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White Board
There’s a white board on my wall on which multiple projects are set out. A few are finishing up – the 200 Aversion2 rat boxes are sent out, with a few still in doubt and replacements in progress. Some...
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Further lessons from magical kingdoms
In which we draw some technical conclusions. Sanity Clause. Before going deeper it’s worth a sanity check, in that the finances of our test subjects are beyond our reckoning. The rides described here...
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Sevcom 2018 Annual Report, and New Year Resolutions.
2017 being such a frantic year with shows here and in North America, it was inevitable that 2018 would be anticlimactic. It was that – but at times the climate fell into bleakness. I’m sure VR will...
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An Orphic view of the fun fair.
In which Disney’s desire to expunge Mr. Hyde from Dr. Jekyll’s fun fair is argued to be flimflam. I’m grateful to my missus for David Younger’s Theme Park Design book, which turns out to be a long and...
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In defence of Luna, and the Dark Park.
In which I demand the reinstatement of all Luna Parks in Theme Park Theory and Design. I‘m very grateful again to my missus for digging up an essential research source, being the program for an...
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Cowardice
This last year I’ve done the things I was never going to do. I’ve abandoned Independence, I’ve abandoned quality, I’ve joined the cold grey mush that passes for online society. I’ve rolled over, four...
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The Death of the Man Cave. Is music hardware really better than software?
For some years I’ve been collecting and writing about electronic music hardware – good, not so good, and utter garbage. I’ve had fun popping a few bubbles while handing out praise where it was really...
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Paranoid Critical
I haven’t said much about theme parks recently, even though that’s where all the pain is taking place. It seems time for a Pain Bulletin. A really long one, sorry. (Well actually I should briefly...
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MIDI Quest
Do you remember the days when you actually wanted all your hardware to be controllable from a computer screen? Be able to save patches to a hard drive, have all the settings visible at once, diagrams...
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