saintly2k

[saintly2k]

It's been a long journey so far

So hey, after a while you are hearing (or reading?) something from my blog again. "A sign of life!" you might think but oh well, who knows when my next post will be?

Well, well, well. I will try to write more now, but the reason is not that I want anyone to read this but it is more like a practice for me to train my writing skills and hone my English as you may know that I am not a native English speaker.

So, what have I been up to until now? Truth to be told, not much. I did some work on Mononoke, an Anime CMS (Content-Management-System), rewrote FoOlSlideX from the core, worked a little on my own site, and some minor stuff as well.

But my main problem until a few days ago was not my lack of motivation but rather the fact that my graphics card broke down. It stopped working for no reason after just barely a year of service! The hell? So I got a new one from a friend of mine who bought a new one not too long ago, so that was all of the money I saved until that point (around 250€).

Now you may wonder: "250€? That's all you saved???"

Well no, I saved around 500€ until that point, but I recently bought a Reel-to-Reel machine, the Akai X-200D, in perfect condition, refurbished by a professional not too long ago for around 190€. Now there are still 60€ missing. With this money, I went ahead and bought some tapes as well as cassettes for me to record and listen to.

(Video) "I heard there's a rumor going 'round There's gonna be a showdown I heard there's a rumor going 'round One of us is leaving town" (Album: "Eric Woolfson Sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was", Track: "Rumor Going Round" by Eric Woolfson)

I spent my time recording some tracks from Discs onto this tape. At that time, I was a little stupid and recorded it on the 3-3/4 IPS (Inches Per Second) speed, so in the end it sounded not as glamorous as the other tape you can see there, which I recorded on 7-1/2 IPS, that simply sounds magnificent!

I should do a blog post about Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons and how their music quite literally changed my life as well. Anybody should remind me of that (if somebody reads this of course).

Then I moved some time ago and got a new room. It is quite small now, but I feel really comfortable now. I got my small TV on the same white cupboard along with the Akai, all of the components of my Hi-fi system.

I could do a post about this as well! Why not, I guess? Maybe you can share yours as well :D (At least if you got one. If you don't, you should get one!).

So well, I don't know what to talk anymore in this post. All I wanted to do is to tell you that "Hey, I'm alive! I made it out of the hospital!", nothing more.

Until then!

Best regards and stay healthy, Selim!

[saintly2k]

mikusa

[saintly2k]

Oh yeah, developing is fun!

Yo yo yo! It's me, saintly, once again with some rant about some things I experienced in the past few days.

So you know, I make web-applications, in PHP. I'm not good at it, but it made fun until some time ago. So, why doesn't it make fun anymore? IT'S SIMPLY BECAUSE I FUCKING DO ALL THE WORK ALONE! And that really dries me out. I can't do this anymore!! And people, who use the software I make, don't even donate a buck xd

Well, I can understand that, but they don't even drop by the Discord and say thanks or so. Just by doing that, I know that they like what I do. It's even better, if they give ideas on what to do better.

If people would do that, everything would be fine.

But they don't. They just do something: They remove the credits from the footer, and so on. I think that's not cool. Really.

It's just annoying as hell since other people don't know the real author of the software that they are currently on. And just thinking of that makes me sad.

If I am ever on a small website and it looks great, I always want to know who made it. I browse the source code or simply look at the credits or so and find the name. If there's a social media linked or so, I always make sure to say hello to them and tell them that they did a great job, since they really did!

Has this happened ever to me?

No. But that's okay! I don't expect all people to do that.

But I mean... there should be at least a few people who are doing that, right? I can not be the only one that's doing that, am I?

Okay, anyways, today was one last time school, then it's vacation!! Jeah!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, cool.

Well then, see ya!

Regards, Selim.

[saintly2k]

(No) More Hooverphonic Music

Yo yo yo! It's me once again.

You know, I've got a "new" phone just yesterday because my current phone isn't working anymore. It's a really old iPhone (ew) SE. Because I wanted to set it up, I created a new Apple ID (this is gonna haunt me the rest of my life) and installed some apps I really needed:

Spotify, YouTube, DB Navigator, Google Maps (of course!), Telegram, Webnovel and Wupsi.

