Andrew Hannum
kwertyops.bsky.social
Andrew Hannum
@kwertyops.bsky.social
professor of cs ⋅ musician
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kwertyops.github.io
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Hello #bsky! I'm Andrew. I'm not a Twitter refugee so I don't come with any follows or followers. I just believe in the ideas behind this platform (though I also believed in FB and Google Plus in their beginnings, whatever that means).

I'm a Professor, and also PhD student and a musician. #newsky
this is the Fender Mustang Pro (a game controller for Rock Band 3) using its MIDI output and a custom firmware I've made for extra features

it's my favorite new music toy in recent years.

playing Improvisation No. 2 by Django Reinhardt

#django #jazz #synthsky #guitar

youtu.be/I7Z3aogxemg
Improvisation n°2 (Django Reinhardt) - Fender Mustang Pro MIDI (Rock Band controller)
YouTube video by Andrew Hannum
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January 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"We’re social creatures, we sense what we should become to get ahead, and then we become it, all without involving fickle rationality. Can that be right?"

https://dynomight.net/taste-games/
January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
cosmos ☄️
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see you space cowboy
#trumpet #cowboybebop #theseatbelts #musiciansky
January 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"An explanation without including the explainer is as a tree without the trunk. One is inseparable from the other. No system of knowledge can avoid this limitation."

fifth:science (Exurb1a) #booksky
January 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Strange to think that each true life was only a few years long—that one passed through several in each bodily span. He said, “God is great. We will never meet again.”"

The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson) #booksky
January 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"One of (if not the) most valuable skills in life is being able to choose that you're going to consider an arbitrary thing fun."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326389
January 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it.”

“How?” said Jim. “Love yourself,” said Helmholtz, “and make your instrument sing about it.”"

Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut, Gregory D. Sumner) #booksky
January 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
January 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself."

The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk MD) #booksky
December 31, 2024 at 10:10 PM
"Sober world is abstraction, LSD world is abstraction, DMT world is abstraction. The only thing that differentiates those states is how related they are to sensory inputs from the environment."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/18ixijv/psychedelics_do_not_cause_hallucinations_but/
December 30, 2024 at 2:09 PM
"The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time."

Spaceman of Bohemia (Kalfar, Jaroslav) #booksky
December 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial."

https://paulgraham.com/words.html
December 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
finger twister
#ukulele #musiciansky
December 23, 2024 at 2:56 PM
eqd night wire 🌃
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#guitarpedals #musiciansky
December 20, 2024 at 2:18 PM
"“But one day you will find out how good it is to have someone who chooses to come when you call.”"

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (McKillip, Patricia A.) #booksky
December 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
"You aren’t famous. Anything you do or create will probably receive little to no attention, so stop optimizing for a non-existent audience and instead focus on what makes you enjoy the activity."

https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous
December 19, 2024 at 2:01 PM
bebop... or cowboy bebop? 👨‍🚀
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#jazzguitar #cowboybebop #theseatbelts #gypsyjazz #musiciansky
December 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM
December 18, 2024 at 2:04 PM
"“The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.”"

The Mountain in the Sea (Ray Nayler) #booksky
December 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Hello #bsky! I'm Andrew. I'm not a Twitter refugee so I don't come with any follows or followers. I just believe in the ideas behind this platform (though I also believed in FB and Google Plus in their beginnings, whatever that means).

I'm a Professor, and also PhD student and a musician. #newsky
December 17, 2024 at 2:55 PM
🎄
#guitar #lofi #xmas #musiciansky
December 17, 2024 at 2:46 PM
"In between was the brief era of the Rock Star. The nostalgia here is for that era."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42069675
December 17, 2024 at 2:45 PM