Here is the blog post I keep referring to (from 2022, please note.)
pukka
Adjective
- absolutely first class and genuine; “pukka sahib”; “pukka quarters with a swarm of servants”
- Synonyms
- pucka
- Similar to
- superior
- Region
- India
- Republic of India
- Bharat
- Synonyms
pukka - LookUp
adjective
- informal genuine the more expensive brands are pukka natural mineral waters
of or appropriate to high or respectable society it wouldn’t be considered the pukka thing to do
- British English excellent hey, man, that shirt’s pukka
Origin
early 17th century : from Punjabi pakk ā and Hindi pakk ā cooked, ripe, substantial
Thesaurus
Adjective
- it wouldn’t be considered the pukka thing to do
Similar Words: respectable decorous proper genteel formal polite conventional right correct accepted presentable decent smart comme il faut posh top-notch tip-top
Opposites: improper
- their old van was up against pukka racing cars
Similar Words: genuine authentic proper actual real true bona fide veritable original not copied legitimate kosher the real McCoy
Opposites: imitation
Urban Dictionary
A slang-term used in British English to describe something as “first class” or “absolutely genuine”.
That DVD is no “bootleg”. It’s pukka.
*The Onion*'s new fate is a rare glimmer in the media industry landscape
And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress?
If you, too, immediately thought “well what the hell was it, then, if not The ‘Press???,” the answer is… fucking Kinja.
The Editorial Process
Ben Collins: …I just want to walk through their daily process for writing headlines. They come in every day. There’s either one or two meetings depending on the day, and then they write — usually, it’s around 190 headlines. They are put into a Google form and completely anonymized. Then, from there, it’s trimmed down a little bit by one of the editors per day. Then, they go in the room, and they read them out loud, all of them, and if it gets a laugh or if it’s like that’s something that’s a character we’re going to bring back or they got to talk through it, they check it off, and then they whittle those down over and over and over again. And by the end of the meeting, there’s usually — what, Danielle? — like 10 max, 5 to 10?
Danielle Strle: Yeah, tops.
BC: Around there. And then, those get written out, and if the copy’s not good or if it’s just a nib or something, that gets whittled down to three or four per day. And that comes from that contributor network that has legit famous people in it, or it comes from the people in the room. And then only after all that did they go back, and they’re like, “That guy wrote that thing.” That’s how meritocratic this is.
GASSY World Tour
Doing the third leg of my tour around the world commemorating the KC-10 Extender, this morning.
Rammstein Air Base (ETAR) to Al Udeid Air Base (OTBH)
Route
ETAR/26 DCT VP093 DCT GIBSA DCT RATIP DCT DOBEN DCT PNY DCT TIMUR L606 EKI DCT YAA UG8 SRT DCT RATVO UM688 ULDUR DCT KUA M320 ASVIR H741 KFA DCT GINTO DCT OTBH/16L
Update…
eventuate
Verb
- come out in the end
- Less specific
- turn out
- come out
- Related
- consequence
- effect
- outcome
- result
- event
- issue
- upshot
- Less specific
eventuate - LookUp
verb
- formal occur as a result you never know what might eventuate
eventuate in lead to as a result circumstances that eventuate in crime
Origin
late 17th century (in the sense bring about ): from event , perhaps on the pattern of actuate
Thesaurus
Verb
- you never know what might eventuate
Similar Words: happen occur take place chance to happen arise emerge come about transpire materialize appear surface crop up spring up present itself ensue follow result develop supervene be the result be the consequence go down come to pass befall betide bechance hap arrive
- the fight eventuated in the death of Mr Gonzales
Similar Words: result in end in have as a result have as a consequence lead to give rise to bring about cause
"Oleophobia" - Logic Pro for iPad Experiment
Still having trouble describing how good this was for me to listen to.
iPadOS 18 Audio Capture Anecdotes
Aiko Transcript
All right folks, it’s your favorite thing, favorite time.
It’s time to play around with the changes to audio capture specifically, an iPadOS 18.1 beta 2.
