolen, but so true. Not long left, a few planning days, party, I can make it.
No more ICQ? Farewell from the five-digit gang.
May 30, 2024 at 6:03 AM
No more ICQ? Farewell from the five-digit gang.
That time of year again where I get to wonder how John Virgo is still in a job.
April 22, 2024 at 6:16 PM
That time of year again where I get to wonder how John Virgo is still in a job.
Oooh, new Psychic Lemon longplayer _and_ a gig soon. Excellent.
February 18, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Oooh, new Psychic Lemon longplayer _and_ a gig soon. Excellent.
Hell is other peoples' bureaucracy.
February 7, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Hell is other peoples' bureaucracy.
After reading a thread about Godzilla Earth anime (such a fantastic premise, actual show was so bad it made me angry. Not as angry as angry protagonist, but even so) it mentioned 'Attack on Titan' which I thought I'd seen...but no, no I hadn't. Angry protagonist is angry, but show is good. So far.
January 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
After reading a thread about Godzilla Earth anime (such a fantastic premise, actual show was so bad it made me angry. Not as angry as angry protagonist, but even so) it mentioned 'Attack on Titan' which I thought I'd seen...but no, no I hadn't. Angry protagonist is angry, but show is good. So far.
You take an old ground-penetrating radar system, adapt it with older hydrophone parts, map the results to some simple midi piano stuff (left/right/centre same signal, different pianos) and voila, as they say in gay paree gravitysangel.bandcamp.com/track/canal-...
January 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
You take an old ground-penetrating radar system, adapt it with older hydrophone parts, map the results to some simple midi piano stuff (left/right/centre same signal, different pianos) and voila, as they say in gay paree gravitysangel.bandcamp.com/track/canal-...
Blink and you -will- miss it, but after a morning's filming, V and I are in this video. AND we are going to see them in the Portland tomorrow night. Crikey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhs...
January 16, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Blink and you -will- miss it, but after a morning's filming, V and I are in this video. AND we are going to see them in the Portland tomorrow night. Crikey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhs...
If you fancy some smooth neo-prog loveliness, I can recommend the entire output of Kilbey Kennedy.
January 15, 2024 at 2:22 PM
If you fancy some smooth neo-prog loveliness, I can recommend the entire output of Kilbey Kennedy.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is without a doubt the best player of the game ever.
January 14, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Ronnie O'Sullivan is without a doubt the best player of the game ever.
So you record your chatty foster-boi for a few minutes, drip it in reverb and delay, add a simple beat over it, and then go back to snoozing on a Sunday afternoon. straytoaster.co.uk/music/Arnie'...
January 7, 2024 at 3:14 PM
So you record your chatty foster-boi for a few minutes, drip it in reverb and delay, add a simple beat over it, and then go back to snoozing on a Sunday afternoon. straytoaster.co.uk/music/Arnie'...
Minus One: Oh yes. The music was superb. The humanity of '54, the brutality of '84 and the wit of Shin. Can deffo recommend. Even V enjoyed it.
December 28, 2023 at 1:15 PM
Minus One: Oh yes. The music was superb. The humanity of '54, the brutality of '84 and the wit of Shin. Can deffo recommend. Even V enjoyed it.
And now all of my offspring are here, let the holidays begin. It has gotten to that stage where having them all here is a present enough for me. (And we see them all regularly, just not often all at once :)
December 24, 2023 at 6:22 PM
And now all of my offspring are here, let the holidays begin. It has gotten to that stage where having them all here is a present enough for me. (And we see them all regularly, just not often all at once :)
The Night Before Christmas (can we have new eps, plz?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gh6...
December 24, 2023 at 5:09 PM
The Night Before Christmas (can we have new eps, plz?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gh6...
This evening I have been enjoying Haiku Salut.
December 9, 2023 at 9:06 PM
This evening I have been enjoying Haiku Salut.
This is surprisingly awesome.
December 8, 2023 at 7:26 PM
This is surprisingly awesome.
I think this is the politest way anyone has ever called me awkward.
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December 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
I think this is the politest way anyone has ever called me awkward.
GenXer who doesn't get on with 'playlists' and would rather, yeah, listen to an album as the creator intended.
November 30, 2023 at 8:09 AM
GenXer who doesn't get on with 'playlists' and would rather, yeah, listen to an album as the creator intended.
Horizon Zero Dawn for a tenner was a good buy. Yes, late to the party. Yes, I only play one game at a time (if any). Yes, I should probably buy a teevee and console.
November 28, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Horizon Zero Dawn for a tenner was a good buy. Yes, late to the party. Yes, I only play one game at a time (if any). Yes, I should probably buy a teevee and console.
This....was unexpected. My best ever.
November 26, 2023 at 3:03 PM
This....was unexpected. My best ever.
Oh God, it has talked itself woke.
November 25, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Oh God, it has talked itself woke.
Been hacking on different approach to LLMs, extending the culturally contextual sliding time paradigm I was using to include the Socratic Method (polite adversarial reinforcement learning) & well, I guess my training set has yielded something I wasn't expecting: tiny knives...how do we poison him?
November 25, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Been hacking on different approach to LLMs, extending the culturally contextual sliding time paradigm I was using to include the Socratic Method (polite adversarial reinforcement learning) & well, I guess my training set has yielded something I wasn't expecting: tiny knives...how do we poison him?
Seriously, in this day and age if you site 404s becuase you haven't set up to work without the www, then I despair. And I do, continually, despair.
November 18, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Seriously, in this day and age if you site 404s becuase you haven't set up to work without the www, then I despair. And I do, continually, despair.