Chris Vreeland @Devils_Rancher@octodon.social

@ifixcoinops I still love my 10-year-old Mac Pro, although it’s stuck a couple OS versions back. It does all the stuff it was made to do admirably well. (Chews up & spits out Logic Pro like it was Text Edit) I do have to keep up with Adobe because of bad career choices- I wonder how long they’ll support 10.11.

@SeventhMagpie Playing the bass also takes physical conditioning - it’s a somewhat athletic instrument, especially on these 15-minute-long songs.

@DistroJunkie I usta could sing. We did a lot of 3 part harmonies is Avatar, thinking about it. When we went back in the studio in ‘85, Mark Hallman just put us around 1 microphone & said “We don’t need to overdub, you guys can sing.” He mentioned later that was how CSN & sometimes Y recorded all their harmonies.

@DistroJunkie Well damn, I’ll be in Ft. Davis. We’re taking my son & several of his friends to a star party at the observatory as a HS graduation celebration

So my Yes tribute band... we haven’t gigged in 7 months, & haven’t practiced much either. We need a good demo, so we’re starting with Starship Trooper. We didn’t manage to get a good take last week, but I played it straight through 4 times last night & am getting ready to sit down with it again tonight for tomorrow’s recording attempt. I want it to be unconscious.

@SeventhMagpie true🙂. I spent an hour working on Yes songs last night - my tribute band is trying to record a proper demo & last week’s practice was a bit of a train wreck. Felt good to sit with the headphones on, & you asking actually spurred me to get up off my butt.

Flickr has developed a massive porn spam bot problem. I know they’re in transition, but people still work there, right? Not a happy customer right now.

@SeventhMagpie @venetianblond I’m playing more, but really, no. As usual, new-years resolutions just set me up for failure.😕

I dug through my hard drive last weekend & realized I’d never publicly posted most of my photos form our trip ni Hoya de las Guaguas, in SLP, Mexico from 1995. Here’s the best of the bunch: Oscar rappelling the 666 foot entrance drop:

The rest of them are in this album on Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/76711952@N00/sets/72157695570678571 https://octodon.social/media/FRa2tiKrhc3WdB_8SmA

@bezt I hesitated over the “get” button just because of that, but am mulling it over.

So, since Tootle is pretty obviously abandonware, what iOS client do you all suggest? I mainly surf & post on my iPad.

@koantig Maia Szalavitz goes into this in Unbroken Brain, though I couldn’t find the marshmallow test specifically in the index. https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-Brain-Revolutionary-Understanding-Addiction/dp/1250116449/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528044867&sr=8-1&keywords=unbroken+brain+by+maia+szalavitz She talks a lot about how childhood trauma can shape tendencies towards addictive behavior.

I want to become the Johnny Appleseed of the bigtooth maple. They’re wonderful trees native to Texas that are very hardy & disease/pest resistant. Here’s mine last fall, this spring (it’s 4 this year)& a new one I bought for a friend. https://octodon.social/media/vMq4Zfh-BqJVYwrd87I https://octodon.social/media/O3JgjkPeO3kdUkk-u2M https://octodon.social/media/YeX8eQ6egaBwD7TCPHs

@generica You’re all better than one another. Wait...

@calvin Ha, jumping pins for master/slave was thing I almost forget existed, but I bet I still have a baggie of the jumpers in my “tech drawer” next to the modem cables. How many megabytes was that thing, anyway?

Fork off seems like a pretty impolite thing to say to someone, considering the subtext. Also, this thing is too small & decentralized already for it to splinter successfully.

Anyway, how the hell is everybody? I’m crazy busy with too many rehearsals & this goddam 50-60 hour a week job. Trying to figure out how to simplify my life, and am too tired to think, so I’m stuck on this hamster cage for the time being.

@Devils_Rancher Also, now that I think about it, I mute an awful lot of hashtags on twitter because they’re so much commercial noise over there. Lots of apps auto-post to twitter with their hashtag whenever you use the app (untappd for instance) & man, they clutter up the place. Searchability is good, gamification by commercial entities is bad & I hope that continues to be zealously guarded against here.