MattCrumpLab

MattCrumpLab, 20 days ago to random

I had big plans to get a lot of shredding done today (the psych department has boxes, upon boxes)...but, of course, the main industrial shredder on campus is broken (for 4 months already). We set up a station of small office shredders and got through one box of old exams in about 30 minutes of straight shredding. It's like 3 R2D2s in a row, who just very slowly shred, and mostly jam up and make beeping sounds with flashing red lights.

MattCrumpLab, 22 days ago to random

where are the RSS feeds for department chairs blogging about being department chairs...asking for a friend

MattCrumpLab, 1 month ago to random

It’s independent bookstore day so I went to a new local independent bookstore and bought some books.

MattCrumpLab, 1 month ago to random

Missed Greener grass when it came out, lots of absurdity.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7422822/

MattCrumpLab, 1 month ago to music

So much to learn with the rc-505 mk ii. Very easy to just mess around in sitcom theme song land (like this clip here). Have to figure out how to switch between different song parts so I can change up beats and stuff. #SynthesizerMusic #Music #mastomusic

MattCrumpLab, 1 month ago to random

testing out the rc-505 mkii looper. I was expecting it be more cumbersome because of all of the possible settings, but the defaults work very well.

a loop noodle with a bit of ob-6, matriarch, osmose, and mpc drums #synthesizerSaturday

MattCrumpLab, 1 month ago to random

Been a while since I've used a loop pedal, but I've got a boss rc-505 mkii arriving tomorrow, crossing my fingers that it will be fun times...but looper pedals have always been a bit finicky for my workflow, so who knows, very curious though.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Should I make an academic department intranet website thingy with Microsoft sharepoint? I just dunno.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Enjoyed this read on Khruangbin and their music even moreso #nowplaying

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/magazine/khruangbin-mood-music.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/khruangbin/478520598

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Sometimes, and actually very frequently, I wonder why our new college website that took years to make, and that revoked department privileges to make changes to their own content (directly, without making a form request to a very understaffed office) still manages to be much, much worse than the terrible website we used to have.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to boardgames

Finally got to play dune imperium IRL, and it was great. That is all. #boardgames

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Having a bunch of fun with this set up. It’s quick and easy to record piano sketches, and the ep-133 doubles as a funky metronome or full on drum accompaniment.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Music stuff…a couple days ago I accidentally created an earworm for myself on piano. It won’t go away, and it suggests some musical motion that has been fun to explore in effort to tame the ear worm, or at least somehow bring an end to it. This weekend I hope to orchestrate it and get it out of my head once and for all. Or perhaps stamp it in for eternity.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

For reasons, I had to attempt lots of scripting in Excel spreadsheets this week to reproduce a google sheets workflow and satisfy a bunch of constraints…after much ado, I almost got there, and the best thing about this was learning to search for “bewildered” memes:

https://tenor.com/search/bewildered-gifs

Cause that at least captures the rollercoaster faces that were happening to me all week.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Trying out VS code, not bad. Seems to play well with #rstats and #QuartoPub so far

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Learning Dune Imperium for an upcoming board game session, I don’t have the hard copy, but the iOS version is great. I can see that the future holds more Dune Imperium.

MattCrumpLab, 2 months ago to random

Jamming with osmose presets to "The Blue Room". #Synthesizer #synthesizerSaturday #clownmusic

MattCrumpLab, 3 months ago to random

I am continually impressed by my #PSCCUNY colleagues and their push to fund #CUNY to where it needs to be funded.