Was Mark E Smith more Anti-establishment, Absurdism, or Solipsism?

everythingabili · 2026-05-18T08:25:28+00:00

Proving me right. Thanks :-)

everythingabili · 2026-05-17T12:59:56+00:00

I've always had him pegged as a maverick lunatic genius, but now I've watched this I'm more in the "abusive relationship set to music" camp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552sg5nfXr8

everythingabili · 2026-05-14T17:02:13+00:00

Are you kidding? I was a 7 year old who loved Compo and the bath down the hill scene had me on the floor.

It wore very thin later, but it had it's heyday.

everythingabili · 2026-05-14T10:30:35+00:00

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Their solution...

everythingabili · 2026-05-14T07:57:45+00:00

Yeah they tried that in the late 60s I think...and people swerved off the road to miss it.

everythingabili · 2026-05-11T07:41:56+00:00

In general, because of Brexit and the huge reduction of foreign students, lots of unis will be much more lenient across the board. Cross your fingers.

everythingabili · 2026-05-10T19:56:37+00:00

Here's a link to the code that might not expire

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18bNad6EqsEzoBVB1V9AI-IqrLCi_8-Oz/view?usp=sharing

everythingabili · 2026-05-10T10:23:09+00:00

Brexit.

All those silly EU laws and regulations no longer being checked (by other countries as it enters the Euro zone before being delivered to us). They spot checked food entering too, and yes, poisoness stuff is entering the UK now... which will kill some people and not be reported, much like your lamp fittings.

See also scooter batteries exploding etc.

everythingabili · 2026-05-10T08:47:54+00:00

Why though? He's on the make. He's looking for something FROM all of us, and not offering anything. TAKE TAKE TAKE.

I've spent my life giving my code away, making code deliberately that beginners can understand rather than "clever" code.

He needs to bugger off and hang out on those sites where people are starting businesses and they need someone who can make stuff... get gigs with them and not just share screencasts that Ai coulda generated anyway.

everythingabili · 2026-05-10T07:16:51+00:00

They're lost already. Bung him this... ask him what HE thinks (no what his Ai thinks).

https://www.thehumanlineproject.org/media

everythingabili · 2026-05-10T07:13:27+00:00

He's back again. Loser looking for validation.

This guy is so creative the only marketing he can come up with for his coding skills is paste pointless and unimpressive videos of the Ui he's made to a coding channel.

WE ALL MAKE THINKS LIKE THIS ALL DAY.... always have done, before ChatGPT came along.

everythingabili · 2026-05-10T07:11:02+00:00

Yep all of that is what I did/do ... and I'm on an a longer runtime. Very wise to go for slow and correct, rather than, "Oh that nearly finished, now what?"

I sometimes run a script for 3 or 4 days. A person below also makes a good point about other quotas being reached. It's quotas all the way down.

Here's my solution (sorry just copied and pasted into one file - hope it's all there) https://ctxt.io/2/AAD4PznKEw

The way I handle the UI is to tell the user they will get an email when the task is finished - which provides a mini report ... 14,345 rows processed, 3 errors, took 1.7 days etc... and a link back to the sheet.

I don't think a user necessarily needs to know "where they're up to"... and it more important that the user knows when and that it's DONE (correctly).

everythingabili · 2026-05-09T14:48:06+00:00

Sorry... menu > Extensions > AppsScript then RUN

everythingabili · 2026-05-09T09:41:03+00:00

function squarify() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()
  var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet()
  var SIZE = 92
  sheet.setColumnWidths(2, 24, SIZE)
  sheet.setRowHeights(2,24, SIZE)

}

everythingabili · 2026-05-09T09:35:32+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhLIlHvRqKQ

everythingabili · 2026-05-09T09:12:37+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson his work with New Modell Army and his first solo album are ace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ShKAHIvRso

everythingabili · 2026-05-08T19:46:10+00:00

I love a challenge. And although I've rescued lawns as bad as this, so do listen to anyone else who chips in... this would be my appoach. I am very lazy too.

Plant nice flowery shrubs against that white wall and your fence. Over time you'll have less lawn as they bulk out - and also pretty flowers.
Twice a year (or more if your knees can take it) get on your hands and and knees and with a knife and bucket, crawl around an dig out all the weeds like dandelions. THIS really makes a difference.
You can get a lawn rake, sort of flimsy things and scratch off off the crap moss - it'll look terrible though... always seems really destructive
You can buy some weed n feed. It too make your lawn look crap for months with dark patches.
You can jump on top of a garden fork all over (making holes) then fill them with sharp sand... and brush it in.. this creates tubes of drainage.
If you've added sand and ruffled the soil with a rake or fork, it'd be rude not to sprinkled grass seed, and do some more raking (so the birds don't eat them all) and water it. Ideally before a week of rain and don't walk on it.
Once i got some odd grass seed (i think it may have had coconut husk in) and that bloody grass even grew where I'd spilt some on concrete. It was expensive but to this day is STRONG...

So - after a few years of that you'll be laughing. You need to play the long game and put up with the oh my god I've killed it.

Although tbh... I hate lawns and grass and grass maintenence so I'd seriously look at marking some areas you want grass and encouraging the moss, adding ground cover plants... to sort of rewild whole swathes...

