Top Gun Coolmadness Whoopi Goldberg As Guinan's Eyebrows
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Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
I wonder what it would like to not be a boring person …
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Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
You know far too much to be boring. My neighbours, boy oh boy, they know how to be boring. If it's not the weather, what was on TV last night, or the football, they are all out of thoughts in their heads. And yet their conversations go on and on, circling in perpetuity around nothing, as if life wasn't short enough…
Ah, summer.
Ah, summer.
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facetsesame
- Mad Dasher
- Location: UK
- Main keyboard: Ducky Legend
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac
- Favorite switch: MX red for linear, white for click
- DT Pro Member: 0092
Hey, thanks! It's a Woods Ware "Iris". For a time its green variant "Beryl" was arguably the Model M of English institutional crockery, even today it still lurks in village halls and school staff rooms...sth wrote:hey, nice bresselheim plate!
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facetsesame
- Mad Dasher
- Location: UK
- Main keyboard: Ducky Legend
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac
- Favorite switch: MX red for linear, white for click
- DT Pro Member: 0092
Unfortunately that is about all I know on the subject, while I could talk all day about my keyboard ideas...
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webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Hats are like beards, mustaches and shaven heads. Not everybody can wear them and get away with it.
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sth
- 2 girls 1 cuprubber
- Location: US
- Main keyboard: hhkb1
- DT Pro Member: -
much like hats, beards, mustaches and shaven heads should not be worn as a personality enhancement.webwit wrote:Hats are like beards, mustaches and shaven heads. Not everybody can wear them and get away with it.
the beard/mustache/head/hat must be a reflection of internal Quality, not merely the modification/reduction of external quality. otherwise it possesses only qualities, but no Quality.
our theoretical accoutermented subject's Quality difference can be described in keyboard terms:
there are high Quality keyboards such as burroughs, topre, IBM model F/M, and of course many older models using hall-effect and other highly-engineered, reliable and comfortable keypress technology. these keyboards may lack obvious visual appeal but they are engineered to work well and in terms of industrial design, oftentimes present high Quality in visual appearance once the user becomes acquainted with the intention of the keyboard.
then there are low Quality keyboards, in which i include anything that uses cherry and many alps boards. these boards may be sturdy, they may last a long time, but the underlying technology is inferior and the vast majority of these boards are produced with little attention to industrial design (or they are carried into the east-asian scene side of things and you get the equivalent of spinners, spoilers and streetglow on a computer input device). there is value and there is thought in the design but there is little Quality in these boards, in my eyes.
maybe more on this later.
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Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
I rock the beard and hat combo. Tried the shaven head when I was a teen (it was in style at the time) and, like every other white dude with a broad skull, I looked like an escaped psychiatric patient and kept attracting friendly attention from the cops.webwit wrote:Hats are like beards, mustaches and shaven heads. Not everybody can wear them and get away with it.
Handsome!
Trouble is, I've always had shitty hair, so hat it has to be. Quite pleased to see they're coming into fashion finally. I used to be the only guy in Edinburgh wearing anything more gentlemanly* than a fucking Yankees cap (why?) until a few years ago.
*Well, besides these blokes.
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mr_a500
- DT Pro Member: -
I've tried a beard, moustache, goatee, shaved my head a couple times (often while having a goatee - when you're bald you must have some hair somewhere). I've tried nearly everything, but I've found that the pseudo-James Bond/Leave it to Beaver combo is best:
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Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Black hair is to men what shapely boobs are to women. Pity not everyone has them. You ever hear about a tall blond stranger? Curse you lacquered detergent salesman and your self serving cliches!
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Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
You say that like you get out far too often to be one of us.sth wrote:i'm gonna have to ask you guys to stop talking about pornography, especially in combination with all this euphoria going on right now
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sth
- 2 girls 1 cuprubber
- Location: US
- Main keyboard: hhkb1
- DT Pro Member: -
new blog post: i'm recordin' tomorro!
hey yo yo. i just got a snare and cymbal rented and i'm recordin' in the studi-tomorr-o! we're gonna try to lay down like 4 or maybe 5 tracks. that depends on if i can actually play the 5th song. there are a lot of blast beats in it. it's very fast.
tomorrow will be the first time i have ever recorded on tape! the studio is entirely analog, all old gear. the guy recording us is awesome. here's a video of him and the studio:
http://www.vice.com/vice-meets/vice-meets-guy-tavares
should be a ton of fun. i get to play a dutch acrylic drum kit and the guitar amp i'm using is a huge matamp running through a 2x15 guitar cab with full-range speakers!! what the fuck!?
