Posts by yam655@sonomu.club
(DIR) Post #9jGtUuaJPwHVsxFpMe by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-05-28T13:52:18Z
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@sean What if the actual problem is that you believe you need to remember them verbatim?What if you saw it more as improv than a lecture?Any live show needs to have some aspect of improv, just to take in to account the changing dynamics of the audience, right?Improv with talking points.
(DIR) Post #9jNQHRZASVQNYcfEwa by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-05-31T17:49:51Z
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@a_breakin_glass @grainloom @jaycie I think software development is hard the way most types of art is hard. In a way, you can paint with words in more than just the theoretical sense, right? It's work. it takes time to become comfortable with your medium. The problem isn't that it is conceptually hard. Conceptually, it's pretty simple. Link a bunch of recipes together. Tweak them to your needs. Done.The problem is that folks don't have time / energy. The solution is to destroy capitalism.
(DIR) Post #9jXLc6xlCX3tYVgTaq by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-06-05T12:44:02Z
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@tomasino I've been distracted and have not worked on my story in a while. 😔 I have, however, redesigned my website to simultaneously support Gopher. Cosmic Voyage was definitely the inspiration for that.
(DIR) Post #9l72JNdOeCycMhEKi8 by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-22T15:50:03Z
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@kai @fry So, both of you: 50/90 started July 4th. http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/It doesn't matter if you don't hit 50. Starting almost a month late on a three month project also isn't a big deal. It's totally viable to aim for 25 songs with 14 usable for an album.Stop thinking about music with your heads. Think about it in song. Explore what you have done by creating something new. Experiment with what you want to release by how it feels.It's also a friendly community. (Not as big as FAWM.)
(DIR) Post #9l72pOyHDG8BmHGXLM by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-22T15:55:51Z
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@kai 60% of the songs you make are mediocre, neither good nor bad.30% are actively awful.10% are amazing.The idea is that the ratios are constant, so the only way to get more amazing songs are to make more songs.It explains one-hit wonders who gathered their best songs for their first albums, but then thought they "understood how to write songs" and released every piece of crap they wrote on their second album.It also encourages practice, allowing you to recognize gems in early work.
(DIR) Post #9l7QP3zOzwdG4flYDw by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-22T18:55:35Z
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@fry Small babies change what kind of music is acceptable. It's totally doable, but think in terms of songs you'd sing to the little one.My first FAWM had me singing little songs to my kids and recording it on my phone.You do some "fun, happy acapella" stuff, though? Crossing the line in to children's music is very easy. Nursery songs, lullabies. Songs about tasks and stuff.A bedtime song: https://yam655.com/j/2017-07/16_r1427/Singing while driving:https://yam655.com/j/2017-07/26_r1909/@kai
(DIR) Post #9l7QP4PdQPcFO22V72 by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-22T19:00:26Z
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@fry More recently, I sang: "You can poop on your own" https://yam655.com/j/2019-07/20_r2220/My first FAWM, my then nonverbal son helped me decide what to sing about by picking up toys. (It looks like I need to put those songs online somewhere.)@kai
(DIR) Post #9l7QP8g5ZB9ccDlhJY by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-22T19:21:21Z
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@fry That makes sense. Just remember to plan for the future. Kids grow fast.My own kids try not to interrupt me and will stand at the doorway listening while I finish.I set the bar low, so we've been passing my Zoom H1 around for years. My kids will also sing silly little songs to themselves when alone.I understand about wanting gigable material, though. Still, what style did they hear in utero? Whatever style that was, they'll still enjoy it an infant.@kai
(DIR) Post #9l8b0HeWM40LreLU8W by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-23T09:53:29Z
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@kai @fry @luka I like to remember that back before recorded music, back before radio, the air was filled with the sound of people singing to themselves. Most of these people got embarrassed and stopped once they found out they "didn't sing as good as <x>" -- that or they were shamed in to stopping within a few generations by kids who thought the same.I call that early music, "folk acapella." My kids just needed to know it was a thing. "Here, you just open your mouth and sing."
