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WEEK FORTY-SIX [2023]

can you believe it's been another week?

this week i allow a goof-based decision-making matrix push me ever-closer to the source.

apart from that mostly reading and thinking, with contained adventures. i'm b story.

monday

i am wet, yet again, with washing machine juice. on Sunday the machine stopped working. we know why, it's had a hard time draining because i've not been careful with checking my pockets for coins and little copper tom nook faces. lying on the floor, operating tools, peeping through a tiny hole, drenched with washing machine juice, feeling like i'm on the the crystal maze. an unfortunate discovery about my washing machine tube: the piece of hard plastic that connects it to the filter is the exact diameter of a ten pence coin. i cannot extricate the ten pence coin from the tube.

kj had a little baby. looks very friendly. congratulations to all.

truesday

i was wrong. it was a kennedy half-dollar. happy anniversary, jack! sorry about the cia, the dallas police force and the anti-castro cubans.

a kennedy half dollar between the teeth of a pair of angled needle nose pliars

that little Kennedy... he thought he was a clog

Allen Dulles

windsday

nearly lost all my time to installing linux and android on all my devices and deleting all my big tech stuff accounts again. pulled myself out of the nosedive at the last minute and bought a new iphone on credit to try and make it feel like it's not an option. lost at least 12 hours of bento work to that waste of time

thorsday

On 19th June 2008 an Egypt-organized ceasefire between Israel and Hamas "for the Gaza area" went into effect. on that same day, Israel broke the ceasefire shooting fishermen in Gaza. three days later, Israel broke the ceasefire shooting children and farmers in Gaza. the next day, Israel raided the west bank and killed an Islamic Jihad commander. the west bank wasn't covered by the ceasefire. the next day, Israel broke the ceasefire shooting farmers in Gaza.

Three days later, on June 28th, Israel killed a 7-year old boy in the west bank. on July 1st, Israel broke the ceasefire shooting a woman tending sheep in Gaza. on july 10th Israel broke the ceasefire killing an unarmed Palestinian in Gaza. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade retaliated by firing two rockets into Negev. Hamas arrested the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade militants for breaking the ceasefire. On July 23rd Israel broke the ceasefire shooting a Palestinian in Gaza.

On the 4th of November 2008 Israel broke the ceasefire by invading Gaza and killing 6 Hamas fighters. Hamas, for the first time since the beginning of the ceasefire, retaliated.

14th December 2008: Hamas says it is willing to renew the ceasefire if Israel opens up the border crossings and stops attacking Gaza.

19th December 2008: Ceasefire expires.

20th December 2008: Israel launches Operation Cast Lead, killing 300 people on their way to school in the first 4 minutes alone. In the course of the operation 80% of agricultural crops in Gaza were destroyed. Israel hit over 250 schools, 1500 factories, 15 hospitals, and 58,000 homes. Over 6000 homes in Gaza were completely destroyed. For the damage in the other direction, to quote from the Amnesty International report on Cast Lead, Hamas damaged "several" civilian homes and other structures, "one was almost completely destroyed".

friyay

decided to take a couple day break from working on bento. got a shorter list of the features i'm going to add before i take a longer pause and start working on something else.

  • basic wav editor
  • filter screen
  • synth screen (select type, width and "envelope")
  • master lane
  • retrig, grid loop,

WHY do people keep making me WORK when all i wanna do is VIBE

— rb, voice of the people

saturday

made some music, wrote some songs, ate a egg. who remembers. it was a simple day for simple rabbits.

sunday

reflective riotgrrl sunday. i need to get on a stage and scream.

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hello!

this week I took vacation to work on bento. on Thursday evening I went out to a concert with Gabi. the show was oliver tree at the troxy. there were music videos playing behind every song. the artists mostly sang along with a backing track. it was a good show, but strange and of a future i don't feel part of. it was a tiktok concert. no space between the songs, constant sound. clips, skits, a movie. i think mr. oizo would have liked it. the support act Super Computer was enjoyable. i think they would enjoy quiet party.

every other hour was spent rewriting the internals of bento to make way for the new features and UI fixes. the rewrite is now released. it has reduced power usage by a lot and fixed some other issues but is otherwise basically the same. i have started adding the new features but i am very tired and not very good at anything today. i've tried all my normal tricks such as playing beat saber, having a shower, and tidying up but nothing has worked. it is bed time soon. in an hour or so i will eat half a buffalo mozzarella and then lie down in bed and read.

i don't want to go to work tomorrow.

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week 44 2023; praying to whatever god will have me

i had a bath today.

i would like to be everybody's diary.

made some bread out of almonds. got per-step playback speed working on bento (not live yet). i am so bad at math. sorry to everyone who has texted me and to whom i haven't responded. bento has lots of new features (check out grid selector at the bottom), and i've just figured out the math and UI for the next bunch. i think once this next set of features is done (which will probably take about 1 or 2 weeks) i'll pause work on it for a little while, make some music, write a little. i keep reïnventing flight.js.

i've had to learn so much. i've never worked so hard on anything.

zeezy is in cairo. hi zeezy.

i have no regrets this week. i ate cheese in the bath. the almond butter bread was a real highlight honestly. 80g almond butter, an egg, baking soda, a pinch of grated mozzarella, pinch of salt, all blended up and throw it in the oven until clean prong. delicious. with avo and evoo and za'atar. very good.

i'm awake too late again. time for sleepy rabbit sleeping tiem

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week 43

listening to radio shows about war

plenty of new bento features

disastrous weekend where i did not show up for several people who are important to me

i don't have room in my mind right now for anything but math and sound and pain and war. no exaggeration i really just cannot think about anything else, i've had to take several days off work

i hope you enjoy the new features. more are coming, i have a big todo list and a notebook filled with drawings of screens. rn i'm being slowed down by the database stuff

plenty of regret tonight, hopefullyity it will all be worth it. battery about to die

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week 42

I SHOULD BE IN BED RIGHT NOW!!!!

i'm up late finish a bit of work on bento.

bento is the new name for the sampler and sequencer i mentioned last week.

it lives here now:

https://bento.party

it has all sorts of exciting new features!

  • recording with the microphone now shows a helpful informative screen!
    • it has an svg tape animation i drew myself in inkscape! i sat with a cassette and a sanyo tape recorder and drew out the best representation i could and then animated it with css!!
  • you can select a region to play back per-step!
  • it shows your step's selected region right there in the square!!!
  • you can drag and drop a square onto another one to copy it!
  • you can drag and drop an audio file onto the screen (waveform screen) to load it! this even works on the iphone! you can drag a file from the Files app into the screen on bento.party!
  • if you you're in safari on your phone you can click the share icon and then Add To Homescreen and it will appear as a standalone app and it looks lovely
  • if you're on latest macos in Safari you can do File>Add to Dock... to add it to your dock and it looks even LOVELIER

most of this week i just worked on that! so far it's quite popular! everybody loves bento! it's the coolest thing i've ever done! it's really fun!!!!!!omg

there's also a beta up at https://beta.bento.party which implements local saving (you click the 3 dots and select "save my bento for later" then when you refresh it'll load it back up). i have a branch where i'm adding a screen for selecting pan+volume per-step. you can also reverse samples per-step but i haven't added UI for that yet, so it's kind of a easter egg

didn't do anything else. took 2 days off work to work on it. have to go to bed now because andrew w.k. will start singing at 5am whether i'm asleep or not.

everything in the world is awful and sad and infuriating and devastating except for kind people and bento.

don't go crazy, i need you later