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You're welcome, Rho. I love the psychedelic thing.

kondor, I'm loving the Viv Savage "heavy duty" avatar. TIST is my favorite movie of all time.

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Ah, I should've looked there first. Rookie mistake. Will do so in future. Thanks!

removing the "bold" font style setting in .fbtermrc gets rid of the color glitches. now it's gorgeous.

Exploring the live system on a rainy day. Impressive as always. I'm getting strange color glitches on the terminal characters in the framebuffer session. Don't know if its my equipment (crappy HP chromebook) or what.

Fifty Foot Hose were a San Francisco band of the 1960s who fused jazz, psychedelic rock, and experimental electronic music. The electronic element was provided by custom-made theremin-like instruments. It's definitely dated, but still a nice sample of what 'electronic music' was like just on the cus...

An online emulator of my first computer: http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html ZX81 was the British version; in the US it was marketed as the Timex Sinclair 1000. Membrane keyboard and 2K on-board ram. I had the 16k ram expansion pack, which allowed play of a side-scrolling shooting spaceship...

Zines! I remember those. I made a few cut-and-paste (like with actual paper and real sticky paste) dadaist-psychedelic collage photocopy flyers back in those days. Cool. I'm newly registered myself, but I'll say welcome anyway. (I remember dumpster-diving for food and stuff, too. But I can't say tha...

Besides the standard phone-keys-wallet, I carry a black (always black) North Face backpack that always contains one paper notepad and a collection of random pens and pencils, mostly from hotels, and a ziploc baggie with allergy and pain pills. Travel computer is an HP Chromebook 14 I spent US$50 on ...

if we're talking about 80s pop hits, we must have this one
(it was a huge deal in the US at least)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh5J33KAaqw


not a big hit -- not so much pop, either (more like punk) --
but one of the best by the same group:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmnmvDl-ao

No herbal excursion is complete without some classic GBV (Guided by Voices).

Their best album is _Bee Thousand_ (1994). Fire it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxj78pITaYs

Love's _Forever Changes_ is an all-time favorite, as mentioned in the elder brother thread.

Current favorite is Van Morrison's _Astral Weeks_ (1968). The title track is especially sublime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ech6pZoBJ4

can't name *one* favorite -- Love's _Forever Changes_ (1968) album is full of favorites. Two favorite favorites: "Your Mind and We Belong Together" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asU5mWc6xrc "A House Is Not a Motel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInF7WKOz4c And there is this m...

Os Mutantes! brilliant stuff....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utly4DHH37o

My favorite genre. Maybe no one else's... classic bands: the Count Five, the Seeds, the Monks, etc. revival bands worth knowing about: the Satelliters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdkNFOSjS1U the Len Price 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AT4H7cix_E All you need is three or four chords and an...

yes! 13th floor elevators!!1!

bones, you've got good taste.

recommend:

the Godz (not the heavy metal act, the other Godz)

and

50 Foot Hose

No love for Jason?

Melancholy, morbid, moody funny animals fighting zombies, going into a time machine to kill Hitler, having coffee with Death. It's the best.

^^ mb: I've played with fbi and with green. Both do the full-screen thing. I've found that they work just fine for small, modern documents. That covers a lot of basic office work I have to do. Tried to install fbpdf a couple of times, but could never manage to do it. I work a lot with pdfs of mediev...

welcome. it's a great place to learn. I second the force-yourself-to-use-only-the-terminal-for-a-while exercise. Taught me a great deal. (Now I just wish there were a no-X pdf reader that was as flexible and feature-rich as, e.g., evince. Or at least could fit itself into a tmux panel. Then I could ...

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yeah, that's it :)

Errol Morris' _Gates of Heaven_ (1978). About the pet cemetary business. As funny and strange as it sounds. Bonus: disco-era California fashions and affects. Absolute gold.