I have never had to untangle a CD after problems ejecting it though
10.03.2026 14:53
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I have never had to untangle a CD after problems ejecting it though
happy now doug?
I love Econ-positng. Dan Habsmith of Guttermeyer Associates posts the most confusing chart you've ever seen and says "Quite surprising VARG numbers, SPLG index showing movement" and you get the context by one of his mutuals quoting it with "Buy a fucking gun and head for the hills. Right now."
I’ve seen him play live once, at a festival, where he was extremely apologetic about not being able to play louder because apparently the local council had just been round to Have Words
Ah ok you’re right - I’d read ”tweaked” as modded but I found out he explicitly states elsewhere that he definitely didn’t modify the 303s. They were infamously variable so I guess he just got lucky!
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Not sure if this is the same video mentioned but (a) it’s adorable and (b) it makes it pretty clear that he did indeed mod his 303 - thanks @whatgoodrnotebooks.bsky.social !
youtu.be/z14revc5NBc?...
Ooh I hadn’t read that; I’ll have to dig it out. I guess it’s not a controversial take that a lot of the 303’s mystique is just a consequence of it being so annoying to work with..
like, it’s common enough that iirc the Re-303 build instructions say “maybe try adding 220k in parallel with R97 for that extra oomph, we don’t know if he modded it or just got lucky”
This video supports my theory that one of the first things anyone does when they get their hands on a 303 is try to play “Higher States of Consciousness” and the next thing they do is go down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out why it doesn’t sound like Josh Wink
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My criterion for inclusion in this category is “could be mistaken for a squat”, and I wouldn’t have included Hidden except for The Incident With The Wine
A corridor that was once painted breezeblock but is now covered in graffiti
Anyway I don’t remember it being quite this scuzzy last time I was there, so I guess they figured they might as well let people scribble on the walls; it’s all going to be knocked down anyway
This sort of little sarf lunnon dive club is a dying breed now: Arches is gone, Jacks is gone, Hidden is gone, now Corsica Studios. I think MOT might be the only one left?
A plaque in a hallway that says “2002-2026”. I suppose at least they knew it was coming and could go out with a bang.
Anyway, farewell Corsica Studios, you were a fantastic little venue and the ideal spot for this kind of sweaty underground rave
I am in a writhing, sweaty, scuzzy little South London club, all silhouettes and gloomy lasers, when there’s an imperceptible shift in the beat and “Turkish Bazaar” by Emmanuel Top steadily rolls in like some vast freight train of acid, 11/10 I’d forgotten just how good this can be.
awesome, congratulations!
The reason so few people are opting for the Uniball UB-157 is that I have them all in a pot on my desk, sorry folks
Incidentally: (1) turns out that despite being an electronic keyboard, each key is nonetheless rigged up to its own little hammer, so it feels a lot like a “real” piano to play;
(2) I now have that Liszt piece firmly
stuck in my head for the next week or so
Incidentally if you go look at the little placard for “Exhibit 35: jar of moles” it does attempt to answer the obvious question, and says something along the slightly exasperated lines of “look, it was very practical at the time, ok? Don’t @ me.”
Still have vivid memories of the GCSE biology past paper which kicked off with a bunch of dead stoats someone had managed to photocopy
This is gorgeous!
Nor was I attacked with scissors! It’s possible the mouse had already been driven off by the glass of water spilled into its home by a certain teenager of this parish; keyboard and teenager are now in good shape so perhaps if I wait a while it will return
Opened up the piano (well, keyboard) this evening and was disappointed not to find a mouse living inside who could play Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2
btw the wooden box is still around, it’s sitting in the physics department, empty and with the doors open as if he made a run for it
I was accompanying The Teenager on a tour, and the guide admitted she wasn’t entirely clear on the precise set of circumstances which led to the head being kept in a safe, which is fair enough; I’ve heard at least three versions
I love this website when a new chotiner drops
I love that I’m still finding new mad stuff out, eg until recently I did not realise that JS Mill was the result of a secret childhood training programme intended to produce Mecha-Bentham the Ultimate Utilitarian
I faintly remember trying to thrash this out with you a while back and I think we concluded yes?
A glass jar. It contains lots of moles.
Also: a jar of moles. Hello moles!
A stuffed philosopher in a glass case
Last time I saw this chap I was scurrying around the cloisters trying to sort out the paperwork for my thesis. He has since moved out of his little wooden box and into more modern and well-lit accommodation.
Sean I don’t think they can hear you