Dusk Beats
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My name is Paddimandius, bear of bears
Look at my Sandwiches, ye Mighty, and despair!
Look at my Sandwiches, ye Mighty, and despair!
August 21, 2024 at 7:13 PM
My name is Paddimandius, bear of bears
Look at my Sandwiches, ye Mighty, and despair!
Look at my Sandwiches, ye Mighty, and despair!
The Mediterranean has been achieved. 900 odd miles.
August 21, 2024 at 6:22 PM
The Mediterranean has been achieved. 900 odd miles.
Avignon is so very clean and tidy. I wish I had been able to see it perhaps 50 years ago when I assume the old town was still lived in and the tourist infrastructure was less of a deal. #provence2024
August 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Avignon is so very clean and tidy. I wish I had been able to see it perhaps 50 years ago when I assume the old town was still lived in and the tourist infrastructure was less of a deal. #provence2024
The current 111 model essentially already does this and after a short decision-tree esque chat often escalates to a clinician because of the ambiguity. Until that can be sorted not sure how this works. And that’s not something an LLM can do.
August 21, 2024 at 5:46 AM
The current 111 model essentially already does this and after a short decision-tree esque chat often escalates to a clinician because of the ambiguity. Until that can be sorted not sure how this works. And that’s not something an LLM can do.
I like the 07:24 flex
August 21, 2024 at 5:40 AM
I like the 07:24 flex
I think it is more like that. A kind of stationary flow state; an immediacy; a little slice of nonduality perhaps that escaping from the same old signs and symbols and favour trails offers.
Or perhaps it’s just the cold glass of white wine, which is really quite good.
Or perhaps it’s just the cold glass of white wine, which is really quite good.
August 20, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I think it is more like that. A kind of stationary flow state; an immediacy; a little slice of nonduality perhaps that escaping from the same old signs and symbols and favour trails offers.
Or perhaps it’s just the cold glass of white wine, which is really quite good.
Or perhaps it’s just the cold glass of white wine, which is really quite good.
Or is it perhaps the different-enough or far-enough-from home brand of the novel I seek? A kind that acts as a sort of mental bubble bath. A long aaaah where by severing the joins to the familiar I can float in a freer state.
August 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Or is it perhaps the different-enough or far-enough-from home brand of the novel I seek? A kind that acts as a sort of mental bubble bath. A long aaaah where by severing the joins to the familiar I can float in a freer state.
Is it that momentary sensation of can’t-categorise-this that quickly succumbs to ‘aha actually it’s like that’? The new is rarely new for long, bar the revelatory or traumatic, and I don’t think there why most of us travel.
August 20, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Is it that momentary sensation of can’t-categorise-this that quickly succumbs to ‘aha actually it’s like that’? The new is rarely new for long, bar the revelatory or traumatic, and I don’t think there why most of us travel.
Some perhaps obvious, perhaps not so obvious reflections on travel. We experience all new things in the context of prior experience. This place is like that, that was better than the other one, I like this more or less than the previous version and so on. How do we therefore experience the new?
August 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Some perhaps obvious, perhaps not so obvious reflections on travel. We experience all new things in the context of prior experience. This place is like that, that was better than the other one, I like this more or less than the previous version and so on. How do we therefore experience the new?
