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Interfacing audio to video hardware is almost always always a worst case scenario of unwanted gain followed by unwanted attenuation made possible by creative but unreliable interconnect dongles.

"To test this, the researchers recreated the mouse equivalent of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear and then blocked 15-PGDH. The osteoarthritis that you'd normally expect to see after such an injury didn't occur." Someone's job out there is to wake up every day and break mouse legs.

Left hand when playing guitar: Incredible feats of fine motor skill and precise dexterity. Left hand when doing anything else, like turning a doorknob: breaks four bones, door comes off hinges, aquarium shatters, fish flopping everywhere, small fire erupts.

Watching Green Lantern (2010) for the first time because the actor who plays Sinestro is playing Armitage in Neuromancer.

Made a two osc 1982 wave table synth running on shadowbox. Mapped the params to a pc12. Glorious. Instant Exit/construction time again.

Photo of Roland a50 controller, shadowbox and a fader fox pc12. Detail of shadowboxDetail of pc12. An overlay is shown

After an unsuccessful hunt, a domestic house cat will advocate for a session of predator-prey kayfabe in order to nap properly.

One project for this summer is to improve the legibility of Shadowbox, and I've been doing research into 1-bit typefaces. I was not prepared for the potent nostalgia I experienced after discovering an archive of Lisa fonts. I have not seen these in over 40 years.