TL;DR
After the long midterm month, I finally finished this week. But right after finishing, I have to start preparing for the guitar club welcome event, next week there’s also department BBQ. After doing events, it’s basically preparing for finals, might as well start preparing for winter break.
Eats
Recently found a really good tofu pudding place near school. The discoverer wasn’t me, I just went to eat.
Mu Tofu Pudding
Really good tofu pudding place, so good we went two days in a row. Though it’s a tofu pudding shop, we all went for the shaved ice. The recent weather isn’t really suitable for ice either.
Guitar Club
Club Class
Self-learner teaching guitar class for the first time, predictably crashed. During club class, discovered basically everyone can’t keep up with the curriculum, whether it’s club instructor class or teaching class. So this time I picked a super simple song —— 《Embrace》Mayday. This song only has four chords from start to finish, except for , no finger needs to press two strings. The intro is also just T121 — basically a very suitable song for beginners.
Then an accident happened — because this song is too simple. Took about half an hour to teach, including waiting for people and playing the original. But can’t end a two-hour class in half an hour, so I started teaching variations — muted strumming, percussive hitting, taught those, still only fifteen minutes passed. Had them play twice more, then couldn’t think of anything else. So started the Q&A session. But this song is so simple, there won’t be any questions. So everyone just chat until nine, dismiss!
Next club class to teach harder songs, like: Planets and Stars and Star River. Haven’t decided yet, still have some time.
Song Audition
The original purpose of the performance team this time is — let freshmen play, the song list needs to resonate with the audience. So besides teams below passing, all passed, even teams that didn’t get on stage in first and second auditions made obvious progress. Reminded me of going through the same path myself.
This time seeing the performance team decide songs, suddenly know why being on the performance team is hard — basically because the mascot will talk, everyone’s skill is similar, feeling bad about eliminating others’ songs. End up eliminating their own songs. Won’t do this job again next time.
Random Talk
Though this time’s song selection really had a lot of problems, feel getting closer with guitar club people1. After finishing this week, went together for midnight snacks and games. Just that the problems made us want to collectively quit the committee — of course just saying, hope it’s just saying.
Input Method
New Keyboard
Last time mentioned my keyboard was broken, just the one I wanted is discontinued. But… discovered it really should be replaced — not only the L key, period key is also almost done. So had to go to NOVA again. This time only visited B1’s Mitsui. That clerk ran over to chat as soon as he saw me, said it’s his first day, for keyboards he only knows this. He has brand faith, buys ROG himself, if nothing here liked, can buy ROG. But he’s wearing a Logitech name tag. Ended up buying what he recommended, except a bit noisy, everything else’s fine.
Just Logi’s app doesn’t support Linux, bad review. If want to use, have to install Windows myself, research when have time.
McBopomofo Input
For Linux Chinese input methods, basically two choices. One is New Chewying, one is McBopomofo. At first thought, keyboard changed, might as well change the zhuyin input. After changing, found it’s quite usable. Has customizable dictionary, commonly used characters can be manually added (while typing this article, dictionary added a few more characters). Don’t need to select when typing that character next time. New Chewying goodbye, using McBopomofo.
Tech Research
RssHub
Open source service online. Main purpose now is using it to subscribe to Instagram. This way I don’t need to log in to know what my friends posted in stories and posts, Instagram’s closed messages now taken out by me. Now I created a new Instagram account called rss.windson to crawl things, also set up a proxy so Instagram doesn’t think I’m a robot, tested password inside container with curl -x, it works. But no matter what, it returns NotFoundError, possible environment variables not set, haven’t found a way to deal with it. After solving, detailed method will become a post.
Copying Student ID
The other day having dinner with Each Chen, discovered Samsung Wallet can copy access cards. So took out Flipper to simulate student ID, copied one. Tested at old men’s dorm back door — the card in phone works, at least the card number was extracted. Of course this is normal way, success. Next, copied the card in phone with flipper again, all sectors opened. Will try at department library to see if really fully unlocked.
Footnotes
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Of course, this refers to sophomores ↩