Joel @cincodenada@cybre.space

Okay, I redid this in 4/4 and it's...better? I think? Those damn dotted eighths!

Okay is way more accurate than what I had but dammit it looks monstrous. Dammit, Darnielle!

Anyone who actually knows about #music #transcription have any better ways to notate this?

Dammit, after furiously tapping on my table I think it's just a bunch of weird 16th notes in 4/4. Now I gotta figure out how to redo all this nonsense.

This is what I've got so far. Triplets in 12/8? Why not! Eighteenth notes, let's go!

#transcription #music #themountaingoats #woodwinds

Current quarantine status: attempting to transcribe the clarinets in The Mountain Goats' "Southwestern Territory"

Uhh #electricalengineering #ee #cooking #fluke #multimeter

So this recipe was very specific about the temperature of the oil for deep-frying, and today I learned that a key difference between meat thermometers (which I own) and candy thermometers (which I don't) is that the former don't go up to 350F.

Fortunately, I remembered that I'm an electrical engineer. And thus...

Update: I ended up just re-installing the trusty ol' DownThemAll in Firefox and doing it that way. Shoulda done that from the start, I guess.

Oof, just was defeated on my second #HollowKnight Steel Soul run. 2.5hrs in I got too cocky exploring the City of Tears and wandered into a mini-boss I was not prepared for, oops! #gameing #indiegame

Also here's a link to an Instagram story complication with more short videos of the process if you want to see more: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17861547661775078/

I already posted these in a reply, but gonna post them to my main TL with more contexet: I made some pierogis from scratch using a recipe from @practicalkitch@twitter.com and it was a success!

I don't cook a ton because I'm bad at the planning part, but I really enjoy it when I can make it happen. If you're looking for a tasty (and vegan-friendly!) option and have some lentils and potatoes, I can vouch for this being a great option: https://thepracticalkitchen.com/aloo-dal-pierogi-potato-lentil-pierogi/

I doubled the recipe, made and ate a quarter of them with a friend last night, and still have the makings for another ~75 that will probably mostly go in the freezer for later.

#food #cooking #pierogis #recipe

But! I'm making good progress in my second run, decided to go hard for Fragile Greed to start, and just got it in under an hour, yay!

Update: even sillier, I went back and practiced the jump and it is eminently doable, just so not challenging, it turns out I just freaked out and got nervous and panic-jumped and died for no reason. Sigh.

Having a real grumpy old man moment here trying to write a bog-standard crawler to log in to a website and download a couple dozen links.

I made the mistake of trying to use #Scrapy, which is apparently now an aggressively asynchronous crawler ecosystem that seems hostile to my goal of visiting a set sequence of pages, one after the other.

I'm not writing a search engine here, I don't need this to be massively parallel, I don't care about your Cloud Service, I literally want you to just log in at page A and then use that session to visit page B, and then go down a list of links on that page one by one and save them to my disk, but apparently that's too blase these days.

Ironically, the last time I did this using Node and it was way less hassle. Guess I'll dust off that project and use that instead.

I don't play a ton of games, but when I do play I tend completionist, albeit on a long timeframe. I've been slowly pushing past the end of Fez on and off for years at this point. Hollow Knight is the first metroidvania I've played, and I've been having a ton of fun with it!

I decided to go grab the Baldur Shell and almost died fighting the baldurs but calmed down and recovered, but killed the second baldur before restoring all my masks, so I was left with two masks.

I didn't have the Mantis Claw yet, so I couldn't climb up, and going back the way you came has a really nasty jump that I'm not even 100% sure you can do without the Monarch Wings. I made my two runs at that jump and failed both of them :(

So, gonna practice that jump in my normal game before trying that again

Welp, just died in my first #HollowKnight Steel Soul run. I wasn't too far in, but it was a really silly way to die. Friggin' spikes, man.

Started a new run and did a circuit around the Forgotten Crossroads before calling it a night, which I should have done before doing the silly thing.

#gameing #indiegame #metroidvania