@thinkingmetal.bsky.social
Musician, programmer, sci-fi geek, radio presenter, horror film aficionado, photographer, dog lover, Dad. Pronouns : It.
NGC6188, an emission nebula in the constellation Ara. I've 6188 on many occasions - best result so far. Pretty thrilled.
Planewave 20" CDK w FLI-Proline-16803 sensor, Siding Springs, Australia, multiple ten minute exposures.
Colour processing by me. No, it doesn't actually look this bright.
I took the re-built ZEIT Desktop Sequencer along to our regular EMOM at The Ship Isis in Sunderland last night for no other reason than I wanted to show it off a bit. Not so much a sales pitch, more of a casual discussion with friends. The results were quite interesting / inspiring.
04.04.2025 13:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tried using Bandcamp's redemption codes and... Dismayed to discover that I can't even give this stuff away for free. A little soul destroying, frankly.
Hints and tips welcome.
Pretty bad when you have your stuff stuck in your head for three days solid... Go away, dam you! :)
thinkingmetal.bandcamp.com/track/the-fa...
Sunday : Mostly been working on recreating a track from 1993, The Reality Engine, which should be the last track on the new Uranium Saints album. Of course, the wretched Cubase file won't load so I have to do the whole thing over by hand, which is rather good for practicing one's musical ear.
17.03.2025 12:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Polaroid from a magazine article "So you want to build a home studio", circa 1992. I think the magazine was Future Music. Can't remember. Not my favourite epoch. Memories largely wiped.
10.03.2025 20:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sunday afternoon... It's warm and sunny outside. Time to go chill with the peeps...
thinkingmetal.bandcamp.com/track/sunday...
Sunday morning metalwork - a replacement display/encoder support plate for ZEIT. Seems to work as intended. I plan on using this machine at the next EMOM so it needed sorting urgently.
09.03.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Step Sequencer - plays sequences of notes as loops, Think Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream.
09.03.2025 12:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Smashing! See you on 13th March for the Listening Party!
09.03.2025 10:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New release from Uranium Saints "Stars and Shadows". This is our fifteen minute set at the excellent Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle. I really special gig! Have a listen here:
thinkingmetal.bandcamp.com/album/stars-...
Whirlpool Galaxy 04-mar-25. #astronomy #astrophotography #messier
06.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
M81 / M82 via iTelescope. 04-mar-25. Quietly chuffed. #astronomy #astrophotography #messier
06.03.2025 10:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to it. BTW, I've stopped seeing your posts on FB. First I've seen of this.
05.03.2025 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Chris exploring Durham Botanic Gardens
01.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Restoring this old beast...
28.02.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It would appear that Alexa and the Lady of the House are having a bit of a disagreement over Classic FM... :)
27.02.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've uploaded our set from Thursday's EMOM gig at the Star and Shadow, Newcastle. It's officially only available to our followers on Bandcamp but here's the link for our friends on BlueSky as a means of thumbing our noses at Zuck and his lackeys.
Enjoy.
thinkingmetal.co.uk/uranium-sain...
Ring World by Larry Niven, with David Fincher to direct...
23.02.2025 11:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chris @ Wynyard Hall, 22-Feb-25
23.02.2025 07:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A superb gig at Star and Shadow Cinema last night. A lot of quality on show. I enjoyed myself enormously and, by all accounts, so did the audience. A real dance party going on at the back of the hall and I don't ever remember getting such a loud and positive response in thirty odd years of gigging.
21.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight...
20.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
20.02.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gig tonight. Working through the short 15 minute set list. Still nervous. :)
20.02.2025 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whilst in the midst of editing a novel written three years ago, I soon came to the conclusion that it's all utter bollocks and I have no business whatsoever adding this dross to the mountain of dross that already infests our local landfill. #giveupgracefully
16.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Facebook removed this cartoon from 2010 and issued a warning because said image violated their terms and conditions even though they recommended that I share this 'important memory'. Go figure.
14.02.2025 07:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nocturne by Ion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJKR...
When your reply gets 'Liked' by God...
Err, okay. ;)
DeepSeek did significantly better on two historical questions and the English grammar was certainly better than ChatCPT's.
I tried a programming job that ChatGPT made a mess of (wrong code, wrong processor) and DeepSeek got the right processor and the right architecture. The code looks good too.
Alien : Prometheus, giant head with puzzled explorers, like Sunderland fans in search of their stadium...
Alien : Prometheus - a lot better on second viewing. Enjoyed it. Want to know more about the 'Engineers'... :)
25.01.2025 10:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
