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A view looking down a path between a good six or seven blocks of four- and five-storey units on either side, plus another one in the distance at the end. The sky is completely blue, and there's at least a bit of greenery along the sides of the path.

A photo looking across into the middle of a sports field where there is a cricket pitch set up and a number of players conferring in the middle. Beyond them is the sports field building which presumably has the toilets and I guess some sort of canteen in it, and just peeking out over the top of that building are the tops of the roofs of the houses beyond.

We went for a big walk this afternoon, you couldn't have asked for better weather. We went up towards the new areas they're building closer to the train station, there are SO MANY unit blocks going up, this all used to be farmland. At least there are a decent amount of trees, and we also stumbled across a big sports field nestled away where there was a very intense game of cricket going on!

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Posted on 1 June 2025, 15:28

Metalhead Club Anthem

Back in June of last year @[email protected] tagged me into a conversation that some folks from metalhead.club were having about putting together an anthem for their server, they had guitars and bass and vocals and such, but no drummer. I figured why not, it might be fun, so I said yes and they invited me to their NextCloud server so we could more easily collaborate. The guitars came down first so I played along to the first draft of them, though it was 140bpm and it turns out I can't actually play decently that fast. 😅 So I ended up doing double time instead so I could essentially play at half the speed. We went back and forth with some tweaking of what I was doing to fit the song better, then the project kind of fell off for a number of months thanks to real life getting in the way for several people. It was started up again at the beginning of this year, we ended up getting a new vocalist and then everything really hit full speed and here we are!

I'm absolutely amazed at how well this came out, and you really can't even tell I was playing the drums at essentially only half speed compared to the rest of the song, it feels like your brain fills in the missing hi-hats or something. @[email protected] has written a much more in-depth blog post about the whole process here.

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Posted on 30 May 2025, 18:24

A very wide angle panorama photo of a bunch of people sitting around a table in a pub, smiling at the camera.

Most excellent fedimeet! It was great to see @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected] again, and to meet @[email protected] (who won't actually see this toot because I have mastodon.social blocked on this instance, haha).

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Posted on 28 May 2025, 20:58

A photo of a bowl of porridge with a dollop of butter on top, and brown sugar sprinkled on it.

Aw yiss, first porridge of the season.

(The timing in terms of suitable weather was a bit poor here because today is the first gloriously sunny day we've had after like a week of grey and rain.)

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Posted on 24 May 2025, 9:42

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair—although both are getting a bit scruffy—smiling at the camera. I'm holding a guitar and standing in front of my standing desk, which has an Arturia MiniLab 3 MIDI keyboard in black sitting on the desk. On the main computer display is Logic Pro with Arturia's Analog Lab plugin window open, and on my laptop's internal display to the left there is Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 plugin window showing half of a frankly absurd number of cymbals and toms, partially covered by the window for Neural DSP's Archetype PliniX guitar amp software showing a cool-looking black amp with a red glow coming from inside it.

Current status: feeling inspired. 😎

(Of course, it's probably going to end up being another couple of months before I actually finish this thing. 😅)

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Posted on 18 May 2025, 20:47

A photo of a mostly-assembled single bedframe. Main components of it are thick black metal U-beams that make up the four sides of the frame, with another one running down the middle. There are wooden panels on the outer sides that attach to the metal to hide the frame itself (the panels themselves are solid wood too and quite hefty), and four panels of wood that the mattress sits on which have holes drilled in them to allow the mattress to breathe. These panels get screwed into the U-beams of the frame itself, and the whole bed is raised on four solid round wooden legs, with an extra leg right in the middle of the centre U-beam to provide even MORE support. The whole thing would have to weigh like 90kg, it's ridiculous.

And then this evening I put together the world's most overengineered bedframe, which weighs more than I do.

(We got this one specifically because a) we're sick of having to replace cheap bedframes because the slats either warp or the whole thing starts creaking, and b) all the other ones were too low to fit our storage boxes under them.)

