Porting code and Ship of Theseus-ishness.

Thoughts loosely related to the book How to Move to Canada.

How my heat saving is going.

I heard Rush at the grocery store. Also, I thought about the appropriate level of helicoptering in parenting.

This is called Inchoate Burbler. It uses a lot of low, low frequencies. I actually played this on guitar, thanks to Pure Data's MIDI integration being really easy, despite my fears that it'd be a configuration nightmare.

The audio entries for this blog are now available as a podcast! Point your podcast app at smidgeo.com/notes/deathmtn/podcast.xml!

Podcastification made possible by static-web-cast .

This is 2022-01-01, both the song and today's date. We thought this phrase was catchy in our house, so I developed it a bit, but only slightly.

Fun fact: I typo'd the file as 2021-01-10 at first.

What’s actually real in Pikmin?

This is another dungeon synth piece, though it's a bit different from the previous ones in character. It's called Reconsidering Your Destiny, and I was thinking of the kind of thing Basil Poledouris wrote for Conan's downtime scenes. The main melody is actually a riff I wrote a really long time ago, but slowed way down. I tried to stick to just that and some chords, but didn't. Future versions of this will probably have less sections.

This is Searching the Bogs, a song I wrote in response to a Junto prompt about gradually changing between two chords. I wrote a Pure Data patch to do this fairly literally with a bagpipe sample.