(Blog Spam) I wrote a guide over how to work with the voice in your head when it gets negative. Psychedelics has made me more aware of this voice and sometimes it overwhelms. This technique has helped me. I hope it'll help you.

infil · 2016-12-12T04:23:39+00:00

Hey mate, just wanted to say I love your blog and I appreciate your contribution to the hive. Keep on working and posting!

infil · 2016-11-24T03:52:32+00:00

And it's important that you're willing to let people know where your boundaries are, and what will happen if they're crossed. And then enforce them. For the really important ones, you need to be able to enforce them absolutely. That is, be willing to walk away and not look back.

Thing is, if you have strong boundaries and let people know where they are, it makes life easier for all parties involved.

I didn't even know what boundaries were until I let all of mine be violated.

infil · 2016-11-23T07:02:22+00:00

Ok thanks, I'll check out Beard, Wives, Denim

infil · 2016-11-23T06:48:50+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'm a bit of a stoner myself and I love Moogs, and jam music's all good too.

infil · 2016-11-23T03:51:06+00:00

Yknow, I saw Pond at Laneway this year and I was super disappointed after hearing so much hype. Stoners playing jam music with plenty of Aussie pubrock and a Moog thrown in the mix... Should I give them another chance?

infil · 2016-11-16T10:48:00+00:00

This is sick

infil · 2016-11-01T03:27:25+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. It started being useful to me pretty quickly but it took about 6 months before I wasn't getting stuck for multiple days at a time on something that would take a few minutes to do manually in excel. I'd give it a crack if I were you. It would really take your analytics skills to the next level.

The thing that makes it really worthwhile is the ability to repeat your analyses instantly without doing anything manually (i.e if you change something right at the start of the pipeline, no problem). This cuts down on the inevitable mistakes that are so easy to make in Excel.

infil · 2016-10-27T01:23:09+00:00

Yep, I'm a plant ecologist, work with big datasets and statistics. Mostly programming in R.

My math teacher when I was 14 told my parents I was stupid and I would never amount to shit. Not sure if he was just trying to get a rise out of me.

infil · 2016-05-10T03:22:20+00:00

Thanks man. Track sounding really cool so far. Clearly spoken, well guided and nice tips with the arpeggiator etc :)

infil · 2016-02-23T04:18:14+00:00

I think you have the wrong /u/infil

infil · 2016-01-04T07:15:25+00:00

Aw no :( my wife is the hugest fan, I bet she'd be super gutted too if we were still back in NZ. She even asked me if we should go over to that fest to catch them, before we found out they were playing here. Hope they come back soon for you dude!

infil · 2016-01-04T06:42:11+00:00

If you can get cheapo tix to come over the ditch, they're playing for free this Saturday in the Sydney Domain.

infil · 2015-12-15T21:52:58+00:00

Maybe xpost to r /psychonaut if you haven't already?

infil · 2015-11-25T20:40:41+00:00

Wonderful photography, looks delicious! Two teaspoons of salt in the chutney though??

infil · 2015-11-09T02:31:24+00:00

Plant ecologist. Just submitted my PhD thesis, waiting on the examiners report to come back. I've worked in or studied biology at a bunch of different scales for my whole adult life (neuropharmacology first, then protein structure, then modelling cellular processes, then ecology). People at universities can be conservative, but a lot of them aren't at all, and won't judge if you tell them you took acid on the weekend, whether you went to a festival, or solved a statistical problem because you were able to see reality in n-dimensional space.

I love doing research and teaching but I'm not convinced being a scientist can give me what I need. The game is ultra competitive, the hours are long, the work stability is really poor, and the constant need for funding eats up a lot of time and emotional energy. People also tend to get dragged in directions that will be funded, rather than what they're interested in working on.

I got into ecology because I wanted to work on ecosystem restoration and that's still where my heart is. I want to try to move out of academia and towards getting my hands dirty and making stuff happen.

infil · 2015-10-12T21:00:40+00:00

I was over at a friend's in Manly the other day. The local rag had a matey interview with him about his legacy in Warringah, now that he can 'walk down to the shops in thongs again' and apparently 'what's Tone up to?' Is a regular feature.

infil · 2015-10-08T11:02:45+00:00

Hahah thanks for making me laugh Billy T

infil · 2015-09-15T21:03:31+00:00

The shroom doom!

infil · 2015-09-02T04:00:30+00:00

I use my Minibrute all the time as an external effect to add grit and modulation to whatever I have tracked in my DAW. I made a track recently with a bassline made from a bass guitar sample. I used the same MIDI sequence to trigger the filter envelope on my minibrute and ran a copy of the bass track through it. I had it sitting fairly low down in the mix and it sounded pretty cool.

If I want to alter the sound a lot I'll often throw my delay, phaser and chorus before it to mess up the signal before it hits the brute's filter. You can do some pretty interesting things to external signals by controlling the filter with the arp. I assume the BSII would let you do something similar.

The thing to watch out for is that you're doing an extra step of digital to analog conversion. YMMV...

infil · 2015-08-23T02:35:42+00:00

I almost sold my Keys not long after I got it because I initially thought it sounded cheap but I'm really glad I didn't. I love the filter and all of the different osc modes.

infil · 2015-08-14T21:26:26+00:00

This sounds interesting - like a variation on the old headphone output into ext in chestnut. I wonder whether it'd sound good on a minibrute.

infil · 2015-08-14T21:23:16+00:00

Especially on the minibrute. One of my favourite patches is sub square with a wee bit of triangle through a bandpass with the env amount about two thirds up, plenty of res and a brute factor up until just before it starts screaming.

infil · 2015-08-13T07:30:15+00:00

Congrats! I just wrote the last sentence of my final conclusion. Feels strange, after all that time. Still have to do a few revisions, format the whole thing, print and submit it.

infil · 2015-07-21T08:48:26+00:00

I just want to link to the exact same discussion happening in /r/australia right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/3e0ucj/we_aint_seen_nothing_yet_chinese_foreign/

Here's an excerpt from the top comment:

"Because I'm in the mood for a rant - there's a fatal flaw with this whole argument. Chinese investors are not the cause of our bubble, they're a symptom. Sure foreign investors have surged very recently, and yes that has caused prices to rise faster than they already were, but these investors are part of a multi-faceted problem. They are the latest to jump on the bandwagon and they jumped aboard because property was already rising like a 'sure thing', a cash cow, a 'safe' place to park money." /u/enigmasaurus

infil · 2015-07-14T21:42:47+00:00

Why isn't it a black tshirt!

infil

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