hey yo yo. i just got a snare and cymbal rented and i'm recordin' in the studi-tomorr-o! we're gonna try to lay down like 4 or maybe 5 tracks. that depends on if i can actually play the 5th song. there are a lot of blast beats in it. it's very fast.
tomorrow will be the first time i have ever recorded on tape! the studio is entirely analog, all old gear. the guy recording us is awesome. here's a video of him and the studio:
http://www.vice.com/vice-meets/vice-meets-guy-tavares
should be a ton of fun. i get to play a dutch acrylic drum kit and the guitar amp i'm using is a huge matamp running through a 2x15 guitar cab with full-range speakers!! what the fuck!?
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Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Ah, you're a drummer. Well that explains the mysteries in this thread. I don't know what it is, but there really are two kinds of mental wiring: the one that can keep time, do polyrhythms on left and right hand, and knows things by the essential feel of it; and then these ethereal and crusty nerds (like me) who struggle comically with a tambourine but can balance up differential equations without even cheating with Wolfram Alpha while in the middle of conversation.
Presumably there's good evolutionary reasons why each of us exist. But it certainly isn't for ease of conversation! Tell us what you know, for certain, in your stomach, and we want to analyze the ultrasound!
What sort of music are you making? Fingers crossed for something jazzy.
Presumably there's good evolutionary reasons why each of us exist. But it certainly isn't for ease of conversation! Tell us what you know, for certain, in your stomach, and we want to analyze the ultrasound!
What sort of music are you making? Fingers crossed for something jazzy.
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sth
- 2 girls 1 cuprubber
- Location: US
- Main keyboard: hhkb1
- DT Pro Member: -
uncross those fingers. it's a mix of crust punk, hardcore, sludge and grind.
i've only ever had the oppurtunity to play with one other person outside of this style of music in a very long time, and we were very simpatico but then i moved to california. that, for sure, is my only regret about leaving home. he was the first person i had ever met who was into the idea that technical mastery of an instrument should not get in the way of a good sounding song/arrangement. that is to say, math rock is far too often just major-key technical death metal without enough attention paid to the song as a whole and whether or not it's nice to listen to and whether or not it is evocative or just a demonstration of ability. i don't come in contact with enough musicians like that, the ones who are in it for The Sound. maybe i will write a blog post on The Sound someday but i need to organize my thoughts about it to be a bit more cohesive.
all that said, that's mostly why i stick to hardcore/crusty music in collaborative efforts -- the feeling of playing music that requires a lot of physical explosiveness, even on guitar, does a lot more for me than playing technically complicated music for the wrong reasons. when i play music on my own i tend toward a lot more pop and jazz influenced stuff but in bands, nothing gives me that kind of fast satisfaction like fast, heavy music. plus, i love basement shows with beer flying everywhere, 50 people jammed into a corner with no room to breathe and the music is so loud you can't even think. there's nothing like it. everyone there feels the same thing and it's great.
murium, you like jazzy stuff? what do you think of this record? http://shelsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bo ... in-the-oil
i've only ever had the oppurtunity to play with one other person outside of this style of music in a very long time, and we were very simpatico but then i moved to california. that, for sure, is my only regret about leaving home. he was the first person i had ever met who was into the idea that technical mastery of an instrument should not get in the way of a good sounding song/arrangement. that is to say, math rock is far too often just major-key technical death metal without enough attention paid to the song as a whole and whether or not it's nice to listen to and whether or not it is evocative or just a demonstration of ability. i don't come in contact with enough musicians like that, the ones who are in it for The Sound. maybe i will write a blog post on The Sound someday but i need to organize my thoughts about it to be a bit more cohesive.
all that said, that's mostly why i stick to hardcore/crusty music in collaborative efforts -- the feeling of playing music that requires a lot of physical explosiveness, even on guitar, does a lot more for me than playing technically complicated music for the wrong reasons. when i play music on my own i tend toward a lot more pop and jazz influenced stuff but in bands, nothing gives me that kind of fast satisfaction like fast, heavy music. plus, i love basement shows with beer flying everywhere, 50 people jammed into a corner with no room to breathe and the music is so loud you can't even think. there's nothing like it. everyone there feels the same thing and it's great.
murium, you like jazzy stuff? what do you think of this record? http://shelsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bo ... in-the-oil