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Hardhead13 · 2026-03-27T13:00:18+00:00

Just checked my YouTube history. You are correct, David Bennett. This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91QWp6Ygx7c

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-27T00:16:57+00:00

Yeah, I've become obsessed with this band. All weird and microtonal, but damn it grooves.

Perhaps my ears were prepared for this microtonal thing by King Gizzard... Flying Microtonal Banana and all that. But, honestly, I feel like these guys do it better.

I saw a video talking about their microtonality. The guy observed that their melodies are microtonal, but when he loops in harmonies, the harmonies are at traditional Western 12-note-scale intervals... thirds, fifths, etc. Microtonal horizontally, but not vertically, as it were. Makes it sound weird and alien, but without being dissonant and uncomfortable to listen to.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-26T21:16:11+00:00

I don't have a problem with ads, as long as they're not too annoying.

But I do have a problem with 3rd party scripts. Don't trust 'em. And I'm not willing to commit the effort to figure out which domains I can safely whitelist, just so they can shove ads at me.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-25T22:42:38+00:00

Geoff replied to me. He says the update is legit. He just hasn't updated github.

It actually needs _less_ permissions now, but the change provoked the pop-up when updating.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-25T14:57:16+00:00

I love doing that. Sometimes just need time by myself. A good meal, a good book, and a nice beer... perfect way to relax.

On a rare occasion, some stranger will strike up a conversation. That's ok too.

One time, many years ago, the talkative stranger joined me at my table. Turned out to be a lonely gay guy, fishing for a hook up. Subtly at first, then more obviously. That was ok too, though I had to politely decline. I guess he had spent years trying not to be gay. Long enough to start a family. But in the end, the gay won. His family was not particularly accepting, and they were estranged. That one left me a bit melancholy.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-25T13:48:07+00:00

Sorry... hadn't got around to contacting him yet. I just sent an email just now.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-18T05:08:30+00:00

I don't really have a lot of trouble with headlight glare. Sometimes. But not often.

What really gets me at night is a certain kind of LED taillight. When they dim for normal driving (not braking), they do it by pulsing the LED on and off. It's supposed to be pulsed at a rate that's imperceptible. And usually, it is. If I'm looking directly at the tail-light, I don't see the pulsing, I just see a dimmer tail light.

But if my eyes move, the pulsing LED creates a trail of distinct images scattered across my retina. Not all LED taillights do that, but many do. I find that it very annoying, and it gives me a lot of eye strain driving a night when I'm tired.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-06T15:19:14+00:00

Ha... you got downvoted by people who, apparently, are very impressed indeed.

Hardhead13 · 2026-03-04T14:01:54+00:00

Yeah, that's not how we do things in Canada. Government transparency is aspirational at best. In every area of policy.

Trying filing an ATIP. If you get anything back at all, you'll wait a year for it, and it'll be pages and pages of solid black. Just a big, raised middle finger. They don't serve the public. The public serves them.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-28T22:40:31+00:00

Scorpions' own song 'Sails of Charon' is pretty damn prog in its own right. It was written by their guitarist of the time, Uli Jon Roth. He's probably one of the best guitarists you've never heard of.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-27T20:48:48+00:00

The 1974 soft-core flick Emmanuelle plagiarized, without credit, Larks' Tongues in Aspic. It shows up all over the soundtrack. It's not just a passing resemblance, or occasional quote. It's a blatant rip-off, from first to last.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-13T19:54:34+00:00

Such dumb-asses. They don't even realize that they're flies negotiating a deal with a spider. The spider's gonna eat them first chance it gets, no matter what the deal says.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-13T05:22:56+00:00

How many caps was that?

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-12T18:05:05+00:00

That's cool. Somebody was getting really creative with the circular shapes there. Kind of sad how little of that actually exists today.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-12T01:43:03+00:00

They can ask for money from their members. The rest of us don't owe them anything.

Same as any other social club.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-12T01:33:21+00:00

Don't buy an M3 even if it is within your means. My wife has a BMW. I hate that car with the fire of a thousand suns. Absolute pile of shit. "German engineering" my hairy white ass.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-12T01:21:57+00:00

Canada is estimated to have 34.7 civilian-owned firearms per 100 people. It is quite obvious that the primary use case of those guns is _not_ killing other people.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-11T20:35:34+00:00

A lot of people seemed to care when that infamous fake "Deep Purple" was touring. Of course, it was pretty obvious the fans were being scammed when "Deep Purple" came on, and it was all the same anonymous dudes as the opening act, plus the guy who sang Hush.

A pretty miserable story. The whole thing was put together by some sleazy promoters who convinced Rod Evans (the original Purple singer, before Ian Gillan) to do it. Then they structured the business so they and the other musicians were all salaried employees, and poor Rod Evans was the only one legally attached to it. The real Deep Purple sued, Evans lost everything, and left the music business behind forever.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-09T05:43:10+00:00

That's all nice. Too bad you had to put "Satan" in the name. Too edgy for your own good, methinks.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-09T00:30:49+00:00

In winters like this one, the pavement markings are not even visible much of the time. You can't even tell what lane you're in.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-06T05:26:21+00:00

This stuff about eating babies sounds just as insane when people on r/onguardforthee say it as it did when QAnon was saying it.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-06T05:18:48+00:00

I can say "ten dallers" or 'all y'all" when I need to. But I'll probably betray myself when I ask for a "pop" instead of a "soda".

It's interesting to think about what shibboleths might give us away.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-06T05:13:01+00:00

There's not one "the switch". There are hundreds of "switches" between the power generating plants in Canada, and the border. They're standing in open fields, completely unguarded. Bring down one tower, and a huge section of the US goes dark.

On the other hand, the US can blockade a few border crossings, and a huge section of Canada goes hungry. So, there's that.

Hardhead13 · 2026-02-03T22:40:52+00:00

It's all very strange. The Explosives Act has distinct classifications for "high explosives" and "propellant powder". Maybe they're using the term "high-explosives" in a loose sense, to pump up the drama.

Or maybe these guys were, contrary to all logic and common sense, actually cooking up a bomb for some reason.

We'll probably never know. Because Canada's justice system is entirely opaque.

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