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2019-04-06 / \/ \/ / \
/ __/ /_ _/
What up y'all? Let me get a little / _/ / /
housekeeping out of the way: Soft \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
Ash/Kingdom of Soft Ash/Whatever I'm Going / \/ \/ / \
to Call it in the Future is on hiatus until / _/ /_ _/
at least May 17. I enjoy doing it, /- / _/ /
especially this last month, but the wedding \________/\________/\___/____/
is stressing me out more than I'd like to
admit and that, piled on to my usual clown car brain of stresses, depressions
and anxieties had me shaking myself apart so I'm shedding little stressors
where I can, even fun ones.
I'll be back with something new and interesting for sure but for now I'll
just do lazy impromptu streams as I feel rather than trying to plan around a
schedule. I'd hoped to do one last show, a Kingdom of Soft Ash offshoot,
yesterday because it's the last chance I get before daylight saving reverts
and my shows are back to 7am my time but it didn't eventuate.
In baby news, if you missed the exodus to Teletext April Fool's joke, I've
thrown it up in the files directory for ya. I love Teletext and hope to find
more time to explore it, it's fascinating and simultaneously primitive and
futuristic. Very baudpunk.
~tel plods on at a snail's pace. I've got TLS on my to-do list but the more
I think about the less I care, and C*NET connectivity which is more
complicated than I'd expected but it's coming together pretty well. I'm not
sure where ~tel will go from there. I have a clumsy gateway to the SDF's VoIP
system but I'd really like to see if the two of us can get something going the
other way but I'm fairly sure I've burned my bridges there. Maybe if smj was
still in the captain's chair I'd feel more comfortable approaching them
because he seems like the kind of guy who would be more intreated in building
things than holding grudges. Maybe. I don't know anyone there really, I
suppose, only from small interactions so what do I know.
I think once the C*NET stuff is squared away that's it for "big" ~tel stuff
for a while, I've got a laundry list of little tweaks and fixes that need to
happen; URI dialing, tunas's phonebook extension, confbridge menus, etc. And
I'd really like to put some muscle into aesthetics because currently it's very
"Asterisk defaults". I think once I've got that nailed down then I'll be happy
to shelve the big picture of ~tel for a while and just hack on the 1900s for
fun. I've also really got to take a minute to get my personal PBX and phone
stuff squared away, I had big dreams but they just got lost in the mix hahaha.
In other life news a website I used to go to reasonably regularly for my
mental health has shut down, that was compounded by another issue affecting
someone else on the site that collaterally affected me and the whole mess has
left me feeling like I'm made of broken glass. Disproportionately fragile and
sharp to anyone who approaches from the wrong angle. I've kinda mitigated that
now but not in an ideal way, and at first in an embarrassingly juvenile way
haha. I'll probably write about that separately though.
Let me leave you with answers to tomasino's three Fun Questions[1]!
1. Name one film that everyone should see at least once.
Beyond the Black Rainbow. I'll admit it's not for everyone but you
won't know if you don't watch it. It just hooks right into
everything I love, visually, thematically, musically.
2. Name one book everyone should read at least TWICE.
I'm honestly surprised tomasino didn't make the obvious Choose
Your Own Adventure joke here haha. This one is tricky for me
because I haven't read much in a long while so instead, let me
list a few books I've read once and remember loving but really
need to re-read myself. Iain Banks' Wasp Factory, Shadowland by
Peter Straub, Lumley's Necroscope and Vampire World books, Charles
de Lint's Newford series and Michael Marshall Smith's Only
Forward.
3. Name one song everyone should listen to at least once a year.
The Cure's "Disintegration". In fact, you should listen to it at
least once a week.
And here, for bonus Fun, I asked Dani the same questions:
1. Name one film that everyone should see at least once.
Daisies (1966)
2. Name one book everyone should read at least TWICE.
Lolita
3. Name one song everyone should listen to at least once a year.
"Chloroform" by Phoenix
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