Ink for October 5th, 2020

Not saying much about the 45th's recovery. Much of Twitter's said what I would be repeating. Regardless of what they administered, there is certainty—at least I'm sure anyway—the virus is not through with him. There's a reason why I don't use his full name and title. In professional documents and reports, I would use them, but I feel that the 45th is poison to the United States' body politic in personality, political persuasion, and actions. It's a feeble way to distance a deplorable human being from his position and role in the nation's ongoing legacy, but said person is also antithetical to the Constitution. 

This piece from FiveThirtyEight is promising.

In non-political news, I made a playlist consisting of music composed by Chris Huelsbeck. I was more or less prompted after purchasing the first volume of his royalty-free tunes. All of my Huelsbeck purchases up to that point consisted of Commodore SIDs, Amiga and video game soundtracks, and of course anything Turrican. 

I'm thinking of doing a post in future talking about how I discovered the Commodore 64, its SID chip, and the Amiga. It will probably take place of an entry and it expands on a presentation I did for my technical writing class last year. 

I love being able to create playlists for my iPhone. I need to get through my podcast backlog before I put my full music library on it though. I tried Spotify in 2014 when one of my college friends suggested it during one of our study sessions. Ended up deleting it a year later because I found that I prefer owning the music that I like. Also, I take issue with how much musicians, composers, bands, and rappers get with each stream compared a purchase on iTunes, or more importantly, Bandcamp.      

Not exactly fond of this weird thing in iOS 13 (and 14 by proxy) where more than half of the thumbnails are wrongly associated with random songs and albums. It feels like a simple thing since iTunes has the metadata in the right place—as in, the right thumbnails with the right music—but maybe I'm missing something. On the iPhone, playing from an album is fine, but shuffling from a playlist is where the miss-association hits real bad.