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 18:36

A wide-angle photo taken looking down a long table of a bunch of people sitting and talking at a pub. There are empty plates scattered over the table, and a big window on the left looking out into some greenery.

A photo of the box of Lhykhis, a Warhammer 40,000 miniature. She's wearing sleek black armour and is partially crouched in mid-jump with a bunch of what looks like lightning underneath her in a partial globe shape like she's just finished teleporting from somewhere else. She has one hand out behind her, the other holding a big sword, two additional mechanical arms coming out from her back and pointing forwards above her shoulders, and ANOTHER two coming out underneath her real arms, and the whole effect very much brings to mind a spider.

I had a (belated) birthday lunch at our local pub today! Great to see friends, the food was delicious as always, and @[email protected] bought me a present, the new Warp Spider Phoenix Lord miniature for Warhammer 40,000!

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 16:19

A selfie taken of me and three other work friends in our music room in the office. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short red hair at the very left of the frame grinning and leaning in so I'm actually in the frame, sitting behind an electronic drum kit. Next around is Harry, a white man with shoulder-length curly brown hair standing holding a bass guitar. After that is Andy, a white man with a short black beard, black hair, and glasses, also standing and holding an electric guitar. And lastly is Nidhi, a South Asian woman with glasses and dark hair, leaning in from the right of the frame over a keyboard and grinning cheesily.

Another Thursday, another jam session! And we had a team event today and so had a paid-for-by-work lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Barangaroo and it was delicious. 👌🏻

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Posted on 8 May 2025, 19:43

A photo of a sheep standing behind a waist-high chain link fence nomming on some grass.

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. Closest to the camera are the six hulking and putrid Plague Marines in large sci-fi-looking dull green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour, and at the far side away from the camera are six Ultramarines of broadly the same shape armour as the Death Guard, but it's a rich blue and they don't have tentacles and demon faces.

In the office today for after-work Kill Team! On the way to the train station this morning the sheep were out having a good nom and I said hello and they all stared blankly at me haha.

The Kill Team game itself was Plague Marines versus Angels of Death, I've really struggled to figure out how the Plague Marines were meant to be played and had a REALLY frustrating game week before last where I conceded before the end of turn 2. This game was the complete opposite of that, the final score was 11-3 and I wiped out every single enemy operative and lost none in return!

I can't claim too much credit though because my friend who was playing against me had read the Plague Marines rules and gotten a sense of how they worked, and kept reminding me of stuff and making suggestions. He's generally played a lot more Kill Team than I have so has the concepts and tricks down a lot better too, and plus he deliberately took a fairly melee-focused roster which meant that with my Contagion strategic ploy he was always at -1 to hit, which it turns out is surprisingly powerful. He also had a couple of terrible rolls, like rolling five dice for one of his nasty melee warriors and four of them being failures. 😬

Still, I'm feeling a bit better about them, I just need to play them more, though I also need to figure out some method of organising myself so I don't keep doing things like forgetting strategic ploys that I've paid command points for.

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Posted on 5 May 2025, 20:20

A photo of April, a fluffy chocolate brown labradoodle, running full-tilt in a large grassy field with a purple rubber ball in her mouth.

A photo of a Dalmatian, whose name I didn't get, standing still in between two people and staring very intently at something behind me in the distance.

A photo of Pickles, a very scruffy-looking cattledog-cross-poodle, with her head down and tongue out looking directly at the camera. She was mid-trot so the middle half of her body is in focus and her head isn't. She was fond of just dramatically flopping to the ground to get scritches, then she'd be up and about again.

A photo of Alfie, who is a big at least partial English Sheepdog, mid-walk with his tongue hanging out. Three other people are standing around, and April and Amber, @ausfestivus's dogs, are just visible behind Alfie and the people.

We took full advantage of #GloriousSydney today and went to Fagan Park to meet up with @ausfestivus and his lovely wife and their two dogs April and Amber. Hornsby Council have recently opened HUGE off-leash dog park there so we went and did a bunch of ball-throwing for April and Amber and met several other dogs as well and it was excellent.

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Posted on 3 May 2025, 17:19