I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.
@snarfed.org “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” – the Illuminatus
“So yeah, I wrote my own blog engine, and my own web server, and even my own OS from scratch. And I built my own server and racked it in a colo facility I built myself, on land I own, powered by my own generator, connected by a boutique ISP I run myself. That’s all pretty important, I’m feeling good about all that. But I’m not making my own chips out of FPGAs yet. I’m worried about that dependency. Not to mention the gas I put in my generator, I have to buy that, that’s a problem too. Guess I have work to do.”