Because all my passwords got compromised recently, I changed all my passwords, which was my first struggle because I generated the new passwords all automatic using Bitwarden (awesome software). So I logged into Spotify, and because I always listen to music offline if I can, I started downloading my huge library of over 6k songs (yes, I listen to *all* of them haha). While I was browsing it, I found a song from Hooverphonic.

So for your info, I literally grew up with this and a few more bands because my father listened to them all the time, meaning I would hear them too, and they were g-r-e-a-t!

The song I found was "Eden" from the Album "Blue Wonder Power Milk". This was really my first song I really started to love. I still remember the old times when my father managed to get all the songs from Hooverphonic on my old Nokia and I instantly got hooked listening to them. Seriously, non-stop. Just don't think about the quality of the music ^-^

Because I still love their music (and own all of their records on vinyl) I started listening to it. And wow, that took me back in time. After listening to it like eight or nine times in a row, I viewed the full album, listened to it for a whole day, then downloaded all the other albums they had. I re-discovered old favorites of mine, such as "Sometimes", "Wake Up" or whole albums just like "Blue Wonder Power Milk".

But because I'm a "cool kid", I stopped listening on Spotify, turned my Record player and started playing their record of "Blue Wonder Power Milk". I just couldn't stop and always again and again listened to it.

It just made me feel sad that the music nowadays is becoming worse and worse, made with less and less effort. Just five lines of text then the refrain and repetitive loops of instruments. Take "Space Man" by Sam Ryder from Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Let me count them for you: One, two, three, four, and again, then refrain, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, okay okay, now eleven, twelve, thirteen, refrain again, 14, 15, 16, 17, okay then a slightly different version of the refrain, 18, 19, then the last four sentences are just again refrain. Wow, 19 lines of unique lyrics!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

Just compare it with "Little Dark" by MGMT from 2018... it has way more than 19 lines of unique lyrics. Wow... was it that hard for Sam Ryder to come up with some lyrics? Really? I mean, for fucks sake, even I can do better!

So yeah, this is just some rant of some random guy from the internet, but keep that in mind. But hey, not all songs are like that! Take MGMT, Hooverphonic, libEluLLah, EERA, Udo Jürgens and a lot more of artists that produce (or produced) great music with more than... embarrassing 19 lines of unique lyrics.

Well well guys, I hope you liked my runt (as always).

Have a wonderful day, Selim!

Edit 02.03.2023: Changed "Grammophone" to "Record player", since it's not a Grammophone but a record player (I guess?).

[saintly2k]

Hello world.

So hey, what's up.

This is my first entry, so I'm not gonna talk about much, but hey, an entry is an entry.

So recently, I bought a new typewriter. Cool, huh? Take for a weirdo (who I am) and tell me that typewriters aren't cool, but you won't be able to change my mind, since I love them. Really, I do.

Also, I'm thinking about buying a Shortwave radio for myself, just for fun. Maybe I'll listen to some transmissions when I'm on it. Just maybe.

So yeah, all in all, life sucks. Tomorrow will be another day at the workshop. Cleaning, repairing, polishing, changing tires, whatever. I'm already exhausted by the idea of it. But yeah, nothing's gonna change just thinking about it, so I'm gonna think of something else.

How about Overlord season four? It's been quite some time now, I think it was scheduled to air 2021, however due to Covid 19, it got delayed to 2022 (I think but I'm not sure though). I really loved the first season, there wasn't much usage of 3D CGI (which I hate) and the story (and Waifus of course) was great! I really fell in love with Albedo at first sight... hah. The second season was somewhat disappointing since it wasted a lot of episodes on those stupid Lizardmen, but I think that was an important part of the series as well just to demonstrate how OP Ainz really is, but I think you could skip it haha. And now for the third season. To be honest with you... I don't quite remember it as well anymore since I didn't watch it like 20 times like I did with the first two seasons. All I remember is the last episode with the cool fight. But I think it was a... little *too* much 3D CGI used, but that's just my opinion.

I hope... you liked the rant I wrote. I hope you will continue to stay by my side while I write such useless stuff that was really important to humankind.

Have a wonderful day, Selim.