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A photo of the box of the Espresso display. The display itself is only 5mm thick and has a silver housing with a bit of a chin at the bottom similar to how the old Intel iMacs used to, though much less chunky.

When I'm recording my drums in Logic Pro, my laptop sits on its stand over behind and to the left of the drum kit, and I have my iPad sitting in the middle acting as a second monitor so I can put Logic Pro on that and see which bar I'm up to without needing to awkwardly turn my head over to where the laptop is. The annoying part about that though is that you can't actually tap on the iPad screen to do anything, it's purely displaying output, so to pause Logic Pro or go back to a specific section I still need to lean over to the laptop.

It turns out that there's a company that makes little touch-capable portable displays, so I bought the 13-inch one (mostly because anything larger doesn't fit in between the two crash cymbals on the drum kit 😅)! I've also got a VESA mount stand to attach to the drum stand and a little VESA mount tablet/display holder so I can use both the iPad (during regular drum practice when I'm just using it to stream music) as well as the new Espresso display when I'm recording stuff, but unfortunately the display holder isn't arriving until next week so I can't take it for a proper spin yet.

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Posted on 8 November 2024, 14:42

A screenshot of my character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. She's a Qunari, meaning she's tall, broad-shouldered and quite muscular, and has two massive horns that protrude from the sides of her head just above the temples. They curl back and under so they're pointing forwards, sort of like a goat. She has golden rings around them at various points, and has a neck tattoo that looks like a choker, along with another set of square geometric tattoos on her cheeks. Her skin is a dark blue/grey sort of colour, and she has a swath of hair that comes down from in between her horns and over the right side of her face. You can't tell from the angle in the screenshot but that same side of her head has long hair on it behind the horns, and the other side is shaved. In short, she will fuck you up if you look at her funny.

My favourite character in Dragon Age: Inquisition was my Qunari Mage, so I've gone for the same this time around in Veilguard! I love how she just radiates "I do not take any shit from anyone" energy.

(Also, yay fully-controllable photo mode in this game too! Seriously, all games should have that IMO.)

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Posted on 4 November 2024, 22:05

A photo of a large stainless steel pot extremely full of the aforementioned Cajun beef pasta. You can't really see any of that though because there's a delicious layer of partially-melted cheese across the top of it all.

And then we made Nagi's one pot Cajun beef pasta recipe!

Absolutely delicious as always, but I think her recipe assumes you have a significantly larger pot because the amount of water ended up being a fair bit too much and it came out rather on the soupy side (plus the cheese on top at the end didn't melt as much as I was hoping). It made like six and a half serves though, and I'm sure that the extra liquid will all be absorbed by the pasta for the leftovers.

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Posted on 2 November 2024, 19:57

A photo of a white femme-ish non-binary person with dyed black hair and wearing all black clothing, in the middle of playing a bass guitar.

First bass lesson with the seventeen year-old!

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Posted on 2 November 2024, 17:14

A photo of the subwoofer, it's a glossy black box about 29cm square, with no ornamentation on it at all except for a silver plate in the middle of the top face that says "REL" on it. There are four short silver legs, and it's sitting in a corner next to our TV stand in front of the window.

We have FINALLY upgraded our lounge room stereo system and added a subwoofer! It's a teensy little REL Acoustics Tzero MkIII (sealed box, 6.5" driver) but damn does it add some excellent punch.

The bookshelf speakers we have are twenty year-old Wharfedale ones and still sound fantastic, but the HomePod definitely shows them up in terms of bass so I decided to finally do something about it.

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Posted on 2 November 2024, 13:50

A photo of a magpie lark, a medium-sized black and white bird with a pointy yellow beak, walking around in our back lawn.

Unexpected benefit of the 120mm (5x) lens in my new iPhone: I can take better photos of the interesting birds we get bopping around in our backyard!

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Posted on 30 October 2024, 10:47

A photo taken at night looking down a suburban street, there are a bunch of compact two-storey houses most of which have coloured strings of lights hanging down the front.

I love all the Diwali lights all the Indian families have out at this time of year, and then as a bonus they can just keep them on through December and suddenly they're Christmas lights!

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Posted on 29 October 2024, 21:28

A photo of three people sitting around a restaurant table smiling at the camera. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair, Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair, and Rebecca, a white woman with long brown hair.

As always Mamak was excellent, and it was lovely to meet @rfernandez in person!

(Although I think @rfernandez's choice of dessert was... not excellent. 😅)

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Posted on 29 October 2024, 20:14

A photo of a field with sheep grazing in it, and behind them are two three-storey unit blocks, and beyond that in the distance a bunch of regular suburban houses.

We're off to Parramatta for Mamak with @rfernandez, and it's SUCH a glorious day that we walked to the train station. Nice to see the sheep still around, for the moment at least.

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Posted on 29 October 2024, 17:52

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. At the bottom left closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour, at the far right are the very ancient Egyptian-looking space marines of the Warp Coven, and pretty much not visible at the top behind the walls are six Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

We had our first game of the new edition of Kill Team last night!

Only got through two rounds, and we played without equipment—apart from barricades, just to match it from the last edition—but I'm really liking how streamlined the rules are, the new rules for line of sight and cover are SO much clearer now. In terms of actually scoring anything it was a miserable failure on my part, I didn't get anything at all but that was mostly my fault for fucking up my deployment (and I now have a whole new set of chapter tactics I need to remember as well), but that's fine, this was just a "Get used to the rules" game anyway. I am disappointed at how much of a nerf plasma has had though... even when supercharged, my Assault Intercessor's plasma pistol is only 4/5 damage, Piercing 1.

Side note, the Nemesis Claw "You're obscured if you're within one inch of heavy terrain" rule is SO IRRITATING. 😛 At least they can be shot at now, but obscuring still means that you're very unlikely to deal any damage unless you roll really well AND the Nemesis Claw player rolls really poorly.

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Posted on 27 October 2024, 23:39