No, I didn’t plan on pausing my newsletter for a whole damn month. Just last week, I recovered from what felt like a half-dozen common colds, who’d visited me all at once for an enormous house party that lasted from December 30 to about January 25. Time didn’t stand still, of course, as I had to do some touch-up editing, both for my book and for a book contribution. For the former, we also had to finalize the cover, which would have been strictly impossible without the talents and patience of my good friend Stefan, who also got sick on the way to top everything off.
From time to time, still, I posted a few things during January. There are three new blog posts, all in all: one at between drafts on If You’re Still Paying for Xing, Look Out for the Flies; one at my Voidpunk blog on The Vagueness of the Gods (which inexplicably dropped back to “edit” status in between, but I kicked it online again); and one at my secret level just drafts on Fascist Cultural Co-optation: A Curious Example. There’s a new album on Flickr with twelve images from Bukit Batok Nature Park in Singapore; a re-edit on Glass of a crumbling wall in Pingyao, China; and a bunch of vintage-style squaries from various locations at Pixelfed. As to my Instagram accounts, posting at voidpunkverse will resume tomorrow, but there are several new posts at betweendrafts, mostly food and cats.
For the Sunday Funnies, let’s start with these Raccoon antics someone sent me from Twitter, even though I’m no longer there. Then, from Mastodon, an image demonstrating the nature of audits, which some of my colleagues might especially appreciate in a given context. Finally, also from Mastodon and not actually funny but awesome, an analog polyphonic synthesizer called Neon String Machine, built from neon gas diodes, i.e., the vacuum tube technology from the 1930s. Enjoy!
J.
From time to time, still, I posted a few things during January. There are three new blog posts, all in all: one at between drafts on If You’re Still Paying for Xing, Look Out for the Flies; one at my Voidpunk blog on The Vagueness of the Gods (which inexplicably dropped back to “edit” status in between, but I kicked it online again); and one at my secret level just drafts on Fascist Cultural Co-optation: A Curious Example. There’s a new album on Flickr with twelve images from Bukit Batok Nature Park in Singapore; a re-edit on Glass of a crumbling wall in Pingyao, China; and a bunch of vintage-style squaries from various locations at Pixelfed. As to my Instagram accounts, posting at voidpunkverse will resume tomorrow, but there are several new posts at betweendrafts, mostly food and cats.
For the Sunday Funnies, let’s start with these Raccoon antics someone sent me from Twitter, even though I’m no longer there. Then, from Mastodon, an image demonstrating the nature of audits, which some of my colleagues might especially appreciate in a given context. Finally, also from Mastodon and not actually funny but awesome, an analog polyphonic synthesizer called Neon String Machine, built from neon gas diodes, i.e., the vacuum tube technology from the 1930s. Enjoy!
J.