Collective cyclics

I accidentally bought a collective when I meant to get a cyclic. I was tired of how all joysticks in movies look like PC gaming joysticks. Which, I mean, they usually are. 

Virpil collective for a Russian-style helicopter.

So I got something else.Well. No, I mean it's a joystick for a simulator. But it's a better than average one. Yet. It's for the left hand rather than the right hand. But it does have the option of Cyrillic labels rather than Latin-character labels. 

The Forecast of Lovers

Tying Viol Frets. I thought it might be amusing to try with my electric cello.

Convenient bird is convenient. 

Soviet police training films and cartoons.

Ukrainian fishermen successfully whing a fish at a Russian drone.

MilSpec 33558 Instrument Font in True Type.

I forgot to name this post

Mirror is a plugin which faffs with the reported latency to a DAW to do reverse effects. I dunno if it's actually that useful, I think most DAWs have something like a macro which bliermergates files in reverse in a way that the process is more straightforward than it used to. 

The Life Of An Agent: Secret Soviet police training films and Propaganda Cartoons

I'd like to groove you to Auburn Sounds -- I've been playing with their autotune-like plugin Grallion. Which is free, actually. Or, you can buy an upgrade it actually. But I've been using the free version as a VST2 plugin in OBS to autotune my very out-of-tune cello. As a live performance device. 

And it totally works. Probably terrible for actually learning to play cello though. I do want fret lines on this thing. 

Cello end with guitar tuners stuck where the pegs used to go.

Anywhoo it's kinda interesting that they use the Dplug open-source framework for developing. This intrigues me. 

I sent in my changes to my thesis today. We'll see if/how many are accepted. My brain is basically a puddle of mush.

Fatoush

This is an excellent Fatoush salad recipe. I made it with pita that was too big, I should have chopped the pita up more than I did. Next time...

Flamingocicle. Not a Fatoush. Although, why not? It looks like something called a fatoush. The one-legged fatoush. 

The trick is good ingredients. Pomegranate molasses and good sumac. I'm guessing some top-of-the-line cinnamon might have worked. I made it without tomatoes (because Todd doesn't like uncooked tomatoes) and without bell peppers (because I get really bad heartburn and reflux from bell peppers.) Heck, I'd make it without parsley at this point. Fried bread. That's the key.

Cleaning Up

 Cleaning up the ol' desktop of extra images. Let's start with Soul Train. 

Two sleepy baby hippos.

Sleepy little foxes.

I love helicopter cyclics. 

Magic hour bananas.

A map of my male ancestors over the last many thousands of years.

I made this conspiracy theory in some conspiracy theory generator.

Starting a cello

 I've had a bunch of setbacks in making an electric cello. So now I have won a bid on a broken, cheap electric cello.

It's a Celio electric cello. 

I do hate the traditional tuning pegs on, well, all string instruments. 

Magic hour bananas.

But I figured I'd get one.

It's missing the D fine tuner. 

So I'll start with it, maybe do some mods. Well, obviously I'll have to mod it. I'm not sure what the deal with the bridge is. We'll see when I take delivery. $80.95 with tax and shipping. 

Various music stuff

 Double harmonic scale. Double harmonic scale.

Ableton

I dunno. Marc told me that lots of Broadway use Ableton in the pit now. It's funny because that's the musician's choice when the sound department's choice is QLab.

Hipshot string-bending system. Costs more than a Squire Tele. But could be very cool.

Chance's ranking of classic Star Trek.

Stuff to know about the Behringer Neutronabout the Behringer Neutron.

Factory reset procedure: While pressing the buttons and hold down “OSC SYNC” + “PARAPHONIC” + “KEY TRK”, Power on the Neutron.
Release buttons “OSC SYNC” + “PARAPHONIC” + “KEY TRK”, The 5x LFO LEDs should display a pulsating pattern.
Pot calibration: While all 5x LFO LEDs are pulsating than turn the

OSC1 SHAPE pot fully to LEFT
OSC2 SHAPE pot fully to RIGHT
LFO SHAPE pot fully to RIGHT
LFO RATE pot fully to RIGHT
PORTA TIME pot fully to RIGHT
When this is done press VCF “MODE” + LFO “KEY SYNC” simultaneously.
Neutron will restart.

Map of my male ancestors travels over the millennia. 

DUO QUANTIZE FEATURES

STANDARD BANK

1.Bypass - Inputted voltage is outputted

2.Major - Root, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th

3.Minor - Root, 2nd, flat 3rd, 4th, 5th, flat 6th, flat 7th

4.Major Pentatonic - Root, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th

5.Minor Pentatonic - Root, flat 3rd, 4th, 5th, flat 7th

6.Blues Scale Root, flat 3rd, 4th, flat 5th, 5th, flat 7th

7.Whole Tone - Root, 2nd, 3rd, flat 5th, flat 6th, flat 7th

8.Chromatic - All 12 notes

OCTAVE BANK (OCT mode)

1.Bypass - Inputted voltage is outputted

2.Octave - Root

3.Octave and Fifth - Root, 5th

4.Octave and Flat Fifth - Root, flat 5th

5.Major Arppegio - Root, 3rd, 5th

6.Minor Arppegio - Root, flat 3rd, 5th

7.Dominant Arppegio - Root, 3rd, 5th, flat 7th

8.Chromatic

This gaming chair by Hinomi is not cheap but it has swing-out arms for playing guitar. 

Production of films

The following text is excised from my PhD thesis based on notes from my committee. It's all about the production of our films over Covid. I thought it should live somewhere, so here it is.

Imaginous Dumpiteritude

 I'll just leave these here.

This is my modification of this meme. I think this meme is hilar.

I dunno what this is or what's up with it but it was on my desktop.

I used to religiously send this to everyone on Facebook until I got too many complaints about using old material. 

My highly-skilled drawing of a moose. 

This was me in probably 1980 or possibly 1979 in 10th Grade at Metuchen High School. 

Fun brid.

This is my drawing of a "bunny tank". I don't remember why, I had some Internet reason for drawing it.

I think this is a 30 Rock joke.

This is a power plant background image Ian Hubert made. 

I made a conspiracy theory.