Here I keep some memoirs of (mostly music) events I’ve helped organized, participated in, or attended; I’m putting trips I’ve gone on here as well.
A doujin music event in Paris which I helped organize!
I sorta-kinda was support crew here. Also includes general notes on my trip to the beautiful city of Wrocław, Poland.
diff --git a/html/events/premier_impact.html b/html/events/premier_impact.html index 488a523..3f5fa76 100644 --- a/html/events/premier_impact.html +++ b/html/events/premier_impact.html @@ -215,20 +215,20 @@This is a retrospective on Premier Impact, a music event we held on the 10th of May 2025.
A bit of context that’ll help illustrate some of the organisational difficulties involved in the event:
@@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ The observant reader might notice that this is a bit of a tight squeeze; it coulThe event theme was doujin music and generally J-core/breakcore/anison, though in practice we gave DJs complete free reign as to what to play and the event was better characterized as “we invite our friends to play good music”; it’s perhaps best understood in relationship to other similar events2. These events are already common elsewhere, but not aren’t yet established in France, despite there clearly existing a sizeable audience for them — our aim was thus to start putting this on the map here in Paris.
@@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ For the poster we ended up borrowing a lot from the -Since this was our first event3 we went into this without existing contacts and without a confirmed audience. Largely because of this4 we mostly committed to finding a venue that would let us host the event for free.
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We originally got a reply from Les Amarres on April 4th, so we were in communication with both them and Spot 13 in parallel, but we only got confirmation they’d be available on April 15th. They let us hold the event in their venue for free, so accepting immediately was a no-brainer. They even gave our staff free drinks and meals11!
Only now that we had a venue we ready to formally invite guest DJs and start putting publicity out. Promo went out on April 24th, less than 2.5 weeks until the event.
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Those that were present around the end of the event might have seen Apt and I frantically faffing about with two DJ controllers, three laptops and a bass guitar. We ran into two kinds of technical issues during our set.
@@ -470,9 +470,9 @@ The GK-3B is pretty expensive so we had bought it with the intention of using itLooking critically, behind the scenes—and to some extend unfortunately also on the stage—this was an organisational mess. Some of this definitely could’ve been prevented – Apt and I take full responsibility for the original error of failing to secure a venue in time. Other hecticness in the planning wasn’t really preventable—there’s a reason this post opens with a description of our schedule—but will be avoided in the future. It was a learning experience for sure.
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Alex, apt-get, mercury.lamp, pachy and myself were in Wrocław1, Poland between April 30th and May <END DATE> for Millennium Strike Live WROC.WAV where apt and merc were performing (B2B, under alias Re;iwa Diabolik). Shout out to pachy for finding time and money to join us last minute; I am very very glad he was able to be there, it wouldn’t have been the same without him.
Basically all the time in Wrocław before the event was spent on… actually preparing the set, which hadn’t really been started yet, so we were mostly inside the hotel — this had much to do with apt and I being busy preparing for Premier Impact and everyone just generally being busy. Alex, pachy and I were technically free, but I was also trying to make stuff happen for Premier Impact still, and we all kinda hung around for moral support.
With us primarily being there for the event and it being a really busy period, I don’t think any of us had really read up on the city very much. Safe to say we were all very pleasantly surprised! Wrocław is an absolutely lovely city; real student town energy with lots of young people, very warm hospitality and a very homely, casual atmosphere in restaurants as well.
Wrocław has really cool architecture, a pretty eclectic mix of styles and old and new stuff. Lots of old defensive works that I believe were built after the Mongol invasion. Quoting Wikipedia:
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Overall Wrocławians made a strong impression on me as warm, hospitable, humorous and headstrong people. Wrocław had a very active anti-communist resistance that they are very proud of, and they’ve kept that history very alive, both visibly in the city scape but also in their endearing fashion sense.
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@@ -230,18 +230,18 @@ This site launched recently and is still under construction; please pardon the d Here’s this week’s journal!Today is Saturday, 25th October. @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Here’s this week’s journal! data-status="NODATA">
Only about 10 minutes, in the park. It’s been a while, so I’ll slowly build up to 30 mins of good practice a day again and just try to hang there for a few months. Might pick up a Brightmind subscription again, though I can’t afford to pay for one right now.
Just shy of 12000 on the pedometer, getting to the park and around the neighborhood.
Completed The Feud on the GIM. Just questing up a bit still, trying to get Agility XP in as well as working up towards fairy rings.
First day back from holiday visiting my family. Today I repaired the bedroom shelf, installed a longer duct on the portable AC so it can be used in the bedroom more easily as well as installed the AC-window-thing. The longer duct works alright, you can tell the little AC is a little underpowered for a duct that long and it’s leaking some heat.
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~20 minutes breath meditation
Slightly north of 12k steps.
