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Lack of Talent, its hour come round at last, slouches towards podcastdom to be born.

It's late and I'm tired, so here's the skinny: at the beginning of the year I ambitiously[1] resolved to record one song per month. Instead I've serendipitously turned up the LOT recording sessions from July 2005, which we call the Burlap Overseas, and which I never really went through. Now that stuff is backed up six ways from Sunday[2] and I owe it to my fellow Lack of Talenteers to go through all these hours of raw audio and pick out some interesting bits so we have something to build on the next time we get together[3].

If you're interested, feel free to subscribe to the podcast and listen along. Updates will be sporadic, perhaps even spasmodic or spastic. Now the disclaimers: you should know that LOT was never about songs or practice or technique or order or music, really; we are true to our name[4]; it's about some friends gathering in my grandparents' basement with lots of music gear[5], even more alcohol, a box fan to keep us cool, a washing machine to clean Gramma's clothes, and a microphone that runs the whole darned time. This is booze-soaked sonic experimentation among close friends and even if you hear nothing else, you should hear hints (or squeals, or yawps) of joy amidst the cacophony.

Notes

1. Read: foolishly [↩]
2. Phew. I am a paranoid backup freak. [↩]
3. Est. 2013 [↩]
4. At least I am [↩]
5. We switched instruments often, sometimes even playing the ones we could "play." [↩]

Dear Future Me,

It has been a while, hasn't it? Yes, it has[1].

Did you try to view an HTTPS/SSL URL in Lynx[2] again, only to be met, most cruelly, with the following error message?

$ lynx https://example.org/resource/[3]


Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs.

Well, have no fear! The lynx package, at least within the aptitude repositories for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), has no SSL support as you have just witnessed. The lynx-cur package, on the other hand[4], does! Support SSL, that is. Fix yourself thusly:

$ sudo apt-get install lynx-cur

N.B. the new lynx looks for its configuration in a different place than the old lynx, so you may need to fiddle with things if you've tricked out lynx with bells and whistles and racing stripes and nitrous boosts. Otherwise, huzzah!

Notes

1. In the future you will have evolved beyond answering your own questions, no doubt, but here in the past, in this quaint and backwards era, it is quite common to hold conversations with yourself. Or myself. But I (i.e., you) digress! (We digress in the past as well! Quite the confusing state of affairs, conversationally speaking!) [↩]
2. Do they even have Lynx in that brave new world of the future? Does the lynx species still exist? Did the polar ice caps melt and wipe out all non-domesticated felines? Inquiring, unevolved minds of the past want to know! [↩]
3. I am assuming that in the future example.org remains a reserved dummy domain. [↩]
4. I hear that in the future hands will be replaced by hooks and detachable chainsaws and the like? [↩]