We have reached Provence. A village north east of Avignon tonight. It has the usual sleepy calm, impossible sunsets, soft air. #provence2024
August 20, 2024 at 6:55 PM
We have reached Provence. A village north east of Avignon tonight. It has the usual sleepy calm, impossible sunsets, soft air. #provence2024
A brief pit stop up in the mountains at Vallon Pont D’arc. Beautiful swimming and kayaking spot in the mountains, only 25 mins from the motorway. A bliss for tired shoulders after all the driving. #provence2024
August 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
A brief pit stop up in the mountains at Vallon Pont D’arc. Beautiful swimming and kayaking spot in the mountains, only 25 mins from the motorway. A bliss for tired shoulders after all the driving. #provence2024
Lyon could give Birmingham a run for its money in a competition for most unforgiving and complex urban motorway set up. One small mistake and your whisked into another set of tunnels #provence2024
August 20, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Lyon could give Birmingham a run for its money in a competition for most unforgiving and complex urban motorway set up. One small mistake and your whisked into another set of tunnels #provence2024
And from this to the anonymity of an off-highway hotel. An International unplace that offers only the beyond-language frisant of liminality, of the night feeling. Many times I’ve embraced being no-one in nowhere. Tonight? I’m not sure. It’s been a long drive #provence2024
August 19, 2024 at 9:24 PM
And from this to the anonymity of an off-highway hotel. An International unplace that offers only the beyond-language frisant of liminality, of the night feeling. Many times I’ve embraced being no-one in nowhere. Tonight? I’m not sure. It’s been a long drive #provence2024
The 200 miles from Rheims to Beaune was hard; bright lights of oncoming traffic in the dark, a blood red moon. All to the soundtrack of medieval history: the Knights Templar, Charlemagne, Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême
August 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The 200 miles from Rheims to Beaune was hard; bright lights of oncoming traffic in the dark, a blood red moon. All to the soundtrack of medieval history: the Knights Templar, Charlemagne, Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême
Driving through Eastern France the geography is a World War One history lesson. A landscape of glorious defeats and victories. Marne, Amiens, Somme, St Quentin. Then Rheims rises out of the rolling pastoral, stone and controlled civic splendour #provence2024
August 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Driving through Eastern France the geography is a World War One history lesson. A landscape of glorious defeats and victories. Marne, Amiens, Somme, St Quentin. Then Rheims rises out of the rolling pastoral, stone and controlled civic splendour #provence2024
Industrial signage on ferries is resolutely un-modern. It feels like it’s slipped through from the 1940s. Little pockets of other space that remind you you are not at home at the moment. The journey has commenced. #provence2024
August 19, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Industrial signage on ferries is resolutely un-modern. It feels like it’s slipped through from the 1940s. Little pockets of other space that remind you you are not at home at the moment. The journey has commenced. #provence2024
The port town of Newhaven has recently seen some much needed regeneration. This mural at the ferry port illustrates the floating South Downs and the commonly spotted Great White sharks #provence2024
August 19, 2024 at 7:08 AM
The port town of Newhaven has recently seen some much needed regeneration. This mural at the ferry port illustrates the floating South Downs and the commonly spotted Great White sharks #provence2024
Indeed. Pollution free.
August 18, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Indeed. Pollution free.
Sequencing: a process through a computer or hardware of organising samples (say, into a drum patter) or synthesised notes (say, into a melody) with multiple layers to create a piece of music. They’re the three key ideas on which most electronic music is made. 4/4
August 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Sequencing: a process through a computer or hardware of organising samples (say, into a drum patter) or synthesised notes (say, into a melody) with multiple layers to create a piece of music. They’re the three key ideas on which most electronic music is made. 4/4
Synthesis: the process of making electronic melodic sounds. Uses a synthesiser. This allows, through modification of wave forms and their volume across time, creation of a range of different sounds. From plucky keys to long sci-fi ‘pads’ 3/4
August 18, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Synthesis: the process of making electronic melodic sounds. Uses a synthesiser. This allows, through modification of wave forms and their volume across time, creation of a range of different sounds. From plucky keys to long sci-fi ‘pads’ 3/4
Sampling: the process of recording, importing cutting, mangling or modifying a sound. Could be a hour long sonata, or a drum hit, or some ambient effects. All samples. 2/4
August 18, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Sampling: the process of recording, importing cutting, mangling or modifying a sound. Could be a hour long sonata, or a drum hit, or some ambient effects. All samples. 2/4
Agree 100% I’ve made the jump as I think this will soon do that ticker thing. Where x works for me is during fast moving political events. Once we get a few more big journos here it will be even better.
August 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Agree 100% I’ve made the jump as I think this will soon do that ticker thing. Where x works for me is during fast moving political events. Once we get a few more big journos here it will be even better.