Just didn’t have the time today!
Didn’t sleep very well so I ended up staying in bed until 11 or so today. Exercise-heavy day; spent close to an hour in the gym and swam for ~30 minutes. For lunch I made stir fried vegetables with a lot of tofu, flavored with laoganma, doubanjiang and ground sichuan pepper — I like this recipe, especially given that I’m trying to eat more protein. I highly recommend laoganma, it goes well with a lot of things, by the way~.
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~25 minutes walking meditation.
13.7k
12 min breath.
The weather was horrid today, so only barely.
Today I added support for footnotes3! The hover functionality requires a bit of JS, but the footnotes themselves should work just fine without JS.
diff --git a/html/journal/w28-2025.html b/html/journal/w28-2025.html index eafd31b..f30d38a 100644 --- a/html/journal/w28-2025.html +++ b/html/journal/w28-2025.html @@ -215,21 +215,21 @@Bit of walking meditation on the way to the pool, maybe ~15 mins.
Completed Dig Site and both Elemental Workshops last night. Next up is Woodcutting for Lost City. I was gonna be smart and have my GIM buddy help me skip the WC requirement on Fremennik Isles for the 10k XP but he’s busy, so I guess soon will be my first bit of actual training in quite a while.
Gonna add this to the rotation and mark it “done” for today though I mostly thought about it on a meta level. Tomorrow I’ll try and write up a bit of it and set up a bit of a study plan.
Mostly been preoccupied with exercise today, so not much to report.
Mainly daily life practice/morality stuff, but good stuff at that so I’ll count it – plus the exercise bike has been rather meditative.
Completed Lost City. Forestry is good new content, I love it! My bf is making fun of what qualifies as “content” to runescape players, ww.
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Another heavy exercise day! I feel good, the mind is sharp, but the body definitely needs a lot of recovery on days like this and energy comes in starts and stops. Next two days are rest days, at least! Honestly mixed feelings on rest days, they’re necessary but I’ve actually been really enjoying pushing the body ww. I’m surprised how quickly the body is adapting to the exercise load, but that’s being a man in his 20s for ya.
It’s not much of a surprise, but I got word that I got rejected for all the MSc programmes I applied to. It’s a shame — there’s only a handful of English-taught compsci Master’s programmes around here, and unlike in my home country they have very limited availability and are highly selective (in my home country getting into an MSc is essentially a rubber stamp if you have a BSc, so academic record is pretty mediocre).
@@ -364,60 +364,60 @@ I’ve started more seriously considering a career for the good cause, workiNot sure how many steps but I walked to the park and back (my phone was dead).
Breath meditation in the park, and walking meditation on the way back.
Completed Restless Ghost and Lost City.
Just kinda slipped through in all the commotion.
Meet Ultraman, the latest member of the family:
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I’ve sent an appeal email regarding my rejection from the Master’s programmes I applied to at IP Paris. I’ve reproduced the email on this blog because I think the information contained within is interesting and because I think it’s a good letter.
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diff --git a/html/journal/w29-2025.html b/html/journal/w29-2025.html index 4181053..4136d79 100644 --- a/html/journal/w29-2025.html +++ b/html/journal/w29-2025.html @@ -215,20 +215,20 @@Just kinda lumping these together as I left a bit of a hiatus in the journaling and let things slip a little bit, mostly a consequence of working too hard the week prior.
As alluded to in last week’s journal, Ultraman passed away around midnight. He was recovering strength fast throughout the day, but started going backwards fast starting from around 6PM, ultimately passing away some six hours later. I will write up his full story.
@@ -238,17 +238,17 @@ Other than that, Thursday was a normal day.I took friday off and then spent the weekend doing normal weekend things. I needed some recovery; been going at it too hard with exercise.
Bastille day! We threw a bit of a party at home and had fun. The Eiffel Tower fireworks/drone show was very beautiful this year. I was also very impressed by the Indonesian division at the military parade.
@@ -270,26 +270,26 @@ Bastille day! We threw a bit of a party at home and had fun. The Eiffel Tower fiSpent most of Tuesday just resting since I went a bit too hard on Monday and stayed up too late. Wednesday I was feeling a lot of physical malaise but I managed to drag myself to the pool and felt better after that. I definitely notice a couple days of unhealthy living and lack of exercise.
Put everything back into order, cleaned the house, did a lot of exercise. Also worked on the blog a lot. Goal is to officially launch the blog on the 27th, now.
Back to full power today. Gonna leave the daily logs off until next week.
@@ -299,23 +299,23 @@ Lot of exercise — gonna stay with machines for another week and then moveExhausted from yesterday’s exercise hehe. Dusted off the EMPTYHEAD today, going through the code and explaining it to my co-dev-to-be. Looking forward to picking this back up — more to follow soon. Restful Saturday otherwise.