 Took the lifelines off Pino, we will replace them with dyneema soon. I found many cracks and broken strands, it's scary to think that these were what was supposed to keep up on deck if we had an accident while working topside. Reading through @rek's upcoming novel in which one of the tribes communicate their art and poems over long distances by whistling to each other, coming across these #Solresol passages in the book is really nice. Members of the Solresol community and I talked about the lack of useful example sentences in the language, and how the handful of examples out there often include mistakes, so we've put together a revised list of sentences that we could agree on. I'm so happy that we ended up aboard stuck in Japan during the beginning of Covid and not the tropics.. Wow, Mollymawk is blogging again, after a 3 years hiatus!
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The Elmet Brae compilation has been released, and put up on Beldam Records with a beautiful cover by Rostiger, who also made the Varvara Zine. I've spared a few evenings to implement a Ulz encoder, for which my first attempt was nearly a year ago, and at the time, writing programs in Uxn that involved many nested loops terrified me. So, it felt great to revisit this old problem that stumped me before, and solve it. @neauoire Currently listening it while I write code. Pretty relaxing and inspiring. And I love the cover! First time surface air temperatures 2°C above preindustrial levels, on Nov. 17 and Nov. 18.  @neauoire and as noted here by fellow Canadian Paul Beckwith, add +0.2 or +0.3C if your baseline is really pre-industrial (ie, 1750-1900) +1.5C is politicians bullshit @patchlore your track is totally nuts, I bet it fools everyone, it fooled me. It's really really nice, I love it when I have no idea how something is made, and this.. I can't even begin to figure that one out  @neauoire @patchlore agree, it's amazing, i'm gonna listen to it on loop next time i ... ahem ... visit the mushroom forest  I've created a thread on the lines forum for Helmet Brae, it would be nice if anyone with an account on there let me know so I can tag you all :maru:
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@ritualdust can I just say that it's soo nice that our tracks ended up next to each other, each time the album gets to that point it takes a really nice gloomy turn. :moloch:  A community compilation of soundscapes/ambient/noise/drone from Merveilles Town members and friends. https://orllewin.github.io/elmet_brae/EB01/ :merveilles:
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If you've already downloaded the album, please download it again, because you're missing @helveticablanc's deep drone tale from the wormsong universe, which somehow was missed by our original excavation and has now been put in its rightful place among Elmet Brae.  I had the chance of listening to a preview of Elmet Brae, and wow. It's awesome! Everyone did such a good job. Each track feels like discovering a whole world! A symposium unpacking the challenges of sustainability and re-use within computation through art and design.
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 @neauoire Thanks for posting this. I’m traveling starting this week, arriving in Amsterdam that morning. @neauoire If any other Mervs are attending, @rutherford and I will be there. Get in contact and come say hi. The submission to ICLC 2024 opens on November 23rd. :monkeywrench: TIL CrimethInc has a lite version of their website. |
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@neauoire the nice thing about lifelines is they're not under exceptionally high tension and lashings give you quite a bit of margin so you don't need the super fancy heat set dyneema. the cheaper regular stuff will do.
@neauoire I will follow progress on this with interest.
@neauoire Ouch. I had the same plastic covering on the standing rigging and the lifelines on Astragale. I removed them too when a more experienced neighbour told me about the risk of hidden corrosion. Thankfully it was early enough - and the previous owner had put a lot of grease inside the sheathing so it was dirty and sticky at removal but it probably helped protecting the lines!