Nat Torkington
@gnat
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Banjo, host of Kiwi Foo, CTO of a 35-person software company, built the first website in New Zealand last millennium. @[email protected]
Ti Point, New Zealand
Joined March 2007
I've been compiling a set of mental models, approaches, schema, hacks, whatever you call them, as I figure out how the world works. So much of the anguish and torment of my youth was unnecessary and self-inflicted. Changing how I thought about the world let me get to happy.
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Hey Auckland, we're playing a gig this weekend! https://t.co/X9Q0JprOxQ It's bluegrass, folk music's death metal. Vocals are much easier on the ear, though. We're raising $ for our new album by playing these gigs, and there'll be a sneak preview of some of the new songs ...
undertheradar.co.nz
Buy Tickets to You, Me, Everybody, Kumeu Live (at Kumeu Arts), Kumeu Sat, 12 October
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So, ChatGPT is not a dirty minded teenager, but it is a nerd... Here are the results of asking it to choose a random number between 1 and 100.
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People will budget $2k for flowers at their wedding and then try to find a string quartet for $100/hour. FOH
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Music careers are crazy because people will look you straight in the eye and offer you $30/hour for a bespoke, professional level performance where you provide all transportation and gear
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Melbourne! Our Netflix-featured bluegrass band plays the Kindred Ballroom at 7pm tonight! Shake off your Melbourne Cup hangover with some spicy bluegrass songs about: whiskey, alienation, circus, a cancelled painting, rejection, and zombies. https://t.co/2npckLqShZ
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Canberrans! My neo-bluegrass band You Me Everybody is heading to Canberra! Come to our show, Friday night. We are on đ„ after a week of touring and you wonât have more fun without breaking laws. AS SEEN ON NETFLIXâS âSWEET TOOTHâ https://t.co/YDhmwOs2Dy
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I am so crap at self-promotion! The Pipi Pickers (featuring yours truly on banjo) playing tonight at the Auckland Bluegrass Club. Evening starts 7:30pm at The Nix, 6 Nixon Street, Grey Lynn. We're up in the second half.
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Some hope would be nice. Take my money!
My next book is *The Lost Cause*. It's a climate emergency book. @LibraryJournal called it "a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak." As with all my books @Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I'm selling it on @Kickstarter: https://t.co/NtQYBuOApX 1/
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In an effort to bring you the most authentic sounding version of âHorse Powerâ as possible the concerts will be mixed on this laptop using ProTools 5.2 with D-Verb all the way. TRUE DIGITAL VINTAGE.
Got my 2005 PowerBook G4 out from the deep freeze to see if I could open ancient @phoenixfound âHorse Powerâ sessions on ancient ProTools formats. Unfortunately it does not seem to be drawing power. Good bye buddy!
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When I first asked about the etiquette surrounding land acknowledgments somebody sent me this
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Wife has declared that Fatherâs Day celebrations should only last about 2 minutes and Motherâs Day about 9 months because thatâs the level of input required to create the child
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Some body once told me that on a desert stroll he saw two vast and trunkless stone legs they were looking kind of dumb with a shattered visage sunk in the sand from its chin to its forehead
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