I don’t actually, I don’t know if this is as a beta 2.
Two things I noticed, the thing that they introduced in 16 I believe, which is called mic modes, where you could switch between standard wide spectrum and voice isolation.
I say you could switch.
This was in control center, it’s still in control center, they redesigned where it is, and the interface is very pretty, but they didn’t fucking fix it, and by fix that I just mean have it, I don’t know, it’s an API thing I guess.
I really just need to put on a list of things that I go down and make a mock-up fucking app so that I can see what the actual control is, the actual fucking backend code.
Not that I’m capable of this, or at least it doesn’t come easily, because um, in order to switch mic modes, and I don’t know if I’m recording in voice isolation or standard or wide spectrum right now, this is in voice memos, which is a native app which has transcription now, which is very cool, except even as I’m recording right now I don’t have access to that mic modes menu.
I had to start a live stream on Telegram.
Telegram, of course, is the one app that semi-reliably gives me access to the mic modes thing, but it still sticks as in you make a selection.
There was no selection at first.
Anyway, this is voice memos recording in lossless.
I don’t know if stereo voice memos is a new capability, but if you go to the app specific menu for voice memos in iPadOS 18, there was a toggle that was default off, just called stereo, and it’s on now.
Good morning.
All right, same device, same setting, but this is ferrite.
Ferrite being, well, the closest that we’ve ever come, really, to a professional audio capture app on this device.
Um, let’s see, do I have access to mic modes?
Nope, that’s okay.
Um, but uh, yeah, I, notably, one thing that ferrite recently added, and I know it’s silly, but uh, when I was in high school growing up around musicians and audio stuff, uh, FLAC files were basically a fucking meme because, um, you know, I explored all the drywall stuff in FLAC, which is, which is, if you know what I’m talking about, kind of funny.
Anyway, you can export it to FLAC now in ferrite.
And finally, recording in 96 kilohertz directly into Logic Pro for iPad.
Same microphone array, I think.
Um, yeah.
Oh, I guess it’d be very weird if I had access to mic modes here.
But I, so I listened back to, um, at least the voice memos recording, uh, and I’m almost positive that that was indeed in voice isolation.
Um, I guess the last subject would be, uh, I’m gonna see if I can, I’ll have a go at putting this together in fucking Logic Pro. Oh wait, actually, no, I’ll put it in, I’ll put it in ferrite and export it to WIP because WIP does 320 playback.
Uh, transcription.
I, um, think that on-device transcription is really cool, you know, native.
Uh, I would just like to mention that Cinder’s sword, his sword, who’s, wow, I actually know how to pronounce his name, but I’m not going to continue to fail.
Uh, his app, ICO, which is free, A-I-K-O, um, at least for my recordings so far, it’s just fucking better.
And you can import anything, video files.
Uh, I try to, the weirdest fucking file format, I think I did a WebM and it was fine and allows you to immediately copy, uh, and also export into all, uh, a bunch of different text formats and it’s free.
And it is also on-device and it’s bizarrely fast, but, uh, you know, I’ve got the newest chips.
Yeah.
Just buy a Shure SM57 and a Sema and a used, buy a used Shure SM57, uh, and a USB audio interface, a relatively good quality one.
Um, just do that.
Don’t buy an iPad.
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Transcript
Oh was just behind a Tesla Model X for a moment and just long enough to notice that they I mean it looks like it I don’t even know they put a SpaceX badge on the rear as in where the brand badge would be I don’t actually remember if I don’t think the word Tesla is there but uh I didn’t get a long enough look at it to tell but uh it was square but very homemade looking and certainly it completely unrelated to SpaceX’s actual branding and I just I don’t use the word lame very often I don’t know if that seems like it’s kind of for a reason but that’s just the lamest fucking thing that I’ve seen in a good while and it’s a shame that all that work I did tracking down the type typeface so that I could make a parody Tesla brand logo instead of saying Tesla says Musker literally no one has ever laughed at that I don’t know why this is a you guys problem that’s your problem man