(DIR) Post #9l8iwET73B2WSqaYSG by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-23T10:03:55Z
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@kai @fry @luka They still get confused about my process. (Or intimidated by it?) I shared "Food Truck Dog" earlier, and it has this bit of dialog:Me: You sing it, McDougal!Kid: I don't know all the words!Me: Neither do I! It doesn't stop me from singing it!Fearlessly playing with music is something that can be modeled fairly easily to kids."I've no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway and when I'm done, I'll know a little more."That's really the vibe I go for.
(DIR) Post #9lLjUkmSUPENRPiKCu by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-07-29T17:59:56Z
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@emacsen Do you need to own the hardware, though?What's the advantage to this, compared to being the system administrator of a system in the cloud?I have a public server hosted through prgmr.com where I'm the systems administrator and can install/update the software myself. I'm not doing anything weird with it, outside of also having my site available via the gopher protocol.The public server is effectively a mirror of a system at home. I manage backups through the home system, etc.
(DIR) Post #9laSMRTQ9SOh2DjG3U by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-08-05T20:28:00Z
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@sean @starbreaker That second revision used to really trip me up. Then I experimented with rewriting in to a blank document. I can do a second revision at-speed and -- because the story is all in my head -- still crank out second revision quality. I figure it maps more closely to what folks did before computers made line-editing so much easier.Things just mesh, even in places I wouldn't have thought to add stuff manually.
(DIR) Post #9lc48XM32XWYZQ9TTE by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-08-06T15:03:46Z
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@teascade I think my youngest was three when he was having a bath and, struggling for the words, told his mother and me that he wished he had a vulva like his sister.We need trans and nonbinary literature that's age appropriate and aimed at kids.My ex and I didn't shove the kids in to closets. One is "both" and the other is "neither" and how that falls out as they age is up to them. As fewer parents put kids in to closets, the demand for kids books increases.@erosdiscordia
(DIR) Post #9m4uIZTasjLhTmcZKi by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-08-20T11:09:56Z
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@darius I have a minor recommendation about your version number.I understand wanting to keep the version on-par with Mastodon, but right now you're missing out on the usefulness of having a real Hometown version.I suggest adding an additional number, after the Mastodon version, for the Hometime release.So, if you had three patch updates to Hometown during Mastodon's 2.9.2 release:Mastodon: 2.9.2Hometown: 2.9.2.3You want to make it easy for folks to know they have important patches.
(DIR) Post #9m7ArGTnURqwHRCX7Q by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-08-20T13:38:43Z
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@clacke @darius Cool! That wasn't clear in the docs I read.
(DIR) Post #9m7ArH7989KQFTbxS4 by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-08-20T13:47:17Z
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@darius I totally missed it on the page you referenced. On the readme.md in the "Versioning" section:"Hometown follows Mastodon versioning, so Hometown v2.9.2 is up to date with Mastodon v2.9.2."That implies it's just the same version number.@clacke
(DIR) Post #9m7MsoSzoMhhQeKaMy by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-08-21T17:31:52Z
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@sean Good luck!
(DIR) Post #9mYwmjYx08KUT9HehE by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-09-04T00:52:08Z
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@kai I use songwriting to change my mood. Am I in a crap mood? I can sing that mood out, and get to happier moods and songs behind it.After all, I expect listening to the song to change my mood, why should I expect any less of writing it?
(DIR) Post #9nl6SHdNA3kWsQBO0O by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-10-09T19:06:28Z
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Sometimes I miss having an MP3 player that could play songs backwards.
(DIR) Post #9oga6lAG1bxRJH7Wme by yam655@sonomu.club
2019-11-06T12:59:56Z
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@clacke I leaned in to personal development and self-growth so hard that my kids both have traits that bother people (like each other and their mom) which I fully understand and relate to.It's like they're little mirrors, inviting introspection and growth.