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i'm at the air show. Announcer says 'A JAP SNEAK ATTACK' and one of the three or so remaining flyable A6M Zeros does a fly-by. Wat

air shows are great

hee hee

Highlights of the air show:

• MITSUBISHI A6M DAMN ZERO IN REAL LIFE WHAT THE HELL also lmao the announcer said "jap" you can't say that. NOT EVEN FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY
• The MiG-17F is basically awesome; Randy "Complete Maniac" Ball was flying it and he did a bunch of low passes with full afterburners at upwards of 550 kn
• but the F/A-18 was faster and better in every way. they made a point of this. reds go home.
• USAF did that "heritage flight" thing they do where an A-10, a P-40, and an F-15 (three generations of aircraft) buzz around in formation for a little while.
• "And now: thrust reversers"; C-17 touches down and immediately rolls backwards very very fast
• Fagen Inc. showed up with their MX-2 ethanol-fueled stunt plane, right? And the announcer was making hell of a deal about how it is ~environmentally friendly~, right*? Well, that's exactly when it chose to belch a ton of soot all over everybody. It was the weirdest thing. I'm still picking soot flakes out of my stuff. Unsurprisingly, the pilot then "[saw] something he [didn't] like" and went back in early. I'm not sure what that was about; I bugged the Fagen guys, but they were pretty tight-lipped about it.
• Why did they play Kraftwerk's "Schaufensterpuppen" during one of the aerobatic demonstrations? I think this is a good question

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* The ~environmentally friendly~ bit was repeated for the C-17, so I don't think that these guys have the same definition of "environmentally friendly" as everyone else

(scary portamento flute through junk speaker)

Hey, who wants to sell me a Casio SK-1? I had one a while ago, but I gave it away (I know! Who gives away an SK-1! I don't know! Me, apparently!). Anyway, I really need to use one in a couple of things I'm working on, and I don't want to deal with freaking eBay, so I'm hoping somebody can sell me one directly. :F?

Anyway, on the topic of sound, here's something very small from the other day when I was noodling around on one of my new keyboards. Features truncated CR-78 samples, sort of polyrhythmic delay, and envelope-following filters. envfollow.mp3

I have a pretty decent sunburn :(