Nicholas Toone

  • Learning New Skills, Part One: The Backstory

    I started this as a single entry, but it became so long that I decided to tackle it in a multiple parts.

    While I’m not going to go over the complete backstory, this abridged version does help set the stage of what we were dealing with that led to the decision to just DYI things.

    Ms. Tucker owns a small condo. By small, I mean small: 530-ish square feet.

    While tiny, it’s a cute, modern, open space layout, with 10 foot ceilings and huge windows that is located in the heart of downtown. It’s also very nostalgic for both of us as that’s where we started to build our life together nearly twenty years ago.

    As time went on and we decided to have kids, we moved out of the condo and a relative moved in…

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  • Music I Used To Listen To: Helloween

    Every once and awhile, just for fun, I’m going to listen to some music I enjoyed when I was a teenager and and post about what I think of it now.

    The inaugural entry covers two releases from the pioneers of Power Metal: Helloween.

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  • I Replaced Everything And It Still Sucks

    This is an actual review on Newegg.

    I’d have just contacted the company and retured the card, but to each their own I guess :-\

  • Mantras

    My About blurb, has some mantras listed and I’d like to talk about them.

    This took a long time to write and then I waffled about even posting it.  Then I thought: fuck it.

    So here we go. And my apologies, it’s long.

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  • Outlook, Part Two

    If AI takes over the world, it will be incomprehensible. Literally.

    Hey, Outlook. You should learn to read what you're suggesting before suggesting it.

  • Downsizing

    I have three songs in the works. All of them need lyrics and vocals. Two also need drums.

    One of them turned out to be pretty terrible so I shitcanned it and now I have two songs in the works. One only has a single verse of lyrics to complete, which I’m just being completely lazy with, and the other needs a full set of lyrics and drums so near the end of July I recorded the drums.

    A few days later, I realized that the drumming for the outro is little off everything else so now I have to redo all of the guitars.

    “Wait,” you ask, “why re-record all the guitar parts? Why don’t you just re-record the drums?”

    Well, you see, I recorded the drum parts, gave it a quick listen and was happy at the time. Then I sold my drums.

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  • Outlook, Part One

    Thanks for the tip, Outlook, however you don’t know my reader.

  • Thanks, Glassdoor.

    How does one describe this absolute shitshow of an account creation page?

  • Fedora Wants You To Know…

    At least they’re chill about it.

  • Award For What?

    What the actual fuck is this?

    Is there really is an actual award for “Contextual Voice Navigation for Discovering and Interacting with TV Content”??

    Seriously?

    There are no words.