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battle for a chzsteak

Moving into my new apartment in Philly earlier this day; will definitely want to unwind(hype up) to some steakstatic afterwards.

holy fucks

<psychology nerd post to follow>

In defense of the OP, there actually is a scientific term for these concepts within contemporary positive psychology/study of personality. It's by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "cheek-says-me-high"), and the coined term is simply "Flow." Flow is defined as an intense state of concentration through doing a certain task. Trick is though, it must fall on a safe line between easy and challenging. It had to provide that slight amount of challenge to promote motivation however it can not be too challenging as to stop the person from doing the task. Experiences of "flow" allow for the person to feel as if time had passed by very quickly-much like the old phrase, "time flies when you're having fun." Perhaps it's best to view it as upon a spectrum:

Here, flow is observed within a task that has a high challenging level-however the skill level for that task is high. It's contextual. For example, one can experience "flow" during something as menial as even mopping the floor. However, the process of making music is a highly observed domain where experiences of flow are said to occur, and recent study in contemporary psychology continues to study this relationship between flow and music. At the risk of not overloading this post with scholarly articles and "snooze-reads," here's a cheap pop-psych intro to this theory by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi himself:

http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-P … 0060928204

additional reading (or just search 'csikszentmihalyi' and 'flow'):
http://lateralaction.com/articles/mihal … ntmihalyi/

There WAS a big story on this in Electronic Musician magazine or something, but I can't find it now for some reason.

manual backlight switches ftw

This is pretty cool. Sometimes I'll definitely have to go back and play from the beginning of the chain though, especially when experimenting with a within-chain transition. Never upgraded an LSDJ version though. I suppose you just back up your savs, then flash the ROM?

*raises hand* can't do blip this year