2021-06-05                         from the editor of ~insom
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   What's going on?

   Reading (computers): The Little Schemer. It's fun! And
   weird. Big "Poignant Guide to Ruby" energy, although it's
   much older so I suppose the relationship is probably the
   other way around.

   Reading (fiction): Just finished "All Tomorrow's Parties"
   which was great. It's funny how William Gibson started
   setting his books closer and closer to the present as he's
   written more of them.

   The 90's idea of what the near-but-far-enough future would
   look like is an interesting take.

   Building: I made up a ribbon microphone. The motor was from
   a kit mic website, and I put it in a custom enclosure of
   questionable quality. It sounds good though.

   It requires a lot of gain so I'm looking into building a
   Fethead clone with some MOSFET or JFET parts. I thought I
   had some "in stock" but I think I left them at the
   (permanently closed) office.

   Thinking: About the history of computing and my place in it.
   Okay, that sounds grandiose, more like "what am I doing with
   computers and am I making things better or worse or does any
   of it even matter?"