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A photo of the Star Trek: Away Missions core set plus the Chancellor Gowron, House of Duras, and Commander Sela expansions, the seven books of the Murderbot series, the plain box of a pair of Kanto 9" tall speaker stands, and a bottle of "Lucky Sod" toffee caramel plus vanilla whiskey liqueur.

Birthday goodies! 🎉

I've already read through the Murderbot books via ebook, from that Humble Bundle last year, but I far prefer physical books and will definitely be rereading them at some point so decided to get the actual books. The speaker stands are for putting my fancy Yamaha studio speakers on because it really does make quite a difference having them positioned properly (with the tweeters at ear level). It's meant that I need to totally rejigger my desk and I've realised that the cables I have going to the right speaker are getting very taut with my desk in its full standing position so I've had to order some longer cables so I don't accidentally destroy anything if I make my desk higher than normal for whatever reason. 😬

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Posted on 20 April 2026, 11:41

A photo of the (fake) Christmas tree at my parents' place. It's pretty big, probably close to 2 metres tall, and covered in lights and decorations. Christmassy without veering completely into "explosion in a Christmas shop".

A photo of my Christmas haul: eleven paperback books (mostly scifi), a Fender "Telepath" wireless system for being able to play guitar through my amp without needing a physical cable, and the Ahriman miniature from Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. The art on the front is a Space Marine in ornate red and gold armour with a kind of Egyptian feel going on.

A photo of two kookaburras sitting on the fence of the neighbour's back deck.

Happy Chrimbo, fediverse! The theme of this Christmas was "books". Plus unexpectedly a miniature from my daughter!

We also got to watch the local kookaburras hanging out on the neighbour's back deck.

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Posted on 25 December 2025, 18:44

A photo of my birthday presents. At the top is the box of an Arturia "MiniLab 3" MIDI keyboard, it's a small 25 key keyboard with a number of dials and sliders and buttons above the keys themselves. Under the keyboard box are four books, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, the Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and The Killing Moon also by N.K. Jemisin.

And the actual birthday goodies! I'm really looking forward to playing around with the keyboard, the company that makes it has a big synth plugin that integrates specifically with all the dials and sliders on the keyboard itself so you can control all the various parameters of the synth without needing to take your hands off the keyboard itself.

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Posted on 20 April 2025, 10:18

A photo of my Christmas presents: a Boss Katana Go headphone amp, Shure SE215 noise isolating earbuds, a little wooden holder for my guitar picks, and a bottle of "Lucky Sod" liqueur that says it's honeycomb and sticky toffee mixed with Irish whiskey.

A photo of sliced roast beef, roast potatoes and pumpkin, and a chicken leg sitting on a white dinner plate.

A photo of a black vinyl record on a turntable.

Hope everyone has had an excellent Christmas! Got some good presents, had a delicious roast lunch, and listened to Alice In Chains on the record that the seventeen year-old asked for as a present, haha.

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Posted on 25 December 2024, 14:52

A photo of two large hardcover books, "The Art and Soul of Dune" and "The Art and Soul of Dune Part Two", and a plastic box with a "PiicoDev Starter Kit" sticker on the front showing several small blue circuit boards connected together with wires (it contains a bunch of sensors and wires and bits to do MicroPython electronics projects with).

Birthday goodies!

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Posted on 20 April 2024, 10:17

A photo of a bottle of Kraken spiced roast coffee rum, a Boss "Blues Driver" guitar pedal, a box of 300 miniature skulls for decorating my various Games Workshop miniature bases, and a black t-shirt with a dark on the front that looks like Darth Vader but he's made up of the Death Star and Storm Troopers and TIE Fighters.

Christmas loot!

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Posted on 25 December 2023, 12:15

A small plastic container with foam in it and two individual guitar strap locks, each made up of three pieces. One piece screws into the guitar itself where the existing strap holder does, one goes through the hole in the guitar strap, and the third screws into the other side of the previous piece to hold everything in place. The combined bit attached to the guitar strap then clips over the head of the piece that's screwed into the guitar, and you can quickly unlock it to swap straps around if needed.

Had a lovely birthday lunch at our local pub with a bunch of friends, and I got a very thoughtful gift: a set of properly-good guitar strap locks!

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Posted on 22 April 2023, 18:04

A photo of a small bass guitar amp with a bass guitar leaning against it, and a novel sitting in front. The amp is an Orange Crush Bass 25 and has a black mesh on the front with the rest of it being the customary bright orange colour. The guitar is a Yamaha BB434 and the body fades from black around the edges into a dark rich orange/red wood in the middle. The book is a sci-fi novel "Empire of Silence" by Christopher Ruocchio.

A photo of three guitars hanging on a wall.

Birthday loot! 😁 The book was a surprise gift from @yayKM, the reviews are glowing so I'll definitely be starting that next when I finish my current book.

And I've gotten the bass all nicely wall-mounted already. Very excited to start learning it, I've heard very good things about Bassbuzz from LOTS of people so I'm going to start with that.

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Posted on 20 April 2023, 10:12

A photo of the box of Games Workshop's new Warhammer Underworlds box, "Gnarlwood", and four Boss guitar pedals. The Underworlds box has artwork of a guy in furs and looking very shamanic, and the guitar pedals are the DS-1W distortion, DD-3T digital delay, GE-7 equaliser, and Reverb RV-6.

Christmas loot! Hope everyone's had a good one.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 13:47

A photo of a pile of presents wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper sitting on the floor next to a white pedestal that has a teeny little fake Christmas tree with lights and tinsel and decorations on it. The tree is probably not even 50 centimetres high in total.

Present wrapping: done. Presents: deployed. (Technically they're under the Christmas tree, right?)

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Posted on 24 December 2022, 14:41