Moametal: We’re all people who love metal, who want to break down the barriers in metal and who want to see metal thrive[…]
Su-metal: Our number one goal moving forward is to headline a metal festival. […] We want to show that we are the next generation of metal, and we believe that headlining a festival is the ultimate destination for that… so we’d love to do it someday!
Momometal: It was just so much fun! We were definitely excited to see what kind of audience was waiting for us–and we got to see them at the show and made the best memories with them. I was so hyped when I heard the BABYMETAL chant before we even took the stage!
This has been so much fun and refreshing. I’ve been overwhelmed after the show. It’s so good. I can’t help but feel emotional during ‘Road of Resistance’; it was my the first time hearing it live.
Schools that boast their rankings for marketing to get more students, seem to me like they’re just focused more on other things rather than on education itself. The advertised employment rate of such schools fits in that circle as well. This somewhat tells what the system is all about.
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
When an archer is shooting for nothing
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
Or sees two targets
He is out of his mind!
His skill has not changed. But the prize
Divides him. He cares.
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting-
And the need to win
Drains him of power.
Let’s migrate all from my self-build custom Android ROMs to the available official builds at the moment, trying to save some by avoiding servers for now. No Google Apps (GApps) and even microG for my main daily driver.
It takes a large appetite to bet on your one wild, precious life and decide what is best for you, to get offline, even when the whole world is shouting at you to better get yourself on LinkedIn, create Instagram to not miss out on the whole entire world having fun, to be well suited for life in the 21st century.
Man, I was just so tired of losing my time, attention, energy, humanity to Big Data.
There is no reward for losing all your life, so decide.
I just recently found out that Netlify CMS, which I have been using to generate posts easily on this site has been rebranded to Decap CMS. I went ahead and changed the necessary moving pieces, which is not a lot, and I have been using it now typing this.
Updated Hugo (which statically generates this site) to v0.127.0, thankfully nothing breaks so far.
I am now signing my Android custom ROM builds with my own private keys. This is for the new requirement of Play Integrity that checks now if the ROM is signed or not.
Ditching again Google Apps on my phone for microG, hopefully I won’t revert back due to some apps that requires it.
Changing the site colors to light mode.
I’m now inspired to add the tech I’m using here, as well as updating my site again, credits to Derek Sivers for the motivation for all of this.
After a month of trials, I finally built a stable custom Android rom for my old device. I now even tried applying backported security patches. All is good.
Frequent evening bike rides while stargazing with clear skies on a remote area has been the highlight of these past few days together with my listening parties.
The bicycle is a freedom machine. Not only will it take you where you want to go under your own power, but it disdains the bonds of pavement and settled map as well. In fact, the only thing that holds the bike back is a lack of imagination, which explains why kids ride their bikes in places adults wouldn’t think to.
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Between you and me, I suspect that the simple act of riding a bike regularly will actually expand your mind, or, at the very least, your sense of where you can get under your own power. In this sense, I pity the fools who move themselves only by automobile. They take dead-end signs literally. They live in a horribly proscribed world.
Rise up early, tried to chill for a bit, remembered to fix some deprecated functions in Hugo, and suddenly this website is now using v0.102.0 version, which is latest as of today. Nice holiday.
I’m starting again to make some minor tweaks in the site and these changes are mostly done in Hugo. I am using a version from two years ago and I need to keep up with the current one just for fun.
Apparently, I can’t build the site using the versions staring from v0.93.0 so I am currently stuck in v0.92.2 which is still fairly impressive as I haven’t done any major changes in the code to accommodate such feature updates.
When the right time comes, I’ll sit with this again to rewrite some things to use the current version. Well, if it happens in the near future. I am just glad to be back writing some nonsense again in this space. Cheers.