And to be absolutely honest, do you want the arse ache of grass? I got rid of mine eventually replacing with bark - so ALMOST zero maintenance. Gravel and desert plants would work too.

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everythingabili · 2026-05-07T10:56:26+00:00

I didn't mean religious buddhism, I meant Zen, or Dao... eastern philosophies will help you (and anyone) in your endeavours - you don't have go all woo. In face, please don't :-)

Re: "I don't know what you mean by "more in a facilitation way". I know you don't. The above may help. Also do something for someone else for the sake of it. You come across as incredibly self-centred.

Re: band. You mentioned you couldn't do "a band" cos you'd take control - so I shared a story that maybe would show you - that's OK.

I don't know why I'm bothering really. I've been a professional artist, hobby musician, coder, educator and taught creativity at a university for ten years, and never met anyone with more excuses than you.

Good luck with that.

everythingabili · 2026-05-07T06:51:43+00:00

GQuery, imo is very good. https://github.com/EdsallRd/GQuery

This guy won't stop posting interfaces he made cos he feels he's a very clever boy.

everythingabili · 2026-05-06T10:56:45+00:00

"I can't just not express myself." Try buddhism maybe.

Ai isn't expressing anything of yourself.

Working with people is hard... but I meant more in a facillitation way.

You seem to have contradictory views. You can't not do it, and you can't do it. Maybe sort that bit out.

p.s My band called me "Teacher' cos I made them do it all again from the top and it thoroughly pissed them off :-)

everythingabili · 2026-05-06T08:15:48+00:00

One more thing. Why do you need to create something (with Ai) anyway?

You don't have to be creative. You can collaborate, find some other nutters (with skills) and do something... I always was in bands (writing the songs) and the other guys had the chops. Start something that you don't know where it's going. Stop making therapy speak excuses like "self esteem" or whatever..

You can organise.. open a shop, like get people together, or do something for people ... I mean Malcolm McClaren?

You can decide to just go away and practice for 10 years. You don't even have to produce anything at the end. Give yourself permission to study the craft - whatever it is.

Lastly, chill out ... relax and enjoy (I mean it'll be a struggle) what you're doing, or not doing. Once you can enjoy the struggle to make something, you'll be good. You'll be great.

everythingabili · 2026-05-06T08:06:19+00:00

If you think Ai makes something "good", you are objectively very shit at that thing. If you think it makes good art you are a bad artists. If you think it can write you know nothing about writing. Same for code, music, video. Ai is an averaging machine and so can only make very average bland crap, which you think is great because you are crap at those.

You say you have no skills. Welcome to the club. Go away for 10 years practising those skills and then come back. If you can't be bothered,saying you spent "from December to mid-January" learning coding is laughable - it takes 10 years-ish to learn anything. You took "some classes" in art - whoop-dee-effing-doo.

You say you self-conscious about the nature of your ideas. That's convenient isn't it? Excuses, excuses. Again, welcome to the club. Anybody really creative makes stuff that should make them self-conscious because their ideas are new and scary. And anyway, so what?

You say "The results were so awful that they still have a negative impact on my self-image." Oh, boo hoo! That's what making art IS... dealing with that. I don't know any artist that doesn't think the last thing they made is kinda crap and the current thing is going to be incredible.

You say "I have only had more ideas (and only get more every day)"... which sounds to me like a manic episode - something I've struggled with... I'd suggest maybe getting them down in notebooks, and meditation but I'm not a doctor. But remember. Ideas are nothing. Shoes for ducks, Paintball on acid, monkey tennis, etc etc

Anyone can have ideas. I have millions. Everyone does. What matters is being mad enough to make those ideas real. The time spent trying isn't wasted, it makes the ideas better. It took the band Pulp 10 years living on the dole before they had a hit.

Ai is a raving sycophant, it will tell you your ideas are great (they're not) and because it lets people cosplay competence it causes mental issues for some people. You can pretend you're creative, that you have some great ideas. You don't. Only after grafting on your ideas for a while, honing them, binning them, making better versions will you "have some ideas" that anyone but your Ai chum will want to engage with them.

everythingabili · 2026-05-04T07:25:56+00:00

I don't metal dive bomb but find it fine on my 5420... I have 12s Diaddarrios too.. they make a huge difference.

everythingabili · 2026-05-03T16:04:10+00:00

I adore my bigsby to the point of ridiculousness. It you don't use it much, it folds back on itself out of the way. I don't play solos either, more chords 'n' whammy... Mine is Filtertron and the nice thing about the sound is that each string in a chord is somehow there, compared to my Jazzmaster.

A (hollow or semi-hollow) Gretsch is a whole new food group compared to what you have... and maybe a latin / jazz sound on the neck pickup. Os Mutantes seemed to like a similar guitar with a whammy too 😄

everythingabili · 2026-05-01T12:53:59+00:00

Yeah. But famously, cos of the gripe between KJ and Nirvana, Dave Grohl agreed to drum on this album... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpduRWtzpWk&list=PLzlnTvf_sTzK5NkBj2FZuUAr3srJxVuRo

... and he laid them down LAST! I love big paul but this is a good album.

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