The benefit of an 8am meeting is that you are done and have the rest of your day by the time you'd usually start your work day. The downside is that it's an 8am meeting.

Trapped at home due to repairs on the apartment, I decided to make holiday ornaments for gifts.

One of those projects where as I work on it and I start to explain the semiotic layers in a proposal I realize I've become really annoying with embedded meaning, both intentional and actual.

When I went looking for my first car the main concern I had was fuel efficiency. I want to understand why anyone would actively seek a fuel inefficient car.

I am listening to someone softly practicing an aria on the bus.

Ah, thanksgiving. The weekend when professors look around their homes and ask "when did I vacuum last? Where did all these piles of papers and books come from?"

Baltimore : you are only allowed to show one parking sticker, and must fully remove the previous year's parking sticker. Also Baltimore: let's buy stickers that require a combination of razor blades, denatured alcohol, and nail polish remover to completely remove them.

Reading today about a daylight mugging where someone took groceries. It's getting real.

It's about cruelty. It's only about cruelty and an enforcement of extreme poverty.

Watching V:The Final Battle (1984) is weirdly appropriate for our current times. Also it's not nearly as bad as I expected it to be.

My patreon subscriptions are all people who make awesome tutorials. I wonder if I should also make tutorials.

I've been in the process of making a huge transition in my work this past couple of years. I'm not sure what that means, only that this new direction feels correct, like I'm building myself into a better form. Hopefully next year my work will be ready to be seen/heard. It's not a fast process.

The New Katamari Damacy is really fun and totally worth it. I didn't get the song bundle, and I may regret that in the future, but I am still having a blast rolling things up.

You win Halloween, New Castle. Well played.

mediapipe studio demos missed a whole opportunity to have live long and prosper as a recognized gesture. 🖖

One of the most influential professors in my life passed away yesterday. Her art and practice was always inspiring, and her thinking in/around music was very exciting. I'm ever grateful for her introducing me to experimental film. Thank you, Sheri. Thank you. www.instagram.com/p/DP3qoZ_AEH...

Went to see Guillermo E Brown at The Park Ave Armory last night. It's always a treat to hear the music made by friends, and seeing the ways they collaborate with others. His new interface is intriguing, and I look forward to seeing and hearing where it goes.

Making the first of three presentations on computer vision today. I always forget how long it takes to make presentation slides, even when I get the luxury of recycling materials.

I have encountered several anti vegetarian arguments lately that I can't wrap my head around, but the level of ignorance around beans and pulses is pretty astonishing.

My baking assistant has a genuine skill at assessing quality ingredients.

I feel like the COCO libraries are kind of a pox. Like. I use them, but seriously. What in the actual???!!!

Sometimes when I read music descriptions by composers I feel like I'm reading a pretentious high end menu option.

Focusing on bats and newts is a cynical attempt to reframe nature as nothing more than a triviality But nature is our life support system Conservation isn't just about helping other species - it's also about maintaining the conditions that allow us to thrive

The crickets are out early this year, and they are LOUD.

She's alive! The lids are on, and I am done building for now. I need to rehouse the power supply, but otherwise, she's a wrap! Get ready for concerts and installation pieces!

Four hand built cables for 8 channel audio? Check! Did it take forever? Yes, but two of those five weeks I was traveling. So... Win!

The culture around work and labor is so deeply toxic. Conversations I've had this year: make sure to schedule the funeral services and weddings on Saturdays so that people don't have to take off work to attend.

writing new syllabi for courses I've taught forever is always frustrating. At the end of the year I'm all "YES! Let's mix it up!" and then by mid summer I just say to myself... why? It's not that anything has changed. But this year, things have. And I don't wanna!!!!

So close to done...

Explaining that I just keep making weird mistakes today while I was doing the dishes, I unconsciously decided to illustrate my point by accidentally turning on the shower like attachment of my faucet and spray water on my torso.

Walgreens is a pox.

In a night of pure magic with the incomparable @thejoedante.bsky.social and some gremlin friends, we had the best time at our sold out screening of GREMLINS 2 on 35mm (big shout out to our projectionists who helped make the night so unforgettable)

I was ill prepared for it to take an entire week to get one point soldered. but somehow I've gotten it to take, and am back on track. only 358 more contact points to go...

Selfishness knows no bounds.

Would that I could work on any project that doesn't have me re-reading and looking at Husserl, Kant, and Heidegger.

This is the best place in the world. Excited to have a good studio again.

Nothing sends shivers down my spine like college administrators mentioning the word 'product'.

The nature of greed and selfishness within humanity is a constant assault on everyone. It's unfortunate that people don't value each other enough, that they don't think about their actions and how they will impact others. So long as they have what they want, the cost to others is acceptable.

Going through my childhood medical records for the first time, and seeing my vaccination records. No wonder I had mumps and never passed the MMR titer in college. (Vaccinate your kids! They will thank you later for it. I promise.)

The reading nook for my studio is complete.

Today is the best CSA haul I've ever had. (I usually don't do a CSA because the veggies are random and difficult to work with, Flying Plow Farm and CSA in MD though, they know what's what it seems)

Remember, Military Parades are for pussies… #Caturday

Bmore pride

I really hate healthcare in the United States. This system is stupid. And, if the point really was to keep us healthy so we could work until death, you'd think they would care more. But the disposable human is the point, not a value on human lives. Or even livelihood.

Thinking about making art and music that is bigger than me today. Using sound, images, touch, motion to make something stretch out into boundless space, sending out waves of challenge and change. Looking back at a piece that I didn't like, realizing that it had an impact, moving me forward.

As I read so many things that focus on the value of hard work, the value of labor, of teaching students about valuing that above all else, I find myself wondering why people think this is the strategy to take up against the use of LLMs.

If anyone had told me my life in electro-acoustic music would be 98% trying to figure out why the sound wasn't working I might have stayed an acoustic composer.