Ian Vaughan

Dear UK, shut up already about democratic due process or it not being in a party manifesto anyone voted on and just be grateful for this free digital id that’s kindly been arranged for you - It’ll fix everything, pinky promise! Tony Blair’s son’s already built it, it’s going to be great, you’ll love it! The automated lottery war conscription function is a total peach. Enjoy your servitude you ingrates.

In recent weeks, I’ve returned to learning some guitar pieces that I learned (some incompletely) over 20 years ago. It’s amazing to experience how the brain slowly remembers something that it previously knew - the magic of muscle memory as it recovers the ability to play passages I’d thought completely forgotten and to string the movements together. But it’s also made me think a lot about the passing of time and the past. I’ve found my mind serving me up memories of people and places from around that time that I hadn’t thought about for years, I guess the brain keeps it all stored together? I remembered a line from a Vonnegut book I read around then too ‘Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time’.

I’ve been trying out nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq6xrjy and that is a really great NOSTR messaging app and already much more. It’s exciting to see where this goes.

Only found out about nostr:npub1whtn0s68y3cs98zysa4nxrfzss5g5snhndv35tk5m2sudsr7ltms48r3ec today and am trying it out, looks promising.

My new guitar body has arrived, it was a real bargain. Time to start to build a classic Telecaster. I’m really looking forward to this project.

This was a really good episode, very enjoyable chat. I’ve been listening to the show for a few months and wondering what the hell the Meshtadel was that you keep talking about, it always sounds amazing. I was thinking ‘maybe these guys are doing something really cool with meshtastic nodes or some real, resilient off grid comms kind of stuff?’ But the wonderful irony of Max saying that the Meshtadel is in fact ‘just a Telegram group’ about 2 minutes after calling most bitcoiners LARPers, was too good not to pass comment on. https://fountain.fm/episode/xVgogW64mi1ILPxGDOpd nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzq9sqlrjuga6sh3xfhuerzuc8cal9jah86l3sr6tq32e8mezz7hxguvr9k5

Yesterday I heard nostr:npub1lt8nn8aaa6qa63wjwj8gz2djf5nlhg3zfd0v6l45v8zhvuyh0p3s5zzt5y on nostr:npub1jcympy69pht7ptan39se4nd09e4q66qhey649uu3rczm2zh88c7s0n2890. It was a very interesting episode, so I went back and listened to the first two that I hadn’t heard either - all really great chats. I want to buy some of that timber! Also, can you CNC and is that a service you’ll offer? I’m keen to make a guitar this year and would really like to see it cut all the way from being a plank of wood this time.