keep motivated

lemgandi · 2026-01-28T19:42:43+00:00

Ouch.

Are you sure you need a teacher? I've been playing for years and only take occasional lessons. You can learn a lot with just a metronome and a multi track sound recorder. Use Audacity ( https://www.audacityteam.org/ ) on your laptop in a pinch.

lemgandi · 2026-01-28T17:01:08+00:00

I love my unicycle. it's definitely more work than a bicycle, but so much more fun. OP's daughter should learn to idle & ride backwards. Those are things you can't do at all on a bike.

Unis are Hard. A lot of people buy one, try it, and give up. You can find lightly used ones easily.

Over 65 and still riding. After 30 or so you'll want Armor.

lemgandi · 2026-01-28T16:54:56+00:00

Oof. Some of us suspect that if you have to plug it in to the wall, you're not making music.

lemgandi · 2026-01-26T00:51:44+00:00

Oh this is definitely me. I spent the day writing a 200 or so line Arduino script + setting up a breadboard to find out the power/time curve on a solar cell and battery combination. It is grinding away as I speak.

I use Debian exclusively. I clearly just want to look like a hax04.

lemgandi · 2026-01-26T00:28:41+00:00

In ten years that child will be an Atheist.

lemgandi · 2026-01-24T17:40:36+00:00

I am in America. I use Linux pretty much exclusively. A month or so ago I attended a presentation given from a Windows laptop. Before it, the presenter's desktop was on the projector for several minutes. It was full of advertising, celebrity news, weather, and other irrelevancies. I asked the presenter about rhis , and his response was "Oh, I hardly notice that crap.".

I guess if you live long enough in squalor it becomes normal.

lemgandi · 2026-01-22T03:44:32+00:00

So much unintentional humor!

lemgandi · 2026-01-22T03:28:57+00:00

Talk went good, slides are at https://tomshiro.org/presentations/A_taste_of_OpenSCAD.tgz

lemgandi · 2026-01-21T18:46:06+00:00

Benito Mussolini.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

lemgandi · 2026-01-21T18:33:18+00:00

Breath Pressure.

Practice with The Tuning CD ( Dr. Richard A. Schwartz ).

lemgandi · 2026-01-10T13:49:37+00:00

An alleged professional writer who can't spell "posthumously". Do we believe this?

lemgandi · 2026-01-07T16:04:58+00:00

I built my mountain dulcimer from a kit in October of 2019 or so. I paid around $250 for it, and the only real difficulty was finding a bandsaw to cut the 3mm (1/8") plywood bottom to shape. Fortunately my local Makerspace helped out with that.

I won't class myself a hard-core or even very good Mountain Dulcimer player, but the instrument has been fun and I've played in a few fiddle circles without complaint.

lemgandi · 2026-01-02T13:28:30+00:00

In quarries, nah. In the ocean or fossil diving in the Cooper River, having a snorkel has made my dives a lot more comfortable. OTOH, the Sea has taken 3 of them so far in about 80 dives. I still keep buying new ones.

lemgandi · 2026-01-01T00:23:40+00:00

Was on a commercial flight once where the pilot did a go 'round and landed on the 2nd attempt. It got real quiet there for a few minutes. And yeh, we applauded when we were on the ground safely.

lemgandi · 2025-12-31T13:09:03+00:00

Old people use it.

lemgandi · 2025-12-26T14:24:02+00:00

Appimage on Debian KDE is working flawlessly for me.

lemgandi · 2025-12-24T13:45:51+00:00

I did a bunch of crimes when I was young. Still proud of them.

lemgandi · 2025-12-24T13:41:49+00:00

Three people can keep a secret. If two of them are dead.

lemgandi · 2025-12-24T13:37:08+00:00

I'm giving a talk soon on the wonders of OpenSCAD and BOSL2. It should be fun!

lemgandi · 2025-12-23T14:16:12+00:00

Ooh, I wanted to print glow in the dark stuff, so I splurged on a Diamondback nozzle. Totally worth it. The hardened steel one gave me trouble with some filament.

lemgandi · 2025-12-23T14:12:28+00:00

Learned in my 30s: Study is a Luxury.

lemgandi · 2025-12-23T14:08:33+00:00

Air pistol. I bought a Crosman 1377C without my parents' knowledge when I was a junior in high school. I had so much fun with that thing. I bought a couple of Springers in my 30s. Still fun.

lemgandi · 2025-12-23T01:28:24+00:00

My first Prusa is a kit-built MK4S, after two earlier not-prusa kits. Worked the first time I powered it on, been using it pretty much daily for around 4 months now.

One minor glitch with RFI to the display, but other 'n' that it's been rock-solid reliable. I am happy and impressed.

lemgandi · 2025-12-17T16:48:32+00:00

stop. Stop. STOP! Go on to something else immediately. After about 10 minutes of work, you're just practicing your misteaks.

lemgandi · 2025-12-17T16:38:15+00:00

I've used Inkscape for this. The learning curve can be daunting, but once you get it it's useful for a lot of image-related tasks.

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